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- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 minutes 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 - 24 minutes 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 ...
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- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 32 minutes 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 - 33 minutes 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 - 41 minutes 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 - 43 minutes 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 - 55 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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...
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I 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 - 1 hour ago
May 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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! - 2 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...
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Lady 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 - 2 hours ago
European 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 - 2 hours ago
A 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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. - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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! - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours agoATHENS—Greek party leaders will get yet another chance to try to break a weeklong political impasse and avert fresh elections, this time to explore the possibility of forming a technocratic government afte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:05:46 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 221 km (137 miles) ENE of Palu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours agoMichael Franti, “Hey World (Don't Give Up)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FE9cPXE3M&feature=related
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:25:41 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 726 km (451 miles) Southwest of Banda Ace...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.6 km (26.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:09:06 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) East of...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours agoSong by Peter Gabriel, video produced by Barney Hilton Murray. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcIHKqoij4&feature=fvsr
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 12 hours agoA chart from IranResearch.org "Iranians Have Democratic Values," screams a headline in *The Wall Street Journal*. The article that follows, written by "Israeli political strategist" Yuval Porat, publi...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours agoIf you didn’t get a chance to check out Part One of the new report by CMDthat was released today – you should. Here’s a snip to get you interested. Koch Industries has vigorously defended ALEC, and has ass...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Ikuko Hebiishi, a city councillor for Koriyama in Fukushima, Japan checks for radioactivity near the site of Chernobyl nuclear disaster 25 years earlier. Franck Vogel / thenational.ae] By April ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: An Bull Elk with snow on his face is seen near the road between Banff and Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, in this 2009 photo. Elk are one of the groups of mammals researchers say will be able adapt...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours agoTHE OATMEAL has a page you must visit: "What we should have been taught in our senior year of high school".
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: NASA, the US National Climatic Data Centre, and the UK Hadley Centre have each produced global temperature datasets. The graph shows the annual means calculated from the three datasets. Years beg...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 13 hours ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe Indians lobby the Brazilian authorities to uphold their land rights. © José Cruz / ABr via survivalinternational.org] 11 May 2012 (Survival International) – The Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, spans over 300 light-years, one of our galaxy's largest star forming regions. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Ne...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"In-Groups, Out-Groups, And The Psychology of Crowds"* by Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D "It's a well-known principle in social psychology that people define themselves in terms of social groupings and...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*(Thanks to C. Jerry Kutner Jr. on Bright Lights After Dark film-comment blog)* One of the characters in the classic 1939 film "Stagecoach" is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 14 hours agoSCIENTIFIC AND CITIZEN FORUM ON RADIOPROTECTION: FROM CHERNOBYL TO FUKUSHIMA http://independentwho.org/media/Documents_IW/Forum_Radioprotection_English_Abstracts_IW_2012.pdf Hat tip: Nuckelchen at Enenews
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"Hoping for Knockout Punch, * *CIA Sends JP Morgan Execs to Infiltrate Al-Qaeda"* Terror Org Posts Huge Losses by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – “In a covert mission designed to dest...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 14 hours ago05/13/2012 by John Smallman The awakening of humanity into full awareness of its true identity will be an event of enormous importance for all of God’s divine creation, and that importance cannot be ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Protesters raise banners demanding that the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, vetoes a forest code approved by the congress in April 2012. Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP / Getty Images] [Petition: Vet...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*Angela Merkel has warned Greece that unless it agrees to EU terms, which at present is an impossibility due to the disunity among Greek political parties regarding forming a new government, it will be eje...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) workers stand before the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant on 28 February 2012. Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP] By Hiroshi Hiyama 9 May 2012 (AFP) – Japan's government will...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 15 hours agoThe graph above answers a question I've wondered about for a bit: By how much would the services and manufacturing sectors each have to grow employment in order to reduce the current rate of unemployment...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“Idiocy as WMD”* by Linh Dinh “Borges writes, "dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy." As ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours agoThis is the funniest thing I’ve seen all morning. Yes, Labour’s gagging of David Cunliffe is funny enough [if true]. But Brian Edward’s description of Silent ‘T’ and his speech-making had me rolling arou...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 16 hours agoReframe the education debate: How we can show teachers the love Don’t allow education to be defined as an endless Social Darwinist competition. By Rick Ayers and Bill Ayers / The Rag Blog / May 14, 2012 La...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 16 hours agoUS, Israeli, and Saudi-funded terrorists destabilizing Syria now under fire in Lebanon. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 15, 2012* - According to a 2007 New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh, "The Redirection," ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours agoAt Post Partisan this afternoon, I wrote about the news of the demise, or maybe demise, or something, of Ron Paul's campaign. Mostly, I thought it wasn't really a big deal, in that I suspect his actual cam...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago*From Daily Kos:* There's good news for public education in Alabama and Connecticut, as the Michelle Rhee breed of privatizers and corporate reformers were thwarted in both states, at least partially and a...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 17 hours ago[image: Screenshot of Brad Johnson's Pinterest site, 'Heartland Institute Sponsors'. Brands such as BB&T, PepsiCo, General Motors, Diageo, and State Farm have dropped support for Heartland Institute, bec...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoMorro Bay, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 17 hours agoAt just the time when everyone seems to be awakening to what a bad decision Homeland Security TSA pat-down forces really turned out to be (against an enemy that uses terror as a tactic), we get the headlin...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“The Dark Night”* by Chet Raymo “I first read Soren Kierkegaard's “Fear and Trembling” at about the same age as Kierkegaard was when he wrote it - thirty. The young philosopher was wrestling with his...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 17 hours agoFive years ago climate “scientists” were saying, predicting, expostulating that the Arctic Ice Caps were going to disappear in five years time! Gone away. Disappeared. Never to be seen again. All our f...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 17 hours agoReposted from PORTAL 2012 by special request Sunday, May 13, 2012 MAKE THIS VIRAL! REBOOT OF THE GRID 5-20-2012 After the great success of World Liberation Day, our efforts for planetary libe...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours agoWall Street Journal May 14, 2012 p. C1, C5 by Jean Eaglesham Excerpt from article: "It is a question that has been asked time and time again since the financial crisis: How many executives have been conv...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago*The Politically Engineered 9/11 Consensus is Collapsing*. "I am convinced a revolution is going on. It is an intellectual revolution." - Ron Paul, *"Our Time Has Come."* The politically engineered ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoRepresentative Buck McKeon, chair of the House Armed Services Committee and self-appointed Warmonger in Chief has been engaging in a very public battle with the Pentagon. Why? Because the Pentagon says it...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours agoI’ve been interested at all this talk of rising house prices—houses, in our little economy, being one of the main reasons for which New Zealanders borrow money. Or to put it another way, one of the main...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"For a New Beginning"* "In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long tim...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago“Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.” - Wolfgang Borchert, “The Outsider”
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 18 hours agoPosted originally at Rumor Mill News by Jordan Author and legendary conservationist Lawrence Anthony died March 7. His family tells of a solemn procession on March 10 that defies human explanation. ...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 18 hours agoA little story from last night, which nicely sums up the Honduran experience. A couple weeks ago, I was playing accordion in the central park here in Copan Ruinas as part of a little "feria gastronomica" ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 18 hours agoMary Jeffries ran child brothels for the elite. She kidnapped children and provided them to the elite for sex. One of Mary Jeffries's brothels had a torture chamber. "There were rings in the ceiling for...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours agoR. v. McBride 2012 ONCJ 121: "The problem of adding continuing trials to already full lists is reaching crisis proportions in this jurisdiction. To put it bluntly, we are about to experience another Asko...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* "The Worst Yet to Come? * *Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb"* By Brad Jacobson "More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - Three dead porpoises have washed ashore on Whidbey Island in a matter of days, and now some experts are wondering if the animals were ill - or the cause of their deaths is somethin...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 19 hours agoNew ad from Team Obama takes a crack at Romney's alleged business cred: Companion site to the ad, is romneyeconomics.com with a longer version of the ad and other details. I assume they'll be adding to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - Strong production in Germany could not make up for a slump across the rest of the euro zone in March with declining output at factories falling and signaling an oncoming recession may not be as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoReturn to drachma nears amid political impasse in Athens and open discussion in Brussels of possible end of single currency. Financial markets are hastily making preparations for a Greek exit from the eu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:28:43 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (72.5 miles) Northwest of Ternate, Moluccas...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRussian – Latin American relations are relatively warm these days, especially when it comes to a number of seemingly left-leaning countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. Nonetheless, Washington’...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago“On the one hand, we could disengage, and wait, and see what happens. On the other hand, we could engage pro-actively and seek to shape outcomes that are more favorable to our interests.” [To pretend that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDemand for water and energy, natural disasters and measuring carbon dioxide must be prioritised, leading institutions say The world's leading scientific institutions have urged governments to focus on thr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSpain rescued real estate lender Bankia, and more such bailouts will likely follow, says Christopher Whalen, Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital Partners in New York. Spanish newspaper El País rep...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"When Cash is King: * *Investing with Risk on the Downside"* by Bill Bonner "China is falling apart. Bond yields are falling. Copper is sinking. Oil is sliding. US stocks, too, slipped all last week....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThere has been much discussion recently about the Obama administration’s “pivot” from the Greater Middle East to Asia: the 250 Marines sent to Darwin, Australia, the littoral combat ships for Singapore, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMany analysts regularly predict the break-up of the euro zone and even of the European Union, but in reality neither development is likely, especially in the near future. While it is true that the prospe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe traders of India and Iran have called for a secure payment mechanism and lowering tariffs to boost trade. At an industry meeting hosted by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co lost $15 billion in market value and a notch in its credit ratings on Friday while a chorus of regulators and politicians reacted to its surprise $2 billion trading loss by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDespite belated gestures from Berlin, the single currency cannot survive if and when Greece leaves it. For all the latest news on the escalating situation in the eurozone read our debt crisis live blog ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoMay 13, 2012 Greetings, my dear, and to all who endeavour to wake others up to the Light. As so many more move out of the Third Dimension, they suspend 3-dimensional thinking and see, for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMAYOM WEL, South Sudan — On a recent blistering afternoon, this village danced in an open field. Women sashayed, hoisting chairs over their heads. Barefoot children scampered. Old men, with skin as dry an...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"The Difference Between Market and Government Swindles"* by Joel Bowman "What’s going on in the markets? Well, a gloriously strong chávena de café at one of this city’s many colorful, street side vend...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA top Pentagon official is trying to stop congressional opposition to a deal that provides Russian helicopters to the Afghan military — even as the same official Russian arms exporter also supplies Syrian...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPresident Vladimir Putin got right to work and presented a series of new decrees within hours of being sworn in as Russia's new president. According to Norway's Barents Observer, the Arctic figured promin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(FULLERTON, CA) - The video below shows police beating a homeless man to death. It is very hard to watch, however you should, to understand what your country and the state of California have come to. "Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA former top CIA covert officer who ran one of the spy agency's secret domestic networks says there are now more foreign spies on U.S. soil than at the peak of the Cold War. The former officer, Hank Crump...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSenate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., returned this week from visits to Afghanistan and Egypt, among other countries. He discussed his trip with National Journal. Edited excerpt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPakistan carried out a successful test firing of a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Thursday, the military said. The launch of the Hatf III, which has a range of up to 290 kilometres (200 ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 20 hours agoThis afternoon during lunch – I heard John Nichols say something to the affect – As goes Wisconsin in the recall election – so goes the nation in November. I believe that to be a truthful statemen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAmericans consume 80 percent of the world's supply of painkillers -- more than 110 tons of pure, addictive opiates every year -- as the country's prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes. That's enough ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSEATTLE — Washington state’s worst outbreak of whooping cough in decades has prompted health officials to declare an epidemic, seek help from federal experts and urge residents to get vaccinated amid worry...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRon Paul issued a carefully worded statement today, saying his team will no longer campaign in the rest of the primary states. Does that mean he's bowing out of the GOP primary and leave nomination all to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLONGVIEW, Wash. - As the highway to Mount St. Helens reopens this weekend, the Forest Service is warning of "very high" avalanche risk for people thinking of climbing the volcano. The Daily News reports ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoIt's just a little local election, but... A quick follow-up to my weekend post about the local bond election here in San Antonio. All five bond measures passed, all by comfortable margins. That's not of m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago3D bathymetric view of Monowai caldera in the Kermadec Islands. The red cone in the foreground is Monowai cone. You can see the scars of collapses on its slopes along with new domes near the summit. Image...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago"*Sudan ready for South negotiations* KHARTOUM - Sudan says it is ready to hold talks with South Sudan about outstanding issues between the two countries. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the “...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMay 14 - Two people were killed in northern Lebanon on Monday as unrest in neighboring Syria fuels tensions between Alawites and Sunni Muslims. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice investigating a house fire in Derby which killed six children have said it was probably started deliberately. The announcement comes on the same day that the latest victim - 13-year-old Duwayne P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:24:28 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25.4 miles) Northeast of Sa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago"Quake hits capital; no one injured SANTIAGO - A 5.1-magnitude earthquake shook awake residents of Chile’s capital Saturday, but no damage or injuries were reported. The US Geological Survey reported that...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*:-(* "14 die as fire sweeps drug rehab center CHOSICA - A predawn fire swept through a drug rehabilitation center in a town on Lima’s outskirts Saturday, killing 14. Rescue efforts were complicated by l...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*Globe only gave me a couple of crumbs:** * *"*Hunger strikers put under medical care JERUSALEM - Ten *Palestinian prisoners participating in a mass hunger strike * in* Israeli jails* were *put under medic...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*What could be taking so long up there? I only have half-an-hour. * "Industry, consumer groups query delay on food safety rules" by Dina ElBoghdady | Washington Post, May 06, 2012 WASHINGTON - More tha...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago*Not really but the stupidity of the LQG proponents has reached levels that are utterly comical* Just a week ago, I discussed the incompatibility between the black hole thermodynamics and loop quantum gra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:49 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5.6 miles) South of Yasuj, Iran No Reports of...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 20 hours agoThis was too good not to write about – finding it was just one of those things. You gotta read the whole thing – it’s pretty effing amazing. Republicans – kicking the Republican party to the curb. Republ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 20 hours agoΑθΕ A.O.E. by Sophia Love 05/14/2012 My ears are working overtime. This morning at barely 7 AM they pick up cars, trucks and bikes in the street, a radio broadcast, an airplane and a host of b...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours agoThis week's award is presented to Boris Johnson for this comment: "The BBC is unlike any other media organisation in the free world, in that it levies billions from British households whether they want to ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 21 hours agoSummary Video of Dangers of Fukushima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJIEZvX4PZI&feature=youtu.be Video produced by Albert "Bert" N. Stubblebine III. From Wikipedia: "[He] is a retired Major General in th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*There's nothing in it*: "Commercial food waste to be banned" May 04, 2012|David Abel, Globe Staff State environmental officials are preparing to *ban hospitals, universities, hotels, large restaurants, a...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoQishin Tariq *The Star/Asia News Network* Saturday, May 12, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR - The War Crimes Tribunal has convicted former US President George W. Bush and seven of his associates as war criminals f...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours agoKofi Annan Spouts NATO “Civil War in Syria” Mantra; Syrian UN Ambassador Jafari Exposes Role of Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar in Fielding Al Qaeda Death Squads; Rebels Attack UN Observers. Pres...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*It's almost lunchtime*: "Food banks confront hunger at community colleges; Seeing need, food banks target campuses like Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts" by Mary Carmichael | Globe Staff...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoI got started late and had other lives before university, so I'm a decade or more older than most of students in Quebec. But that makes little difference as I share the same debt burden and the rising costs ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSix people have made a miraculous escape after a plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas, killing 15 people. The Agni Air plane with 21 people on board came down near Jomsom, a popular area for tr...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours agoHas no program or solutions beyond "anti-Putin." RT/Stop Imperialism May 14, 2012 *Video: Geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser discusses the problem of legitimacy Russia's "opposition" faces, as it lac...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoNorth Dakota sometimes seems like a hopelessly red state. Obama only won 45% of the vote against McCain. The last Democratic presidential nominee to win was LBJ. They've had a long line of Republican gove...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoHundreds of Palestinian prisoners have agreed to end a mass hunger strike after a deal with Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides have announced. The agreement was apparently struck as the I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 75.9 km (47.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:16:25 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 287 km (178...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 145.1 km (90.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:43:40 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) SSE from Khorugh, Tajikistan No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Bougainvillen Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 468.1 km (290.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:22:25 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 185 km (114 mile...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours agoAnyone who follows this blog regularly can see that I am extremely troubled by the ongoing disaster at Fukushima. Living where I am and directly under the Jet Stream over North America, I can guarantee t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*You know what they say: unlucky in cards, lucky in love! * "Sex assault case haunts gambling director" May 03, 2012|By Andrea Estes and Mark Arsenault A 2007 *sexual assault case* is coming back to haunt...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoTed Hopf has an extremely cool talk on how practice-turn theory is being assimilated by the liberal-constructivist borg. Give it a listen. Background on liberalism and constructivism at the Duck, *Intern...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoSome critics of academic social science, and political science in particular, have recently asserted that it's difficult to see the benefit of what we do. To be fair, our output is less immediately tangi...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 22 hours ago*Royalty hike cure for Dutch disease * *Premier Brad Wall calls federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair “very, very divisive” for expressing concern that Canada’s overvalued petro-dollar is eliminating manufacturi...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 23 hours agoHere is another proof that the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) is mainly about money-money. A bill in Philippine Congress, called the "People's Survival Fund" (PSF) bill, authored by *Con...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoRESISTANCE … IS NOT FUTILE Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. 13 May 2012. Resistance being futile is a lie. We must resist to survive. The European elite sent over invaders to ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago*R. v. Charbonneau*, 2012 ONCA 314 is an interesting decision because it makes clear that where a* Corbett* application is granted it is not to mislead the jury as to the true nature of the accused bu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*Sorry, I already made my **last bet**.* *Call*: "Casino foes prevail in Foxborough vote; 2 selectmen elected on antigaming stand" by Mark Arsenault and Michele Morgan Bolton | Globe staff | Globe Corr...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 23 hours ago*"The high-and-mighty vitriol which greeted Tom Mulcair's comments last week about the downside of oil-powered currency appreciation is lamentable (repeating the over-the-top reaction to Dalton McGuinty's ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 23 hours ago** *Menachem Begin's "Freedom Party" betrayed its real character* *Contributor: "PAJU"* *DeirYassin.org*The following letter was written by Albert Einstein and other leading Jewish Americans and published...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoThe mass of the soon-to-be-discovered Higgs boson, \(125\,\GeV\) or so, is below the threshold of \(135\,\GeV\) which means that it is compatible with the MSSM, the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, w...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago"Arkana Limited, a Malaysian company that is financing the project, an investment group that financed the startups of Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut in 1992 and the Seneca Niagara Casino in New ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 23 hours ago*Follow-Up: The A Graña UAV (Spain, 1966)* *By Scott Corrales* Our friend and colleague *Angel Rodriguez,* director of Spain’s *GEIFO*organization, has sent us an update on the fascinating story invo...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012* *And big pundits have to push script:* Did Obama take a “courageous stand” in the case of same-sex marriage? Writing in Sunday’s Washington Post, Kathleen Parker seemed to say no: ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 23 hours agoht to Stan Karp. From NewJerseynewsroom.com: BY PAT SUMMERSNEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM If the growing groundswell against the country’s so-called “education reformers” has a philosophical leader, it is Dr. Dian...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoI agree with a lot of what Steve Kornacki has to say about the Tea Partyand the state of the GOP this morning: It’s not really about moving the GOP to the right; the party is already there, and has been fo...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 23 hours agoBack from a two-day annual planning meeting with OCDIH, the agency I'm to help in Honduras, and I must say it went brilliantly. I succeeded in managing their expectations down to the point that any contri...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoWhen the fat cat reporters come to town, be ready to accommodate them By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com When outside reporters come to Indian country, they seem to think that ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf tensions are not eased over Huangyan Island, trade prospects between China and the Philippines will be affected and economic sanctions might be applied, experts said. "For the moment the dispute will ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 230,000 unemployed workers will lose their jobless benefits this weekend as portions of federal programs expire across several states. All told, 409,300 long-term unemployed Americans in 27 sta...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoFor the last several years, I have been bashing the absolutely idiotic idea of replacing safe and proven reliable Tungsten filament light bulbs with absolutely horrrendous poisonous Mercury filled and unde...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day 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 day 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 day ago*Drew Brees' contract situation with the New Orleans Saints is not unusual, just unnecessary* *NFLPA hearing set for Wednesday* *Game of Zones~American Zombie* *A blog reborn: The ‘heritage’ that gave ri...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day agoScott's recent post (at LGM) on college debt, which links to a depressing *New York Times* story, focuses primarily on politics. The narrative has gotten pretty familiar. State education cutbacks force tu...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKen Slay was shutting down for the night Sunday and went out to close his garage door when he noticed that something wasn't quite right. "As I was pulling it down ... well, it didn't want to go down," sai...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 day ago*MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012* *Despite what Ezra Klein wrote:* In Saturday morning’s Washington Post, Ezra Klein let it rip concerning a missing person. The missing person is Norman Ornstein. Klein began his col...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 - 1 day agoNO! to Enbridge pipeline! NO! to Tar Sands! NO! to pipelines! Thanks to Yinka Dene Alliance for sharing photos with Censored News! Photos by Yinka Dene Alliance/Collages by Censored News. Freedom Train in th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agohttp://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/NOW_IS_OUR_CHANCE_TO_END_ECOCIDE/?cWlKubb
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