- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 minutes agoColby asks: I saw you say on Twitter once that you thought...and I'm doing this from memory...that LBJ, Nixon, and Reagan were the most interesting post-war Presidents. What's your criteria for "interesti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes agoA major search operation is continuing for three missing fishermen, as attempts to identify an object seen on the sea bed get underway. Rescue agencies are involved in the hunt for the missing vessel an...
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A New Zealand woman who went on the run after a bank mistakenly deposited millions of dollars into her partner's account has been convicted of theft, dishonesty and money laundering. "Runaway millionaire... - posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 minutes agoThe omnibus federal budget bill contains a provision abolishing the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act which requires federal contractors to pay workers the prevailing wage in the region. So... that with t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes agoBritain's most senior Muslim politician has claimed white women are sexual abuse targets for "a small minority" of Pakistani men. Cabinet minister Baroness Warsi's comments come after nine Muslim men in ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 minutes agoGermany achieved its war goals on May 7, 1945 when it signed the instruments of surrender at Reims, France. Germany's goal at that point was to end the war it had sparked six years earlier with the invas...
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I was doing some late night tweeting a couple nights ago when a report came over the transom about far right sociopath Mike Coffman going off the deep end at a campaign fundraiser. Since Blue America is ... - posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 33 minutes agoACCORDING TO GLENN GREENWALD, at SALON, in an article, "Federal court enjoins NDAA", Judge Katherine Forrest struck a blow for American civil rights. This is a strong first step to fight the legal weasels th...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 36 minutes agoIt finally happened. For the first time, of all the babies born in America, *white babies were a minority*. For the year ending July, 2011, white babies tallied just 49.6% with the remaining 50.4% being ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 42 minutes ago*FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012* *The undisguised soul of class preference:* This morning’s column by David Brooks is truly one for the ages. Looking down from the heights of Olympus, Brooks starts by explaining ho...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoWilliam Burns asks: First serious presidential candidate with a chance at election who is openly gay--what year, if ever? That's a tough one. Let's do some perspective. As far as I can remember, Tammy Ba...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 hour agoKnow what "they" don't want to talk about seriously now (after the Occupy strategy has proved effective) in their very-serious-about-the-economy meetings? I N E Q U A L I T Y! Wonder why? (Although for som...
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* * *Michael channeled by Ron Head* *May 18, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages* *by Oracles and Healers* Our topic today will be your true selves. You have allowed yourselves to forget who you truly ar... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoNote: Not 2 years ago Nigel Farage was shouted down, now he is being Applauded and his views are exactly the same as they were two years ago. Why is he Not Prime Minister?
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- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012* *Thanks to MSNBC, everyone knows except us: *This morning, for the second straight day, the New York Times reports on the legal case involving the killing of Trayvon Martin. Yester...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Annual global average surface temperatures from the NASA GISS record, 1880-1981. Hansen, 1981] By Tamino 16 May 2012 Over thirty years ago, James Hansen was lead author of a scientific papertitl...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoThe business part is selling bitumen sludge to China, as much and as fast as possible. The pleasure part is playing Commander-in-Chief and sending Canadian forces to distant corners of the world for a bi...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago<p>Rsdfasdf</p> *Reasons why this is most likely a hoax:* -- Software/edited, vs actual human/camera pans -- Drones don't make jet engine sounds -- Very short clip for something so important --...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoLet's get it rolling. Matt D. asks: I know you talk about how dysfunctional the GOP caucus is, but what do you think is causing it, and what can be done about it? Why do you think polarization has been so ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago*R. v. Maybin*, 2012 SCC 24, just released, is an important decision dealing with causation in manslaughter and when an intervening act may be seen to absolve liability. Courts have used a number ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoSending foreign affairs minister John Baird as Canada's frontman to the Rio+20 Earth Summit next month sends the world a pretty clear message - "forget it." It proclaims that, to the Harper regime, even ...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 2 hours agoThere are bloggers who have converted their blogspot blog to custom domain, but then changed their minds and want to switch back to blogspot. Previously, this was very easy done. One just need to go to Set...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Billboard intended to highlight Pfizer’s and other corporations’ funding of the Heartland Institute and would have been installed in the same location where Heartland put up an ad featuring the U...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agoWHY THE ELDERS TALK By Thomas O. Mills You have to ask yourself why any Native American Elder would want to talk to us. What good have we ever done for him? What is this deep seeded understanding ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago(Reuters) - European officials are working on contingency plans in case Greece bombs out of the euro zone, the EU's trade commissioner said on Friday, while Berlin said it was prepared for all eventualiti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA British citizen has been arrested in Thailand after the bodies of six babies thought to have been used in a black magic ritual were found in luggage in a Bangkok hotel room. Chow Hok Kuen, who was born...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 131.7 km (81.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:29:57 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) West of San Antonio de los ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Northern Algeria at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:12:12 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16.2 miles) Southwest of Aflu, Nigeria No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:45:53 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) East of KABU...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 3 hours agoNot only is Maurice Vellacott -- like all fetus fetishists -- an opportunistic creep, he is also a lying liar. From his press release: Scientific research is revealing an ever-younger age at which childr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Younger generations lack confidence in reaching key financial goals, a key result from the Money Across Generations® study by Ameriprise Financial. This graph compares 2007 poll results with 2012...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012* *Part 4—As the liberal world slept:* According to Jason Horowitz’s reporting, some of which is thoroughly documented, Mitt Romney behaved quite badly at several times during his hig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 82.3 km (51.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:46:26 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) South of Severo-Kuril'sk, K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 47.1 km (29.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:21:34 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 57.4 km (35.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:17:51 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) Sou...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours agoGotta ask – just in case Did you see Koch’s lawyer on Bashir yesterday? The reason I ask is that people assume everyone has cable. People assume that all we do all day is watch MSNBC. People don’t realize ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours agoOn Saturday, May 26, Brigette DePape, the former parliamentary page who disrupted the 2011 Throne Speech, will speak on a panel discussing how we can make her two-word protest a reality. The panel also i...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours agoImage from Chicago Now. The school 'reform' movement: Squeezing 'value' out of students By Patrick Youngblood / The Rag Blog / May 18, 2012 As a public high school teacher and a parent I think often abou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Azerbaijanat a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 10:04:09 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (54 miles) Southeast of Zaqatala (Zakataly), Azer...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*HoZone Highlights....with limited commentary ~American Zombie* *Storming the Castle re: LA SB 573: HoZone Game-changing amendments added! ~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes* *Saints linebacker Vilma's suit against Go...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours agoR. v. Pelech, 2012 ABCA 134: "[2] At about 2:00 a.m. on December 6, 2009, an Edmonton police officer noticed a Jeep leaving the parking lot of a drinking establishment with its lights out. ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoI found it interesting that the right is falling all over themselves the past few days to report anywhere and everywhere they can that Progressives had a meeting on 5/11 to coordinate their work against AL...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*North Carolina closet case Patrick McHenry helped lead the charge against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act* If the House Republicans weren't so deranged, the renewal of the Violence Against W...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 4 hours agoI love that moment when your child has no idea that something super cool is about to happen, but you do and you stand back waiting for the reaction. After seeing several YouTube videos featuring this exp...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoFound an interesting item on my daily search for all things related to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - a search - which in this instance - took too much time to try and follow the sour...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 4 hours agoPoor Maurice was blindsided by a MASSIVE fundamentalist christian furor against the SEX exhibit that exploded in dozens of phone and email messages (templates provided by churches, the Institut...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoIt's Question Day! Haven't done this for a while now, so it's about time. You ask, I'll answer. You can use comments below, email, or twitter, so ask away, and I'll get to as many of them as I can. Senate ...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 4 hours agoThe National Labor Relations Board says almost all private employers must put up a poster informing you of your workplace rights under the National Labor Relations Act as of April 30, 2012. It’s free. Empl...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoAvaaz has a new petition out, which they're calling "a new plan to save the planet". I'm more than a tad skeptical about Avaaz petitions, but it only takes a click, it can't hurt, and it's worthwhile if on...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoHappy Birthday to Dwayne Hickman, 78. Hey, I didn't know he was in the "Clueless" TV series. Guess that's another reason to watch it some day. I just saw something with him, Frankie Avalon, and Vincent Pri...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours agoJeffrey Simpson writes that the Harper government should rename the Correctional Service of Canada. He suggests that it now be called Punishment Canada: Just when you think this government’s criminal j...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*The Metropolitan Police has found a method to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody. According to Stephen Kavanagh Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, service mob...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*Japan has fulfilled its initial successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite. On Friday, the H-2A rocket blasted off from the space centre on Tanegashima Island at 1:39 am.* Officials opinion...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours agoI have discussed \({\mathcal F}-SU(5)\) superstringy models previously. They're based on local F-theory models, flipped \(SU(5)\) grand unification, and no-scale supergravity; each of the concepts brings...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoAs Christopher Hitchens wrote about the mega-mosque at Ground Zero: '"Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and ...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 6 hours ago*Black Bean Soup and Spanish Tortilla! Oooh Yes!* I have been meaning to make this dish for ages, but I think in some weird way it has been a bit daunting. I was a bit afraid that my Tortilla (a Spanish p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(Reuters) - A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful "die in" on Thursday at President Barack Obama's election campaign headquarters in Chicago to demand an end to the war in Afghanistan ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(Reuters) - Senate Republicans blocked legislation for new economic sanctions on Iran's oil sector on Thursday saying they needed more time to study the bill, a surprise move that drew anger from Democrat...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours agohttp://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/time-and-punishment-now-canadas-way/article2436127/?service=mobile You don't have to be a bleeding-heart liberal, or as the Conservatives like to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related deals between Pyongyang and Syria and Myanmar, the panel sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to manipulate a case th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Lai Changxing, a tycoon who spent more than a decade as a fugitive in Canada, to life in prison for smuggling and bribery, the state-run news agency Xinhua rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged people in Saudi Arabia to follow the example set by popular revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and rise up. "Why don't you rise up, for you are the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBaghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Three roadside bombs exploded Friday in quick succession at an outdoor pet market in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 31 others, police officials said. The bombings took p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*(CNN)* -- Syrian forces opened fire Friday on anti-government demonstrators in Aleppo, the opposition claimed, a day after thousands purportedly took to the streets calling for an end to the regime in a ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 7 hours ago"Al Qaeda wasn't called Al Qaeda until 9/11 in the FBI. Through 1996 to 2001 ... they were called *Our Allies Mujahedin*," that's the most amazing early quote from State-whsitleblower Sibel Edmonds intervi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPrime Minister Julia Gillard has talked up Australia's strong economic fundamentals after concerns over Europe caused a rout in global sharemarkets and sent the Australian dollar to a six-month low. Some...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 7 hours agolast night, lovely amazing powerful horrific soul-enriching dream where I'm 'taking it all in my stride' and jogging upstream, into the source of a burgeoning river. My feet, then my shins, then my thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTwo boys who admitted sexually assaulting women in Perth's southern suburbs last year have avoided detention. The boys, who cannot be named, were aged 11 and 13 years when they and two others attacked six...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Australian share market has hit a six-month low, wiping $32 billion off the All Ordinaries Index, as investors headed for the exits amid fears about the ongoing instability in the eurozone. Investors...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe grandfather of the ten-week-old boy who was beaten to death allegedly by his father last week wants to know why previous abuse was not flagged up by Child Protection Services. Gordon Collins-Faunce, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoGoogle is set to track the world's warships and make the data available to billions of internet users, raising concerns over the security of the American naval fleet. The search engine plans to offer th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 54.7 km (34 miles), the quake hit at 08:18:59 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) South of Utsunomiya, Hons...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe wife of a U.S. Army captain who was killed while deployed in Iraq is stunned that the person named responsible for his death will be freed. Charlotte Freeman of Temecula, California expressed her dism...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups planned to attack a Mexican consulate believing it would stir debate on immigration amnesty issues ahead of the 2012 presidential election, authoritie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA 12-year-old boy was handcuffed and locked in a jail in rural Indiana after sheriff's deputies somehow confused him with his 17-year-old brother. Jacob Magruder says he was sitting in the lobby of the Ja...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAnd the heat goes on. Forecasters predict toasty temperatures will stretch through the summer in the U.S., causing more wildfires than usual in the West. The forecast for June through August calls for wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe inhabitants of Killeen, Texas, should be relieved that the U.S. army doesn't routinely fly with loaded missiles. The six-foot-long, 100 pound ammunition accidentally fell out of an Apache AH-64 helic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA newlywed accused of stabbing his pregnant wife to escape their marriage pleaded not guilty to two counts of capital murder Thursday after the woman and baby died in western Arkansas. A judge explained ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 57.3 km (35.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:27:47 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 256 km (159 miles) ENE from D...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoMy father Axel Andersson, was forced, after only 18 days' stay at theForellen Nursing Home in Partille to amputate his left leg, about 10 cm above the knee, a so called femoral amputation. Forellen off...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe neighbours of the Florida woman who fatally shot her four children and herself, refused to open the doors to three of the frantic children who had fled to their house. During a recording of a 911 cal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice investigating the disappearance of a young girl from her family's southern Arizona home said that child welfare workers went to the household in December, but authorities declined to provide additi...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours ago*Reposted from: http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/* * * *Kauilapele has a pretty good sense about him, so I am re-posting this on American Kabuki. We shall see how good Tolec's information really is. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Panama at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:56:09 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) Southwest of Santiago, Panama No Tsunam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSix people from London have been charged following an investigation into the alleged human trafficking of a woman from India. The suspects face a number of counts including sexual assault and making threa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWorld stock markets are suffering further steep falls as a result of the eurozone debt crisis after downgrades in the credit ratings of Greece and 16 Spanish banks. After closing at its lowest level sinc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIt was the gossip of the shipping world yesterday, when news started spreading that the Baltic Container Terminal in Gdynia, Poland, was earmarked for a £30million modernisation plan. A mere 24 hours lat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe local share market is on track for its lowest close since November, as worries about the stability of Greece and Spain spark a sell off. The Australian dollar, meanwhile, has also touched a five-month ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA killer described by police as a 'violent coward' was today jailed for life for knifing his partner to death at a house where eight children were playing. It took a jury just an hour to convict Jordan Q...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago*Introduction to all conceptual mistakes that people do when they think about science and Nature* When you look at the whole set of scientific misconceptions that I have been trying to correct and clarify...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAny developer with plans to build a multi-million-pound scheme in a housing area can expect to encounter the occasional gripe from a concerned local resident. But few could have predicted the lengths tha...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Nica Rothschild.* There is a new book on the Rothschilds. *"The Baroness: The Search For Nica, The Rebellious Rothschild"* has been written by Hannah Rothschild, brother of Nat. Nica Rothschild was the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBreeders told China Central Television the female is carrying 1.2million eggs, which will be collected and artificially inseminated before the fry are released back into the river. The species is listed...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 9 hours agoI recently wrote an article explaining why the trial of Ratko Mladić was an act of despotism, and how the Srebrenica Massacre did not really happen. In response, I received the following comment from an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo Australian cattle exporters will have to ensure an animal welfare officer is present when their livestock are slaughtered overseas, after breaches of Australian humane standards were discovered. Austr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe chief executive of Greggs has slammed the 'absurd' Pasty Tax after a 13 per cent drop in the firm's share price since the Budget wiped £70million off its market value. The bakery chain's market value...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 9 hours agoGuest blogging is a frequent occurrenceon the Internet. In fact, in the blogosphere guest blogging is as common as TV personalities appearing on each other's shows or news reporters gracing the studios of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe simmering political row over President Obama’s heritage was dramatically reignited today as a 1991 booklet boldly announced that the Democrat was ‘born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.’ I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe asteroids would cause catastrophic damage, on a city-sized scale or larger. Research from the University of Southhampton has identified the countries most likely to be worst hit. They have identified...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours agoBen Fulford as Daruma http://goo.gl/uiv1B *Select Postings from Ben Fulford's Free Blog:* May 14, 2012 *From a reader: (translated from Japanese)* In the November 2002 issue "Business Community Outlo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMilitary chiefs were last night investigating a security breach after the personal details of Army snipers were discarded in the boot of a second-hand car. The stunned buyer found a ‘treasure trove’ of s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA tragic woman killed herself after breaking her silence about the rapes she suffered as a child at the hands of her father. Newcastle Crown Court heard it wasn't until 2010, that Claire Warrener felt ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn off-duty scientist thought he'd lend a helping hand when an alligator was spotted along Highway 70 in North Carolina. But Fred Boyce bit off more than he could chew; as he approached the beast, the al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe rescue of Northern Rock could cost the country up to £4billion, a report reveals today. The spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, says the projected loss reflected the fact taxpayers should ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDavid Cameron and George Osborne are piling pressure on Germany to foot the bill for supporting debt-stricken Greece as it emerged the Government is making emergency preparations for a collapse of the eur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo brothers had their childhood ‘stolen’ by their mother and stepfather who kept them locked in a bedroom for up to 23 hours a day, a court was told. The boys were shut away for weeks on end, given litt...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThis breakthrough ends any remaining risk that we will ever have a meaningful shortage of heating gas for millennia. Every household on Earth can be securely supplied with our most effective an...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoWhat should be obvious to the blind, dumb and stupid is that capital is lazy. If you can lend the government’s newly created cash back to the government for a point spread, you take it. Thus...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThe obvious preventive measure is to tightly control kiwi traffic itself out of China. In the meantime the pathogen itself should be amenable to established control measures and if we are luck...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoRecall that domestication of our key grains and other foods involved the successful application of polyploidy which entailed simply doubling up the chromosome content of the cell. So though this...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago“you have to go through Heath to get to Thatcher” is apparently a saying in circulation in Westminster, in other words a tinkering Conservative Prime Minister has to have a go, and fail, before the Conserv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo six-week-old puppies have died after being sealed in a garbage bag and dumped in a skip at Bolivar in Adelaide's north. A third puppy that was in the bag was lucky to be alive after being found this ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA thief stole the handbag of a hit-and-run victim as her decapitated body lay in the road, a court heard yesterday. Marc Kirvin, 46, picked up the bag, which contained £1,600 in cash, minutes after grand...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoParents will receive text message and email advice on how to bring up their children after David Cameron said it was ‘ludicrous’ that people get more training in driving a car. A £3.4million website laun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNew French president Francois Hollande will deliver seven snubs to David Cameron today after the Prime Minister publicly backed his opponent Nicolas Sarkozy. Mr Hollande will open up splits with Britain ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoOn Thursday, May 17, *Breitbart.com published* undeniable evidence that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and as a result is an illegitimate president. The bigger story here is not that Obama w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBeach goers and boaters along the coast of Central California are accustomed to seeing fascinating sea creatures large and small off its shore—but an Arabian horse? Some at first thought the gleaming whit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAustralian shares are right now thumbing new one year lows as investors exit equities in renewed fear over Greece and the great financial face-off. Six weeks ago when the market was riding high people were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPhotos showing injuries to the alleged murderer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin are among a mass of evidence that has been made public for the first time. Nearly 200 documents, photos and audio record...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe original idea of Mother’s Day was to promote peace so mothers would not have to suffer the grief that many American moms faced after the slaughter of the Civil War. But some of today’s most powerful w...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoMay 17, 2012 *EPISODE EIGHT: COLLATERAL DAMAGE* Helen and Sylvia, along with friends Joan and Joy, take part in a demonstration in Bradford to show their opposition to the replacement of Trident. Late...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAmid all the hoopla over the London Whale, the U.S. stock selloff, and the Facebook IPO, you may have missed this: The Germans are talking about “accepting” higher inflation. John Mauldin didn’t miss it,...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours ago*After reading the below in the Swedish media recently, I pondered about this case plus that of Julian Assange. * *I wondered what jail time would be in the States for a similar crime. I thought perhap...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoCharity: Right-wing think tanks and Ducks Unlimited are most certainly not exactly as illustrated. Below: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and National Revenue Minister Gail Shea. Supporters of the Harper G...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoMay 17, 2012 *Posted by Stephen Cook* *The 2012 Scenario Interview: Cobra – Part 1 of 2* While we often know the name, face, gender and other more personal details about many of those we post here a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAs many as 6,200 potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are orbiting close to Earth, a new survey by NASA has revealed. The PHAs are considered robust enough to survive the passage through Earth's atmosph...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe owners of Victorian Retravision stores will meet this morning to discuss cash-flow problems in the Retravision group. It is believed some stores are facing financial difficulties. Employees have been ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoLouisville Metro Police are working overtime after six people were shot near Downtown Louisville Thursday. Police first responded to a call for a quadruple shooting in the 1000 block of 32nd Street aroun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAlaska polar bears, protected under the Endangered Species Act, have joined the list of far-north species afflicted with a mystery illness. An iconic animal that has become a symbol for global awareness of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNATO member states want an anti-missile defense system in case of attack from Iran or North Korea - but Russia feels threatened and has warned it will retaliate to protect itself. "The system is not a th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAre you ready for the smart electricity revolution? On July 20, 2006, California's Public Utilities Commission approved a proposal by Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG) to begin phasing out conventional electr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe global energy games (or wars to be more exact) have taken an important turn in the favour of Russia. In the near future the gas supplies going through North Stream route from Russia to the European Un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA piece of news released by AP, the most important US news agency, dated today in Monterrey, Mexico, explains it with irrefutable clarity. This is not the first, and certainly it won’t be the last, about a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoUS civilian and military employees regularly target and fire lethal unmanned drone guided missiles at people across the world. Thousands of people have been assassinated. Hundreds of those killed were civ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWith audacious hypocrisy, American pro-nuclear pundits have been indulging in the familiar sport of losers – the relentless bashing of the more successful. With nuclear energy rapidly losing favor around ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA man has admitted raping a woman and sexually assaulting another in the space of 15 minutes in a city centre street. Scott Kerr, 22, dragged his first victim, a 20-year-old woman, into a car park in Jame...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoQueen Sofia of Spain has cancelled a visit to the UK to mark Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee because of disputes over Gibraltar. A Spanish government statement said it was "hardly appropriate" for Queen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed he would like to support Iranian athletes competing in this summer's London 2012 Olympics - but the UK authorities are reluctant to host him. Mr Ahmadinej...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoGreece's credit rating has been downgraded due to the "heightened risk" that the political and economic crisis could drag the country out of the euro. The debt-laden country was cut from a B to a CCC ra...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 11 hours agoOn the road all weekend, probably not back here until Tuesday. Contemplate one of my daughter's artworks instead. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Panama at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:26:45 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) South of Santiago, Panama No Tsunami Wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 61.3 km (38.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:04:52 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) WSW of Rivas, Ni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:00:41 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 542 km (336 miles) WSW of Castro, ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:16:10 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 664 km (412 miles) Southeast of Qalansiyah, S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:01:46 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) ENE of Naha, Okinawa, J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 49.4 km (30.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:50:09 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 159 km (98 miles) NNW of Kendari, Sulawe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:55 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 362 km (224 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:40:41 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) SSW of Lar, Iran No Reports of ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*"Heritage Minister James Moore said during question period Thursday that he was invited to view the exhibit and expressed his concerns. "I respect the independence of the museum, but they asked me my op...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoAbstract Though scholars widely claim that they are capable of writing creative titles, there exist some notable skeptics. Resolving this debate requires empirical evidence. However, beyond a few anecdote...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*According to the Congressional Budget Office (if I'm reading this right -- no guarantees!) we could rig up 20 interceptor missiles on the East Coast for a measly $3.6 billion. At that rock-bottom price, n...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoCartoon from Political Resources, Inc. Bought and paid for: The Left and the 2012 presidential election By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / May 17, 2012"[No] serious candidate will rely on the public fu...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 13 hours agoA frequent complaint of bloggers/surfers when currently not in their own country is Google automatically resetting their language option and displaying on the browser a language they do not understand and/...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoIsrael has long said that the nation of Iran must be destroyed due to its non-existent nuclear weapons program which has proven again and again to be a fantasy, primarily due to the fact that the Internati...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race." - Ernest L. Woodward • We, ...
- posted by Brian C Rathbun at The Duck of Minerva - 14 hours agoThis is me with Rick Allen, the drummer for Def Leppard who lost his arm in the 1980s but retooled his drum kit and life to adjust to his injury. He now runs the Raven Drum Foundation, which focuses on hel...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoI have long been asked what must be done for us to break the shackles of the criminals who are out for our total enslavement. It is very hard to come up with solutions when most of the people I talk to a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoBakersfield, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*“The Heavens Proclaim”* by Chet Raymo "Four centuries ago, Francis Bacon said that what a person would like to be true, he preferentially believes. Is there a way to truth that escapes the constraint...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 14 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. Some fans are annoyed at the significant and at times random pl...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 14 hours agoKurdish groups have thus far stayed out of NATO's destabilization of Syria, US threats to arm and unleash Kurdish groups aims at coaxing Turkey to act. *by Tony Cartalucci* * * *May 18, 2012* - The violenc...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours ago*IS THIS CRAP GOING TO KEEP COMING OUT * *UNTIL IT STARTS GIVING PEOPLE IN EASTERN JAPAN, AND WESTERN CANADA AND THE US * * * *ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME?* I WANT TO KNOW YOU *SOBS* WHO ARE HIDING THE INFO...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"Trying to Please Others, Living for Ourselves"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "We may not realize until we are adults that we are living our life to make our parents happy. Most of us come to a po...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 16 hours agoNATO-Backed “Syrian National Council” Breaking Apart After 51% of Syrians Brave Death Squad Snipers to Cast Ballots; US Inciting Kurds to Revolt Against Damascus; Turkey Eyes Article IV; Syrian Govt. Expos...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago* A remembrance of Pope John XXIII in Porto Viro, in the Italian province of Rovigo (in the Veneto) * *"Roncalli's selection was a surprise to all, most particularly to Roncalli, who arrived in Rome with a ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"A Letter from Mark Zuckerberg About Facebook’s IPO"* by Andy Borowitz MENLO PARK, CA (The Borowitz Report) – "On the eve of Facebook’s IPO, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the following l...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*LEAP/E2020, GEAB 60: "Global Economic Crisis: * *The USA, An Insolvent and Ungovernable Country"* by Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB) *"The future of the USA – 2012-2016:* An insolvent and ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoSUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012 INDIAN TERRITORY REVIVALOKLAHOMA STATE CAPITOL - 1 PM TO 6 PM By Society to Preserve Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Treaties SPI...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago* "The U.S. 'Will Be Simultaneously Insolvent And Ungovernable'"* by Endoftheamerican dream.com “There is nothing wrong with being optimistic, but there is something wrong with having blind faith that...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoAll eyes will be on Chicago this weekend, as thousands of protesters from all over North American converge on the the NATO summit. The symbolism could not be more trenchant, as Chicago was the scene of pro...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"California’s Day of Reckoning"* by The Independent "Taking a deep breath, California's most powerful man strode to a lectern and unveiled the fiscal policy that he hopes will keep America's most pop...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago*Welcome to another end-of-the-week ramble. Here’s some stuff to check out over lunchtime—or maybe over the weekend.* Not exactly busy, are they. *The Ministers respond to the Christchurch housing crisi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago* "Immune to the Financial Crisis"* by Bill Bonner "Attention: Our “Crash Alert” flag is flying. Dow down. Oil down. Yields down. Gold down. What’s going on? Yesterday, we drove into Washington, DC, ...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 18 hours agoGoing long here- Burhan Ghalioun front man for the NATO backed Muslim Brotherhood Islamist government/terrorists in waiting for Syria has either offered to step down or has stepped down, depending on wh...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 19 hours agoThe Senate confirms Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell to the Federal Reserve Board.
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoRomanian Sphinx Thanks to Rumor Mill News for a heads up on this video.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours agoLetter: Proposed Gas Pipelines will not be Allowed to be Constructed on Unceded Wet'suwet'en Territories "We will stop them at our traditional boundary lines and prevent them from proceeding with plans on o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(CNN) -- Iran is taking on one of the world's biggest Internet giants, threatening to sue over something that is not on its maps. On state-run Press TV, the Iranian regime warns it may take legal action ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:22:05 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8.6 miles) Southeast of Paramithiá, Greece No Tsun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 57.7 km (35.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:49:33 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 215 km (133 miles) South of Lata, San...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:32:13 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39.6 miles) South of Gerash, Iran No Report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:00:12 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) South of Guliston, Uzbekistan No ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 hours agoThe Big Three at Yalta, February 1545: Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom; Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the United States; and Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union. Image fr...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoMAY 16, 2012, 9:14 JPMorgan’s Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50% BY NELSON D. SCHWARTZ AND JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Simon Dawson/Bloomberg News JPMorgan Chase, center, in London, where the losi...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoReposted from http://the2012scenario.com 2012 MAY 17 Posted by Stephen Cook *Spanish Withdraw 1 Billion Euros! French Govt Slashes Pay By 30%* Stephen: It’s all happening in Europe today. I mean, we ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours ago*Slow push to list breach sites among federal icons ~Kevin McGill**~Sites where levee failures led to the catastrophic flooding after Hurricane Katrina would join Civil War battlefields and Mount Rushmore ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago"Another NStar outage draws questions, outrage; Back Bay facility again to blame" by Billy Baker | Globe Staff, May 09, 2012 A power outage Tuesday - triggered by a problem at the same substation that c...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoJason Clausen, the Iowa man in a new Mitt Romney ad, has a long rap sheetfeaturing a stint in jail for an assault on a peace officer. Like almost all Romney supporters, he's a substance abuser. But that is...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoSo the big buzz today was about this really stupid plan, apparently underwritten by wingnut billionaire Joe Ricketts, to resurrect the Rev. Jeremiah Wright smear against President Obama. The secret plan wa...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoThey told the *truth the Government didn't want to hear*. They had to go. "They" are the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. The message advocated introduction of a carbon tax to r...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours agoWhen the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) released its scathing G20 policing report yesterday, the Twitter machine lit up. The HiveMind® got to work trying to remember if there h...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*Your call, readers: * *Heads: *MIT physicist leads effort to scrap the penny *Tails: *Rare 1792 penny sells for $1.15 million
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago[MARYLIN MK PROG'MG INFO] Many of the top TV news-readers, TV personalities, music stars, actors, politicians, generals and journalists may have been brainwashed? Our hunch is that vast numbers of peopl...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*See*: Suspect faces Ecuador trial in 2 slayings "Mass. DA balks as trial in Ecuador nears end" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, April 30, 2012 CUENCA, Ecuador - Ecuadoran officials are pressing forwar...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours agoI know you're probably tired of these stories but here's an interesting wrinkle. Breitbart reports the following... 'Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours agoMedford Housing executive resigning under fire *Backstory*: "Medford housing chief faces scrutiny over hirings" April 24, 2012|By Sean P. Murphy and Andrea Estes MEDFORD - Medford Housing Authority chief...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoHow rocks collected from a southern Orange County beach caught fire in the pocket of a San Clemente woman's cargo shorts, landing her in a hospital with third-degree burns, remained a mystery Thursday. T...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoWe need you to subscribe to our magazine (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your financial help, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researching, reporting ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoBreitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." The bo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*I guess it would be better if the kids went out in a *swamp* or waited until they were *not home*.* * * *And that is not my endorsing teen drinking at all; if you have read this blog you know I'm a teeto...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours agoThe Guardian's 'Comment is Free' section is always predictable and this article is no exception. The article by Zoe Williams tries to absolve the general public from taking out mortgages that they couldn'...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoAt Greg's place, I updated the latest repeal-and-replace news. No, we're not going to have a replace bill, but Republicans can't quite bring themselves to fully admitting that. And over at PostPartisan, I...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAll eurozone countries face downgrades to their debt ratings if the risk of a Greek exit rises following next month's elections, a leading credit agency warned last night. Fitch Ratings downgraded Greece'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Reuters) - A Greek exit from the euro zone could expose the European Central Bank and the currency bloc it seeks to protect to hundreds of billions of euros in losses, landing Germany and its partners wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Reuters) - Spain's borrowing costs shot up at a bond auction on Thursday, after economic data confirmed the country is back in recession and reports of an outflow of deposits from nationalized Bankia ham...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agoHow odd, the BBC are usually very interested in any MP or councillor who has any Nazi links, however tenuous. Remember the furore the BBC generated when Aiden Burley dressed as a Nazi at a stag party. Stra...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OPd80XHdFc&feature=plcp and here at 23 seconds in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3BBUq9Pa9I
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMonterrey, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities are asking for DNA samples from families of missing persons nationwide in their efforts to identify 49 decapitated bodies, an official said Wednesday. That ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoForget the bug-eyed green aliens with advanced technology. Life on other planets may exist in forms too tiny to see, if mysterious tiny organisms like those found under our oceans live elsewhere. Scienti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoParis (CNN) -- Newly appointed Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said Thursday that France would not ratify a European pact on budget discipline if it does not include measures to boost growth. Moscovici...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 22 hours agoFINALLY, is this something of substance from the remnants of the 'heart attacked' Andrew Breitbart team? And though they 'really don't like admitting to being 'birthers''... *Breitbart News has obtained ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA €1billion run on a recently nationalised Spanish bank has sparked further fears that the 17-nation eurozone is about to implode. European markets fell as fears of a continent-wide contagion from goverm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFor the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., in what has been described as an 'important landmark' in the evolution of the country's demographic. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoRunning the tap in Toms River, New Jersey, has some people turning green, but not in the way you might think. The water in the coastal town has actually become green thanks to an overabundance of iron, ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago*Breitbart.com:* The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii' *Wayne Madsen Bombshell:* Barack Obama Conclusively Outed as CIA Creati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAt 7.17am on June 30, 1908, an explosion like a detonating hydrogen bomb erupted in the forests of Siberia - and until now, scientists have offered no conclusive explanation for the event. Now Italian sc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThey usually hit the headlines for swallowing cars, houses and occasionally whole streets. But this particular sinkhole in Oman is so stunning it has been turned into a tourist attraction. The beautiful...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA fleeting two-second appearance of a Diego Maradona lookalike washing floors in an English beer advert has sparked outrage in Argentina. Argentinians say they have been 'insulted' by Danish firm Carlsber...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago"Disco legend Donna Summer dead at 63" by Mesfin Fekadu | Associated Press, May 17, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as ‘‘Last Dance,’’ ‘'Love to Love You Baby’’...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago"2 bodies found at Saugus school" May 02, 2012|Peter Schworm, Brian R. Ballou and Kathy McCabe, Globe Staff SAUGUS - In a mysterious double killing, the bodies of a 54-year-old Lynn woman and an elderly f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoLast visit to a similar distance was the December 22, 2000 Giant Asteroid 4183 Cuno (1959M) with an estimated diameter between 3.5 and 7.8 km approaching the Earth and will have its closest approach on 20 ...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 23 hours agoCommunications was a tough sell in Canada, but at least the organizations I worked with had a general sense of it being a good thing for them to be doing more of. Not so in Honduras. There must be some ki...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 23 hours agothis is a stub post for content, depends whether my guest whistleblower delivers the goods... and while we're waiting for more revelatory 9/11 (nuke?) content let's spare a thought for one of the great di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAs many as 6,200 potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are orbiting close to Earth, a new survey by Nasa has revealed. The PHAs are considered robust enough to survive the passage through Earth's atmosp...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoJudge Rules NDAA Unconstitutional By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press 17 May 12 [Excerpt] Neumeister writes: "A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to reg...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 23 hours agoIt should come as no surprise that anti-choice scold Andrea Mrozek is also anti-science and anti-communication about human sexuality. In her opinion piece, she inveighs against *SEX: a Tell-All exhibition*...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoShell under fire from Indigenous Peoples over human rights abuses and environmental destruction in Canada, Alaska and Nigeria Report to be launched in London on Friday at a public meeting before the de...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours agoRan into this just awhile ago - a pretty good almost great entry solely on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The entry is a - Good Primer – Good Refresher – Good Read Worth re-tweeting a...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours agoPanicked Greeks withdraw nearly $900 million from banks in one day [image: People withdraw money from a branch of National bank of Greece in central Athens on May 17, 2012.] People withdraw money from a br...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago*Mosher Engineering Limited v. Ootoova Estate*, 2011 NUCA 6 is yet another case making it clear that, to resist summary judgment, there needs to be an evidentiary record created that shows a genuine i...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoHow about that paragon of knowledge and virtue, Tony Perkins, lately of Family Research Council fame, but earlier just the black morals hack on MSM TV? He said, ahem, that marriage for over 2000 years, uh,...
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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Red dust blown in from Australia's parched interior blankets Sydney in 2009. Australia and its region are experiencing the hottest 60 years in a millennium, scientists have determined. Greg Wood ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Club's Chris Chocola, inveterate loser* Club For Growth is primarily a corporate group backing outsourcing American jobs overseas, which has tried-- with some success-- to glom onto the populist, if diff...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoOn May 14th the Arizona Republic reported that Arizona had five simultaneous forest fires as of Sunday, two of which were in the Tonto National Forest very close to Phoenix. These fires had started May 13...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAmong soldiers there's a slang word for it, "*pulped*." It's used to describe the brain injury sustained from exposure to improvised explosive device blasts. Now there's a medical acronym for *pulped, "...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Nuclear reactors under construction, end of 2011. China is currently building the most reactors globally; their reactor construction times have decreased impressively, and are likely to become th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA widow has reacted with fury after an illegal immigrant who killed her husband in a motorway crash was jailed for just two years. Van driver Iqbal Singh, who was on the run from the UK Border Agency, was...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoPROPAGANDA IN THE US I commented recently about an article in *Environmental Health Perspectives. * http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/plant-in-environmental-health.html The EHP article is titled: "In...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDonna Summer -- the Queen of Disco -- died this morning after a battle with cancer ... TMZ has learned. We're told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death. She was 63 years old. Sources close to ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoI don't often agree with David Frum's take on the world but he has his moments. Lately Frum has been taking a critical look at America's ruling class. While he maintains that the elite will also gravitat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMemorial plaques worth thousands were seized during police raids as part of a crackdown on the illegal scrap metal trade. A bronze statue of Christ, 150 plaques from churches and graveyards, an Oriental ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoThe Monkey Cage has featured several comments by Congressional scholars in the wake of the Common Cause lawsuit filed earlier this week. I think all of it is quite accessible for non-academics, but there's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mother told how she set fire to her seven-year-old son with barbecue lighter fuel as he lay on the floor outside his bedroom, a court heard today. Sara Ege, 31, is accused of beating her son to death b...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoDavid Frum doesn't have much problem with the elite occupying positions of power. He thinks it's inevitable. But he does recoil from the practice of today's elite to use that power for themselves, to c...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012* *MSNBC won’t tell you the truth:* Our view: Given the way denial works, it’s hard for people to understand how dumb and fake the New York Times is. That said, we’re not sure we’ve...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts By Ellen Brown Original here *The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a socie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron today set the UK up for a dramatic clash with France as he insisted that austerity is the only way through the financial turmoil gripping the continent. The Prime Minister warned of 'perilo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - A private door opens from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in central Jerusalem directly into a long, modestly furnished, half-paneled room decorated with modern paintings by ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Isaiah Goodman, 8, left, and Colby Taylor, 10, are shown with a float native to the northeast portion of Japan that was devastated in 2011 by the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resultant tsunami, 1...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoOkay, I hope I can put off full-blown geezerdom for another decade, maybe even two, but I'm becoming resigned to one day sharing a park bench with the equally decrepit and whiling away an afternoon reminis...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoPolitico makes me insane. It’s like dealing with a schizophrenic. Today – there is an article that refers to the work we are doing against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as “shame lobby...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoWhat do you do when you are left with your niece and you can't afford to feed her? You give her to a local dragon, in hopes a wealthy man will rescue her, of course. They will be married and all your day...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLONDON — Europe's main stock markets tumbled Thursday and the euro hit a new four-month dollar low as worries spiked over the eurozone debt crisis that is plaguing Greece and now circling Spain. In after...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Water Stress Index 2012. The arid Middle East and North Africa region is the most at risk region in the index, with Bahrain (1), Qatar, (2), Kuwait (3), Libya (4) and Djibouti (5), UAE (6), Yemen...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoBig names too - Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes, Nissan. They're all in the spotlight for buying *Brazilian pig iron* produced in blast furnaces fueled by illegal logging using slave labour. *Reports over the pa...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago*Latest Banksy Graffiti* *in London* Where do these rightwingers get their Messianic complexes? Brit Conservative PM David Cameron has a message for his European counterparts, "Follow me." Cameron s...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 day ago
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoThe righties are at it again this morning. Trying to “defend” an indefensible American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Evidently to these writers today – ALEC’s destruction of the US democratic rep...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago'According to one survey, 20 percent of history teachers have abandoned certain, ah, problematic aspects of the Second World War because, in classes of a particular, ahem, demographic disposition, pupils...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShares in Bankia, the Spanish bank that was part-nationalised last week, plunged by more than a quarter on Thursday morning, after a report that customers had withdrawn €1bn from the bank over the past we...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012* *Part 3—Dr. Noah knows all:* Candidate Romney sometimes engaged in bad conduct during his high school career. It wasn’t just the bullying attack on fellow student John Lauber, in...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago*The Face of Pure Evil* Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko *Mladic on trial for genocide* in the murder of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims as well as the 10,000 who were killed in the seige of Srebrenica, reve...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago** *... you can tell by his absent earlobes.* *Contributor: "YYC"* Emergency law aimed at stopping tuition protest likely by end of day *... the premier has responded angrily in recent weeks when accused o...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago* * *"The leader of the NDP and ourselves are really on different wavelengths here.We’re not interested in identifying which industries we’re going to call diseases and shut down.”** * * Prime Minister St...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoPeter MacKay presents his latest bit of bungling. Defence Minister Peter MacKay's recent written response to questions tabled in Parliament reveal that 2006 federal Conservative promises for 5 Wing Goose...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoReally? The cops *violated* our *rights*? The devil you say! Golly. What with all the recent focus on puppies, rainbows, unicorns and chocolate and everything, I'd just about forgotten the curbstomps,...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to George Miller, 67, who was my Member of the House for a couple of years long ago, and one of the last surviving (in Congress, that is) Watergate babies. And here's the good stuff: 1. Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Israeli tank fire wounded seven Palestinians in a farm field east of Gaza City on Thursday, Palestinian medical and security officials said. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces initially de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNkamirah Transit Camp, Rwanda (CNN) -- Tumsifu Gilaine was at school when she first heard the gun battles. The teenager said she and her friends were taking their final exams and every day from their cla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSpain has paid sharply higher interest rates to raise 2.5 billion euro (£2 billion) in a medium-term debt auction, reflecting fears it will be caught up in the fallout of the Greek crisis. Meanwhile a re...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Drew Brees frustrated by contract negotiations* *Who Dat Nation to Saints, Brees: GET IT DONE! ~WWL* *Phil Anselmo Defends His Beloved New Orleans Saints in Wake of Suspensions ~Loudwire* *New Orleans C...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoSpeak Truth to Power: The Meat is Spoiled and That is Not OK With Us by Debra White Plume Pine Ridge Lakotas say the name of the shopping center should be 'Screw' the Nation Speak Truth to Power...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Joe Barton, Congress' worst Big Oil whore over the course of his career* Yesterday we happened to take a little look at which congressmembers seem most in thrall to Big Oil, something to do with Kansas Bi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man who spent more than seven years behind bars for a murder he maintained he did not commit has had his conviction quashed by judges. Sam Hallam, now 24, was at the Court of Appeal in London to hear th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice have arrested two people in connection with the horrific attack on 93-year-old Emma Winnall in the West Midlands. A woman, 56, and a 28-year-old man, were arrested at their home in the Hall Green ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoThis story is another example of unneeded new legislation. Public safety is already a driving consideration in dealing with persons found not criminally responsible for committing a crime. As set out below...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoWhen Stephen Harper appears on an international stage these days, he likes to toot his own horn. Canada, he says, is the best of the best. But, yesterday, Olivier de Schutter -- the United Nations spec...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day agoHot on the heels of the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP's exoneration of their own behaviour at the Toronto G20, the Ontario government's Office of the Independent Police Review Director ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*According to the NHS Blood and Transplant service, an 83-year-old man has become the oldest human being in the UK to contribute a kidney even as still being alive.* The interesting thing is that he will ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 111.8 km (69.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:00:01 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) East from Santo (Luganville), Vanu...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Jon Cruddas - new policy chief of Britain's opposition Labour Party.* On 15 May 2012, the UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband appointed Labour MP Jon Cruddas as his policy chief, with a brief to draw up a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in Los Angeles are searching for Terminator 3 star Nick Stahl after his wife Rose told officers he had disappeared. She apparently filed a missing person's report with the LAPD on Monday, saying s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA pay cut for ministers in France will be on the agenda when the country's new cabinet meets for the first time today - even though it is a public holiday. Francois Hollande, who was sworn in as presiden...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has been halted indefinitely after prosecution "errors". The presiding judge said the adjournment - on day two of the hearing - was because pros...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMay 16 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad tells Russian Television that countries that ''sow chaos'' in Syria could suffer from it themselves. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoEd Miliband has been pushing the phrase 'out of touch' to describe David Cameron and the BBC have been very willing to repeat the claim and spread the word. The Leveson Inquiry's 'revelation' that David Ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - U.S. plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available", the U.S. ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Prolonged electoral uncertainty has put Greece into a state of deep freeze, meaning whoever finally emerges as the new leader will take over a country already falling behind on its promises to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Thousands of people are planning viewing parties in the western United States for Sunday's annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon. The ec...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Local authorities across the UK should have a statutory duty to combat climate change, government advisors recommend.* Report says that some council is taking action but many others are not, which threa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Kodak -- the company known for decades for its cameras and film -- this week confirmed it used weapons-grade uranium in an underground lab in upstate New York for upwards of 30 years. A company...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmosphe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLondon (CNN) -- Energy giant Total said Wednesday it was able to plug a well that had been leaking gas for seven weeks at a North Sea platform. Nearly 240 people were evacuated from the Elgin platform and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A New York medical examiner will begin an autopsy Thursday on Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was found dead at her Westchester County home. She was 52. Her death ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Two Pakistani Air Force planes collided in midair Thursday, killing the pilots and injuring people on the ground, according to local police. The crash occurred during a routi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Al-Qaeda's leader is calling for the Yemeni people to rise up against the country's new president, portraying him as the stooge of the unpopular former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the Unite...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Suicide attackers with explosives stormed a governor's compound in southwestern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing themselves and seven people, officials said. The attack took pl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A confidential U.N. report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the Syrian government in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his countr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA "superflare" that would cause widespread disruptions on Earth such as power outages could occur on the sun, a group of researchers has determined using satellite data. The group, including Kyoto Univer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA key activist group threatened Thursday to withdraw from Syria's main opposition umbrella grouping, saying the council has drifted away from the spirit of the Syrian revolution. A pullout by the Local Co...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoBBC Radio 5 is the perfect tonic for people suffering with low blood pressure, but doesn't aid the health of the British people as a whole. On the Nicky Campbell programme this morning, the national defi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTIMPSON, Texas — A moderate earthquake rattled an area in east Texas near the Louisiana border. National Earthquake Information Center geophysicist Amy Vaughan says the quake happened at 3:12 a.m. Thursda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter about a month of investigation into the disappearance of Isabel Mercedes Celis, including interviews with more than 500 sex offenders and examining 1,000-plus tips, police have acknowledged for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe mother of a man who killed eight employees at a beer distribution warehouse in Manchester, Connecticut two years ago has set up an anti-racism website for her late son. Lillie Holliday's site, www.os...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA bipartisan group of House lawmakers is challenging a new law that allows the indefinite detention without trial of suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the United States. Their effort...
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