ALTON, HAMPSHIRE - MAY 18: Royal Navy air crew work on a Sea King helicopter (L) at Royal Air Force (RAF) Odiham air base ahead of a rehearsal for a Diamond Jubilee flypast on May 18, 2012 near Alton, England. The armed forces are paying tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in a Parade and Muster event at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2012. The RAF, Royal Navy and Army will take part in a flypast of 73 aircraft including a World War II Lancaster bomber and four Spitfires. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Brochel Castle Defences old and new - note the nuclear powered submarine in distance. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map of the relief of the landscape around Ene River, Peru (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A British Valiant-class nuclear-powered attack submarine underway on 14 May 1986. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
USS Nautilus' (SSN-571) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
An Andean man in traditional dress. Pisac, Peru. Français : Un homme des Andes en costume traditionnel. Písac, Pérou. Italiano: Un uomo delle Ande in costume tradizionale. Pisac, Perù. Português: Um homem dos Andes, num fato tradicional. Pisac, Peru. Basa Sunda: Lalaki Andés dina pakéan tradisional. Pisak, Péru 中文: 秘鲁比萨卡穿传统服饰的安达斯人。 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 32 seconds ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 minutes ago[image: A coal mine owned by Arch Coal Co. Matthew Brown / AP] By Alyssa Battistoni 18 May 2012 Coal is without question our dirtiest fuel source: When burned, it dumps toxins like mercury and nitrogen ...
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A fearsome Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine is on its way to the Falklands as tensions simmer on the 30th anniversary of Britain's war with Argentina. HMS Talent, armed with Tomahawk missiles, was de... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes ago
Princess Michael's Russian friend once dubbed her 'toyboy' was shot and killed near Moscow early today in what appears to be a brutal contract murder. Mikhail Kravchenko, a 46-year-old furniture company ... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 26 minutes ago[image: Advertisement in a Japanese train for the Air Counter, a simplified radiation survey meter made by S.T. Corporation. It reads, 'To protect your children, it's important to measure the radiation l...
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Facebook looks set to relax a ban on children using its site in a move that could see millions more sign up. A senior employee of the company said the decision to lift the restriction could come about af... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 407.8 km (253.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:34:47 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) SSE of Sigave, Ile Futuna,... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 31 minutes agoand we aren’t talking past MN Senate majority leader, adulteress, and past ALEC task force member – Amy Koch (MN_ALEC). Laura Brod (ALEC – ALUMNI) was on the local station pitching the Senate candidate t...
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*William H Webster, CIA boss in 1988, at the time of the Lockerbie Bombing.* Megrahi died on 20 May 2012. He was not the Lockerbie Bomber. *William Casey was Director of the CIA from 1981-87. Hours befo... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour agoAs JJ reported here, the Fetus Lobby is going batshit over this story. A British citizen in Bangkok has been arrested after Thai police found six roasted human foetuses packed in his luggage. Chow Hok Kue...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 hour agoMALARIA IN CANADA used to be a problem. Malaria? Ottawa? Go figure. Paul McManus has a site, Mysteries of Canada, check it out.
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoDoctors' attempts to combat rare, aggressive bacteria that have infected a University of West Georgia graduate student have suffered a further setback: 24-year-old Aimee Copeland's remaining foot and bot...
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*Must have come over from Cleveland.* "3 arrested in NATO terror plot" by Michael Tarm and Tammy Webber | Associated Press, May 19, 2012 [image: Brian Church, Brent Vincent Betterly, and Jared Chase (le... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoThe “new” Republican plan is more of the OLD Republican plan. Suck up to the rich. Stick it to the middle class and porr. This morning on TV all they were talking about was military cuts – Yeh – not in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSome 3,000 people have reportedly been evacuated from an earthquake zone in northern Italy, after a tremor and powerful aftershocks killed six people. At least 50 others were injured after the magnitude 6...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 17 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:54:47 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 263 km (163 miles) East of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 53.5 km (33.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:37:42 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) SSW of Tasikmalaya, Java, Ind...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 94.6 km (58.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:36:06 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) East of Tacloban, Leyte, P...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*They took the air out of the balloon*: "Dwindling stockpile of helium causes concerns; Bill is pending in Congress to prevent shortage" by Brad Plumer | Washington Post, May 20, 2012 WASHINGTON - Party...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10.6 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:18:03 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) NNW of Bologna, Italy
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Floating at the top of the BG toilet*: "Brown’s high hopes ran into Senate reality; Freshman senator has carved independent course" by Christopher Rowland and Bobby Caina Calvan | Globe Staff, May 20,...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago: Indigenous Alliance Without Borders Fundraising Event: Indigenous Authors Speak By Jose R. Matus ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago*(My emphasis)* *House Passes Back-Door Attempt to Force Tar Sands Pipeline Approval* NRDC: “House leadership creating roadblocks instead of creating jobs.” WASHINGTON - May 18 - The House of Representative...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*I must have brought it in with me**. * "As some rich urge higher taxes, donations to Treasury fall" May 06, 2012|By Callum Borchers They come from all types of people, mostly of modest means - unsolicite...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoMore developments in Greece and with the Eurozone. Back home, the Nebraska Republican Senate primary struck me as relatively important. And the Fed is finally, at long last, at full strength. That's all I...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"New test offers hope for easier colon screening" May 15, 2012|Deborah Kotz, Globe Staff A new method of performing virtual *colonoscopy* using a CT scan - which does not involve the dreaded laxative prep...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*And not in some "conspiracy" regarding sleepless soldiers or other such nonsense. I'll give you one gue$$ what it is about*: "New label considered for post traumatic stress disorder; Calling it injury in...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agoUNITY MARCH FOR JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION AT THE NATO SUMMIT Published by Aaron Hughes. *Sunday May 20th supported by thousands, Afghanistan and Iraq veterans will march to NATO Summit to ceremoniousl...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson revamps leading edge of the front office* *HoZone would send public funds to Convention and Visitors Bureau* *Addicted to its prisoners, how can Louisiana break free? ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Saundra Baker was 25 when she met her husband to be, William Lane. He was 50.... The two married a year later.... --more--" *Even more appalling*: "Pondering an art world awash in wealth" by Sebastian...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 4 hours agoLast September I took this photo of the Thickwood overpass which had starting being constructed around the time I moved here. I had hoped to get back down there after it opened late last year for a follo...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoFor those who keep track of this sort of detail, Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced an amendment yesterday to end the occupation of Afghanistan. Cosponsored by John Conyers (D-MI), Walter Jones (R-NC), Peter W...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 4 hours agoSource: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/04/25/aveos-protest-montreal-ace-aviation.html Voir la vidéo - View video Montréal: Quelle place pour les médias? What is the Role of Media? *b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDAMASCUS, Syria – A roadside bomb has exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as the chief of the U.N. observers was visiting. No casualties were reported from Sunday's blast in Douma, which dam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago'Convicted Lockerbie Bomber Megrahi Is Dead' Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at home in Libya, his brothe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA shocked dog walker spoke of his horror on Friday after finding the remains of a 'fang-toothed big cat' at a beauty spot. John Robertson, 50, was walking his two dogs along a rural path when he found th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours agoSleeping with the enemy: Facebook billionaires just got richer with your personal info By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/05/facebook-billionaires-just-got-richers.html Facebo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWildlife officials found the body of a 3-year-old male Florida panther Friday in rural Collier County — the tenth panther death of the year in Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCanada's beleaguered salmon farming industry is battling a full-blown disease crisis - on both coasts. Dead farmed salmon - so-called 'morts' - are piling up on the Eastern and Western coast of Canada as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Residents in the Lawndale section of Northeast Philadelphia are wondering what type of poison the city is using to kill massive rats that are turning up dead on their street. On a pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAP: GUATEMALA CITY — The Fuego volcano in central Guatemala has begun shooting lava and columns of ash into the air, and authorities have raised the alert level in the area. The volcano overlooks the tou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA 650ft (200-metre) exclusion zone has been placed around an energy park after a fire was spotted in a gas storage facility. Firefighters from Tain and Invergordon were dispatched to the Nigg Energy Park...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Central banks in Europe should not increase their exposure to Greece due to the high level of political uncertainty there, Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann said in a newspaper interview publi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 598.3 km (371.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:44:13 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 456 km (284 miles) West from Neiafu, Tonga N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPakistan has blocked Twitter over "blasphemous material" on the social networking site. "This has been done under the directions of the ministry of information technology. It's because of blasphemous con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Russian security forces killed two suspected militants in a gunfight at a private house in its restive North Caucasus province of Dagestan, Interfax reported on Sunday, quoting local authoriti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - As armored vehicles rumble past bullet-scarred streets, Lebanese men heckle soldiers they have now added to their list of enemies: "There go the traitors!" In Lebanon's northern city of Tripo...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours agoThe Charest government's passage of Bill 78 was supposed to return order to Montreal's streets. But last night, the *Globe and Mail* reports, The scenes in Montreal unfolded during a tense late-night ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(CNN) -- SpaceX's launch of the first private spacecraft bound for the International Space Station has been rescheduled for next week after the mission was aborted Saturday a half a second before liftoff, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoChicago (CNN) -- Three men charged with conspiring to commit domestic terrorism during the NATO summit were plotting to attack President Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters, the Chicago mayor's home an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoChicago (CNN) -- The road map out of the war in Afghanistan is expected to be drawn up by U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders when they gather Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago. Agains...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Flood waters ravaged a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 19 people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials said Sunday. About 60 other people were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSix school buses taking some 200 middle school students to Six Flags crashed today in Newton County, Ga., leaving more than 50 people injured, state officials said. There were a total of around 200 studen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoBEIJING — Authorities say a tunnel blast has killed 19 workers at a central Chinese highway construction site. Two officials from Hunan province's work safety bureau said Saturday's explosion killed 19 an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoKABUL, Afghanistan — Two NATO soldiers were killed in an attack in Afghanistan Sunday, ISAF said, while police said at least two children were also killed as a suicide bomber targeted a NATO convoy. "Two...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoUS President Barack Obama, wrapping up the G8 summit hosted at Camp David, says the euro zone crisis is threatening the world economy, but welcomes Europe's new focus on jobs and growth as a potential reme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe school bombing that killed a teenage girl in the southern Italian town of Brindisi was probably the work of an individual with no links to the mafia, a senior investigator says. Italy's flags flew at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:12:21 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) NNW of Bologna, Italy
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoIsrael What translates that which Aftenposten reports: 'This is how I stood by the roadside, Inge Telhaug (56) says. The police took the flags from him and arrested him. By: Amund Sveen Horse Published: Ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAircraft hangar officials were left with a rather extensive clean-up job earlier this week after this foam-related mishap. The Eglin Air Force Base in Florida was accidentally filled entirely with foam a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe biggest challenge most college students face is what to wear to the next frat party. But Shawna Machado managed to complete school while living out of her car. The 40-year-old Sarasota woman has just...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA Canadian man stormed the home of a female work colleague he was obsessed with wearing a suicide-vest and detonated the device after a six-hour stand off with police. Holding the woman hostage inside he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoJury selection is expected to begin on Monday in the murder trial of a Washington beauty school student who is accused of strangling and stabbing to death his 17-year-old classmate. Prosecutors said Chri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCrews searched Saturday for four young people missing after an overnight boat crash on the Mississippi River in Iowa, although one official said it was mostly a recovery effort. The timing of the collisi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSeven years old and lounging in a tree listening to the radio, Baje Whitethorne Sr. wasn't aware of the lesson he was about to learn. His grandfather called him down from the tree, saying it was time to g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoStorm threats could signal an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season. A swirling mass of thunderstorms off the South Carolina coast has a 50 per cent chance of developing into a tropical depression ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA new app launched this weekend in San Francisco that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. Would-be customers can then check their smartphones for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA 74-year-old Detroit grandmother is in custody for allegedly shooting and killing her teenage grandson. West Bloomfield police are investigating the circumstances that led to the killing of 17-year-old ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoJordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada could be freed on bail by the end of the month. Qatada, described by a judge as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe, has launched a taxpayer-funded bail appeal w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoImage: Clinging to dignity: The elderly soup kitchen visitor / Photographer John McLellan Hair carefully arranged, huge sunglasses adding to her chic air, the elderly woman had the undoubted look of a la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA British man imprisoned in Africa after discovering 13 murdered bodies in a jungle was told he would be freed from prison if he made an £800,000 payment to local officials. David Simpson, 24, was workin...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours agoMay 18, 2012 Even the cold early spring of 2012 could not deter Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists in New York city. People from different backgrounds continue to come out onto the streets. The agenda d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSAS troops will stay in Afghanistan to conduct counter-terrorism operations against the remnants of Al Qaeda after UK combat soldiers leave in 2014, it was revealed last night. Senior sources said member...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoOne day after Facebook rolled out its much-anticipated IPO, some less-than-enthused analysts are already warning their clients against buying the social media site’s shares. Brian Wieser, an analyst at P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:13:21 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) West of Mirabello, Italy
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:41:45 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 166 km (103 miles) East of M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHer career as an AIDS expert for the World Health Organisation had taken Hilary Hughes to many exotic locations, but the tiny island of St Lucia captured her heart. Divorced, and with her son James almos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- Iran's finance minister believes oil prices could rise as high as $160 a barrel thanks to sanctions over its nuclear program, a prediction that comes just as the chief of the United Nations nucle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoRome (CNN) -- Two suspects in a fatal bombing outside a school in Italy have been identified, a prosecutor said. The suspects were caught on surveillance footage early Saturday, the day of the blast, sai...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 7 hours ago*I think Kauilapele and Steve Beckow got this earlier, seems to fit with what they've been posting. I'll say right up front that, unlike Cobra, I have no inside knowledge of what is going to happen,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoRome (CNN) -- A strong earthquake struck early Sunday in northern Italy, leaving at least five people dead, authorities said. Two people were killed in a ceramic factory in Sant'Agostino di Ferrara, and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:47:49 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) North of Finale Emilia, Italy
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:40:40 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 179 km (111 miles) East from...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoBy Monique Muise, The Gazette May 19, 2012 Tuition-hike protesters continue to march the streets of Montreal on Friday, May 18, 2012. Photograph by: Tijana Martin , The Gazette MONTREAL - Appeals for ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice are questioning a man over the murder of a teenage girl and the serious wounding of her sister in a shooting in a small village in Northern Ireland. The pair were shot at a house in William Court,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoGreece's former finance minister has told Sky News that if Greece reneges on its bailout deal with the EU and the IMF it will "open the door to hell". I last interviewed George Papaconstantinou two and a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBlind Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng has arrived in New York with his family. Shuffling in front of the cameras for his first news press conference in America he said: "I hope everybody works with me to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFour dead, more than 200 Injured in this Mornings eartquake in Italy. It struck the region of Emilia Romagna. In addition to the three workers were crushed in the collapse of the halls of Bondeno Rodo...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agoI've not reported on Keiser Report so much since it changed from the RT studio to 'various corporate locations around USA' because of its seemingly-new editorial policy of using one theme (Guernica) for ex...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoBy Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com May 19, 2012 Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET CHICAGO -- Three anti-NATO protesters charged with terrorism conspiracy planned to attack four Chicago police stations, the local campai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:20:58 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) ESE from ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoProtecters march down Montrose Ave. in Chicago, May 19th URBAN POLICE STATE ENVIRONMENT: Chicago Militarized for NATO - Detailed Report from Chicago by Stephen Lendman Global Research Canada, May 2...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoMay 20, 2012 Avtonom 8th of May, 5:30 AM two neo-Nazi brothers, Ambik and Arame attacked club "D.I.Y" in Yerevan. They broke window of the door and threw bottles filled with flammable mixture. At first, fi...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours ago18 May 2012 Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Israel agreed to restrict its use of administrative detention, one of the demands of the hunger strikers. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler) On Monday, near...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours ago*International Coalition to Free the Angola 3* Albert Woodfox*Upcoming Court Date for Albert Woodfox* On Tuesday, May 29th, Albert Woodfox will begin a 3 day hearing that may result in his conviction be...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoMay 15, 2012 | *By* Rick Perlstein Rolling Stone [image: homegrown terrorists] Mark McGowan, Patricia Faella, Marcus Faella, Kent McLellan, Jennifer McGowan, Dustin Perry, Richard Stockdale and Christoph...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours ago"The children of the new Sun will meet the Children of the old Sun."
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoA honey bee on sweet corn. (photo: Relaxed Politics) Bee Kills in the Corn Belt: What's GE Got to Do With It? By Heather Pilatic Reader Supported News, May 18, 2012 n the last few weeks beekeepers have...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoEdinburgh Criminal Justice Services, or what used to be know as the plain Social Work Deptartment, has seriously compromised its professional integrity by defending a member of its staff who deliberately t...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoThe sand as it used to be before sand harvesting began. Photo courtesy: Sandgrains The beach in Ribeira da Barca, a village in the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of West Africa, used to be a vast st...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMay 17, 2012 by Ali Abunimah Electronic Intifada The camera follows heavily armed Israeli security personnel raiding a prison dormitory, shouting at the prisoners to get out of bed, and that they would...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck East of the Kuril Islands at a depth of 17.1 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:54:44 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 315 km (195 miles) East of Kuril'sk,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 89.7 km (55.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:44:34 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) East of Iquique, Tarapaca, C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 46.5 km (28.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:38:35 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) NNE of Taltal, Antofagasta...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMay 18, 2012 [image: Font-] [image: Font+] Women look at a man standing inside a mock prison cell during a rally in Ramallah on May 14. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Several prisoners in ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoby Jonathan Meador May 17, 2012 Nashville Scene "What're you guys doin' over here?" A man wearing a button-down shirt tucked into a pair of crisp khakis approaches the sign-wielding crowd, one hand res...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:17:30 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) ESE...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMay 17, 2012 Avtonom In morning of 16th of August Occupy camp of Moscow ("Occupy Abai") was evicted from Chistie Prudy after a court order, but it was re-established the same day at Kudrinskaya square (a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:19:55 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 179 km (111 miles) Southeast...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMay 18, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A deal struck early Tuesday to end the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike will not halt administrative detention, prisoners groups said Wednesday. The document signe...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMay 15, 2012 by Lauren Gold, SGVN Chicano activist Carlos Montes, of Alhambra, greets supporters at a rally Tuesday morning, May 15, 2012 at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center before he wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35.8 km (22.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:29:45 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) WSW...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMay 15, 2012 by Zari Sundiata People of Color Organize! [image: seth cropped 0 Message from Robert Seth Hayes Political Prisoner] Revolutionary greetings, dear comrades, friends and supporters. This is Ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:06:56 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) East of Christchurch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Colombia at a depth of 157.9 km (98.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:59:58 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) SSE of Bucaramanga, Colomb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:02:50 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) NNW of Bologna, Italy
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:39:11 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) Northeast of Vigarano Mainarda, It...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:35:37 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) Southeast of Vigarano Mainarda, I...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours ago* Addameer* *Ramallah, 15 May 2012 –* After nearly a full month of fasting, around 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners ended last night their mass hunger strike upon reaching an agreement with the Israe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:20:43 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) South of Ceneselli, Italy
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 7.1 km (4.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:55:45 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 188 km (116 miles) ENE of Anatahan, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 6.3 km (3.9 miles), the quake hit at 23:13:27 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) North of Bologna, Italy No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 32.1 km (19.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:23:21 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMonday 14/05/2012 (updated) 17/05/2012 A Jordanian woman flashes the peace sign in front of the Palestinian flag during a demonstration to show solidarity with Jordanian and Palestinian prisoners held in ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMay 15, 2012 Avtonom One day in the life of protest camp against inauguration of Putin in Moscow - 14th of May Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter "comrade Arkadi" made a concert. Later, a freem...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 32.8 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:15:49 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:03:50 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 178 km (110 miles) ENE of Anatahan...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAbout 15,000 people join march through Moscow in solidarity with anti-Putin sit-in, which is entering second week - Miriam Elder in Moscow - guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 May 2012 [image: Russian p...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMay 14, 2012 Electronic Intifada Palestinian protesters outside the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) during a protest in Gaza City, to show solidarity with Palestinian p...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAthens Indymedia *Act for freedom now!/boubourAs*Session 16, Wednesday 14/3/12 *The session began with a statement by P.Roupa concerning the failed attack of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 5.1 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:03:52 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) NNW of Bologna, Italy Reports of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:28:00 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 231 km (143 miles) West of Jayapura, Papua, I...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoCarlos Montes goes to trial on Tuesday. Now is the time we need to do everything we can to support him. Please call the DA to demand he drop the charges. Call early and call often. If the number is busy, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn earthquake in northern Italy has killed at least three people and caused thousands of others to flee into the streets, officials say. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck in the middle of the night, about 35...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMay 14, 2012 Samidoun *Stop the Wall reported on the ongoing massive solidarity inside Palestine and throughout Palestine for the hunger strikers, including mass demonstrations in all major cities. A day o...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoAl Qaeda in Syria video come to light. It shows al Qaeda in Syria holding up the al-Qaeda flag. Some of them wave the green-white-and-black flag of the CIA-run Syrian rebellion. On 18 May 2012, The Guar...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMay 14, 2012 Samidoun Various reports of a potential agreement to end the hunger strike have been circulating, but it is important to note that none of these reports are confirmed, and that the Central Co...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoHi friends, I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed: "In Solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli jails" http://www.ipetiti...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMay 13, 2012 Samidoun Statement issued by the Central Committee of the Leadership of the Strike Statement No. 7 We have only two options: to achieve all of our demands, or to die Free Palestinian people, ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMay 13, 2012 Samidoun From the Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee and the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): *Their** **Fate** **is** **in** **Our** **Hands *May 17th: 24 hours of hunger in...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMay 12, 2012 JENIN (Ma'an) -- Hunger-striker Bilal Diab has sent a will to his family in the northern West Bank on his 75th day without food, relatives said on Saturday. Diab, 27, has refused food since...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMay 12, 2012 Samidoun * ** * *The following statement was issued early Friday morning, May 11, by the leadership of the hunger strikers in prisons, following their negotiations with IPS officials:* *State...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 10 hours agoIn my UPSE alumni association yahoogroups, the back cover of a new book written by a fellow UPSE alumni, Dr. Armando "Mandy" Armas Jr.,*Impeachment Quagmire: Is the JPE Senate Court Legitimate? * was posted...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMay 12, 2012 Samidoun A letter from Thaer Halahleh, on day 75 of hunger strike against his detention without charge, to his two-year-old daughter Lamar, who he has never seen. Translated by Jalal Najjar....
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoSawsan Khalife' The Electronic Intifada 11 May 2012 Some of the 17 activists arrested at a demonstration in support of hunger striking prisoners outside Ramle prison are brought to court in Petach Tikva ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours ago*Ramallah, 10 May 2012 Addameer – *Addameer lawyer Mona Neddaf visited four hunger strikers in Ramleh prison medical clinic today, including Thaer Halahleh, now on his 73rd day of hunger strike. According...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoPolice apprehended more than 3 hundred people, including at least 30 anarchists *08 Мая 2012 Anarcho News* On the *6th* of May, a lot of anarchists took part in almost all events which occured in Mosc...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoThursday May 10, 2012 by Regina Qumsieh - IMEMC & Agencies The Palestinian News Network reported today that Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, stated through his spokesman, Martin Nes...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoFrom José Palafox in California May 9, 2012 Building Liberty I HAVE BEEN SUBPOENAED BEFORE A GRAND JURY On Friday May 4th, I was approached by two FBI agents at the BART Station at 19th and Broadway in O...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoI could happily live in a beautiful, tranquil spot like this. Calm prevails in the prosperous town of Harpenden in Hertforshire, which faces being overrun by anti-GM activists on 27 May. Photo courtesy: Ri...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoMay 10, 2012 Red Bird Prison Abolition *Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, Youngstown OH- OSP Hunger Strike Ends.* After long negotiations with Warden David Bobby on Monday, May 7th, the hunger-striking prisoners ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoFrom: "NYC ABC" Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 Hey: Here's the latest compilation of every other week updates. We've mailed hard copies to Sundiata Acoli, Joe-Joe Bowen, David Gilbert, ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoMay 9, 2012 Samidoun Protests, starting in Ramallah and extending to Amman and Geneva, blocked UN offices today, May 9, in calls for the UN to take action to protect the lives of Palestinian prisoners o...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoMay 9, 2012 RedBirdPrisonAbolition.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OSP Hunger Strike Enters Second Week. Monday May 7th, 2011, Youngstown OH- Prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) continue the hunger stri...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoBy Alan Prendergast Mon., May 7 2012 Denver Westword [image: Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for troy anderson.jpg] Anderson. After nearly five days of testimony in a lawsuit brought by Troy Anderson, ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoThursday, May 3, 2012 Naked Capitalism *By David Graeber, a Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an author and activist currently based in New York * A few weeks ago I wa...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 7, 2012 Solitary Watch by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway Today’s Advocate has an excellent article by Andrew Harmon, dissecting the abuses faced by transgender detainees in Immigrations and Customs...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMonday May 07, 2012 - IMEMC Addameer & PHR-Israel Detainees Bilal Diab, Thaer Halahleh and Hassan Safadi are Subjected to Medical Negligence This is a joint press release issued on May 6, 2012, by the Add...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoThe Shamba Shape-Up team on George Mungai's farm in Limuru. The show's creator describes agriculture as Kenya's 'absolute backbone'. Photo courtesy: Clar Ni Chonghaile George Mungai is an unlikely TV star...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 7, 2012 Samidoun Physicians for Human Rights-Israel told CNN that there is “no recorded case” of prisoners surviving on hunger strike past 75 days without supplements or minerals, urging that Bilal D...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 7, 2012 Samidoun RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike in the Israeli Nafha jail said in a message that they would start on Monday the second stage of their hunger strike. ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 7, 2012 Samidoun * * *Statement No. 4 * *by the Higher Committee of the Leadership of the Strike* We vow to live with dignity or die – to our steadfast Palestinian people… We are in a dangerous and sen...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoSat May. 05 2012 ctvmontreal.ca MONTREAL — A protester is fighting for his life after suffering head injuries, one of several injuries that occurred after events got out of hand at a tuition protest in Vict...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoA haze engulfing buildings in Wuhan, China. Air pollution is believed to be the main cause of global dimming. Photo courtesy: STR/AFP/Getty Images Measurements from the 1960s to the early 1990s, backed up ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*Peanut-Butter Price Index (*somebody* must be tracking it, no?) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Update: There really is a peanut crisis! (See be...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago*Emanuela* 15 anni Emanuela Orlandi scomparve a Roma. Qual è il segreto del Vaticano sinistro dietro adolescente Emanuela. Secondo un telefono chiamante a un programma TV:'' Per trovare la soluzione al...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoAs many of you are aware by now, I cover a very wide range of subjects in this blog, including the truth about Cancer, and the so called "treatments" for Cancer. I have long been a proponent of the idea ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“Pillars of gas, dust, and young, hot stars seem to fill the gaping maw of NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region lies ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 14 hours agohttp://www.booksmith.com/event/occupy-literary-clown-foolery Why I am running into clowns everywhere I turn? As a kid I was terrified of clowns! I had nightmares about them! My sisters used to ta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*“Ecosphere”* by Chet Raymo “A week or two ago, I looked out the window here by my desk and wrote about what I saw. That post has stuck in my mind. Every time I turn to the window, I feel myself sucke...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours agoThere is a respectable argument that crime can be deterred through punishment. Empirical evidence demonstrating a deterrent effect does exist. Such evidence is hard to interpret and tends to show some type...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours agoBerlín, Antioquia, Colombia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours agoLet us not kid ourselves, readers.. The leadership in Israel is absolutely insane in my opinion, and they are hell bent on getting their nice little new war on the innocent nation of Iran off and running. ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*The chief jerk*: "JPMorgan chief criticizes regulations" April 06, 2012|By Dawn Kopecki NEW YORK - Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, used his annual letter to shareholders to r...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Are Humans Becoming More or Less Psychopathic?"* by George Dvorsky "Readers of this blog know that I've started to develop a bit of a fascination with psychopathy. It all got started after attending...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*The Facebook boys and girls ring the opening bell for yesterday's Nasdaq jamboree from their headquarters in Menlo Park, CA. True, it didn't turn out to be the opening bell for Facebook's IPO exactly, but...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 16 hours agoSilent, but deadly . . . it's tough to be a back-bencher.
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 16 hours agoA comment I heard the other day nailed it. The speaker lamented that, "all anyone needs to do is demonstrate that they're not out to screw you. We live in a culture where we all fear being screwed by the oth...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours agoCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/05/livestream-nato-protesters-chicago.html VIDEO of Chicago police van plowing through NATO protesters Saturday night: http://www.privacysos.org/node/66...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoUS lawmakers struck down a contentious provision Friday that would have curtailed the government’s power to indefinitely hold suspected terrorists captured on American soil. The measure, backed by an odd...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoTWO ROW DECISION – IROQUOIS V. NYS TROOPERS By Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. On May 18, 2012, we stopped playing their games in their artificial court. We came out with a litt...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*I'm sorry I don't face or tweet, dear readers; however, I hardly have time to bring you the scroll of shit I do post.* "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to pay a premium for Instagram presumab...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 18 hours agoThings were only slightly out of control when I got home to Stony Run after four months away. Beloved works full time and could not do yardwork, but she did hire some grass cutting done. Things are very s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*I'm glad I don't and won't face*: "Woman narrates her suicide on Facebook" March 28, 2012 TAIPEI — A *woman* in Taiwan *killed herself* *by inhaling poisonous fumes*while *chatting with friends on Facebo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoATHENS, Greece (AP) Greek authorities say a Turkish cargo ship with 10 people on board has capsized off the western Greek island of Zakynthos. Authorities say they have recovered one body, rescued six sea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBarack Obama and David Cameron want German chancellor Angela Merkel to set out a clear path forward for Europe Barack Obama and David Cameron have clashed with the German chancellor Angela Merkel at the G...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." - James A. Baldwin • Me too, James, me too... - CP
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 188.4 km (117.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:14:26 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) West of San Antonio de l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 54 km (33.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:06:01 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 288 km (179 miles) NNE from Ter...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“And Now We Return To Our Grecian Saga”* by Joseph W. Martin, Jr. "While the French voters decided to swap a closet socialist for a hypocritical hard core socialist, not a whole lot of mention was giv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 30.4 km (18.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:38:55 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) West of ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Five Facts That Put America to Shame"* by Paul Buchheit “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago*The good old days, when Vitter & his GOP cronies LOVED the Fed* On May 9th, my sister's birthday (which I forgot), we looked at how deranged Confederate obstructionist David Vitter was doing his bit to u...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 20 hours agoThe normally circumspect *Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media* posted an ill-advised link to TVMOB's latest mumbo-jumbo. With enormous discretion and restraint, I limited my response to the follow...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 20 hours agoMusic by Mozart, performance by Auckland Choral Society with the APO. (Another one-NZ-music-post-per-day for NZ Music Month.) Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"The Wall Street-Washington Financial Complex"* By Jeff Harding "President Eisenhower warned of a “military-industrial complex,” which was his term for the combination of defense contractors, the mili...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"Expatriation in the Wake of the Facebook IPO"* by Bill Bonner "The Maryland House of Delegates just voted to raise taxes. Should we move to Florida…or Delaware? If we move to Palm Beach, will we ever...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:13:40 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 212 km (131.4 miles) East ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago*America has surrounded Iran for a reason, and it isn't to sit down and have a picnic.* America has surrounded Iran for a reason, and it isn't to sit down and have a picnic. Washington is *preparing*...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:05:21 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 167 km (104 miles) ESE f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA former agent of the CIA has revealed that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has died of natural causes five years before the US announced his death.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoLOS ANGELES -- Fire officials say a large cargo ship has been evacuated in Los Angeles harbor as firefighters work to find the source of a gas leak. The incident began early Friday afternoon. Fire spokesma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago"So Called Scientists Slaughtering a whale on their Ship for Research Purposes" A pair of Japanese whaling vessels left Friday for the northwestern Pacific aiming to catch 260 whales for “scientific resea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoCape Town - An injured baby pygmy sperm whale beached at Surfers Corner in Muizenberg, Cape Town, on Saturday, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said. “It has severe lacerations on its stomach caus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA report, published in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, has unveiled recently that a volcano, namely Indonesia's Mount Marapi, erupted early Friday at 7:15 a. m. local time, lasting for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMADRID, May 19 (Reuters) - Spain's government faces a crisis of confidence from nervous investors after admitting late on Friday its 2011 public deficit was higher than it had previously reported due to a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPressure is building in Britain for an in/out referendum. What does the European crisis mean for Britain? The uncertainty over the future of the euro and the accompanying recession in parts of Europe coul...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoHank Campbell of Science 2.0 discusses an unusual new proposal, namely to regulate the amount of water in America's largest water reservoir, Lake Mead, on the Colorado River (whose flow is blocked by the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoDefence attorneys maintain men fell victim to police entrapment scheme involving purchase of Molotov cocktail equipment. Three Nato protesters arrested in a late night raid on Wednesday have each been he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe leaders of the G8 group of the world's most powerful economies say they want debt-stricken Greece to remain in the eurozone. In their summit communique, G8 leaders also committed themselves to promot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA car competing in a rally in southern France has crashed into the crowd, killing at least two people and seriously injuring 15 others. Several children were among those hurt in the 14th annual Maures reg...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 22 hours agoWatch this, dammit! Remember the commentary I ran yesterday on the very "elitist" (right) TED group that wanted to be seen as politically correct on the inequality front, but not really? After all, that's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 275 km (170.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:51:45 UTC Saturday 19th May 2012 The epicenter was 130 km (80.6 miles) Northwest of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga No ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoWhy is Stephen Harper like kryptonite to intelligence? Now scientists from Harvard, the Smithsonian Institute and other top academic institutions are furious with Harper for his decision to shut down the...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Mean-sea-level trends at A, Hilo, 1927–2010; B, Kahului 1947–2010; C, Honolulu 1905–2010; and D, Nawiliwili, 1955–2010, Hawaii. Data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2011] M...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Jiyukam Irar Miik of Peru visits the Athabasca oil sands area of Northern Alberta. Caroline Bennett for The Globe and Mail] By Arno Kopecky 19 May 2012 One grey Thursday at the end of April, a ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoThey've taken over in the States and they've done the same thing in Canada. In both countries our democracy is in peril due to the ascendancy of media giants pursuing corporatist agendas. The media tha...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Family members checked out their ruined dwelling in Hazaribagh, outside the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. Such flooding is expected to worsen significantly as a result of climate change in coming y...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours ago*Just for this* If elected, what do you hope to accomplish during your term in office? LISSA SQUIERS Disband the American Legislative Exchange Council as an illegal organization; pass Single Payer Unive...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoNo one likes the mandate, which was always just a bad conservative Republican plan about how to use market principles to finance health care reform. Once pusillanimous, compromise-for-the-sake-of-compromi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe annular solar eclipse, a rare phenomenon when the moon blocks all but a ring of the sun's light, is expected to be observed by 83 million people along the Pacific Ocean side of Japan, from southern Ky...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Torrance Coste on the site where tree poachers have dragged a massive western red cedar through the underbrush at Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park damaging plants and other trees, 17 May 2012. Th...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day agoAttention all grammarians, armchair shrinks, and nitpickers. This was the last sentence in an article by Helene Cooper in today's New York Times: “As the wealthiest nation on earth, I believe the U.S. has ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Jamanxim River runs through forest in northern Brazil. Vast tracts of protected Brazilian land would be opened to farming under a bill that President Dilma Rousseff, below, may veto. Antonio ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour former employees of a printing company in western Japan died after developing bile duct cancer, it has been learned -- raising suspicions about the use of chemical materials at the plant. Shinji Kum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates urged their citizens to stay away from Lebanon, citing security concerns in a country where fighting prompted by sectarian tensions in neighboring S...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThis time the malevolent hand of Steve Harper is obvious. The entire Department of Fisheries and Oceans contaminants programme is being axed effective April Fool's Day. In B.C. that means the entire s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - At least 20,000 demonstrators marched through Frankfurt on Saturday in a peaceful protest against austerity measures implemented to tackle the intensifying euro zone debt crisis. Police close...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday leaders of the Group of Eight major economies are committed to continuing the current approach of sanctions, pressure and diplomatic discussions wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Thousands of people are planning viewing parties for the upcoming annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon. The eclipse will begin over As...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A British Columbia man who held authorities at bay for more than six hours after allegedly strapping explosives to his body is presumed dead after the house he was holed up in exploded, Royal Can...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012* *Epilogue—Disfavored stories:* We liberals have been drawn to the story of Mitt Romney’s dog on the roof of the car. We liberals enjoy this story so much that we have even invente...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Protesters in Bahrain marched through the streets Friday to criticize government plans to boost cooperation between the island state and Saudi Arabia. The proposed unity plans have heightened al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A car explosion shook the city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, opposition activists and the Syrian regime said, adding to a spate of similar bombings in recent weeks. The blast took place next to a m...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 day agoParents Across America are disappointed they haven't been able to obtain an invitation to testify or have a seat at a seat at the table as our elected representatives in Washington debate and discuss "st...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*“Playground War – Libya” – Documentary* TEEN GIRL, CARDINAL, MAFIA, CIA
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