CHICAGO, IL - MAY 19: Men drive in a car behind protesters, some affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, at a demonstration in downtown Chicago on the eve of the NATO summit on May 19, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Sixty heads of state, 2,500 journalists and thousands of protesters have converged on Chicago for the two day NATO meeting which begins on Sunday and will look to address the situation in Afghanistan among other global defense issues. Chicago police are preparing for the worst with many officers in riot gear and with their numbers enhanced by police from outside the city. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: W S Hartle butchers. A traditional village butchers shop in the village of West Burton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Luxembourgian-registered NATO E-3 AWACS flying with three American Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft in a NATO exercise (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
CHICAGO, IL - MAY 20: Protesters and Chicago Police confront each other near the NATO conference venue on the first day of the NATO summit on May 20, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Sixty heads of state, 2,500 journalists and thousands of protesters have converged on Chicago for the two day NATO meeting which begins on Sunday and will look to address the situation in Afghanistan among other global defense issues. Chicago police are preparing for the worst with many officers in riot gear and with their numbers enhanced by police from outside the city. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 seconds agoA reader has pointed out that I missed a paper by Hartle, Hawking, and Hertog last week: Accelerated Expansion from Negative Λ They claim – and please sit down so that your stability gets improved – t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 seconds agoA chemical explosion in Whitfield county Monday morning shook a manufacturing district and led to a trip to the emergency room for almost 50 people. Just before 9 a.m. workers at nearby plants began hea...
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CHICAGO (STMW) – Seven NATO officials staying at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel were being treated Monday after being stricken with flu-like symptoms, law enforcement sources said. Officials wer... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
A man who bludgeoned a man with a hammer after having sex with him is jailed for life, months after his acquittal over another killing. Christopher Hunnisett, of Hastings, was ordered to serve a minimum o... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes ago
CHIBA -- If three earthquakes simultaneously occurred along the Nankai Trough located in the seabed off central to western Japan, high-rise buildings in Osaka would be shaken by long-period ground motion ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes ago
(Reuters) - World shares and key commodities such as oil and copper gained for a second day on Tuesday on speculation that European leaders would agree on fresh action to tackle the region's debt crisis, a... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 minutes agoIf you Google “A new report reveals the “extraordinary influence” the American Legislative Exchange Council” You will get 500+ hits – posted across the United States. It has been re-posted multiple time...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 13 minutes agoThis video is part of an advocacy strategy launched by a new NGO, Article36, whose focus is the humanitarian control of weapons technology. The organization takes its name from the provision in the 19...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoMay 22 - Five people are killed when an explosive device detonates in a restaurant in the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes agoMay 21 -Violent clashes in Chile as President Pinera admits his government has ''made mistakes'' on education and asks for ''forgiveness''.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoMay 21 - Summary of business headlines: Stocks climb after biggest weekly drop of 2012; Facebook closed below $38 IPO price; Lowe's cuts forecast on slow spring; Business economists expects job market to p...
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(Reuters) - A power struggle within Syria's main opposition group is pitting Islamists against secular politicians and exiled leaders against activists at home, further undermining its claim to be an alte... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago(Reuters) - Named for the crash site of an airforce plane shot down during the Six Day War in 1967, Givat HaMatos may yet prove the place where Palestinian hopes of a creating a capital in Jerusalem also ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago(Reuters) - NATO put on a brave face at its Chicago summit but the reality is that the alliance has been weakened by the euro zone crisis and faces an identity crisis about what its role will be once it e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago(Reuters) - North Korea vowed on Tuesday to bolster its nuclear deterrent in response to diplomatic pressure from Washington over a recent failed rocket launch. The United States, backed by the United Na...
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Manufacturers of fire retardants rely on questionable testimony, front groups to push standards that boost demand for their toxic — and ineffective — products Dr. David Heimbach knows how to tell a story... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago(Reuters) - Stock index futures edged lower on Tuesday after Japan's sovereign rating was cut by Fitch as a political stalemate dimmed chances the country could curb its snowballing debt. Fitch lowered J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes ago(Reuters) - The United States and Japan are leading a fragile economic recovery among developed countries that could yet be blown off course if the euro zone fails to contain the damage from its problem d...
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 152.5 km (94.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:40:52 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 158 km (98 ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes ago
Los Angeles (CNN) -- The lawyer who filed a sexual battery lawsuit against John Travolta on behalf of two male massage therapists and then dismissed it is now suing another lawyer for allegedly stealing h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes agoNew Delhi (CNN) -- At least 25 people are dead after a train crash in India early Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the ministry of railways said. The Hampi Express passenger train crashed into a stationar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes agoActivity is ramping up at North Korea's nuclear test site, a sign that the country is preparing for a test, according to analysis of new satellite images by the defense publication IHS Janes. Mining cart...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes agoBamako, Mali (CNN) -- Dioncounda Traore, Mali's interim president, was beaten and rushed to a hospital after hundreds of protesters demanding his resignation stormed the presidential palace Monday. Traor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- In parts of rural Afghanistan a fierce battle is going on between the Taliban and the country's government. And the victims in this battle, it seems, are school children. Rec...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 38 minutes agoYesterday, my son sent me a copy of this TED lecture. It features Nick Hanauer, an American venture capitalist, and is less than six minutes long. Hanauer did not turn my world upside down. He merely co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes ago(CNN) -- When Iranian officials arrive at the next round of nuclear talks in Baghdad on May 23, they will seek to advance several of their own goals, while only making modest changes to their nuclear prog...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes ago(CNN) -- The U.S. ambassador to NATO says the alliance has no plans for military intervention in the Syrian crisis, as reports of deaths mount by the dozens and diplomatic efforts have yet to stymie the b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 57 minutes ago(CNN) -- A marine expedition of environmentalists has confirmed the bad news it feared -- the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" extends even further than previously known. Organized by two non-profit groups ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 57 minutes agoLondon (CNN) -- Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the only person convicted in connection with the Lockerbie airline bombing that killed 259 people on board Pan Am Flight 103 and 11 on the ground, went to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- The Yemeni government blamed an affiliate of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Tuesday for a massive suicide bombing that killed more than 100 soldiers a day earlier. Jihadist w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThis horrifying footage serves as a reminder of the deadly potential of one of the world's fastest sports cars. Three people died when a Ferrari 599 GTO ploughed into the side of a taxi while speeding ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA retired CNN executive has been fined $180 for putting dog faeces through his neighbour's postbox. Bob Furnad, former president of CNN Headline News, placed the offending offering outside the Atlanta ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:06:43 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 200 km (124 miles) No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:17:44 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 240 km (148.8...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoPolice in Portland, Maine are looking for a Harvard Business School student who disappeared while celebrating his upcoming graduation. Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, was last seen by the Portland waterfront at Ri ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoBritish losses at the JP Morgan bank could double initial estimates and top £4billion – making it one of the worst trading catastrophes ever to hit the Square Mile. The warning came as details emerged of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA new investigation may reveal that the Secret Service isn’t the only government agency that has hired prostitutes for Colombian sex romps. The Justice Department Inspector General's office said Monday it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoMexican soldiers have arrested the leader of a drug cartel over the massacre of 49 people whose corpses were decapitated, dismembered and dumped on a highway last week. Daniel Jesus Elizondo Ramirez, a m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA third victim is recovering from a flesh-eating bacteria in a strange surge in the rare condition after a Georgia student lost her leg, a foot and both her hands and a new mother of twins was left fighti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA father of two has been labelled a hero after rescuing an unconscious woman from the New York subway tracks. Greg Wetzel, 40, was at the 72nd street subway station when the 50-year-old woman fell onto th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe search for a 22-year-old college student who went missing while cycling home on Saturday has intensified. Michaela 'Mickey' Shunick, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was returning home from a friend’s house ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA man who dressed up as his dead mother in a bizarre real estate fraud where he cashed thousands of dollars from her that Social Security checks was sentenced Monday to up to 41 years in a New York jail. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA man has been charged with hitting his three-year-old stepdaughter so hard that part of her skull had to be removed. Joshua Houser, 22, was arrested on Thursday accused of hurting Kilah Davenport so bad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoFacebook has suffered a serious blow to its glittering reputation when its share price slumped by more than 10 per cent in just two days of trading since the firm's landmark IPO last Friday. And the pain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA man has been charged with the murder and kidnapping of missing teenager Sierra Lamar, two months after she disappeared on her way to school. Antolin Garcia-Torres, 21, faced two hours of questioning on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoIt is a heartrending sight. Wire snare caught so tightly around his neck he cannot eat, this young male lion is doomed to die a slow and agonising death. Within a matter of days he will be lying in the Af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA deadly strain of a hospital superbug has become resistant to a last-line antibiotic used to treat infections, scientists have warned. Although it has not spread so far, doctors said 'the risk that MRSA ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA personal assistant at the Ministry of Defence was jailed for six months today for pocketing £45,000 in fraudulent expenses claims. Helen Baggaley, 32, took advantage of a 'lax accounting system' which ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA man in his 40s plunged at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt, but survived and was lifted to safety during a harrowing rescue. The unidentified man was only the third pers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoBomb disposal experts have blown up deadly phosphorous flares that washed up on to a busy beach. Three flares were destroyed in loud explosions on the sands at Sheringham, Norfolk, after a beach walker r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAfghanistan could slip back into the hands of extremists and pose a terrorist threat to the West when British troops leave, experts have warned. David Cameron claimed at a Nato summit yesterday that plans...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoIt is a trophy which football fans up and down the country hope to see raised by English players come the end of this summer's European Championships. But at an event in Ukraine yesterday, a group of wom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAn arm of the Chinese government is in pole position to be awarded the contract to build and run Britain’s next generation of nuclear power stations. Other bidders in the running include a Japanese firm ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe trial of two men accused of strangling the daughter of Tyrone gaelic football manager Mickey Harte as she honeymooned in Mauritius is set to begin today. Michaela McAreavey, 27, was found dead in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA 'spolit and volatile' jeweller's son who strangled his aspiring model girlfriend in a jealous rage has been sentenced to 20 years. Elliot Turner, 20, has today been found guilty of murdering Emily Longl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe eurozone debt crisis has cost UK households an average of £18,000, experts warned last night. Economists said that in real terms, the total value of their assets has slumped by 5.5 per cent over the p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA mother who arranged for her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend to be battered to death after he posted topless pictures of the girl on the internet is facing jail today. Gedu Bibi, 47, lured 21 year-old ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 2 hours agoI was hooked on twitter this afternoon, on the appearance for the first time of Chief Justice Corona at his impeachment trial at the Senate. Sooooo many tweets. Anyway, here are my own tweets. Nonoy Opl...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 2 hours agoFor those of you needing a bit of humor relief from the Euro crisis, Angel D Merkel (not the real one) is on twitter and also at http://angeladmerkel.blogspot.com/. ------------------------------ 7...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours agoTwitter photos May 22, 2012 Protests underway at Shell's annual general meeting at The Hague and the Shell annual general meeting site in London.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA gang of 20 hooded youths stormed a pub after the Champions League final before dragging away a 25-year old man and stabbing him to death in scenes 'like a horror film', friends said today. 'True gent' ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe charitable foundation of late US president Ronald Reagan has condemned a British auction house for selling a vial that purportedly contains his blood. Bids above £6,000 have been made for the specime...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAn escalation of the eurozone crisis would deliver a "substantial contractionary shock" to the UK economy, setting back progress made towards recovery, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Costa Rica at a depth of 36 km (22.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:30:53 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) WSW from Liberia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOuth of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 559.9 km (347.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:18:33 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 325 km (201 miles) South of Ndoi...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago"It's done because it's always been done but it is nonsense. It is not the way to treat them. It's horribly expensive. It's tokenistic, fetishistic – and a matrix for the magnification of abuse and the exa...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 3 hours agoWhen one thinks of Zionism, one automatically thinks of Israel. Zion is an alternative name for Jerusalem, and so it is only natural to focus upon the regime which controls the physical territory of Jeru...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 4 hours agofirst, here's a report from the BBC about nuke-related birth defects in Falluja, Iraq. now, here's the research footage from the Corporate War Machine circa 1950's: smiling happy conscripts soon to be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSpaceX has become the first private firm to launch a craft to the International Space Station after fixing an engine problem that grounded an earlier attempt. The launch of the Dragon space capsule atop ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 hours agoPaul Frampton, an achieved physicist, former TRF guest blogger, a sex symbol among the Argentine supermodels, and an involuntary importer of a substance is impressing everyone with the physics productivi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoKANSAS CITY, Mo. — First-class travel. Six-figure salaries for half the 132 officers and staffers. Plenty of plum jobs for family members. Life is good at the top of the International Brotherhood of Boiler...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoLike the thousands of women who fled North Korea before her, Kim Eun-sun made it into China and paid a woman to help her, only to discover she'd traded one form of captivity for another. The price for a N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoReport will recommend far-reaching changes to rebalance international law in favour of those who have suffered People seriously injured or maimed by terrorist attacks across the world would be granted aut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.4 km (23.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:18:33 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 169 km (105 miles) ESE f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA hazardous drug that eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims is currently being dealt on the streets of Colombia. The drug is called scopolamine, but is colloquially known as ‘The Dev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe situation in the euro zone has become so bleak that it is giving rise to the most improbable rumours. The latest to make the rounds of European hedge fund managers suggests that the euro will be tied ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe decline of linguistic and cultural diversity is linked to the loss of biodiversity, a study has suggested. The authors said that 70% of the world's languages were found within the planet's biodiversi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoGyani Maiya Sen, a 75-year-old woman from western Nepal, can perhaps be forgiven for feeling that the weight of the world rests on her shoulders. She is the only person still alive in Nepal who fluently s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLOS ANGELES — The state budget shortfall in California has increased dramatically in the last six months, forcing state officials to assemble a series of new spending cuts that are likely to mean further ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours agoMay 21, 2012 DemocracyNow.org - Democracy Now! broadcasts from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization's six-decade history. On Sunday, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA newly discovered Air Force intelligence brief states that should fleets of unmanned drones accidentally capture surveillance footage of Americans, the data can be stored and analyzed by the Pentagon for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSuicide was the single most common cause of death among teenagers for the second year running in 2011, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Wednesday. It said two out of 10 middle and high scho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLonely people are less likely to have a good night's sleep, a recent study found. According to the survey released by researchers at the University of Chicago published in the journal "Sleep" last Tuesday,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe Armed Forces have fought several wars in the past 15 years, dealing with a Ministry of Defence staffed by people who know nothing about war Photo: Hulton Archive The inexorable march of the manageria...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIn Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there's disappointment that he hasn't kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern on Monday that violence from the 14-month conflict in Syria could spread to neighbouring Lebanon, and reiterated his fear that the Syrian v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoYemen has cancelled a military parade planned for today to mark the reunification of the country after nearly 100 soldiers were killed in a massive suicide attack claimed by an al-Qaeda-linked group. Ins...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA new community trigger to force police to investigate any incident of anti-social behaviour reported by at least five people will do little to tackle the problem in the long term, campaigners said today. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTwelve people have been killed and 22 injured after a bus carrying university students on a pre-graduation trip drove off a cliff into a ravine in southern Albania. University officials said two buses ha...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 5 hours agoAs recent postings have steadily discovered, Bronze Age maritime trade was centered on Crete and the Nile Delta as that was the primary choke point for all trade. From there it reached out an...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 5 hours agoThe surprise is that groundwater removal can account for the additional sea level gain observed since 1961. It is not obviously large, but it is persistent. Add in the thermal expansion and a li...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 5 hours agoNo one has to go quite to this extreme but there is a lot to learn here. First of, it has all been done without exercise dominating one’s life. As I learned with the Arclein diet which merely ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours agoCzech president Václav Klaus was the keynote speaker during the Monday dinner at the Seventh Heartland Climate Conference, ICCC-7, in Chicago. One could have said that all things have been said but one c...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours agoSource: http://chimpplanet.blogspot.se/2012/04/monsanto-is-blamed-for-destruction-of.htmlIllinois illegally seizes bees resistant to Roundup; kills remaining queensby geobear7 Food Freedom News, May ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours ago*Robin Gibb - centre* Robin Gibb, a close friend of Tony Blair, was married to Dwina, a bisexual druid. In 1971, Robin Gibb performed in Israel, and praised Israel in an interview with Uri Geller. Rob...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*An innovative SIM card to help parents keep children from maltreatment and parents will be able to control their child's mobile phone thanks to a SIM card distantly managed from a processor.* According t...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 7 hours agoPolice Entrapment of Nonviolent Movements May 21, 2012 by JAKE OLZEN Counterpunch The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the three would-be ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 7 hours agoBy Starla Muhammad -Staff Writer- | Last updated: May 21, 2012 - The Final Call*¡Libertad Para Oscar López Rivera! Free Oscar López Rivera!* * * CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Free Oscar López Rivera! That is t...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 7 hours agoPotrblog: No Jetstream, And Still 20X Background Radiation In 8:15 pm Storm http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-jetstream-and-still-20x-background.html MAJIA HERE: Meanwhile, blogger Ex-SKF i...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 7 hours agoBy HOLBROOK MOHR | Associated Press – May 20, 2012 BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — A prison guard was killed Sunday during a riot that also injured five other correctional officers and hurt three inmates at a private...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago*The government will publish its long-awaited draft energy bill later on, intended to support major speculation in clean energy production and help boost security of supply.* They will also initiate an E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPlanned new measures to tackle anti-social behaviour in England and Wales will be announced later, including new orders to replace Asbos. The plans are expected to include a new "community trigger", which...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Indonesian* Indonesia is the world's 'third largest democracy', and the CIA is very active there. There are to be presidential elections in 2014. In May 2012, it was reported that three American warshi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSpaceX will try again on Tuesday to launch its re-supply mission to the space station. The first attempt on Saturday was thwarted by a faulty valve in one of the engines on the California company's Falco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBERLIN — The world leaders who urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel this past weekend to back down from her unforgiving approach to Europe’s economic problems have something in common: They don’t answer t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThree police officers, a paramedic, an engineer and an elderly resident have been injured after a suspected gas explosion at a flat. The explosion ripped the roof and front off the single-storey home abo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoDay after day I have been sitting just 1.5 metres away from Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. I have watched him as he was forced to listen to 28 harrowing survivor stories. All we have seen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoUS coastguards have recovered more than four tonnes of marijuana floating off the coast of California, in the US. The drug haul of 160 bales, estimated to be worth more than $3m (about £1.9m), was spotte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA teenager has been rescued in a dramatic operation after clinging for hours to a rock shelf to stop himself being swept over a 270ft waterfall. William Hickman had gone into the water for a quick dip to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe police are being told they will have to respond to anti-social behaviour faster and more effectively as part of new Government plans to tackle the problem. With up to 6,500 separate incidents of anti...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago*Billionaire-blessed Governorissimo Scott brags to a union-hating supporter about his planned "divide-and-conquer" strategy for eradicating the public-worker unions -- presumably as a stepping stone to de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 69.4 km (43.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:38:52 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 189 km (117 miles) NNW of Ternate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Bulgaria at a depth of 9.3 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:13:29 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) WSW of SOFIA, Bulgaria No Reports of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Bulgaria at a depth of 8.5 km (5.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:30:50 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) West of SOFIA, Bulgaria No Reports of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Bulgaria at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 00:00:33 UTC Tuesday 22nd May 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) West of SOFIA, Bulgaria No Reports of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 156.8 km (97.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:50:54 UTC Monday 21st May 2012 The epicenter was 193 km (119 miles) WNW of Saumlak...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours agoMusic this afternoon by Tauranga’s own Maximum R’n’B outfit Brilleaux! “Pictures of the Queen,” words and music by Brilleaux “I Can Tell,” words and music by Ellis McDaniel (aka Bo Diddley) “Riding o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 34.4 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:31:06 UTC Monday 21st May 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) West of Quibdo, Colombia No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:38:34 UTC Monday 21st May 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) South of Shache, Xinji...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago*President Barack Obama has lost all legitimacy and credibility. Universal justice demands that he step down and answer for his crimes against America and humanity. * Breitbart.com's release of a 1991 ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours agoJustice for Vern Traversie/Twitter photo Mesha Camp Above: KELOLAND News coverge of todays' Rally and March for Justice for Vern Traversie http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=1205...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"What surrounds the florid Rosette nebula? To better picture this area of the sky, the famous flowery emission nebula on the far right has been captured recently in a deep and dramatic wide field image th...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoMax Keiser's plan to crash JP Morgan's silver market manipulation scheme Posted at http://www.alternet.org Holding your breath about the fallout from J. P. Morgan Chase’s derivatives losses? Yester...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 11 hours agoCudos, I suppose, to our new Transportation Minister for driving Highway 63 for himself this long weekend. Unlike, say, Paul Watson, who makes a living off bashing the seal hunt yet never had the courage ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 11 hours ago
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago"No NATO, No War": U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit By Democracy Now! Scott Olsen, who was shot in the head by police at Occupy Oakland, was among them: SCOTT OLSEN: ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoSON-O-GOD. A National Lampoon creation from the early-mid 70's. Oh, how I love the web, haven't seen this since it was printed. The drawing chops are astounding. Go. Visit.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*By all means skip the first 58 seconds to get to the Bee Gees singing Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," apparently in 1963 (the year after the song was written), when Barry turned 17 and fraternal twins...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago------------------------------ *Recovery or Collapse? Bet on Collapse* ------------------------------ May 20, 2012 | Original here The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of E...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours agoIn watching various news talk shows over the past few weeks, I have seen Democratic partisans make the following argument: President Obama just wants to return top tax rates to where they where in the 199...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe link to the video first showed up at WBTV on Tuesday of last week. It came from a man who said he was a former teacher in the Rowan Salisbury School System. He claimed that a student inside a classro...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoActivists Set to Crack Shell Annual Meeting Indigenous Delegation to confront Shell at AGM in The Hague http://www.ienearth.org/news/activists-set-to-crack-shell-annual-meeting.html Get the Shell Out/...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoI'm doing a bit more over at Greg's place this week while he's on vacation (but only a bit more, because the great Jamelle Bouie is guest-blogging; I'm thrilled to be sharing the space with him). So I may ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"US Internment Camps Inmate Classifications:* * Which One Are You In?"* By RidgeRunner "The recently leaked PDF document "Internment and Resettlement Operations" dated Feb 2010 is a long and fascina...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours agoWhen there’s blood in the streets, a globe choked with debt and the world’s eggs are being broken in a Hellene handbasket it’s time to get to grips with some rational economics. Actually, it was time abo...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 14 hours agoI've been in major burnout for the last couple of weeks. Still read the news every single day for hours though and do have some number of saved links to the few items that seemed worth talking about. This ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoRound Rock, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the strugg...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago*"BRIEFING NOTE: Respond to criticism about economic impact of high-Loonie, everything-for-petrochemical-industry policy by making voters see Thomas Mulcair as recklessly un-Canadian…" * *This isn't an a...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoLiving for the city: David Harvey's 'Rebel Cities' This is a radical book. Its discussion ranges from the workings of the monopoly rent system and the nature of neoliberal capitalism to a call to take back...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"The Waking"* "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance fro...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"In the Name of My Father"* Requiem and renewal in the shadow of Wall Street, in the light of a Georgia spring. by Phil Rockstroh "On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and aven...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 15 hours agoMaybe attacking Iran will take these demonstrators' minds off of the NATO Summit in Chicago? We'll see. From Puppetgov.com by way of Washington's blog. Police, Demonstrators Clash at NATO Summit in Chicago...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoCraig Higgins: *‘King Bibi’ is ready for his close up, and ‘Time’ is willing to oblige* Benjamin Netanyahu is the Mad King of Israel. He will lead Israel to destruction and ruin.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"The Tide Is Turning"* by Karl Denninger “Well well what do we have here? (From Chris Whalen and IRA): "To rescue Europe, to reinvigorate the United States, and to set the global economy on a sustaina...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoBefore President Obama was even inaugurated the Party of Plutocracy (and of die-hard racism) had resolved to prevent an economic recovery and in all ways to obstruct an orderly functioning of government i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*“On Taxes and Freedom”* by Louis James and Doug Casey “The always-outspoken Doug Casey addresses a broader view of taxation and its costs to both individuals and society in general in this interview w...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours agoWhen last we saw Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, they were explaining why Republicans are to blame for Congressional gridlock. The piece was widely disseminated and well received by all but the usua...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"To the Class of 2012"* by Bill Bonner "Down, down, down… Day after day for the last 2 weeks…almost everything has been grinding down. Stocks, oil, copper, bond yields… It looks as though the whole w...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago*Cosmological update:* Bovy and Tremaine of IAS looked at a recent Chilean claim – wildly hyped in the mainstream media (but only mentioned in one sentence on TRF, in an article on a different topic) – t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Curtis Arnold tried to buy Facebook Inc stock 10 times throughout the day on Friday through his online brokerage, E*Trade Financial Inc. Each time, he tried to make the $25,000 purchase of sha...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 16 hours agoWell I was really sad not to be in viewing range of the solar eclipse yesterday. It was a good one. These were the best two photos I saw of it. [original photo] [original photo] This was the best video...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago*Some 'Bountgate' Saints still fighting mad: Railroaded by NFL? ~Mike Freeman* *Hospitality Zone bill LA SB 573 rises from the ashes as LA SB 767 ~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes *
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 17 hours agoA reader of American Kabuki told me a few weeks ago about this iPhone app called "Ghost Radar". I downloaded it and played with it over the last few weeks. Its a really strange thing. Some sites revi...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 17 hours agoOne wonders just what took so long. How often do a civilized people need to have their intelligence insulted and their hospitality betrayed by brainwashed sociopaths bent on using their religio...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 17 hours ago** *What else should police expect when they become enforcers for a police state that calls itself a "democracy"? * *Contributor: "YYC"* Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. I've been enjoying the summe...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 17 hours agoI have been accused of being obsessed with the Jewish question. It seems I am not alone. I have been accused of spreading falsehoods about the disproportionate power of the Jews, yet in the following vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that not enough had been done to decisively resolve the euro zone crisis. Cameron, speaking during a NATO summit here, said he would be meeting later...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThree police officers and a gas engineer have been taken to hospital after a gas explosion in Gateshead. Police were called to a flat on Marian Court at about 17:30 BST where an elderly man was found and...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 18 hours ago*Barack Obama has far exceeded George Bush in corporatization of education in the United States. — Glen Ford* Master dialectician Glen Ford's speech "Corporate Assault on Public Education" draws out all...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 8.8 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:37:31 UTC Sunday 20th May 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) North from Bologna, Italy
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMexican soldiers have arrested the leader of a drug cartel for the massacre of 49 people whose corpses were decapitated, dismembered and dumped on a highway last week. Leader of the Zetas drug cartel Dani...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 18 hours agoI and others in the real truth movement have our concerns since Arthur Topham was arrested last week at his home in British Columbia, Canada, on the totally fraudulent and actually laughable charge of "ha...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 18 hours agoSome of you may have seen this? Some of you may not have? I just can't pass it by. If you leave a comment. And I hope you do. Don't waste any time on "her parents wrote it." Or anything along that line....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRetreating glaciers and thawing permafrost are unleashing 'seeps' of methane which could have a massive impact on global warming. Using ground-based measurements and aerial surveys, researchers found 150...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA teenage girl was stabbed to death after being attacked at a secluded beauty spot. The body of 17-year-old Hannah Windsor was found hidden in undergrowth close to the historic Bidston Hill Observatory o...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 18 hours agoWHAT DO DEBUTANTE BALLS, the Japanese tea ceremony, Ponzi schemes and doubting clergy all have in common? According to NEW STATESMAN, Daniel Dennett's article "The social cell", they are results of interacti...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 19 hours agoIn my next life I hope I get to make movie soundtracks, because there are few things I like better than finding the perfect song to fit with images. I have a little hobby of putting some of my photos to mu...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoHere's the result of the poll I did of energy symptoms people were experiencing. Its not a scientific poll but the percentages have held steady since the first 100 people took it. I forgot to add ve...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 19 hours agoEU Times A bizarre Foreign Ministry report circulating in the Kremlin today states that this Friday past (11 May) Russian Envoy Vladimir Vinokurov, the Consulate General of San Francisco, was approached n...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 19 hours agoAll you really need to know is that a good deal of the action takes place on an invisible flying aircraft carrier. Do you really need another reason to see it?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 83 km (51.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:57:10 UTC Monday 21st May 2012 The epicenter was 335 km (208 miles) Southwest from Severo-Kuril...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoSaLuSa, May 21, 2012 Can you feel the changes around you as the energies continue to rise up, and will continue all the way to Ascension. They are bringing a peace to Earth and your civilization, on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA thief who sued his uncle after falling from their getaway van and suffering disabling injuries will not get a penny in damages, a top judge ruled today. Mr Justice Cooke said a getaway driver could not ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 19 hours agoThis latest one by Fuk1live is worrying. It was filmed 5/21 (Japan time). At about 1 minute into the video thick and dark steam(?) begins blowing from the left across the plant. It is unclear where the e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA British man who hacked into the Facebook account of Justin Bieber's girlfriend and threatened to publish their private emails has been jailed for 12 months. Gareth Crosskey, 21, infiltrated the account...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*Lee Rogers & Norman Solomon, Blue America's top 2 California candidates* The good news--at least so far-- is that they're spending the money mostly to beat themselves up, defeating incumbents like Richard...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA suicide bomber has killed 90 people and wounded more than 200 in an attack on a battalion of soldiers in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, according to the Defence Ministry. The bomber, who was dressed in mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA wealthy jeweller's son has been found guilty of murdering his aspiring model girlfriend in a jealous rage. Elliot Turner, 20, strangled 17-year-old Emily Longley in his bed after going "absolutely nuts...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 19 hours ago*Crop Circles: Other Aspects of the Las Perdices Case (Argentina)* *By Andrea Pérez Simondini and Dr. Luis Reinoso* Research into this case lead us to work on the quest for background i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA new computer virus is spreading via the chat window on Facebook. The pop-up window, used for person-to-person chat, pops up with a message from a 'friend' which links to an innnocent looking website. C...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 20 hours agoBlogging was light - OK, nonexistent - over the last week because Southern Man has been busy, busy, *busy*! With the rain out of the forecast much time was spent at The Land working on the current project ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn Italian father threw his two children to their deaths from a balcony and then leaped himself while in despair about losing his advertising job. Marco Turrini shoved his 14-month-old daughter and four-y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA huntsman who raped a drunk woman after a black-tie ball was jailed for four years today. Former huntsmaster John Norrish, 68, took advantage of the 33-year-old married mother when he offered to give he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA couple murdered their teenage daughter because they believed her conduct was bringing shame on the family, a court has heard. The decomposed remains 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed were discovered in Cumbri...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*UPDATE: FIXED! You guys likely won't believe this, but it was an image of Kim Jong Un causing the warning to spring up. He causes trouble far and wide! (But mostly wide). Thanks for all your help in solv...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoWe can thank Chris Hedges and his colleagues for this. They had the guts to sue Obama and Panetta to challenge the constitutionality of the National Defence Authorization Act and, at least in the initial ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 20 hours agoThis blog is mostly about ecosystem collapse and more specifically, trees dying from ozone. Other sorts of collapse (and they are myriad) are well-covered elsewhere. But a couple of purely economic items...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFacebook shares dropped below their debut price of $38 (£24) in trading on Monday raising concerns about the stock if its lead underwriter Morgan Stanley stops propping it up and investors who were hoping...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 20 hours ago*American Scofflaw * All across America small farm co-ops are under attack because they threaten the profits of the big supermarket corporations. In Nevada, the "Farm to fork" organic food picnic was raid...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012* *With big love from the Washington Post:* This will be the last time we report that Norman Ornstein is dead to the Sunday “news” programs. (For our previous reporet on thois topic, ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours agoAttempts to trigger Sunni-Shi'ia strategy of tension. *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 21, 2012* -The United Nations has been inexplicably silent over revelations that the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoThe Olympic Torch continues to wend its way to London to open the 2012 Summer Games, sort of. Problems began at the lighting ceremony in Greece where it blew out shortly after it was lit. They had a back...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours agoDr. Henrietta Mann (Southern Cheyenne) Keynote Speech: Echoes of the Earth - Climate Change Chris Peters President and CEO of the Seventh Generation Fund gives a brief introduction to the "Echoes of the Eart...
- Link: http://youtu.be/7WcOoM1c7HY The role 'money' plays in certain minds transcends the pathological. Whether it is a government trying to "save the banks" or an airline trying to fly "as cheap as possib...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoCzech President Václav Klaus is no military hawk. He had mixed feelings about NATO's interventions in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and probably others if there have been any and many of his attitudes may put him re...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 21 hours agoWriting at The Breakthrough Journal blog, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger argue that conventional economics is not up to the task of offering sound policy advice for the 21st century. They write ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoYou know how I'm always complaining about how old Members of Congress have become? Well, I learned something new about it: it turns out that newly elected Senators now are a lot older than newly elected Se...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoOr at least it does according to president Obama fresh from the NATO leaders summit in Chicago. *Gen. John Allen, commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, told reporters that the recruiting of Afghan ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012* *It’s been a long time since we’ve seen this:* Last Friday night, the Washington Post’s Sari Horwitz appeared on the PBS NewsHour. Margaret Warner asked Horwitz to explain the “trea...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: For three decades, Saudi Arabia has been drilling for water from underground aquifers. Engineers and farmers have tapped hidden reserves of water to grow grains, fruit and vegetables in the deser...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 21 hours agoNo comment needed. Just that the campaign moves into high gear soon. And Not-So-Dumbya's getting back on board! No, Reallyby Abby Zimet Coming this summer, George Bush will save us with a new book outlinin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: One of thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere. UAF / Nature Geoscience]By Richard Black, Environment correspondent,...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoPhoto Ben Powless, Mohawk Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com LONDON -- Shell plans to expand its dirty energy destruction in the Arctic and Canada tarsands, after leaving behind a trail of oi...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 22 hours agoDan Rather is Rather Outspoken Reporters had best be careful when they set about the business of digging up news. Dan Rather's unsettling 'push under the bus' is an instructive case in point. By Leslie Gri...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Forecast the Facts tracks corporations that have withdrawn funding support from the Heartland Institute as a result of its extreme climate science denial. In response to the concerns of more than...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012* *Part 1—What the first Booker said:* Does Cory Booker know what he’s talking about? The *first* Cory Booker, that is? Yesterday morning, on Meet the Press, the first Cory Booker sou...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Average grade level of U.S. congressional speeches, 1996-2012. The Sunlight Foundation analyzed the Congressional Record and found that Congress' ranking on the Flesch-Kincaid scale — which evalu...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoThe far-right wing "think tank", the Heartland Institute, has fallen victim to its own excesses. It crossed a critical line when it put up a billboard tying global warming belief to serial killer, Ted K...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 23 hours ago*New Orleans Saints faltering with clock management when it comes to quarterback Drew Brees~Jeff Duncan * *Kristian: Ingram injury concern?~WWL* *Feds should prosecute, jail some BP execs* * * *~Dr. Davi...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoHappy Birthday to Senator Al Franken, 61. Straight to the good stuff: 1. Great New Yorker interview with Ali Soufan from last week: highly recommended. From Amy Davidson. 2. Nice Catherine Rampell colum...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoAround the world agriculture has boomed due to groundwater irrigation. It's a major part of how we've been keeping our mortally bloated population fed. How much water have we been bringing to the surfac...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*"The end of democracy & the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations." -Thomas Jefferson* We're in the midst-- ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 23 hours agoI am lucky enough to be a part of a wonderful playgroup. Great kids and great friends. Even with great friends, it does get a little boring to just watch kids play after awhile so one of the ladies sugge...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 23 hours ago*Baked Butternut Squash, Stuffed with Goodness!* Tonight was one of those random 'what do we have in the fridge until our next grocery shop' nights. So after some heavy thinking and scouring around in our...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 62 km (38.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:31 UTC Monday 21st May 2012 The epicenter was 219 km (135.7 miles) Northwest of Te...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 23 hours agoJean Craighead George, author of some classics of children's literature, died a few days ago. In one of those eerie coincidences that seem to happen so often, I was just talking about George. At the li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's defense ministry says the death toll in a suicide bombing at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa has risen to 60. Military officials said Monday's bombing, which ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPyongyang remains isolated whereas Myanmar moves toward democracy Until recently, both North Korea and Myanmar were labeled pariahs by the international community for their autocratic rule, human rights ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Korea and Japan are moving to lay the ground for closer military cooperation as the North Korea threat and regional instability grows. The two countries are pushing to sign two military agreements b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Recent ballistic missile tests by India, Pakistan and North Korea -- which has ominously threatened to "reduce to ashes" the South Korean military "in minutes" -- are once again focusing the worl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDefence Minister Peter MacKay is defending the government's accounting of the costs of Canada's military mission in Libya, following the release of new figures by the Department of National Defence that l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the uprising spread, the Libyan leader still banked on popular support, and wondered why his allies were defecting. Muammar Gaddafi's public persona during the Libyan civil war was that of a confide...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoThere are a few things that come to me and then I forget about them the next minute and one of those things is "Did I get my Social Security Earnings Statement this year? Well - the answer is no and you pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoData for April shows sharper than expected declines in investment and industrial production. China's economy is slowing down further, national figures suggest, with data for April showing sharper than exp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEarlier this week, I left China after five years as an Al Jazeera English correspondent following the decision by the government to revoke my press credentials. At a subsequent Foreign Ministry press brie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEvery third malnourished child in the world is from India, so what is the government doing to feed its millions? More than 40 per cent of India's 61 million children are malnourished, prompting the prim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCompanies across the world face a "perfect storm" as they have to raise more than £25 trillion ($40 trillion) to finance an upcoming "wall" of debt. Businesses will need to secure as much as £28.5 trillio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen the self-immolation of Mohammad Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid led to an avalanche of protests in Tunisia in January 2011, nearly the entire Arab world began to rock with popular uprisings. Unforeseen protes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US is escalating the risks of a currency war, Brics nations say. Matt Quigley explores the consequences if the US doesn't "knock it off". As political rhetoric heats up, fears are mounting that a glob...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago*The march is led by Afghanistan and Iraq Veteran Against the War* *Source of picture & text:* http://occupywallst.org/
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoJim Stanford writes this morning that, as soon as the Harper government won a majority, it began dashing around the world signing free trade deals. But free trade alone does not amount to smart economic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - France's Francois Hollande will push a proposal for mutualizing European debt at an informal summit of EU leaders in Brussels this week, increasing pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn earthquake in northern Italy has destroyed more than 300,000 wheels of cheese worth an estimated 250 million euros (£200m). The magnitude-6.0 earthquake killed at least six people, injured dozens and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeventy-year-old Eletharias cannot afford to go the supermarket any more, so for the past few months he has started rummaging for food in dustbins. He goes out in Athens at night so that no one sees. Whe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLAS VEGAS — Japan is about to join Europe in the debt crisis ranks, with the two regions offering the best opportunities for investors to bet against, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass said. While the world's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFuture need to import more food a possible influence in China's engagement with African agriculture, claims study. China's long-term motivation for investing in African farming could be to export food ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRecent crisis in global capitalism has once again brought to the fore major structural contradictions and the consequences of these contradictions are reflected in the massive dislocation of the economy, ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoSommet de Chicago : Combien nous coûte l’Otan de la « défense intelligente » ? par Manlio Dinucci et Tommaso Di Francesco Mondialisation.ca, Le 20 mai 2012 Les 21-22 mai se tient à Chicago le Somm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? A look at some of its more well-known crimes might spark some indignation. Desecration of corpses, indiscriminate attacks, bombing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe goal of Pan-Africanism was to liberate Africa and create a wholly independent continent. It was meant to emancipate Africa in all spheres, and enhance Africans to be determiners of their own destiny. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis analysis continues on from my last article in light of the recent French and Greek elections where voters rejected economic austerity in favour of money printing Inflation stealth debt default as pol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs relations between China and the Philippines hit rock bottom over a little rock known as Huangyan Island to the former and Scarborough/Panatag Shoal to the latter, Chinese authorities seem intent on del...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs Delhi focuses on managing Washington’s pressure to reduce oil imports from Iran and avoid the imposition of unilateral U.S. economic sanctions on India, it could easily miss the unfolding power play in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeveral Western embassies in Islamabad received letters on Wednesday containing suspicious powder and threats to poison supplies for NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, officials said. Islamabad police chief B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCulture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is to be investigated over claims he may have failed to declare donations from media companies. More follows...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA violent series of events that culminated in Israeli settlers opening fire with live ammunition on Palestinian villagers in the West Bank under the gaze of Israeli soldiers has been captured in a series o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLarge tsunami may have occurred along the regions of the Miyako and Yaeyama islands in Okinawa Prefecture at a cycle of 150 to 400 years, researchers say. The study, conducted by a research team at the U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe detection of hazardous formaldehyde in concentrations above the national standard at filtration plants in Chiba, Saitama and Gunma prefectures has led an expert to speculate that a massive volume of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMay 20 - Canadian students defied a new law banning protests which were prompted by weeks of demonstrations over tuition hikes. Deborah Gembara reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Iraq is buying unmanned drones from the United States to help protect its southern oil platforms as the OPEC nation ramps up production after the withdrawal of the last American troops, U.S. a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - "Gentlemen, we are finished," said the patrician President, calling an abrupt halt to two hours of baiting and cat-calling between furious Greek politicians. "I'm starting to get upset myself ...
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The Blogger In Draft Blog Is Being Retired
May 21, 2012 — permalink
Cross-posted from the Blogger in Draft blog
In 2007, we introduced Blogger In Draft, a special version of Blogger where new features could reach users early and let people try new things. We also introduced the Blogger In Draft blog, and for the past five years, we’ve introduced new updates and options here, often before we told the rest of the world on our official blog, Buzz.
With the recent launch of our Google+ page, we have another great way to keep you updated on new features, both for everyone and those of you who love seeing things early. To simplify the many places you can get updates, we will be retiring the Blogger in Draft blog, with this being the final post. Going forward, we’d like to invite you to follow our official blog and our Google+ page to find out what’s new with Blogger.
This doesn’t mean the Blogger In Draft service is going anywhere, so don’t fret! You’ll still get all the shiny goodness as fast as we can bring it to you. But we’ll be talking about it somewhere else.
Translate, and two more new gadgets for your dynamic blogs
May 1, 2012 — permalink
If you’re like many Blogger users, you write in one language, but may have readers from around the world. Not all of them speak your language. Today, we’ve made it easier to bring content from your blog to everyone, with the release of a new Google Translate gadget.With the Google Translate gadget, visitors to your blog can select their preferred language from the drop-down menu, and using Google’s free translation service, it will display your posts in any of the 50+ languages Google Translate supports.
Monetize your blog with Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger
April 18, 2012 — permalinkWhen you share your words, thoughts and photos on Blogger, you are sharing your passions with the world. Sometimes, you’re passionate about brands or products. Starting today, you can make money by promoting relevant products in your posts, gaining income for each new customer you introduce to your favorite brands.
This is a new way for you to monetize your blog, giving you control over the advertisers and products you promote, and better connecting your readers with the things you love.
To get started, go to the Earnings tab on Blogger, and click “Get Started”. If you have an existing AdSense account and the content of your blog matches available ad categories, you're already set. Select an affiliate ad from the “Advertiser Products” widget that appears in the Post Settings panel in the post editor. If you don’t already have an AdSense account, sign up.
When you post about a brand or product from a featured advertiser, the Google Affiliate Ads for Blogged widget will help you to display an affiliate ad in your blog, which can be a text link, a product image, or a banner. You may earn commissions when someone clicks on your ads and makes a purchase on the advertiser’s site, going beyond “payment per click” to “payment per action” and extending the influential relationship you have with your audience.
Get started with Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger today to monetize your blog and bring your readers to the products you love.
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