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Talks in Baghdad concerning Iran's controversial nuclear programme will go into an unscheduled second day after diplomats failed to reach agreement. Six world powers made Iran an offer if it stopped proce... - posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 9 minutes ago
I have always been troubled by the ability of those who call themselves the "Chosen Ones" to constantly lie, and to pass off those lies as the truth to all non-Jews. I have long been aware of their "Kol ... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 minutes ago
*KKK fanatic Jeff Sessions was rejected by the Senate for a judgeship... so now he votes against all Obama's nominees* The Senate voted Monday, just once-- but it was an important vote. Most Republicans h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:19:18 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 1025 km (636 miles) SSW of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:15:38 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) ESE of ... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 26 minutes ago"Two shooting victims along Mississippi highways may have been killed by someone who posed as law enforcement and pulled them over late at night, authorities said Monday.... --**more--" "Miss. highway ki...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 28 minutes agoI'll start out by apologizing ahead of time if this post becomes a little incoherent. Work keeping me on the go a good 13 hours a day for the past couple of weeks tends to interfere with rational thought ...
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 73 km (45.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:01:53 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) SSW of Hua... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes ago
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:59:52 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 1031 km (640 miles) SSW of... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 38 minutes ago"With shuttle’s end, space firms feeling their way" by Stephen Singer | Associated Press, April 30, 2012 HARTFORD - Florida’s Space Coast, once the center of rocket launches, has lost thousands of jobs....
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:00:07 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 538 km (33... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Bulgaria at a depth of 12.1 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:59:15 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) WSW of SOFIA, Bulgaria No Reports ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 48 minutes ago"In life you have to do a lot of things you don't ****ing want to do. Many times, that's what the **** life is... one vile ****ing task after another.” "Pain, or damage, don't end the world- or despai...
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...and he'll sit out by the lake all day drinking beer. Since RCJ was up on this side of town this morning Southern Man dragged him out to The Land to help wrestle some drywall into place. Southern Man *h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:41:18 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) North of Bologna, Italy No Re... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 51 minutes ago“Bright clusters and nebulae abound in the ancient northern constellation of Auriga. The region includes the open star cluster M38, emission nebula IC 410 with Tadpoles, Auriga's own Flaming Star Nebula I...
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A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 34 km (21.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:25:58 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 401 km (249 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, Kuril I... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes ago
A summit of European leaders has ended without clear agreement on how best to restore confidence in the euro, despite pleas from the British PM to get a grip on the crisis. The informal dinner stretched i... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Three Florida siblings accused in a multistate crime spree that involved a daring bank robbery in Georgia were given prison terms Monday on charges in Colorado, where they were captured after a nationwide...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Roll up your sleeve*: "Wash. fights whooping cough epidemic" May 11, 2012|Associated Press SEATTLE - Washington state’s *worst outbreak of whooping cough in decades*has prompted health officials to declar...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"N.H. wants hospitals near Mass. border" May 11, 2012|Robert Weisman New Hampshire lawmakers are pushing incentives for so-called destination hospitals to open along the state’s southern border, hoping to ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Better late than never.... * "AP regrets firing in V-E Day scoop" Associated Press, May 05, 2012 NEW YORK - In World War II’s final moments in Europe, Associated Press writer Edward Kennedy gave the AP p...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“The Burden of Thinking”* by Chet Raymo “Let me speak for gray. Not black or white. Good or evil. Truth or falsity. Yes or no. Let me speak for maybe. Sort of. More or less. I think so. I am reluctan...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour agoOk, this is truly absurd. DEA, FBI, NCIS agents authorized to arrest Canadians in Canada? I haven't noticed any suggestion the RCMP or OPP can arrest Americans in Buffalo. I'd say it's a bad parody by extr...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Kendric Price honors friend with program" May 05, 2012|By Bob Hohler It’s a Saturday morning, when many 25-year-olds are sleeping off the night before and a lot of city kids are home playing ‘‘Call of Dut...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoPenang, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*I'm moving as fast as I can, readers.* "US lowers cutoff for lead poisoning in young kids; Change means more children will be diagnosed" y Mike Stobbe | Associated Press, May 17, 2012 ATLANTA - Really,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Florida A&M University’s famed marching band is being suspended for at least one more school year as officials try to cleanse the hazing culture that led to the death of a drum major, the school’s preside...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"The Status Quo: Life as We Know It"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "Our lives can sometimes become status quo and that is ok as long as we aren't keeping it that way on purpose. When our lives are g...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no pri...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours ago*Click here to help the Brockway family adopt Buddha! Every donation makes a difference. Every dollar will move them closer to their goal.* * * * * *A US veteran commits suicide once every 80 minutes.* ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours agoThis is brilliant. (So brilliant, you must go visit Motella to thank him for it.) BUDGET DAY: The day when the media line-up "average" Kiwi battlers that whinge that the government isn't redistributing ...
- posted by Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 2 hours agoAs a backgrounder to my position on the Quebec student protest, I agree with Emmett Macfarlane and Andrew Coyne. There's the reasoned analysis. Here's my emotional response: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY COU...
- posted by Cantoral at GlobaLove Think Tank - 2 hours agoLeaders Bicker as Europe’s Crisis Gains New Urgency - NYTimes.com: "BERLIN — With Greece’s membership in the euro zone teetering, fears of bank insolvency rising and Europe’s leaders bickering about what ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Antiscience campaigner Christopher Monckton watches protesters outside Heartland Institute's 2012 conference against climate science, 23 May 2012. thinkprogress.org]24 May 2012 (Watch the Deniers...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*Well, the coverage of it anyway*: "Trial in New York City subway plot begins" April 17, 2012 NEW YORK - A man accused of becoming an Al Qaeda operative discussed bombing New York City movie theaters, Gra...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Addiction and America's Fat Problem"* By Susan Cheever “When it comes to our national obesity epidemic, the elephant in the room is getting so fat that he can hardly stagger into the den to watch hi...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours agoErnesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and mi...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"He opens his mouth wide, emits a very loud sound, and gesticulates: that is to say, he is laughing. But he's not laughing like the rest of them: his laughter feels like a copy among originals." (Milan Ku...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours agoWell, campaign season just officially opened for me. Failed presidental contender and sporadic co-blogger Congressman Thad McCotter is posting to my blog. And when I say *my* blog, I mean the blog I virtua...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*I'm lost because my printed article was AP*: "7 killed as van plunges off highway into Bronx Zoo" New York Times, April 30, 2012 NEW YORK - Seven people were killed on Sunday after a minivan that they w...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Nor Hollywood's....* "Investigators, legal observers, and court records describe an organization that continues to erode, as made members and associates abandon the code of silence and cooperate with inv...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Mo. lawmaker says he is gay, denounces school bill limiting sexual orientation discussion" Associated Press, May 03, 2012 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Missouri House member who previously served in the Air Fo...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours agoTo be clear, I haven't seen it, but judging from the description, Hustler's rancid photoshop of S.E. Cupp, and apparently various other woman celebrities, is disgraceful, debasing and they deserve to be su...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 5 hours ago** *Remember that if CSIS asks you to be an informer, or some rag wants to interview you.* *Contributor: "YYC" * Most of the news reports about Shakil Afridi are pretty sketchy. But their purpose, it see...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"No Ways Tired in A Sea of Lies" (Adapted) by Chris Floyd "I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies. ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours agoPaul Krugman writes column after column in the *New York Times* arguing the current worldwide depression is due to an overall general lack of "demand," as opposed to structural imbalances in the economy....
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours agoBill English the Greek, the King of Double Dipton, has been heard boasting that his budget today will “target” high-income New Zealanders. What a knob. This envy-ridden “eat the rich” attitude is worki...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Our Actions Are More Powerful Than We Realize"* by Washington's Blog "Part of the reason that our actions are more powerful than we think is that courage is contagious. So is the ability to think. As ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago[image: image]You might like to know that Daniel Hannan will be talking to Leighton Smith on Newstalk ZB from 10am this morning. Daniel Hannan, if you recall, is the Euro MP who famously called Gordon B...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 hours agoI feel repentent because I shouldn't have let this happen again - but once more, evidence of what Craig Dilworth calls the "Vicious Circle Principle" (from Amazon, *Too Smart for Our Own Good - The Ecologi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*“So, Where’s The Money?”* by Ron Unz "Over the last 40 years, a large majority of American workers have seen their real incomes stagnate or decline. Meanwhile, the rapid concentration of American wea...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Oh Look, A (Backhanded) Admission Of Fraud!"* by Karl Denninger "I love it when this sort of thing happens... "The U.S. economy will probably tip back into recession next year if Congress fails to ad...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA random act of kindness lands a man in trouble with police. Last Monday, May 14th John Davis was exiting I-90 at the West 117th ramp when he saw a man in a wheelchair. The man was pale, thin and holding...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Buck McKeon may not understand social media, but he knows how to monetize drones & killer robots* Lucky for Blue America Jacquie keeps up our Facebook, Twitter and Tumblraccounts. Otherwise we wouldn't ha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"The Delusion of Regulating Risk"* by Bill Bonner "At first, when I listened to the accounts of old-time deals and devices I used to think that people were more gullible in the 1860s and ’70s than in ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 7 hours agoLatest PR stunt aims at fueling fear and anger - will inevitably lead to more deaths on both sides. *editorial by Tony Cartalucci * *May 23, 2012* - Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has been l...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 7 hours agoWe are own own prison warders. We are the ones who keep the doors to freedom slammed shut. By refusing to open our minds and allow the light of truth to push away the shadows of fear, we are condemning ou...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoWednesday, May 23, 2012 Solidarity with the Virginia Prison Hunger Strikers Take Action Today Make four phone calls today. Send four emails today. Governor Bob McDonnell Robert.F.McDonnell@Governor.Virgin...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoby Will Potter May 15, 2012 Green is the New Red Resist grand jury witch hunts. At least two individuals have been subpoenad to a federal grand jury that appears to be investigating a 2008 fire at the home...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoJulia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama is facing complaints of sexual misconduct by guards. May 23, 2012 By Elizabeth Chuck, msnbc.com Sexual misconduct by male correctional staff toward inmates at Al...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoFrom: "NYC ABC" Date: Wed, May 23, 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, Marie ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 8 hours agoMay 4, 2012 - http://freepax.org/ On the morning of May 3rd over a dozen members of the Portland Police Department stormed a North Portland house and tore it apart on a warrant to indict our friend Bryan M...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours agoFeb. 2012 Enbridge protest BC Led by Six Nations community members, Enbridge Line 9 hearings disrupted, shut down for half a day Press statement Posted at Censored News http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/05...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA 'devil's worm', a sneezing monkey and an orchid that only blooms at night have been named in the latest top 10 list of new species. Chosen by scientists from 200 nominated animals and plants described f...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoOne last post...this is a new way to enter and manipulate data on your PC. Pretty cool!
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago*R. v. Johnson*, 2012 ONCA 339 is a useful source for the principle, applied in Canada but not the United States, that a sentencing judge should generally refrain from imposing a fixed-term sentence w...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours agoNot one who likes to boast, but I've been toiling away in varying degrees of total obscurity at this blogging thing for nine years and counting now. And I'm still not so jaded that a link in an establishme...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoThe MASSIVE cognitive dissonance in US right-wing neo-CON politics lumbers on, like a huge prehistoric creature whose dysfunctional actions signal the ongoing extinction of its species. First, this: *Th...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoOn Sunday, the Iranian military chief Major General Hassan Firouzabad said that “the Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel” Could he make it any plainer? I s...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours agoThere won't be many updates to this blog for the next week. I have an exam I have to take Friday for my college work, and I have to take my daughter to her college orientation in another state this wee...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoDon't ALEC members always tell the press the following lie I go to ALEC members where states share what is working for them and then I come home and implement it. Well Not so ALEC introduces legislation...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 9 hours ago*“At the end of the day, in my opinion, they’ve made up their mind and this is how we’re going to vote. One person is not going to make a difference, one MP is not going to make a difference.”* In some ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoMany articles on this blog were dedicated to the war on the existence of dark matter. Some research teams claim that they have already detected a proof of a dark matter particle, a WIMP, whose mass is ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago*TIME Magazine Declared Bibi "KING." * Benjamin Netanyahu is not . . . Winston Churchill. There won't be a Benjamin Netanyahu High School in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv in the future. Nobody is awe and mesme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 13.9 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:50:28 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 1120 km (696 miles) Northeast from Na...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBEIRUT — Speculation was rife on Wednesday among Syrian anti-regime activists over the alleged "killing" of President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law who is also Syria's deputy defence minister. Assef S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPresident Barack Obama has been accused of risking America's national security for political gain by giving Hollywood filmmakers access to secret material on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Documen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe world's leading powers sought to break the deadlock over Iran's nuclear ambitions on Wednesday by challenging Tehran to hand over part of its stockpile of enriched uranium in return for easing the pres...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoI just couldn't get enough time to post anything worthwhile today, but tomorrow will be a whole other matter... BBC bias beware.
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 10 hours agoThis is "home" for one ill, impoverished woman in my community Every day brings new revelations when you live in a foreign culture. And when it's a developing country, the learning curve is just that much ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours ago*Before you look at the picture please read this:* *It comes as no surprise that the right-wing, Koch brothers-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) says the “best” of the nation’s states’ e...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours agoUS Occupation Shifts to Proxy Subversion. *guest post by Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com, * *May 23, 2012 *- Since the withdrawal of US military forces from Iraq, there has been an ongoing campaign of...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoAscension has been ongoing for many years, so as not to overpower you. It has gently been increased, and now you are recognizing the difference it is making to you. It is in many ways a delicate pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThree people have died following the outbreak of anthrax in the Balungu electoral area of the Bongo District in the Upper East region. Several animals have also died from the disease which has been in th...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours ago*Post # 2 for today! * *R Gordon Wasson*. Who here has heard of him, besides me? I know some of you have! According to Wikipedia he was an author, ethnomycologist and VP for J.P Morgan. A Banker (what!) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEurozone officials did not recommend member countries prepare for Greece's possible departure from the single currency, the Greek government has insisted. A statement issued by the country's government s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA total of 75 miners were rescued Tuesday afternoon after a conveyor belt collapsed at the Mimosa platinum mine in Zvishavane. A statement from the company said “a fire occurred at the jointly owned Mimo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHANOI, Vietnam — An official in northern Vietnam says rock slides have killed nine people in two separate accidents at quarrying operations. Local official Nguyen Xuan Truong says four workers died at the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoLUXI COUNTY, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- Seven people were trapped on Monday when part of a coal mine collapsed in southwestern China, state-run media reported on Tuesday, but their conditions were not immediatel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMinistry of Defence reluctantly planning for being drawn into a US-Israeli conflict with Iran over Tehran's possible nuclear arms Ministers on Britain's National Security Council have been advised there is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMark Zuckerberg and leading Facebook investors cashed out millions of shares before the price dropped off a cliff, according to company filings. The founder of the social networking website sold $1.13bill...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoDefence minister Ehud Barak says 'there must be no window' Iran can creep through to advance nuclear programme A sceptical Israel has warned the international community against being fooled by Iran appare...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoMost politicians are too cagey to submit to the kind of standardized testing they've forced on students and are trying to force on teachers. So is there any objective way to measure a politician's intelli...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours agoToday, something a little different. A history day. I am relinking a book I had up previously. IT IS A MUST READ. In my opinion of course. [image: Link]*Rockefeller Medicine Men* *Medicine and Capitalism i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Aerial view of tailings ponds at the Athabascan Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada, 18 May 2012. A mixture of water and oil sand from the strip mines is called 'slurry'. The sand and water mixture is p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Syria's political opposition in exile, the Syrian National Council, called on rebels in Syria on Wednesday to help secure the release of 13 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims abducted near the north Sy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - At least three Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims were killed and seven wounded on Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their bus in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, a police source said. The attack ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Mexican government forces had bottled up a band of enemy fighters in this tiny village late last year, but feared they would escape into the dusty, rock-strewn hills. So more than 600 soldiers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) said it would not proceed with its $2.6 billion offer for Human Genome Sciences (HGSI.O) unless the U.S. biotechnology company dropped a "poison pill" shareholder right...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA patient is being treated for rabies in London after being bitten by a dog in south Asia, the Health Protection agency has said. More follows...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 11 hours agoFrom Progressive States Network [image: Progressive States Network] Tell your state legislators: Stand with us, not with ALEC!The corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoThe Union for the Mediterranean: an instrument of soft power for the globalisation of NATO Julien Teil Centre for the Study of Interventionism May 23, 2012 US foreign policy displays a clear will to pre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Southern Peru at a depth of 40.1 km (24.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:36:43 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) SSW of P...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoWhen international law designed to stop war crimes is used *by *war criminals. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 23, 2012* - A historic ruling handed down by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal found former-U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea at a depth of 73.5 km (45.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:26:11 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) NNW from Ternate, Molucc...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: International Energy Agency's chief economist Fatih Birol speaks to Reuters during an interview in Baghdad, 29 February 2012. Mohammed Ameen / Reuters / Files] By Nina Chestney and Oleg Vukmanov...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012* *Her craziest cable rant yet:* For quite some time, we’ve told you that you have to fact-check everything Rachel Maddow says. (This is too bad, because she reports on important t...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 12 hours agoGreat men in Cite Soleil--May, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) "...the greatness of a man is measured not in his lack of faults, but in the abundance of his strength." Emerson
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 40.7 km (25.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:25 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) NNE from Hachinohe, Honsh...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoYesterday, we discussed an interesting new paper by Hartle, Hawking, and Hertog. It claimed that because of some mysterious maths of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, a theory with a negative cosmological const...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - Euro zone officials have told members of the currency area to prepare contingency plans in case Greece decides to quit the bloc, an eventuality which Germany's central bank said would be "mana...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoShafilea Ahmed drank bleach while staying in Pakistan because her mother had said she would not be going back to the UK, the dead teen's sister has told a court. During a second day of evidence at Cheste...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agohttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-q-hedge-funder-bet-184159786.html
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoIn 1956 a group of geneticists issued a report concerning effects of radioactivity on hereditary. The New York Times published the report on June 13, page 18. The report's authors were stars in the field...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have sentenced a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden to 33 years in jail on charges of treason, officials said, a move almost certain to further strain...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*OTTAWA—When he assumed power six years ago, Stephen Harper let it be known he would brook no opposition from the naysayers on Afghanistan. “There may be some who may want to cut and run.’’ he said during...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012* *Truly astounding misconduct:* Astounding but true: George Zimmerman wasn’t mentioned on MSNBC last week. Neither was the late Trayvon Martin, not even once. What makes that fac...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agoHe's making a list. Checking it twice! Going to find out who's naughty or nice (have you sent in those campaign donations checks yet?) John Brennen is coming to ... keel you!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWhat is being called a "deadly traffic jam" of climbers ascending Mount Everest might be a factor in the death of four people descending the world's tallest mountain. The news came amidst the celebration...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 13 hours agoJames Casbolt (he has a new book out, *warning alert disclaimer*) talks about his experiences in American-run NSA underground bases WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM. Casbolt claims that the NSA (that's National ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA stuntman has made aviation history by becoming the first skydiver in the world to land without the use of a parachute. Gary Connery, 42, from Oxfordshire, leapt from a helicopter a mile above Henley t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSeoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea is set to carry out the chemical castration of a serial rapist later this week, implementing recent legislation for the first time. The drug treatment is intended t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook's stock has plunged nearly 18% from its IPO price, but it's not simply a case of investors disliking the company. Facebook has attracted a rash of stock flippers -- investo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Scotland Yard anti-corruption officer has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes from private investigators. The two private investigators, who previously served with the force, are also being hel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSeoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea has said it will press on with its nuclear program as a response to what it described as hostility from the United States after an analysis of satellite images ind...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBaghdad (CNN) -- World powers holding talks with Iran on its nuclear aspirations are proposing "confidence building" measures and "reciprocal" steps to allow the country to prove its program is solely for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:12:05 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 629 km (391...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoThe Sierra Club has issued this alert: Take Action: Keep the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Focused on Safety [Excerpt] President Obama has nominated, and the Senate has been asked to confirm, the appoin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Peter Gleick's face was on mugs at the Heartland Institute's 2012 climate conference. Paul Chinn / The Chronicle] By Suzanne Goldenberg in Chicago, www.guardian.co.uk 22 May 2012 It was an odd c...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours agoSo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker felt all pukey inside when he saw that anti-Romney ad comparing Bain Capital to a blood-sucking vampire. And then the pundits said his career was toast, and then the Obama camp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- Russia test-fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, a move that comes amid tensions about a recent NATO announcement that it placed an interim missile defense shield in Europe. The intercontinental...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The World Bank said a slowdown in China will drag on growth in the entire East Asia-Pacific region. The bank, an international organization that helps to fund projects in the devel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- World markets plunged Wednesday on renewed anxiety over Greece ahead of a meeting of European leaders, and signs that the Chinese economy is losing steam. European leaders are gath...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDespite recent assurances by senior officials in Iran that the country will weather sanctions targeting the country's petroleum and financial sectors, the international effort is having a noticeable impac...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 14 hours agoIn November, I will be speaking at the annual conference of the Gulf Coast Economics Association, which this year is being held in Orlando, Florida. If you are interested in attending, registration is now...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoFacebook, its founder and several banks behind its flotation last week have been sued by disgrunteld shareholders in a New York court. The shareholders have claimed the defendants hid the social networkin...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Buck Showalter, 56. A little good stuff: 1. Nathaniel Beck on youth unemployment and the NYT op-ed page. At the Monkey Cage. 2. The 1884 presidential election. By county. The not-quite-...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours agoFor the first time in a couple of months I took a little mini-vacation of four days of riding on the east coast. Arriving in Hualien on Friday night, on Saturday morning we rode 90 kms down Highway 11 to ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012* *Part 3—Pensions were looted, he says:* Good god! It wasn’t enough that Ed Rendell staged that brain-jangling segment with Sharpton, picking nits and defending Mitt Romney’s loot...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoI ran into a blog entry last year out of Iowas where the blogger had emailed someone and found out that Iowa AUTOMATICALLY registers ALL legislators as ALEC MEMBERS unless the legislator "opts out". Recen...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Young mothers with small children protest incineration of radioactive debris in Kitakyushu City, 23 May 2012. The sign reads, 'Adults should protect the future of children. We're against disaster...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPerched on cliff edges, jars and wooden coffins containing human remains offer tantalising evidence of a completely unknown ancient people in Cambodia. Ten burial spots have been found by archaeologists ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago*Wachtler v. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, *2012 ABCA 145 is a useful decision outlining the law regarding sufficiency of reasons of a tribunal: [9] The appellant’s...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago*Cowherd's my name. Asshattin's my game!* * The NFL's Descent into Absurdity and the Plague of Goodell ~Saints Win* *~Evidentiary support for this descent is nowhere more prominent than in its silly lampo...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThe *DWT* art department rarely asks any questions. They just send art and tell me to post a blog about it. But yesterday they did ask a question: Why would Romney's leeching organization be called Bain? ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA desperate man in the U.S. took his own life after an eviction notice was placed on his front door. Norman Rousseau, 53, shot himself in his bedroom last week after learning Wells Fargo intended to fore...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe evidence for 'Planet X' - the mysterious hypothesised planet on the edge of our solar system - has taken a new turn thanks to the mathematics of a noted astronomer. Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours agoHelp Winnemem Wintu War Dance (H'up Chonas) US authorities consider holding the Coming of Age ceremony here as an act of civil disobedience May 24 -- 27, 2012 Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*Let's rock and roll with the Rutgers case for starters*: "Leniency urged in bullying sentence" May 05, 2012 NEW YORK - Old *friends are coming to the defense* of a former Rutgers University *student who ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPolice arrested notorious 'mountain man' Dan Nichols Tuesday on drug charges following a months-long search that came nearly three decades after he and his father kidnapped a world-class athlete. Nichols...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA mountain lion found in the courtyard of an office building was shot and killed on Tuesday after making its way into the downtown of a busy city. The large cat was found by a janitor in the courtyard nea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe changing opinions of both the public and the key witnesses in the Trayvon Martin case confirm that the trial of the teen's killer, George Zimmerman, will be constantly evolving. A new poll says that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoGary Giordano, the main suspect in the disappearance of Robyn Gardner in Aruba, has been arrested for indecent exposure, according to police. The 51-year-old was charged on May 18 after police caught him ...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 15 hours agoWow! Tough to get back into the mood to blog again, after spending four days on the east coast biking. I'll take a look at Ma's second inaugural speech tomorrow.... But this report is typical of the kinds...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA North Carolina pastor preached hate in a recent sermon when he theorized that gay and lesbian people should be put behind an electric fence and left there to 'die out'. Pastor Charles Worley, 71, gave t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoGoogle has been ordered by competition regulators to end ‘abuses’ of its market dominance or risk being fined billions of pounds. The search engine, which has more than 80 per cent of the global market sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAn 'unprecedented' clean-up operation has been launched in Alaska after it became swamped by debris from last year's devastating Japanese tsunami. Workers plan to spend 12 days clearing the beach on Monta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA woman made unusual facial expressions as she was being charged in the stabbing deaths of two Canadian tourists near an Atlantic City casino. Antoinette Pelzer, 44, laughed, frowned, grimaced and repeate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalised a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus thought he was on a mission from God to kill an alien, according to a mental health worker who interviewed him. In ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA 49-year-old woman made her 11-year-old daughter steal from a convenience store and when the little girl got caught she refused to pick her up from the station. The mother had coerced the girl, along wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(From top left, clockwise) Tracy Jordan, David Masters, Jennifer Moses, Brandon Haggard, Lee Moses and Paula Masters allegedly tortured a man in the basement of their shared Utah home. Thomas Chapman was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA mother and her three young children were found dead in a burned house, and the children's father was later found dead in a car 75 miles away in what police believe to be a murder-suicide. Police say th...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours agoIn the wake of Justice Thomas Lederer's decision last week to overturn the election results in Etobicoke Centre, the Conservatives have filed documents to declare challenges to seven other elections mut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe high school student who recorded his teacher yelling at him and saying he could be arrested for criticizing President Barack Obama says he wanted to laugh during his instructor's rant. Hunter Rogers h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA New Jersey woman was told to get out of a popular shopping mall on Saturday because she was wearing a traditional Muslim face covering. Wakeelah Salaam lodged a complaint with Bridgewater Commons Mall a...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 16 hours ago*Super Great Broccoli and Chevre Soup! Fibericious!!!* My nutritionist always told me to up the broccoli, she said it would aid my stomach in it's healing process and it is obviously super good for me too...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA convicted paedophile is suing the South Australian Government over claims he was sexually abused as a child in state care. Peter John Marshall, 58, was jailed for at least six years from March for four ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 16 hours agoThey all gotta go! Every single one who voted against their country's best interests. [BREAKING NEWS: Facebook, Zuckerberg, Banks Like Morgan Stanley Sued Over IPO The Facebook Fallacy - For all its valu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA soft drink can with the word bomb written on it caused an international flight to make an emergency landing at Melbourne Airport this afternoon The can was found onboard the flight, bound for Mauritius v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIt is predicting Perth has an 80 per cent chance of recording above average temperatures from June to August. The bureau's Andrew Watkins says the change is due to warmer water temperatures in the Indian...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Maug Islands Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 229.1 km (142.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:04:21 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 38 km ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Ecuador at a depth of 161.3 km (100.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:24:07 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60 miles) East of Riobamba, Ecuador No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 194.6 km (120.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:28:55 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) Northwest of San Antoni...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 16 hours agoI have submitted the following short post to Steven Goddard's Real-Science website, where the recent corrupt actions, and underlying belief, of Peter Gleick are the topic of discussion: *I agree with Gleic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:17:56 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (67.6 miles) Southwest from Kuy...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 17 hours agoAs a technology teacher, I'm always amused whenever I see students doing research. They type whatever they're searching for into Google (for instance, Texas) and expect it to magically tell them everything...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 18 hours agoIn the UK there is a battle brewing over a scientific trial involving genetically modified wheat. Last weekend a protester attempted to vandalize the trial, and a larger civil action is expected on May ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agohttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/world/europe/british-energy-plan-would-add-nuclear-plants.html "While Germany intends to phase out nuclear power, and France's new president, François Hollande, says he h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Alaska at a depth of 68.6 km (42.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:35:29 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) Southwest from Nanwalek, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPolice, neighbors and friends struggled to unravel the mysterious deaths of a Nebraska woman and her 10-year-old son that began with them appearing to go on an excursion and ended with their bodies found ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoArrested: Jason Sutherlin, 33, is one of the five people in custody after a group of 18 people attacked 'white supremacist' diners Five men accused of attacking a group of diners with hammers and metal b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe body of a Harvard Business School student who went missing on Sunday after drinking with friends in an Irish bar has been found. Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, disappeared while c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAuthorities say a father's prank at a southern New Jersey laundry facility nearly turned tragic when his toddler son briefly got stuck inside an active washing machine. Now they're hoping to identify an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Kentucky woman has been charged with murdering her daughter and baby granddaughter in a brutal stabbing spree. Lillie Stanton, 48, is under police custody in hospital after she allegedly stabbed Danel ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours agoThe outcome of the recent elections in Greece was an unbelievable proof that Greece is a dying democracy, something I've been predicting for years. The single largest party turned out to be New Democracy w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs the architect of glasnost - or 'openness' - last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev should approve of Twitter. Except that it all went badly wrong yesterday when his death was announced in a Tweet that r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe last words of one woman who died at Mt Everest’s highest base camp were ‘save me,’ according to a close friend. Toronto native Shirya Shah-Klorfine was one of the four who were confirmed dead after a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA ‘despicable’ mugger who injured a frail grandmother while robbing her of her purse blamed the elderly victim for her injuries - because she refused to let go. Vile heroin addict Rebecca Oxley, 36, pull...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA desperate jobseeker who applied for 15,000 jobs with no success in the past ten years has resorted to advertising himself by wearing a 'hire me' sandwich board. Robin Norton, from Birmingham, has a Mas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA South African court has found black farmhand Chris Mahlangu guilty of murdering Eugene Terre’Blanche, a white supremacist prominent during the dying years of apartheid, in a wage dispute. A second man...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA drink-driving arrest turned into an animal affair when two of the passengers that an intoxicated motorist was putting in harm's way was his pet zebra and macaw. Police made the unusual arrest when a pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Catholic Church's leading exorcist priest has sensationally claimed a missing schoolgirl thought to be buried in a murdered gangster's tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties. Father Gabriel Amort...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player A crazed woman had to be restrained by fellow air passengers after she started raging about having an explosive device implanted within her. The t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMost of us will have felt the pain of a bee sting. Luckily most of us will have avoided the dreaded pain of a tarantula hawk or a fire ant. Justin Schmidt felt all three of these - and 147 other horrible,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTHE head of the world’s economic watchdog yesterday delivered an extraordinary call for the Bank of England to cut interest rates even further as British households were warned the income squeeze will las...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA mother-of-six is fighting for life in hospital after being stabbed in the neck outside the school gates when she went to collect her poorly child. Carol Bailey was stabbed six times in the neck with a s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice are hunting a man suspected of sexually assaulting a sleeping train passenger who then photographed him after he returned to his seat and dozed off. The 29-year-old woman, who cannot be named, was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe floatation of Facebook is facing a federal probe amid allegations that underwriter Morgan Stanley kept some investors in the dark over forecasts that the stock would tank. A subpoena has been served ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEuropean judges rode roughshod over British sovereignty yesterday by ruling that prisoners must be allowed to vote. In a devastating blow, they rejected last year's overwhelming vote by MPs for maintaini...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA US drone strike has killed at least four suspected militants in the North Waziristan tribal area, security officials say, in an area known to be a stronghold of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The attack is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe kidnapping of 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims in Syria has sparked angry protests in Beirut, adding to fears that Lebanon is being dragged into the unrest afflicting its neighbour. The pilgrims were returni...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agoit's quite a milestone in the life of this blog, and it requires that I use capital letters *FREE PLANET - ONE MILLION PAGEVIEWS* But it feels like something's missing. How can FREE PLANET have had on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWASHINGTON — A summit meant to symbolize a thaw between the United States and Pakistan has only worsened the bad blood, with the troubled relationship casting a pall over NATO plans on Afghanistan. The We...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - Germany dismissed a French-led call for euro zone governments to issue common bonds, a day before a European Union summit which investors are looking to for new measures to counter the bloc's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA three-year-old was rescued by a police officer after riding his toy motorbike down a bustling road in China during rush hour. The child can been seen on CCTV footage dodging cars and buses as he heads ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:37:42 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) Southeast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Tanzania at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:32:46 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) South of Dodoma, Tanzania No Reports...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 234 km (145 miles), the quake hit at 03:49:52 UTC Wednesday 23rd May 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) Southw...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago[image: FORSIKTIG OG KLØNETE: Stefaren beskriver Breivik som en forsiktig og klønete tenåringsgutt.] Anders Breivik Anders Breivik was aged 12 when he first met his mother's boyfriend Tore Tollefsen, the ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoA poem by Quotshyneum from the Poetry and Printmaking class in 2010 *The above poem & art work is by a Native American Hopi Indian by the name of Quotshyneum from the Hopitutuqaiki, The Hopi School in Ho...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoAs posted before we are on the brink of a true energy revolution with the production of LENR heat cells capable of producing a 600 C heat gradient. For starters, it will be the death of both co...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe advent of a slightly better understanding of the condition of lucid dreaming and its close corollary of NDE or near death experience has now opened up the door for technical assistance in th...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhat this means is that the hunt for extant large primates has now become academically acceptable. There has been a number of samples taken over the years and perhaps we can now get such samples ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhy is it that a product line used for decades is only getting this sort of fundamental testing now? Or was it tested in house and the results simply fudged. We have been looking for a smoki...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago89-year-old Charlotte Gerson, Max Gerson's (who founded the Gerson Institute in 1977) daughter, sat down with the Live Foods, Live Bodies team and JayKordich.com to tell us how to be healthy into your 8...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 21 hours ago*Microsoft has opened up its So.cl social networking service to the wide-ranging community. The service integrates through Face book and is being inclined as a research somewhat a rival to further networ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 21 hours agoBill 1? It’s a secret! Alberta MLAs may not be exactly as illustrated. It’s great work if you can find it! The first session of the 28th Legislature of Alberta opened today and will sit for … hold onto ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago*Typical. How many good products and alternative therapies that work have been demonized?* *"If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoIt's time to prepare for OPAL, the first break-in. But which target? There are two possibilities: the DNC, or McGovern headquarters. Remember -- McGovern is the likely nominee, but it's hardly a sure thing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAs part of her election campaign, Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced her intention of breaking ties with the British monarchy and becoming an independent republic. While no doubt a ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 23 hours agoDon’t believe any bullshit about Bill’s Big Budget tomorrow being a “zero budget.” Baloney. The not-so-comforting fact pointed out by Auckland-based business writer Yoke Har Lee is the country is fore...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA US military training center in the port city of Concón, in the central Chilean province of ValparaÃso, will be used for exercises "clearly oriented toward the control and repression of the civilian popu...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoIn the dictionary under “wig out” it says “see ‘Stoned Guitar’ by the Human Instinct. This is that song, from 1969. The un-stoned guitarist (yeah right) is Billy TK. He seems to have played before. (An...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAccording to a 2007 New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh, “The Redirection,” the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia had been assembling a region-wide army of extremist-mercenaries to battle Hezbollah in Lebanon,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoSeal, “Crazy” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fc67yQsPqQ&ob=av2e • Seems so at times, doesn't it? - CP
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNATO is strengthening its positions in Central Asia for the first time inviting Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to its Chicago summit on May 20 and 21 in hope to expand partnership with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBabylon’s Hanging Gardens were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but heritage appears to be no match for Iraq’s booming oil industry in a dispute over a new pipeline. As Baghdad is working t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government is discussing a plan to create a technology hub in the northern city of Sevedvinsk to explore the Arctic's offshore hydrocarbon deposits. Half a century ago, this town on the White Sea coas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoI just received a large full-color pamphlet in the mail and in large letters it read, "The free ride is over. The dollar will soon be devalued and replaced." I thought the warning was interesting, but the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. The location of the missing piece of the Sun was not a mystery - it was behind the Moon. Sunday night's partial eclipse of the Sun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCanada’s largest banks received $114 billion in liquidity support from the government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the United States Federal Reserve between 2008 and 2010, reveals a r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"Rial-rupee payment arrangement have been put in place for bilateral trade between India and Iran," Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said in a written reply to the Rajya Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis week’s Housing Finance data release offered some new clues on the immediate future of house prices. The headline numbers were broadly reported, including here at BusinessDay but one dimension that as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDoes Earth have a new friend? An astrophysicist says it's likely that an as-yet undiscovered planet exists on the dark fringes of our solar system, messing with the orbits of celestial bodies in the Kuipe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Head In The Cloud"* by Chet Raymo New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman had some things to say the other day about the way the internet is empowering individuals "to publish your own book, start...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe blighted auto capital may soon become the first major U.S. city to have all of its public services privatized. A photographer wanders the ruins of a crumbling metropolis. Detroit is a city in flux. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina, Japan and South Korea are taking further steps to replace the dollar in trade between them as the countries start negotiations on a free trade agreement, Vladimir Rozhankovsky, Head of Research at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHashim Yeomans-Benford places bags of garbage that had been collected from abandoned foreclosed home in front of a Bank of America branch during a protest organized by the Miami Workers Center on Thursday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA controversial painting showing South African president Jacob Zuma in Soviet revolutionary pose and with his genitals on display has been defaced with black paint at a gallery in Johannesburg. Two men, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSINGAPORE, May 23 (Reuters) - The euro edged ever closer to hitting a 21-month low on Wednesday while the safe haven dollar reached a 20-month peak against a basket of currencies on fears of a messy Greek...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIt's beyond outrageous that our elected officials get to write the rules that govern their own behavior even to the point of twisting the meaning of bribery to exclude their own most basic criminality. Ja...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things." – Hugo Claus
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoThe Herald reports: *A campaign has been launched for a "living wage” in New Zealand, inspired by policies in United States cities and London.* *In New Zealand, Labour Department research shows that 103...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Syrian rebels kidnapped 13 Lebanese Shi'ites in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday as they returned home from a pilgrimage, triggering protests in Beirut in the latest unrest to spill ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago1 Pax, 10 Lamat, 8 Manik Selamat Balik! We return! Much is happening on your world. A great confrontation between the dark and the Light is coming to a head. This struggle has thoroughly exhausted...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoUSNRC Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0090/v33/sr0090v33.pdf This link was provided by EnoughAlready45 Thank you
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Iran criticized on Tuesday plans by Gulf Arab leaders to form a closer political, economic and military union to counter Shi'ite Muslim discontent in Bahrain, warning such move would "deepen t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago300 million red admiral butterflies estimated from Windsor to New Brunswick Butterflies have migrated across Eastern Canada this spring in unprecedented numbers, reflecting the warm winter throughout North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBarred by the U.S. and Australia, tech giant Huawei makes inroads in Canada The former head of U.S. counter-espionage says the Harper government is putting North American security at risk by allowing a gia...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago1 Pax, 10 Lamat, 8 Manik Selamat Balik! We return! Much is happening on your world. A great confrontation between the dark and the Light is coming to a head. This struggle has thoroughly exhausted the g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, a key cause of strokes and heart disease, according to World Health Organization figures released on Wednesday. Canada and the United States have the ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Boy, 14, charged in hanging death of sister, 9" Associated Press, May 12, 2012 RAGLAND, Ala. - A 14-year-old boy was charged Friday with murdering his half-sister, who was found hanging from a tree outsi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe court in Strasbourg said that banning inmates from taking part in elections was a breach of their human rights. Britain was yesterday ordered by European judges to give thousands of prisoners the vot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFighter jets were scrambled to intercept a passenger plane after a French woman claimed to have a surgically implanted bomb in her body. US Airways flight 787 was carrying 188 passengers and crew from Par...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Indiana teen pleads not guilty in shooting of 5" March 27, 2012 INDIANAPOLIS - A *teenager* who allegedly *shot five* other teens along the canal in downtown Indianapolis pleaded not guilty Monday to char...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoRaybon Kan’s rape jokes at the Comedy Festival offended a few people. It got them upset. It made them write posts like this one at The Hand Mirror: “Dear comedians... we need to talk about rape.” There...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoPolitical cartoon from the LA Progressive. Oil addiction generates denial The major sin of the big oil companies was to get their customers addicted, to set up lobbies to keep them addicted, and to deny th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe new French president is expected to flex his political muscles at a meeting of European leaders later, as he pushes back against austerity in the eurozone. Francois Hollande will propose a series of ...
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