Iran has 3 Russian-built Kilo class submarines patrolling the Persian Gulf. Iran is also producing its own submarines. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map showing ethnic and religious diversity among the population of Iran. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute agoThe names and addresses of 60 Iranian experts employed by 11 different Iranian agencies under the control of the Iranian Defense Ministry were revealed Saturday, May 12, by the main Iranian opposition Muj...( Against this backdrop an assassination campaign targeting Iranian nuclear workers....and a statement revealing names and addresses while there have been known black ops for the last 6 years especiallyMen riding motorcycles stuck magnet-bombs on the two men's car windscreens, police said. The interior ministry blamed "agents of the global arrogance", a regular term for the ...
Five Russian scientists who died in a plane crash on Tuesday had been helping Iran with nuclear secrets, it has been revealed. They were among 45 killed when the plane's lights ...)
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New cascades of centrifuges are being installed at Iran’s Fordo nuclear underground facility raising the total to 3,000 machines. All the 800 machines operating at present are devoted to the 20-percent re... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes agoU.S. plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available", the U.S. ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of s...
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With Washington sowing its discredited brand of democracy worldwide, tensions are rising within the US between the descendants of the white settlers on the one side and Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and unwel... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
South Korea's president won a promise from Myanmar to refrain from military cooperation with nuclear-armed North Korea during a two-day trip that included a meeting with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
It was Feb. 25, 1991. The sun was yet to rise on the second day of the Gulf War's ground offensive. Just before daybreak, there was a surprise encounter between one U.S. Marine tank company and three Iraq... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Israel's accelerating drive to build up its German-built submarine fleet, already the most powerful in the Middle East, is going to cost $1.8 billion for three state-of-the-art Dolphin class boats being b... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows. Scientists say the 360,000 tonnes of milk wasted in the UK e... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Taiwan is to build 12 new "stealth" warships in reaction to China's naval build-up, the island's navy announced Tuesday. Navy Captain Chu Hsu-ming told reporters Lung Teh Shipbuilding Co, a private firm,... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
I'm sure that somewhere, in a university or institute, researchers have produced an analysis that measures the rise in the number of armed conflicts as a ratio of the increase in economic instability as c... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
A typical technology of deception is to tell the truth, but not the whole truth. The coverage of the recent catastrophes at Japan's Fukushima 1 and Fukushima 2 nuclear power plants seems to be built on th... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 minutes ago
The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance's new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions. In practice, the reform will i... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes ago
The world economic depression is a dire threat to the national security of the United States. To date, little or nothing has been done to address the causes of the depression and rebuild the economy. Wi... - posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 27 minutes ago
*Please meet my newest bloggy friends, Chelsea and Danielle. I invited Chelsea and Danielle over to talk a bit about their mission (and passion). I think you'll find it very interesting.* *Balloons Blow…D... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 27 minutes ago
PDA is going to be registering people to vote and talking with them about progressive solutions to American challenges at Crosby Stills and Nash concerts across America starting next month. And they'll b... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
Know that space rock that wreaked havoc on the world in the 1998 action movie Armageddon? Well, that might have been fiction--but a new NASA study identifies about 4,700 “potentially hazardous” asteroids ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
While pregnant with her son Edgar, Melissa Wolfe followed the lead of many a cautious woman before her. She took prenatal vitamins and ate organic vegetables. She avoided dyeing her hair and using hairspr... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes agoDoes 'progressive leadership' or something more complex and sinister explain why Algeria's 'Spring' never materialised? The 'Arab Spring' of 2011 brought down autocratic governments across North Africa ...
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Cambridge, MA - The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There's never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has establ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoThe Belo Monte dam project shows the government's failure to respect indigenous rights and reform energy policy. Quito, Ecuador- It's rather ironic to find commonalities between President Rousseff's gover...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoUnless Mladic's legacy is addressed in the rest of Bosnia, the outcome of his trial in The Hague may be merely symbolic. New York, New York - On May 12, 1992, Radovan Karadzic, president of the self-procl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 46 minutes agoThe United States' standing as "mediator" of international protests is a major obstacle for OWS to have to overcome. Cambridge, United Kingdom - Where a state stands on the international scale impacts the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 46 minutes agoFrom gas-mileage standards to tax breaks for windmills, public support for "green" energy measures to tackle global warming has dropped significantly in the past two years, particularly among Republicans,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoAs far back as records go (1895), never has the U.S. strung together 12 straight months warmer than May 2011 to April 2012 according to new data released today by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCD...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoIndustry giants say their case is misguided. But that isn't stopping a group of high school students from using the legal system to make environmental demands. Alec Loorz turns 18 at the end of this mon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoGLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoThe vast swirl of plastic waste floating in the North Pacific has grown 100-fold over the last 40 years, according to a research paper published on Wednesday. US scientists warned the killer soup of micr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoAs the battle wages on over the safety of feeding antibiotics to livestock for growth promotion, a new report reveals yet another source of unregulated antibiotics in American animal feed--spent ethanol gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoThe microscopic organisms on which almost all life in the oceans depends could be even more vulnerable to increasingly acidic waters than scientists realised, according to a new study. Previous experimen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoKay Allen had just started work, and everything seemed quiet at the Cornerstone Care community health clinic in Burgettstown, Pa. But things didn't stay quiet for long. "All the girls, they were yelling a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoLast year at this time, all eyes were on Texas, where drought conditions were intensifying into what became that state’s worst single year drought on record, causing nearly $8 billion in economic losses. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 8.8 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:44:49 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) ENE of Christchurch, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoLoreena McKennitt, "Dante's Prayer" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eKUdsUH3Gc "When the dark wood fell before me, And all the paths were overgrown, When the priests of pride say there is no other way, I ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:25:56 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 604 km (375 miles) Northwest of Tromso, Norwa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 23:46:17 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 604 km (375 miles) Northwest of Tromso, Norway...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 8.8 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:47:46 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 601 km (373 miles) Northwest of Tromso, Norw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 46.3 km (28.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:39:28 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 301 km (187 miles) SSW of...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours agoFrom "The Maestro And The Diva", featuring a rehearsal performance under the great Georg Solti of ‘Frühling’ from Richard Strauss' gorgeous *Four Last Songs*. Even at half-power and just in rehearsal sh...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Crowds watched yesterday as ships sailed into the harbor for New York's first Fleet Week since the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." (photo: DNAinfo/Paul Lomax)* *"I mean, we always tried to bag a sailo...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago*Bernie Farber wrote this moving piece and with his permission I repeat it in full here:* In my tradition we are told that whosoever saves even one life it is as if they have saved an entire world, thus o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago“How much of Jupiter's moon Europa is made of water? A lot, actually. Based on the Galileo probe data acquired during its exploration of the Jovian system from 1995 to 2003, Europa possesses a deep, globa...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"To Each His Own"* by Chet Raymo "Since I wrote about Elizabeth Mayer's book "Extraordinary Knowing" a few weeks ago I've been engaged in several discussions about the possibility, or even likelihoo...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours agoResistance is futile. Everything happens on the twitter. Photo of POTUS answering questions on twitter now in Iowa #whchat twitter.com/petesouza/stat… — petesouza (@petesouza) May 24, 2012 Far as I kno...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours agoIt took four-and-a-half years to finally dribble to a close, the final result of Operation 8 and the police’s first and only use of the being a thirty-month jail sentence for the two organisers of Tame ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"A thousand reaching arms, all from the same body; all stretching together for the betterment of that body. Stretching for sunlight, clamouring to feed the collective. This innate drive is also within all...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"U.S. Sends Emergency Shipment of Negative Ads to Egypt"* Aid to Fledgling Democracy by Andy Borowitz CAIRO (The Borowitz Report – "In what it is calling a mission to support a fledgling democracy in...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours agoUN Permanent Forum John Kane, Mohawk, on sovereignty: "This isn't about a broken promise. We aren't jilted lovers." By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Amnesty Internatio...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoVillars-sur-glane, Fribourg, Switzerland. THanks for stopping by.
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 6 hours ago*Vatican Bank Head Ousted as Holy See Fights Sandal* By Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere (AFP) – 4 hours ago VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Bank ousted its president on Thursday after he failed to clean up th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoDavid Icke, “This World Is Utterly Insane!” (Viewer Discretion Advised) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzb73VIMCMQ&feature=player_embedded#! - http://beforeitsnews.com/story/ ● Rather than getting into ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 6 hours agoSecretary Salazar, Director Beaudreau Announce Next Steps for Potential Energy Development in the Mid- and South Atlantic
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours agoA government that swept into power by swallowing dead rats in its first term to deliver something better in its second should now be on notice to deliver. Expect now in the middle of that second term whe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Fukushima Reactor No. 4: * *Human Civilization On The Brink?"* by Mike Adams "The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of "insignificant" by comparison. Concerned about t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Hollywood tie-ins take Hasbro far" May 17, 2012|Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff PAWTUCKET, R.I. - Hasbro has long enjoyed success on family game night, but the Rhode Island company is no longer content with pla...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago“We’re talking about a hundred years of waste, and the state, which created this mess, is refusing to clean it up.’’ * * *No, no, no!! Not in Massachusetts, the state with the government that truly cares ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*And they ain't goin' in rever$e!!* "After fall, insurers’ auto rates up again" May 15, 2012|Todd Wallack, Globe Staff Auto insurance rates, which tumbled after Massachusetts opened the state to more co...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours agoWith Romney, you get dinner with The Donald... Seriously, send in the paramedics because I might die from laughing so hard. Taking a cue from President Obama's "dinner with" fundraisers, Willard is offer...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours agoI recall The Neighbours--with Sam Ford, Trudi Green and the legendary Rick Bryant—being a shit-hot live band around Wellington in the mid-eighties. They enlisted film-maker Gaylene Preston to “dramatise”...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago*President Obama giving a speech in a kindergarten class.* "If speech is the bank-note of an inward capital of culture, of insight and noble human worth, then speech is precious, and the art of speech ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoYou'll recall that a few weeks ago, Mike Coffman, the right-wing extremist in a neck-and-neck congressional battle outside Denver with Blue America-endorsed Joe Miklosi, had too much to drink at a campaig...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"House quietly acts to reassign Chelsea court" May 15, 2012|Frank Phillips The jurisdiction shift - which critics say is the *type of deal that for decades defined business on Beacon Hill* - sets up *yet a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago* “The Criminalization of the US Banking System”* by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer “Bankers and Forgiveness: When homeowners have fallen behind in their mortgage payments, whether because of a job los...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours agoFile this under things I never expected to see: This isn't capitalism. It's rentier theft, using the power that doctors and hospitals have over patients to rip them off. And when the result of that is a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Neuquen, Argentina at a depth of 151 km (93.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:18:55 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) NNW of Chos Malal, Neuque...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Taxpayer Supported Gambling"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The $2 billion derivative trading loss JP Morgan announced, about two weeks ago, is growing in size. It is reportedly now more than t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago* "Peter Schiff: Next President Will Preside* * Over The Economic Collapse"* by Kenneth Schortgen Jr "On May 21st, Coast to Coast AM aired a special Financial Crisis show, with several different finan...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 8 hours agoSorry I had to switch to word verification but I've been getting hit hard with spam from all over the internet. In the one and only good change in the new Blogger, all the spam comments are automatically ...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 8 hours ago*Not like they haven't been all along!* *The Obama administration is preparing a plan that would essentially give U.S. nods of approval to arms transfers from Arab nations to some Syrian opposition fighte...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Sorry I missed the race, readers*: Excitement building in soap box racers’ world *I like to lead with a front-page story I will not read. *
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoI'm a little behind on my "elsewhere" posts, but in lieu of one of those I'll mention that I've started looking at Republican Senate candidate web sites now, and wrote a couple of posts yesterday -- I foun...
- posted by Jon Western at The Duck of Minerva - 8 hours agoWith Obama's proposed $487bn cuts in defense spending over the next ten years and the potential for another $500bn in cuts through sequestrationset to kick in next January if Republicans and Democrats fai...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoForget the masks (With apology to Emma Teitel)
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoWords never "speak for themselves". They have to be placed in a factual matrix. Today's decision in Lloyds Syndicate 1221 (Millennium Syndicate) v. Coventree Inc., 2012 ONCA 341 has some helpful language i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Bracing for a Greek Exit"* by Bill Bonner "They say that breaking up is hard to do Now I know that it’s true..." - Neil Sedaka "What’s the Greek word for ‘chutzpah’? We don’t know either. But the l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 67 km (41.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:19:44 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (28.5 miles) East ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWe need you to subscribe to our magazine (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your financial help, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researching, reporting ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — As one diplomatic effort after another fails to end more than a year of brutal violence in Syria, the Obama administration is preparing a plan that would essentially give U.S. nods of ap...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012* *Kid Pareene gets his man:* Good lord. If it’s amusement you sometimes enjoy, we strongly recommend Kid Pareene’s profile of Luke Russert. Just be sure to click on the links to Ru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNEW YORK (AP) — A law enforcement official said Thursday that a man has told police that he suffocated Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy whose disappearance on his way to school in 1979 helped give rise to th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMore than £4 million worth of fake pound coins have been seized by detectives. The haul is thought to be the biggest ever in the UK and follows raids on properties around London. The Metropolitan Police...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 9 hours agoPhotos of the imminent threat to security and commerce posed by the sodden but spirited protesters are from Joe Colchic. From Gayle Price, before the deluge: Outside on the waterfront promenade below, doz...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours agoWith the "women's vote" becoming the new holy grail of this election, much attention is being paid to "women's issues." A lot of posturing going on, but this Equal Pay Act is a solid move for women's right...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago* * Pathe News has film of Hitler being extremely affectionate towards a young boy, and then handing him over to Ernst Rohm. *http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=50434 * It was in 1919 that Ernst R...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 10 hours ago------------------------------ Wednesday, May 16, 2012 02:14 PM -0700 Federal court enjoins NDAA An Obama-appointed judge rules its indefinite detention provisions likely violate the 1st and 5th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of 0.4 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 17:43:11 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) West of from Naturita, Colorado No Rep...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 10 hours ago*Spain: An Offshore Sighting (Huelva, 1981)* From the files of the GEIFO group (Grupo Español de Investigación del Fenómeno Ovni) *Case No.: 007* *Case Name*: Sighting Over the Sea, Huelva ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoMichael channeled by Ron Head May 24, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages We will now discuss the subject of the coming eclipse and the energies of June. We are sure that many of you are finding the cu...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoExcellent REad To the point - Easy to understand - we need more like this over and over adn over again. *Progressive States Network* *The Policies That Make a State"Poorer," According to ALEC* Yet one ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoA half a million signatures on a petition musta done the trick. Whenever you question that little activist voice in your head that asks you One more peition - really - you're going to sign one more petition?...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoJust try mentioning the inequality obviousness. It'll get you 30 years. And you didn't even murder anyone. Russ Baker strikes again! Something Stinks: John Edwards and a Thirty Year Jail Term? By Russ Bake...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago Photo by indyrikki Rising Tide, First Nations and Inupiat confront Shell at annual general meeting at The Hague and in London: Halt poisoning Native people and the earth By Rising Tide London Posted at ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*"Klaatu barada nikto"* Simpson is only 81 but his brain no longer serves him. More often than not his blurts out the craziest things. But since he doesn't have to run for office again, it barely seems to...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 11 hours agoSome powerful Democrats have been trying to claim lately that are donning the austerity mantle just to prove to the country how insane and intractable the Republicans are in comparison. They won't admit th...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours agoCentre for Addiction and Mental Health v. Ontario, 2012 ONCA 342 was released today. A treatment order under s. 672.58 of the Criminal Code can be makde requiring an accused to submit involuntarily to an...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThis is total nonsense. If there is any issue at all it behooves the SEC to rescind the entire offering and reverse all trades. It can be done now. Otherwise the SEC will wear it for failure to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Atacama, Chile at a depth of 25.9 km (16.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:33:49 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) West of Copiapo, A...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 12 hours agoA couple of years ago we saw the government-backed GM IPO; it was (at the time) the largest IPO ever for an American company. Last week we saw the somewhat larger Facebook IPO (apparently these days virt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 14-year-old boy who collapsed after an alleged fight at a Glasgow school has died. Police were called to Rosshall Academy in the Crookston area of the city at 11:45 on Wednesday. Euan Craig was taken ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours ago*All The Commissioner’s Men ~moosedenied* *Bringing the Tin Foil to the Brees Contract Debate ~Angry Whodat* *After the news: Today at The Times-Picayune ~Kevin Allman, Gambit* *The news was sometimes bur...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoI'm a bit late on this, but Andrew Sullivan deserves one for his takedown of a Tim Cavanaugh line about how Barack Obama is supposedly getting away with ruining the nation. I think part of this is normal r...
- posted by Jon Western at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoHow much is enough? Earlier this year, Senator Lieberman accused the Obama administration of recklessness with the defense budget and that plan to cut defense spending by $487 bn over the next decade pose...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAs an organization, Amnesty International is hard to please. Very hard. You thought your parents were demanding, your boss unreasonable and your spouse unrealistic? They’re the picture of tolerance next to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPakistan on Thursday rejected U.S. criticism over a court verdict to jail a Pakistani doctor accused of treason for helping the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) collect information about Osama bin La...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012* *Tim Noah on Mitt Romney’s conduct:* We all owe thanks to Timothy Noah for his new book about income inequality. (If only someone would *read* it!) Now, Noah has described Mitt R...
- posted by Cantoral at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours agoMexicans Protest Ties Between Politics, Media - WSJ.com: "MEXICO CITY—Thousands of students are joining a growing street-demonstration movement to protest Mexico's top two television networks, which they...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analys...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012* *Howard Kurtz takes a large powder:* On the evening of February 26, would you have wanted Timothy Smith’s job? Timothy Smith isn’t rich or famous. On February 26, he was the first...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 13 hours ago** *News, commentary, and action you can take to fight the Harper regime* *Contributor: "Relayer"* *404 System Error - Democracy not found* *NEWS:* Conservatives ask court to dismiss election case *Cons...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoTo us, they're "refugees." To many Israeli's, including Netnayahu, they're "infiltrators." In Israel's Knesset, refugees and asylum-seekers are derided as "cancer." *Demonstrators have attacked Africa...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoEven today, simply mentioning the Trudeau-era "National Energy Programme" or NEP to an Albertan is putting a match to gasoline. Yet, in yesterday's* Edmonton Journal, *the argument was made that it's now...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 14 hours agoWhat started out as musings on the health of Ontario's manufacturing sectorhas quickly escalated into a full fledged war of words between Tom Mulcair and the western Premiers. It's an important shift in ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012* *Part 4—The New York Times covers for Bain:* What did Romney do at Bain Capital? There’s little chance you’ll ever find out reading the New York Times! Indeed, Julie Creswell’s r...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoBrew a pot of coffee Pour yourself a really big mug and sit down for a long read A must read about Wisconsin and Walker in today's New York Times. *>>>>>READ IT HERE<<<<<*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:55:14 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 199 km...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoIt’s amazing to me how Florida can have so much potential voter fraud – over and over and over and over and over again – year after year after year after year after year after year Doesn’t anyone other t...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Bob Dylan, 71. A little more good stuff: 1. Brad DeLong asks some tough questions to Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein. 2. What exactly is it about Mitt Romney's experience that will make him a...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 15 hours agoThe Senate usually moves with all the deliberative speed of a snail on Valium, so everybody perked up when all of a sudden it voted unanimously to strike the word "lunatic" from the federal code. Since t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAnders Behring Breivik has said he will not appeal if he is declared "of sound mind" at his trial in Oslo, and admitted he has been affected by witness statements. He made the comments following yet anot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 32.2 km (20 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:43 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 201 km (124.6 miles) Eas...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours agoWill the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spare just one minute to remember the 11 Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics? Of course not, in 1972 they barely paused the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoIn 2008 Tennessee attorney John Wolfe voted for Obama. I did too. But that isn't all we have in common. He's dissatisfied with Obama's first term-- but he doesn't want to go backwards into the Republican...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA new massive wave of deaths among the extremely endangered saiga antelope has been registered in northern Kazakhstan, the Agriculture Ministry’s press service said on Thursday. The ministry said earlier...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 15 hours agoThe NY Times reports: An economics book used in some high schools holds that the Antichrist — a world ruler predicted in the New Testament — will one day control what is bought and sold.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours agoWe shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country. John G. Diefenbaker It is sensible to have cooperation for border secur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) - A baby beluga whale born at the Georgia Aquarium last week has died. The aquarium said the baby and its mother were getting around-the-clock care since the birth, but that wasn't enough to save t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoCHIBA, Japan (Yonhap) -- A volcanic eruption of North Korea's Mount Paektu could be similar to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the United States, a Japanese expert said, after he claimed last wee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe first eastern Pacific hurricane of the 2012 season - named Bud - has formed off the southwestern coast of Mexico. The US National Hurricane Centre said the storm is packing sustained winds of 75mph (...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoInvestigators will be back today at Arens Controls in Arlington Heights to try to determine what caused the explosion Tuesday that killed one employee and injured 12 other people, including three police o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/23 May) — Efforts of the local government to contain the spread of dengue hemorrhagic fever, which has reached the outbreak level, appeared to be an uphill battle as the number o...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago*Walker MUST NOT WIN.* Have you donated to Barrett yet? *>>>>>DONATE HERE<<<<<<< * *If Walker wins – the ALEC Corporatist agenda will go nationwide.* It does not matter what stat you live in – you need...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 16 hours ago*Spain: CE-2 in Gerena, Seville (1980)* From the files of GEIFO (Grupo Español de Investigación del Fenómeno Ovni) *Case No.: 004* *Case Name:* Sighting in Gerena, Seville (30 November 1...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoFrom Walkers potty mouth a couple of days ago, you have this: Yet, Governor Walker now says: “I’ve always thought in this state, close elections, presidential elections, *it means you probably have to win ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles at a militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal region on Thursday, killing eight people, a senior local official said. The attack took pl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMay 24 - Lebanese security forces arrest two suspects after armed clashes in Beirut. Sophia Soo reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoEU leaders agree on what needs to be done to fix the crisis, but not on how to do it. (nothing at all new there!)
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMay 24 - Chilean police clash with farmers protesting against a Spanish electricity company for extracting water. Sophia Soo reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - With most foreign combat troops set to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014, Iran is using the media in the war-ravaged nation to gain influence, a worrying issue for Washington. Nearly a third ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - The main Syrian National Council opposition group said it had accepted the resignation of its president, setting the stage for a showdown between the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and its politi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - The shadows being cast over the global economy darkened this month as the euro zone's private sector declined further and China's once-booming factories faltered, business surveys showed on Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- A woman blamed for a security scare aboard a U.S.-bound jetliner will be sent back to France and won't face criminal charges, federal prosecutors in Maine said Wednesday. Lucie Zeeko Merigot is ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoTomorrowTODAY , at Amazon.com's shareholder meeting in Seattle, *petition signatures from more than 500,000 people* -- members of ColorOfChange.org, CREDO Mobile, People for the American Way, Progressive ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- It took less than 10 seconds to bring a steel, 345-ton relic of the Cold War era crashing to the ground in the Nevada desert Wednesday. The 1,527-foot-tall BREN tower was the tallest free-standi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a nuclear submarine early Thursday at a U.S. Navy shipyard in Maine after battling it for hours, according to a statement released by the shipyard. Seven peo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- Squads of local government enforcers are operating in Chinese cities without proper supervision, often employing brutal methods and carrying out illegal detentions, a new report from Hu...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 16 hours ago*Spain: Strange Undersea Tracks in Barbate, Cadiz (1980)* From the files of GEIFO (Grupo Español de Investigación del Fenómeno Ovni) *Case No.: 003* *Case Name:* Strange Undersea Tracks i...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago*Times-Picayune employees in shock as extent of Newhouse cuts begins to emerge ~Gambit* ~Also~More with less, Charles Maldonado ~Also~ Alex Rawls, *off*Beat ~Also~ Former founding editor Jon Donley * * ~Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSeoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea appears to be ready to carry out a nuclear test whenever leaders of the reclusive state give the green light, a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFORTUNE -- Here's another example of how on Wall Street for the big banks its heads they win, tails they win. Even as Facebook's shares dropped, causing losses for regular investors, Morgan and other und...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Financial Times) -- The euro tumbled to its lowest level in almost two years as investors dumped riskier European equities amid signs that policymakers were bracing for the financial turmoil that could be...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago24 May 2012 *EPISODE NINE: WHERE THE QUEEN IS THE LANDLADY* Helen and Sylvia have encountered prison countless times as a consequence for campaigning for a peaceful world. The direct actions the women ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours agoMichael Harris writes that the Sun King is now ensconced on the shores of the Ottawa River. There he sits -- amid his munificence, surrounded by sycophants, who are eager to do his bidding. Not the leas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Financial Times) -- European leaders put off any decisions on shoring up the region's banks at a late-night summit on Wednesday despite rising concerns that instability in Greece was undermining confiden...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours agoScience Insider has printed a courageous article about the left-wing bias of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences yesterday: A Partisan Look at U.S. Science Policy The academy invited the former and cu...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 16 hours ago*Weekly Find: St. Dalfour Jam With No Added Sugars!!! * Since I have been living in the UK I have had a lot of problems finding sugar-free jams. For that reason I began to make my own jam, which I absolut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoLondon (CNN) -- Like many other 18-year-olds, Nina Siren is on the point of graduating from high school. Unlike her peers, she has spent more than half her short life fighting to prevent the destruction of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoCairo (CNN) -- Polls opened Thursday morning in Egypt for the second and final day of voting in the country's ground-breaking presidential election, even as many worried the armed forces would quash the r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBANGKOK (AP) -- Lady Gaga wants to go shopping in Bangkok - for a fake Rolex. The singer made the comment to her 24 million Twitter followers, sparking an online uproar Thursday in Thailand where some fan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe mother of the children who were killed on Tuesday rang police the night before their bodies were found, concerned they had not returned from a custodial visit. But officers did not start looking for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice in Papua New Guinea have charged the country's chief justice with sedition after a dramatic attempt to arrest him in court. A group of policeman and soldiers earlier stormed into Sir Salomo Injia's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoNorth Korea's recent comment that it has no plans to conduct any nuclear tests is merely an attempt to shake up the international community and should be met with extreme caution. "We planned to launch a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) invited only pro-nuclear people from government and power industry bodies to have a secret "study meeting" on April 24 to draft a report on the country's policy o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA preposterous scene was recently played out behind closed doors in central Tokyo. A secret meeting on Japan's policy for its nuclear fuel cycle, dubbed a "study meeting," was held in the Kasumigaseki dist...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 17 hours agoTrying desperately, pathetically, to curry the favour of its nauseatingly evil political bosses (that would be the slimy stephen harper and the Criminal Party of Canada), Canada's national broadcaster, the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPakistan's problematic relationship with the US plunged to new depths as Senators warned of aid cuts after the jailing of the surgeon who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden. Shakeel Afridi was foun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBaghdad nuclear talks between Iran, world powers hit snag; Iran says wants immediate relief from economic sanctions as part of deal to stop higher-grade uranium enrichment. Iran accused world powers on Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe 17-year-old boy shot to death by his grandmother inside their suburban home begged a 911 dispatcher for help, saying he had been shot by the woman and was going to die, a court has heard. After three...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours ago*Spain: Cases Investigated by the GEIFO Group (Grupo Espanol de Investigación del Fenómeno OVNI – Spanish Group for the Research of the UFO Phenomenon*) *Case No.: 002 Case Name: UFO PURSU...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice have ordered an investigation into the death of a mountain lion that was shot dead by authorities after it wandered into the downtown area of a busy city. The large cat was found by a janitor in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA white supremacist likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison Tuesday for a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in suburban P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA startling infographic has highlighted just how out of control the country's meal servings are - with the average restaurant portion more than four times as big as it was in the 1950s. The image, create...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 13-year-old girl and two of her friends were arrested yesterday after they tried to murder the girl's mother, according to police. Police spokeswoman Susan Rose says police were called by the victim aft...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTwo students at West Haven High School in Connecticut have been arrested and expelled after posting alleged threats to the school on their Twitter accounts. Sargent Dave Tammaro said the tweets were foun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMore witnesses in the death of Trayvon Martin have changed their stories about what happened on the night he was shot dead by George Zimmerman in a gated community in Florida. At least four key witnesses...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA young woman who was left with a permanent brain injury while working as an extra on the movie Transformers 3 received an $18.5 million settlement today. Gabriella Cedillo, then 24, was airlifted to hos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAmid a flurry of lawsuits over Facebook's initial public offering, the company’s top underwriter says it's prepared to pay back investors who were burned when they bought shares. Morgan Stanley announced...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA disgruntled man wielding a knife broke into a Kansas television station Wednesday morning and stabbed two sales employees - and it was all caught on camera. WIBW-TV in Topeka reported the man eventuall...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAbused baby Levi Mippy's mother and step father knew the child needed medical attention almost 18 hours before he was taken to hospital but did nothing to help him because of their "apathy, laziness and in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Melbourne woman whose 10-month-old daughter died after being left in a hot car had left the baby asleep in the vehicle several times before, a court has heard. Michelle Nguyen, 21, is charged with mansl...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 17 hours agoGene Zwozdesky, Alberta’s new Speaker, with your blogger and a Speech from the Throne … though not today’s. This compliment may come out sounding a little more backhanded than intended, but the Alberta L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThousands of Australian employees of Hewlett-Packard (HP) will have to wait to find out whether their jobs are safe, after the world's largest computer company announced it would axe 27,000 positions glob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoCarina Trimingham, the partner of Liberal Democract Chris Huhne, has lost her High Court privacy and harassment action against Associated Newspapers. Ms Trimingham, 44, has been ordered to pay £250,000 in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 57.8 km (35.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:07:36 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 m...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoI know it's pretty pointless and I can almost write the brush-off that I will receive but I have taken the time to complain to the BBC about the bias shown by their choice of what Israel/Palestinian storie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 57.8 km (35.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:07:36 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Red Sea at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:27:54 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 153 km (94.8 miles) West of Al-qunfudah, Saudi Ara...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 18 hours agoA reader asked me if I watch pornography. I do not, but I would be lying if I said that I have never seen any. I think that in our decadent society, it has become something of a rite of passage for boys ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 19 hours agoOn Wednesday Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid will participate to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics after Qatar's Doha and Azerbaijan's Baku were cut from the catalog. *The 15-member executive board, head...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago[image: Link] The UK double-dip recession is deeper than originally thought after revised figures showed a sharper decline in economic output during the first quarter of the year. The Office for National ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA man died in a tragic skydiving accident in South Lake Tahoe, California yesterday. Police confirmed that Robert Ranieri’s life could not be saved after divers found his body submerged under 15 feet of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHere is something you don't see every day - one ship giving another a piggy-back. This intriguing image is not a Photoshopped picture or a disaster of Titanic proportions, instead it is the Blue Marlin, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA holiday romance ended in a bloodbath with a wife and her mother stabbed to death in a scene straight from an X-rated horror movie, a jury heard today. The accused posted on Facebook hours before the do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAt least 125 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country's north, Afghan police and education officials said on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA whistleblower has accused troubled welfare-to-work firm A4e of repeatedly misusing public money as part of a ‘multi-billion-pound scandal’. A former chief auditor at the firm, which is owned by David Cam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo men jailed for raping an 11-year-old girl have had their sentences more than doubled by the Court of Appeal. Roshane Channer and Ruben Monteiro, both 21, were each originally given three years and fou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago“There are no accidents. If it's appeared on your life radar, this is why: to teach you that dreams come true; to reveal that you have the power to fix what's broken and heal what hurts; to catapult you...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo Western female doctors and three Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped by masked gunmen in a remote area of north-east Afghanistan. Officials said they were snatched while travelling on horseback betw...
- Beed, The Indian town where girl foetuses 'are being fed to dogs to hide rampant female infanticide'
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIndian abortion Doctors are feeding female foetuses to dogs to cover up rampant infanticide by parents who prefer boys, it has been revealed. The sickening practice was exposed in the town of Beed, in Mah... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn aristocrat's son has died while in police custody in Kenya after being arrested for allegedly smoking cannabis. Former Marlborough schoolboy Alexander Monson, 28, was taken ill a few hours after he wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSpain's prime minister warned yesterday that the country ‘cannot go on like this’ much longer with its current high borrowing rates. Mariano Rajoy also urged a joint European response to keep the region’s...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agoWe all know that embellishment is the gold-encrusted porn-standard of Corporate Excess and that's why the time-wasting lethargically-flapping mechanical albert that is the Corporate War Machine becomes t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA sex attacker who stalks schoolgirls has been spared jail after a judge said he sympathised with his frustration that he had never had a ‘full sexual relationship’. Andrew Jackson, 48, was told that he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDavid Cameron yesterday vowed to fight to defend British sovereignty from European judges by insisting that prisoners will not be given the vote. The Prime Minister said the ban on voting from jail was fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEurope was facing the prospect of a devastating financial crisis last night, as Greece teetered on the brink of a chaotic exit from the single currency. Stock markets across Europe plunged after the migh...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoThe BBC coverage of the alleged shooting by 'Jewish settlers' at Palestinians was front page news for the BBC news website and only today has it stopped being a lead story on the Middle East News page. No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA British grandmother who is seriously ill with rabies was sent home three times by her GP and a hospital before her illness was diagnosed. The victim, in her 50s, was bitten by a puppy while on holiday i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - Two people were killed when Lebanese soldiers stormed an apartment in Beirut on Thursday where a gunman had exchanged fire with security forces, a security source at the scene said. The sourc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe failure of the United Nations to take decisive action on Syria shows it is no longer "fit for purpose" and is becoming "redundant as a guardian of global peace", Amnesty International has reported. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley and other underwriters have made a profit of about $100 million stabilizing Facebook stock since trading began on Friday, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDefence and intelligence officials in the US have been accused of jeopardising national security by working too closely with the makers of a film about the death of Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty, dir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFour people have been injured after a fire broke out on a nuclear-powered submarine at a US Navy shipyard. Emergency services were called to the blaze on board the USS Miami which is docked in Maine on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo sisters preyed on at least seven vulnerable children before prostituting them for as little as $10 to men in cars and motel rooms in Sydney, police say. Police allege the girls, aged from 12 to 16, we...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoSean Carroll mentioned some developments concerning dark matter that have been discussed on this blog, too. His short text is another example of the fact that his comments are sometimes right, however rare...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Victorian man's comment that he would "pay back" his ex-wife "big time" was too remote to be relied on as a motive for a loving father to kill his three sons, his appeal has heard. Robert Farquharson is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFour of Greece's leading banks are to receive an 18-billion-euro ($A23.4 billion) capital injection to replenish reserves which were hit by the country's massive debt restructuring deal. The country's Fin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA group of shareholders has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, its executives and Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter in the company's IPO last Friday. The lawsuit comes as Facebook Inc stock climbs on W...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago*Lyrics in English, French and German: * * *Could there be more to this life we call "mine" than a journey through space or a story line? - More to life than the body can sense than the mind can conclu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:36:57 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 644 km (400 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 05:44:37 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) WSW of Trinidad, Colorado No Reports o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 368.6 km (229 miles), the quake hit at 05:16:27 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 236 km (146 miles) Southwest ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoYou got to read this one. I think someone's about to get arrested! http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/23/uncle-gordys-mid-week-reality-check-may-23-2012/
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 21 hours agonow, we've been hearing in recent years what an amazing thing the internet is, how it's literally EXPANDING OUR BRAINS out into the digital data realm, as if we (the users) are somehow melding with our...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Atacama, Chile at a depth of 45.5 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:51:24 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) NNW of Vallenar, Atacama, Ch...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI never quite understood that the Gaia Hypothesis allowed specific predictions. I thought at the time that the premise was self evident and a nice idea, but likely unprovable. Since then I have ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoA huge chunk of ice is positioned under up slope pressure on top of a basin that could undermine what retention exists. If as and when we have a major collapse, this mass would surely be the ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIn the end it is wise to provide natural refugia near the fields. When we relied on horses, this was well done through the multiple fence rows. Those are gone and we need to plan differently. P...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe original expectation was that a large visible impact crater would be apparent. When none was found, these other theories were proposed and discussed. Now we have found what is surely the ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoMay 9, 2012 This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It is the first of three parts. It demonstrates the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, i...
- Link: http://youtu.be/HfFkiPr9Nmw One man's short take-off and... landing. Vertical aviation going horizontal? John
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 21 hours ago------------------------------ *TUESDAY, MAY22, 2012 Permalink * *Should NATO Exist? Phyllis Bennis vs. Ex-CIAer Stan Sloan on Alliance’...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago[image: Read all about it: Pictures of the star dressed in drag appear in this week's issue of The National Enquirer] John Travolta is a Scientologist. Allegedly, John Travolta is gay. John Travolta marr...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours agoDennis Reveals A Menace NATO Talks a Sham By Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Reader Supported News 22 May 2012 he North Atlantic Treaty Organization is *not* a benevolent organization. NATO is *not* about the North...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 22 hours agoTalk to anyone who is in the business of selling archery equipment and they will tell you that archery equipment sales are through the roof. Why? We blame the film and book industries (and Disney). Books ...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 22 hours agoYou may have noticed this blogs popularity has gone up and recently breached the 1 million hit mark. According to our stats from April 2011 and April 2012 the popularity of Lilith News is up 30%. Month to...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 22 hours agoFacebook's vastly anticipated IPO (Initial Public Offering) on the stock market caused a lot of buzz amongst people who normally don't purchase stocks. Fans of Facebook were lining up at virtual stock trad...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 22 hours ago------------------------------ *TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 Permalink* *Should NATO Exist? Phyllis Bennis vs. Ex-...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoSo what do you call a government that actively seeks to allow the security forces of a foreign power to operate with impunity within the country it governs? I'm too tired tonight to say something really ins...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago*Hollywood magicians seek to invent reality and transform Obama into a war hero. We must not let them.* "But there’s one type of leak of classified information that the White House not only approves o...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoAmericans Pay $1 Trillion a Year for War and 'Security' - Why? By Chris Hellman, Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch 23 May 12 [excerpted] ...In fact, with projected cuts added in, the national security budget i...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoMajia here: This post is a follow up from yesterday's post on genetic mutations and ionizing radiation http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/burdening-species-with-genetic.html Today I examined some UN r...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 23 hours agoAh, the ability to stare one in the eyes and boldly lie your face off, Stephen Harper`s team is full of these spineless losers.. Last week when it was revealed that Harper dictated shuttering the busiest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBlack carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, both humanmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics furthe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: Snow in April / UK WASHINGTON (AP) — Unseasonable weather pushed last month to the fifth warmest April on record worldwide, federal weather statistics show. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTalks 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 - 1 day agoI 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! - 1 day 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...
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