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Shaded political map of Chad, 1991, produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Political map of Togo, 2007, produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Shaded relief map of Somalia, 1992, produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: Official work by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The image was released into the public domain after I e-mailed Public Relations and asked if the image could be freely distributed & edited. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- How 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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! - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 hours agoMay 24 - Lebanese security forces arrest two suspects after armed clashes in Beirut. Sophia Soo reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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. - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 11 hours agoTwo sisters preyed on at least seven vulnerable children before prostituting them for as little as $10 to men in cars and motel rooms in Sydney, police say. Police allege the girls, aged from 12 to 16, we...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoSean Carroll mentioned some developments concerning dark matter that have been discussed on this blog, too. His short text is another example of the fact that his comments are sometimes right, however rare...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA Victorian man's comment that he would "pay back" his ex-wife "big time" was too remote to be relied on as a motive for a loving father to kill his three sons, his appeal has heard. Robert Farquharson is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFour of Greece's leading banks are to receive an 18-billion-euro ($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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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/un1C9TkP7JU One man's short take-off and... landing. Vertical aviation going horizontal? John
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago------------------------------ *TUESDAY, MAY22, 2012 Permalink * *Should NATO Exist? Phyllis Bennis vs. Ex-CIAer Stan Sloan on Alliance’...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 hours ago------------------------------ *TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 Permalink* *Should NATO Exist? Phyllis Bennis vs. Ex-...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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! - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:33:27 UTC Thursday 24th May 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) NNE from Ternate, Molucc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA 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 - 14 hours agoA 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA 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 - 15 hours agoA 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 - 15 hours 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....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA 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 - 15 hours agoA 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 - 15 hours 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...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 15 hours ago...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 - 15 hours agoA 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 - 15 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA 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 - 15 hours agoA 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours agoPenang, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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! - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 hours ago** *Remember that if CSIS asks you to be an informer, or some rag wants to interview you.* *Contributor: "YYC"* *UPDATE: May 24: *Somebody is going to great lengths to quell any suspicion that Shakil Afr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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! - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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. - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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! - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 of...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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