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*“They raised the range on the offering literally two days after the underwriters called around saying, ‘lower your numbers for the second quarter.’ Those two things don’t go together, ever.”* Hugh Evans,... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
MADISON, Neb. (AP) — An ammonia leak briefly disrupted operations at a northeast Nebraska pork plant and sent 40 workers to area hospitals for evaluation. The ammonia leak developed around 8 p.m. Thursday... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 minutes agoI am a strong believer that ALEC "cuts and pastes" and twists around bits and pieces of Jeffersonian philosophy until they have skewed what Jefferson said to match ALEC's distorted, extremist right win...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoMay 25 - Astronauts aboard the ISS use a robot arm to capture the first commercial space capsule SpaceX Dragon to arrive at the station. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 minutes ago
*"Contributions from parties with an interest in legislation are really nothing but bribes. Sure, it's legal for the most part. Sure, everyone in Washington does it. Sure it's the way the system works. It'... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes agoMay 25 - The U.S. assault ship U.S.S. Makin Island docks in Hong Kong amid growing tensions in the South China Sea. Sarah Sheffer reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago(Reuters) - The Department of Commerce is investigating Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp for allegedly selling embargoed U.S. computer products to Iran. The investigation was launched ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
One British man has died and another is missing after falling into a crocodile-infested river in India. The men, reported to be Ian Turton, from York, and Michael Easton, from west London, went missing d... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
UN nuclear inspectors have found traces of uranium enriched at 27% at Iran's Fordo nuclear site. The announcement by nuclear watchdog IAEA comes a day after Iran and six world powers held talks on Tehran... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes ago
A millionaire's daughter was jailed for two years today for driving looters on a late-night crime spree at the height of last summer's riots. University-educated Laura Johnson, 20, chauffeured the group t... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 35 minutes ago*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 5.25.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The big meeting, this week, in Iraq concerning Iran’s nuclear program was a big bust. The meeting, once again, ended the same way the l...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 40 minutes ago[News from all over proving my point] Members of New GOP Women's Caucus Voted Against Equality for Womenhe 24 Republican Congresswomen in the U.S. House announced yesterday that they have joined to form th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 54 km (33.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:57:56 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40.3 miles) North Gunung stol... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:14:04 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) NNW of Bologna, Italy No Reports ... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoBattle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/science/dispute-over-labeling-of-genetically-modified-food.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120525 Maji...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012* *Prediction—he won’t say a word:* As of Wednesday, even Mediaite had managed to notice the smaller part of the problem. Mediaite is a tabloidy media web site founded by the useless...
- posted by Jay Ulfelder at The Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago*This is a cross-post from my solo blog, Dart-Throwing Chimp.* A few days ago, Sean Langberg blogged about a subject that's long been a pet peeve of mine: how we classify countries when we try to talk abo...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago
Yesterday was going to be a great day. I saw a number on the scale that I hadn't seen in months. My husband only had a week left of school before he was out for the summer. It was going to be a great day. ... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: A camel stands at a dried-up sacred well near the house of herder Khishigdelger Adiya, in Mongolia's South Gobi. There's white salt where water used to flow. Camel and goat herders worry that new...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoGlenn Greenwald asks: The significant increase in support for marriage equality is strong evidence that Presidents can change public opinion with advocacy, yes? To back up a bit...Nate Silver has the very...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours agoDNA is a very effective way to identify an individual. Properly used it is almost infallible Only a few cells are needed for DNA identification, The source of a DNA sample can come from any of saliva, blo...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 2 hours ago[image: taitungpan2] *Panorama of Taitung and its basin from Rte 197.* Over at The Diplomat in its flashpoints blog, the intrepid J Michael Cole of the Taipei Times has a piece on how the F-35 can be used ...
- posted by CREEKKEEPER at BP Slick - 2 hours agoIt's been a while since I have posted here due to local demands on me at home in Tuscaloosa Al. I have to bring you up to speed on what is STILL happening in the Gulf of Mexico. *THE OIL IS STILL IN THE...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours agoViolence Erupts in Northern Lebanon As Feltman of State Department, Lieberman-Graham-McCain Amigos Clique Seek NATO Takeover of Tripoli-Kleyate Region to Advance Attack on Syria. Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D....
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012* *Epilogue—The pet dog versus the workers:* What do “private equity” companies actually do? Most people couldn’t much tell you. In yesterday’s New York Times, Julie Creswell marvele...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* May 24, 2012 *House Votes Down NDAA Amendment to End Indefinite Det...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 2 hours ago*193 just north of Rueisuei in the Rift Valley.* Conn Hallinan has another one of his pro-China pieces appearing on various progressive websites on the net. It's a good example of how people on the left ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Smoke billows from a chimney of a heating plant as the sun sets in Beijing in this file photo dated Monday, 13 February 2012. U.N. climate talks being held in Bonn, Germany, are in gridlock on Th...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours ago http://twitpic.com/9oq0yo https://wlfriends.org/ *A decision on whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be extradicted to Sweden** will be given next Wednesday (May 30, 2012), the UK Supreme ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 hours agoNeo-Imperialism by Faux-Democracy, Terrorism, and Propaganda. *guest post by Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com, * *May 25, 2012* - At the G8 summit last week, President Obama and other officials in his...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours ago*Okanagan Fruits submits GMO apple for approval* By CBAN Food Freedom News, May 24, 2012 The small BC Company Okanagan Specialty Fruits has just submitted their request to Health Canada and the Canadian F...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) walks at TEPCO's Kawasaki Thermal Power Plant in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, 22 April 2012. Toru Hanai / REUTERS] By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom M...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Smoke billows from a coking factory in Hefei, Anhui province, China, 2 March 2012. JIANAN YU / REUTERS] By Wan Xu and Don Durfee; Editing by Sophie Hares 24 May 2012 BEIJING (Reuters) – China's...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 3 hours agoLarry Summers once said that goverment is a "crappy venture capitalist." He was right.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Greenland Sea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:53:09 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 1090 km (677 miles) Northwest from Murmansk, Ru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Syrian rebels released on Friday Lebanese hostages kidnapped in northern Syria, an Islamist cleric who brokered their release said. "Thanks to God their transfer is complete..they have been ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoJerusalem (CNN) -- A racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa turned violent Wednesday night as protesters attacked foreign workers, shattered ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTokyo (CNN) -- Japan's largest utility said Thursday that more radiation than previously thought was released into the atmosphere in March 2011, in the days after the nuclear disaster that followed an ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNew York (CNN) -- Thirty-three years to the day after Etan Patz disappeared, spawning nationwide attention to missing children, a suspect will finally appear in a New York courtroom to hear criminal charg...
- posted by Jon Western at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours agoI'd write a lengthy comment on this, but with my new administrative responsibilities, I have a full day of meetings on liberal arts assessment and impact -- oh, and some kind of silly discussion on the i...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoBooks, bookstores, and New York City! Plus hip hop girls. This video has it all. Thanks to Stephanie.
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours agoPrivate spacecraft inches towards space station. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 25, 2012* - Launched May 22, 2012 early Tuesday morning (EST) from Florida's Cape Canaveral, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMiami (CNN) -- Hurricane Bud weakened slightly early Friday as the storm packing 110 mph winds closed on the southwestern coast of Mexico, forecasters said. "Some weakening is forecast on Friday, but Bud...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- In his first in-depth TV interview since his dramatic escape from house arrest, Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng told CNN about his departure from China and his continuing concern f...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoHappy Birthday to Paul Weller, 54. I'm not really a fan of the rest of his career. But I certainly am a fan of The Jam. If I thought that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was something to care about, I'd be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- France's new president, François Hollande, reaffirmed Friday during a visit to Kabul that France will withdraw 2,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012. He spoke after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- Syrian protesters spilled out into the streets after morning prayers Friday as regime forces shelled various opposition neighborhoods, activists said. Planned protests were under way in various ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours agoTHE CHRONICLE HERALD has fine editorial cartoonists, Michael de Adder, and Bruce MacKinnon. Check out the gallery, some great stuff!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Financial Times) -- Some of Europe's biggest fund managers have confirmed they are dumping euro assets amid rising fears over a possible Greek exit from the eurozone and single currency turmoil. The eur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Thirty-eight al Qaeda militants were killed in clashes with Yemen's military, local security officials said Friday. At least 15 troops also died in the violence Thursday morning in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBelfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Audio recordings locked inside a college library in the United States might help solve a decades-old murder mystery, but the release of those tapes could damage the frag...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago*T-P changes could hurt economic development* *On the New Orleans Times-Picayune ~Thomas Ruys Smith* *~Hat Tweet @thecajunboy The Times Picayune crew at Molly's, celebrating the paper's life rather than ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoShares in Spain's fourth largest bank have been suspended as the troubled lender reportedly prepares to ask the Spanish government for a 15bn euro (£12bn) bailout. The part-nationalised bank's new manage...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoThe Barritts of Santa Clarita are Republicans and they donate, modestly, to the GOP, though not much over $11,000 since they started giving money to Buck McKeon in 1997. William Barritt is a high-ranking ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe captain and second officer of a ship that caused New Zealand's biggest sea pollution disaster when it ploughed into an offshore reef have both been jailed for seven months. The Filipino officers were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPatients at the St Helens hospital in Tasmania's north east have been evacuated as the town braces for low-level flooding. Several streets and businesses are already flooded, including the hotel, a bargai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory is an 'eye' in space focused on the sun - but its scientists have found an all-new way of looking at the star that gives our planet heat and life. Don't be deceived by th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn the third instance this season, a black bear has gotten stuck in a tree. But this black bear, stuck some 40-feet into a tree in Steamboat Springs, needed some help to fall after wildlife authorities tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMolecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen - the building blocks of all life on Earth - are one of the main 'targets' of Man's missions to Mars, and key to understanding if life ever existed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn HIV-positive soldier who was forced to wear a surgical mask in court to prevent him from trying to infect others was today found guilty of involvement in a plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of so...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNearly one third of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and owe an average of $75,000 more than their houses are worth, according to a startling new report by the real estate research firm Zillow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSpy sources in Moscow today made the astonishing claim that a US undercover operation may have sabotaged a new Russian Superjet plane that crashed in Indonesia two weeks ago. The aircraft was on a demons...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 37.4 km (23.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:10:20 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 201 km (125 miles) Southeast from...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 4 hours agoIn the Middle East they have shoe throwing. The people of Quebec have taken up banging pots and pans in protests against state sponsored tyranny, specifically this is being done to protests the tyrannical ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA high school football star who was once one of the most highly-sought players in the country has had a rape charge against him dismissed after his accuser admitted it had never happened. Brian Banks, 26...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoCinar Corp. v. Robinson, 2012 SCC 25 might be seen as a rather particular decision related only to Supreme Court practice but it has a suggestion of something more generally relevant. Security for cost mot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoClaims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook's botched IPO are likely to exceed $100million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with c...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 4 hours agoThe EEOC has issued a new guidance about how the use of criminal records in making employment decisions might be illegal discrimination. Why might using criminal records result in discrimination? EEOC says...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA missing studio executive for Fox has been spotted in California with a woman, it has been claimed. Gavin Smith, 57, failed to pick his son up for school or turn up to work on May 1 and has not been hea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA fourth victim of flesh-eating bacteria in Georgia lost his leg when doctors were forced to amputate it three weeks after he received a cut in the water. The latest outbreak of the infection has left ne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThis is the tragic moment one toddler twin is carried from their home after being drowned by their mother who also smothered the other twin, poisoned their sister and tried to take her own life. The utte...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours agoThe Conservatives have now revealed their game plan for fighting seven attempts to overturn results from last May's election. There is a conspiracy afoot, they say. In a 750 page "brief," they allege th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoWest Coast beachcombers are likely to stumble across some gruesome discoveries over the next few months, as experts warn that human remains are set to reach the shore. Dozens of bones are expected to was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA man is facing a 14-year jail sentence after he spent almost $70,000 that was put into his bank account by mistake. Joseph Bucci, from Trevose, Pennsylvania, was stunned with he discovered $69,300 in hi...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 hours agoOur 2011-12 Movie Season was a strange one, as we're gravitating towards watching more series and fewer films. I also didn't have a good source for quality movies on DVD for a while. But we did see sever...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSkeletal remains found in rural Iowa in March are those of a 24-year-old mother who vanished last year after a night out with friends - but police still do not know how and why she died. Division of Crim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA sky-diving pensioner who refused to get out of the plane was left hanging precariously from her instructor as a tandem dive went dangerously wrong. The 80-year-old desperately tried to cling onto the d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoRussia's latest weather satellite has captured the crispest-ever video of our planet - with unforgettable touches such as the sun reflecting off the sea as day turns to night. The image was taken by the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAstronaut Don Pettit loves sharing his holiday pictures. Which is good for the rest of the world, because few of us will ever experience the view from 240 miles up. The astronaut's latest spectacular vide...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA drunken thug who stamped repeatedly on a young woman's head aboard a crowded tram simply because she was dressed in goth-style clothes was today facing a lengthy jail term. Kenneth Kelsall, 47, battere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA foreign surgeon who mistakenly injected a four-year-old boy with a massive overdose of a toxic chemical has been suspended. Hungarian Dr Gyorgy Rakoczy had trouble speaking English and communicating wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFacebook's chief operating officer joked about the company's disastrous public offering during a speech to Harvard Business School students. Sheryl Sandberg, 42, asked the class yesterday to click on the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:22:39 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) Northwest of Sincik, Turkey No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLondon's transport system came under fire today after a major technical failure on the Underground saw hundreds stuck in stifling carriages on the hottest night of the year. More than 770 passengers have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA woman plied a vulnerable 14-year-old schoolgirl with alcohol and cocaine before selling her to a builder for sex for £60, a court has heard. Leanne Gilder, 26, is accused of setting up the teenager to b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA gang of thugs kidnapped a 14-year-old and told his parents they would chop his head off if they didn’t pay a £40,000 ransom, a court heard. Abdal Miah, 29, Liban Mohammed, 20, Anjam Shaffique, 30, and C...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 5 hours agoA chuckwagon race in 1924 – then and now, unquestionably exiting and unquestionably cruel. Time for it to stop. Below: Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, both looking fashion...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA trainee witch has admitted beheading her three-year-old nephew on the orders of a dark arts teacher in Nepal. The 25-year-old was allegedly told her skills would only be complete after sacrificing her ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn accounts manager who left a student fighting for her life after smashing a wine glass into her neck walked free after a judge described her as a ‘decent young woman’. Pretty blonde Claire Stephens, 23...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoExecutives at the watchdog set up to monitor MPs’ pay and expenses are claiming £400 a day for meetings they hold over the phone, it has been claimed. Minutes of two board meetings at the Independent Par...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSpending on consultants by the cash-strapped Ministry of Defence has soared from £6million to £270million in only five years, a report reveals today. The spending marks a 45-fold rise over the period. An...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMore than 60,000 criminals were spared a jail sentence last year despite having committed at least 15 previous crimes. Incredibly, the figures emerged less than 24 hours after Ken Clarke said there were t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCases of suicide have rocketed since Britain plunged into recession, alarming new figures reveal. Coroners courts concluded that 3,471 people had taken their own lives last year, a rise of 15 per cent co...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoUnder Islam, land once possessed by Islam, if subsequently lost to an invader, remains land that is holy to Islam. It is especially imperative that such lost lands be restored to the rightful rule of Islam...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 6 hours agoThe Crimson reports: For a Statistics 104 final project, a group of students asked 1,035 undergraduates to gauge their impression of Occupy on a scale of one to ten, with ten being most positive. They fou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA thug travelled 190 miles to hand himself in to police immediately after watching footage of himself attacking an innocent man on Crimewatch. Christopher Riley, 23, punched Scott Huxtable on a Valentine'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoImmigration is at record highs despite Coalition promises to slash the number of arrivals. Figures released yesterday show that net migration in the first nine months of last year stood at 252,000 – the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe euro crashed to a 22-month low yesterday as the European economy took another dramatic turn for the worse. Figures showed the biggest slump in private sector business across Europe this month for near...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBank customers should be charged a monthly fee on current accounts even if they are in credit, according to a finance industry watchdog. Charges of £15 a month could be applied, allowing a fixed number of...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 6 hours agoThe puppet interim ruler of Libya, Abdurrahim El-Keib, is in London to propagandise for his pay-masters against the country over which they installed him to rule for them. El-Keib has layed a wreath of w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe former head of fraud and security for digital banking at Lloyds Banking Group has herself been charged with a £2.46m fraud. Jessica Harper has been accused of submitting false invoices “to claim payme...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours ago*...and African migrants in Israel...* In recent days, two major cities starting with a "B" witnessed futile negotiations about important topics. In Bonn, the ex-capital of West Germany, some bureaucrat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Syria's U.N. ambassador complained on Thursday that his mission is unable to open a U.S. bank account due to sanctions imposed on his country because of its 14-month assault on an opposition de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:26:24 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 174 km (108 miles) West of Por...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA Greek exit from the euro zone would set off a "chain reaction of uncertainty" that would be strongly felt in Britain's banking sector, British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said. He warned that a pos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe various Egyptian pundits assumed that public support of the Brotherhood waned after they announced their attempt to put forward a presidential nominee. With final results due to be published only next...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 8 hours ago[image: Creative Commons License] The Adventures of Limited Eating by Casey Lazonick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may b...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoTraditional germ-laden holy water font. Photo courtesy: irishcentral.com An Irish American firefighter has eased the worries of millions of churchgoers around the world by inventing an automatic holy water...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 9 hours ago*The One And Only Balsamic Glaze!* I have a bit of difficulty with dressing, in general it doesn't make me feel so great, so I try to avoid it. When I discovered Balsamic Glaze (A.K.A Crema di Balsamico) ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoThe BBC have responded rather promptly to my recent complaint: 'RE: Complaint NewsOnline Complaints Dear Mr MaybeaGoat, Thank you for your comments regarding http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-1...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Mursi supporters.* The CIA will be pleased with the results so far in the presidential election in Egypt. Mohamed Mursi, reportedly with a little help from vote buying, is in the lead. *Mursi worked a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAmerica has withdrawn $33m in aid from Pakistan in protest at the 33-year sentence given to a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden. The US Congress is holding back $1m for every year...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSeven people have been arrested, including the boy's parents, after his eyeballs were pulled out during the ritual. The incident happened in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class neighbourhood of Mexico City....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLOCAL MEDIA: CAR BOMB CAUSED EXPLOSION IN CENTRAL TURKEY, BOMBER AND ONE POLICE OFFICER KILLED More to Follow
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIran claims a recently discovered, centuries old bible will prove once and for all that Islam is the one true religion. The bible, confiscated from smugglers by Turkish authorities in 2000 is believed to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA teenager who weighs more than 350kg had to be cut free from her home by emergency services during an eight-hour ordeal because she was too big to leave the house. Georgia Davis, 19, of Aberdare in Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRangers will use commonsense in seizing domestic felines that have been deemed to have committed an offence under Western Australia's new cat laws, Local Government Minister John Castrilli says. The Cat ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoVictoria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay has questioned whether financial pressures imposed by the gloomy economy are a factor behind an increase in crime rates, particularly family violence. Overall c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA husband and father of six children went into hospital for a kidney stone and came out as a woman – and she doesn't mind one bit. Steve Crecelius says he felt 'validated' when a nurse reading his ultras...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA group of police in Papua New Guinea have removed road blocks they set up outside parliament house in Port Moresby. The group of about 40 policemen set up the roadblocks to both entrances of parliament ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAnglicare is reporting a big spike in the number of Canberrans seeking emergency help to pay for rent and food. The organisation has found a 15 per cent increase in the number of people visiting this yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Royal Flying Doctor Service is launching a program to provide dental services to remote communities in outback New South Wales. One of the flying dentists says the levels of tooth decay and disease in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 12-year-old girl allegedly lured into a child prostitution ring was scared she'd get into trouble if she didn't have sex with a 55-year-old client, a court has heard. Elia Toma, 55, appeared in Campbell...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGale force winds are set to hit Melbourne as the city is drenched in its rainiest May day in almost two decades. Harsh winds of between 90 and 100km/h will sweep Melbourne's bay areas from St Kilda to th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA parliamentary debate in Ukraine has descended into chaos with politicians from opposing parties throwing punches in a violent scuffle. The ministers had been discussing allowing the use of the Russian ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 85.3 km (53 miles), the quake hit at 06:23:29 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) WSW ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agojenny8lee/CC BY 2.0 In the beauty-treatment equivalent of leech therapy, fish pedicures allow spa-goers to have dead skin nibbled off their feet by Garra rufa, an inch-long toothless carp also known as “...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 23.9 km (14.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:36:06 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) Southeast of NUKU`ALOFA, T...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 10 hours ago19 years old (when this video was made) Eric Jacqmain, from Indiana in the US, covered an ordinary fibreglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror tiles to make his 'very own death ray'. Watch this lad ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThe Hekla event has been pinned down through tree ring dating to 1159 BC with some precision. That date was followed by a twenty year agricultural collapse in northern Europe. Tree ring dating...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoA pleasant surprise. It appears that farming sturgeon for caviar is working very well and it also follows that farming sturgeon for the flesh will not be too far behind. As this Vancouver arti...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoI can see this becoming standard operating procedure simply because it puts the inflammation response somewhat under the intervenor's control. This is a far cry from a cold compress. It will...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoSource: http://www.theinnovationdiaries.com/tag/sustainable-banking/ NEW ECONOMIC VISIONS, SUSTAINABLE BANKING: Cooperative Banking in the Aquarian Age by Ellen Brown Global Research Canada, May ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoTwo Humboldt penquins - not Inca and Rayas. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Here's a wonderful story about love. Love is beautiful no matter where it is found; and, every love should be given the support to deve...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoFurther to this blogpost I have written to AQA to ask them the question that I ended my original piece with. 'why do some people hate Jews?' Nota Sheep 07:17 to: mailbox@aqa.org.uk I understand that th...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours agoSource of the picture: http://preventdisease.com/news/12/052312_Record-Numbers-of-Pregnant-Women-Are-Refusing-The-Flu-Shot.shtml Record Numbers of Pregnant Women Are Refusing The Flu Shot According To Pr...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours agoThe JC this morning reports this: 'Education Secretary Michael Gove has strongly criticised an exam board over a GCSE religious studies question in which pupils were asked: “Explain, briefly, why some peo...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago*According to the study, carbon present in 10 meteorites, spanning more than four billion years of Martian history, came from the earth and was not the effect of contamination on Earth.* Molecules contai...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoThis is just a simple link with a comment. The BaBar collaboration located at SLAC just published a preprint Evidence for an excess of \(B \to D({}^*) \tau \nu\) decays in which it announced the measureme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Norwegian Sea at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:01:36 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 604 km (375 miles) Northwest of Tromso, Norwa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55.3 km (34.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:59:29 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) Northea...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours agoChina's Huawei has filed an opposition complaint against US firm Inter Digital with European commission. Huawei filed a complaint with the European Commission after weakening to attain a contract with th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNew 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 - 13 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWith 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 - 13 hours agoSouth 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 - 13 hours agoIt 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 - 13 hours agoIsrael'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 hours agoMilk 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 hours agoTaiwan 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 hours agoI'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 hours agoA 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 - 13 hours agoThe 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 - 13 hours agoThe 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 - 13 hours 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! - 13 hours agoPDA 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 - 13 hours agoKnow 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 - 13 hours agoWhile 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 - 13 hours 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoCambridge, 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 13 hours ago*Blog of Hilarity: *Wrestlers don't just beat each other up, often they will kick the asses of inanimate objects. It's true. It's damn true.* * *Rolling Stone: *Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys talks for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 15 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! - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 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 error-ridden Terrorism Suppression Act being a thirty-month jail s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 hours agoVillars-sur-glane, Fribourg, Switzerland. THanks for stopping by.
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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! - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 hours agoForget the masks (With apology to Emma Teitel)
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoMay 24 - Lebanese security forces arrest two suspects after armed clashes in Beirut. Sophia Soo reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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