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English: Aerial view of Fort McMurray. (From top to bottom: downtown, Grant MacEwan bridge over the Athabasca River, Thickwood) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 seconds ago*I thought I might catch the Celtics-Sixers game on the way back**.... * "TD Bank to pay $62m in overdraft fee suit" Bloomberg News, May 12, 2012 MIAMI - Toronto Dominion Bank, Canada’s second-biggest len...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 43 seconds agoI'm not a fan of Bill Maher. Believe I watched his TV show exactly twice. Generally find him irritating and inclined to make stupid jokes, but once in while he says something so right, he deserves some app...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 8 minutes ago
After a little procrastination I broke down and bought myself a new pair of work boots. I wouldn't call myself a pack rat by any means but I do tend to hang on to things longer than perhaps I should. Aft... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 minutes agoOn Twittter, JJ, The Unrepentant Hippie and I are discussing @BerthaWilsonMtn. @fernhilldammit I wonder if @BerthaWilsonMtn will brainlessly mimic hashtag #fetuswhipped #M312 Hahahahaha #BrainDamage — JJ ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 minutes ago*I may well just turn around. * *Better gas up first: * "Gas prices guzzling family dollars at record pace" December 20, 2011|By Jonathan Fahey NEW YORK - In the past, high gas prices in the United State...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes agoA total of 32 children under the age of 10 are among 92 people confirmed killed in fighting in the western area of Houla. It is the bloodiest loss of life since a ceasefire brokered by the United Nation...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 49 minutes ago*I hope you have insurance, although laughter** really is the best medicine. * "House targets health spending" May 04, 2012|Liz Kowalczyk Massachusetts House leaders released a major proposal to curb healt...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 57 minutes ago
President Obama's weekly radio address: *This weekend, folks* across the country are opening up the pool, firing up the grill, and taking a well-earned moment to relax. But Memorial Day is more than a th... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes ago
Security officials in northwest Pakistan say a U.S. drone strike has killed at least three suspected militants. Authorities say the missile strike Saturday happened in Miran Shah, the main town in the N... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes agoMay 25 - How a breakdown in communication and technology by the Nasdaq affected market makers and retail investors in Facebook's IPO. Reuters' Jennifer Merritt and Jed Horowitz on their latest reporting
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes agoMay 26 - A major highway in central Florida was closed for several hours as a bush fire raged nearby. Paul Chapman reports.
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The new mayor of Santa Clarita is a lifelong Republican. And so is the whole city council. But, as we saw yesterday, they unanimously sent a public admonition to longtime GOP congressman Buck McKeon. Thes... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoMay 26 - Hurricane Bud, the first of the official hurricane season, is downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves inland in Mexico. Jessica Gray reports.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Námo Mandos) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour agoPlanetary financial overlord Christine Lagarde helpfully informs us that she is more sympathetic to eager schoolchildren in Africa then she has for people suffering from reduced health care coverage in A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - The brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng who was reported to have gone missing has returned to his village in northeastern China, a lawyer said on Saturday. The short disappearan...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Cover of 'The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It', by Fred Guterl, published 22 May 2012.]By Fred Guterl 25 May 2012 *Adapted from *T...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 hour agoYOU DON'T WANT to be old and poor and alone, but thanks to the 1%, that's the fate for a lot of North Americans, if the fascists have their way. Our Head Fascist, Stevie, intends to build prisons for lots of...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Pedestrians walk along a footpath in front of a massive chimney billowing smoke for a coal-burning power station in central Beijing, 12 January 2012. David Gray / Reuters] By Michel Rose, with a...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour agoWhere is the rest of Canada? How about our American friends?
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour agoWestern propagandists unanimously defer to "activists" despite hundreds of UN monitors on the ground in Syria. *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 26, 2012* - Reports this week of the Syrian military "slaughtering ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - European Union leaders have given the bloc's four most powerful officials a little over a month to come up with a clearer template for euro zone integration, a pitch to persuade voters and mar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - Iran has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons if refined much further, a U....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Maybe I should stop reading the news pages and start reading the columns.* "Soaring greed at Liberty Mutual" April 18, 2012|By Brian McGrory A couple of callers and e-mailers urged me to see the company’s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoBastoy, Norway (CNN) -- Jan Petter Vala, who is serving a prison sentence for murder, has hands the size of dinner plates and shoulders like those of an ox. In an alcoholic rage, he used his brutish stre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:21:25 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 167 km (103.5 miles) Northeast from Kas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoMadrid (Financial Times) -- Spain will make an emergency €19bn investment in Bankia, the stricken savings bank, in a bold bid to restore confidence in the stability of the country's financial sector. Mad...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours ago...but in less than a week, it may finish us. Yesterday was like night and day both literally and figuratively. After having to postpone seeing *The Avengers* with my sons a week ago, we rescheduled for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago(CNN) -- An 18-year-old man was arrested early Saturday in Finland over a shooting spree that left two people dead and eight wounded, police told CNN's Finnish affiliate MTV3. Regional chief inspector Ti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago(CNN) -- Syrian opposition activists begged for international help Saturday after they said regime forces devastated a town and killed 88 people, mostly children, in a single day. "This barbaric act was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAlthough Jimmy Jones’ home was damaged in Thursday evening’s tornado, he called a roofing company to secure his neighbor’s roof after parts of it flew off. The two families had only a few moments’ warning...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAn official says a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java has killed at least six gold miners. Six other workers at the illegal mine are still missing after the landslide in West Java's district of ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoFirst of all, I give: Melky's okay. Well, he's obviously a lot better than okay so far this year, but he's enough better that I'm ready to say I was wrong about him. What I said after the trade was that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBELGRADE -- 200 households in the western Serbian town of Osečina are threatened by floods and traffic has been interrupted in the area of Valjevo. MUP Emergency Sector chief Predrag Marić says that one e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe Red Planet has been turned blue in a new image taken by Nasa's rover perched on the edge of a 14 mile-wide crater. The solar-powered robot, Opportunity, used its panoramic camera to capture Mars' lan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoHuman rights activists have told Sky News that 96 people, including 25 children, have been killed by Syrian government forces in the western area of Houla. If confirmed, it would mark the single bloodie...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoAsahi: Panel backs nuclear fuel reprocessing after talks with industry officials May 24 2012 http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201205240100 [excerpt] "A Japan Atomic Energy Commission...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSource (and more shenanigans from the Golfer in Chief)
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 47.1 km (29.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:15:46 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) Southeast fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 09:45:07 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45.2 miles) Southeast of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 31.2 km (19.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:14 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) SSW of Iraklion, Crete, Greec...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 3 hours ago*There was a cabinet shuffle in Saskatchewan yesterday. One of the ministers who lost their cabinet spot was Rob Norris. Mr. Norris has been yanked from Wall's Cabinet because Jason Kenney is NOT happy wi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 4 hours agoAmdist all the yammering about Woodworth's Wank (aka M312, or #M312 on Twitter), the question that still hasn't been answered is 'WHY?' Why do we need to reexamine this issue? As JJ points out, *things ai...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours agoIn his pogge post: "So how'd that Libya thing work out?" So I'd like to suggest that next time around, or for that matter this time around (Syria) we just keep in mind how, no matter how good the spin for ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoThis story does leave me in two minds. One, who is the UN to dictate to Canada? But the other -- the UN has a point. I have seen how insecure food in Canada is, at least in the Arctic. Poor food, limited...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoI first came across South Carolina state Rep. Ted Vick when I was investigating right-wing Democrats who joined the Koch brother's and Murdoch's shady anti-democracy outfit ALEC. Vick was one of his stat...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*Meet the 1% of the 1%*: "Persistent low interest rates, stagnant loan growth, and new rules for debit cards will crimp US bank earnings this year. * * *Really (keep reading)?* Global regulators, seeking...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 5 hours agoA friend sends along this snapshot from an Occupy protest at Harvard's commencement this week. For the record: I fully support sunshine.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago*Seafood mislabeling draws felony charges ~Advocate* *Master plan for La. coast multi-faceted ~Jeremy Alford* *Corps should settle lawsuits over levee trees* Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*I already got **out ** of the game. * "Adelson won’t seek a casino in Mass." May 22, 2012|Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff Forbes pegs billionaire Boston native Sheldon Adelson’s net worth at $24.9 billion,...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours agoNothing betrays the Calvinist-Social Credit roots of the present government more than this week's Employment Insurance "reforms." Tom Walkom writes: Behind this week’s changes to Canada’s Employment In...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 6 hours agoThe UK is home to the centre of international finance capitalism, known alternately as the Crown, or the City of London. The Establishment which controls the UK has been so thoroughly mixed with Khazar f...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*The UK cookie law is set to come into force on 26 May, legislation which nearly all online retailers think, would impact their businesses negatively. * Cookies are mainly used to modify what repeat visit...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours agoAsian News reports the following: '*Islamo-Christian violence in Minya: life imprisonment for 12 Copts, eight Muslims acquitted *The conviction for the death of two Muslims, during the assault on a Christ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoI am fedup with the EU and its placemen in national governments trying to scare us with 'what mights'. The Snow Wolf would seem to be even more pissed off with the likes of Nick Clegg. It's a very sweary a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCitigroup Inc's Automated Trading Desk had trading losses of about $20million from Facebook Inc's botched initial public offering on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc's U.S. exchange, a source with knowledge of the si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA mother has been charged with murder after allegedly killing her 18-month-old twins by drowning and smothering them, and attempting to poison their four-year-old sister to death. This heartbreaking pict...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWhen the eponymous hero stumbles on an eerie abandoned city in 2008 hit Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it may seem like a classic piece of Hollywood exaggeration. But in fact the unb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA woman has been creating a stir around New York after being seen wandering the streets topless. Moira Johnston, an activist from Philadelphia, has proved a hit with the tourists around Union Square and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn eleventh grader in Texas was thrown in jail - just for missing school. However, honour student Diane Tran, 17, is no lazy truant. In fact, she's quite the opposite. Since her parents divorced and left...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoScientists in Cameroon have warned that eating monkeys and apes could cause the next HIV. They are already tracking a HIV-like virus called simian foamy virus, and fear more viruses could spread and lead...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThis is an update from XCOR who is developing the LYNX engine system that has proven itself last year. The business of space flight needs superior engines and support technology and private ind...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoIt is easy to imagine a fish wiggling its way through wetlands to eat the vegetation. It is not so easy to find a living example of such a fish that is particularly convincing at all. The fact is...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoI suspect that it really helps to think of our minds as a system of nodes connected in a world wide web mode. Thus when we query the mind, we will find suggestions arrive from time to time. The...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThis research has uncovered the phosphorus up take pathways used in soils with scant phosphorous. It can be used in the future to ensure superior up take in hungry soils. This may seem like unn...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago*In the climate science, the answer is Yes. Why?* I count arstechnica.com among the most thoughtful sources of science news for the most well-informed non-expert readers. However, what John Timmer wrote...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago*Berlusconi (left)* Marysthell Polanco 'dressed up as Barack Obama.' This was at Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties, Reuters is reporting. *Polanco* Witnesses who attended these parties have des...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours agoWishing you all a safe and happy Memorial Day, in remembrance of those who gave all. - CP
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoA tiger in India's Corbett national park. Photo courtesy: Associated Press The problem of tiger poaching has reached critical mass in Indian wildlife reserves; and, one Indian state has had enough. Since n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Texas at a depth of 5.1 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:26 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) Southeast from Timpson, Texas No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA couple who beat a toddler so severely it was left with two broken arms, a broken right leg and a broken left foot have been spared jail because it was their first offence. Emma Cartwright and partner N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn eight-year-old boy is fighting for his life after he was shot in the head at school by his own father today. The 37-year-old man hauled his son and daughter out of their classroom and then shot the bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe State Emergency Service is warning people in Victoria's east to stay out of floodwaters after a night of heavy rain saw the rescue of several people. The SES received more than 600 calls for help ove...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoPhoto courtesy: fit'sit360.com Soda pop is a power lunch for every green, growing thing in your yard. That's because it supplies a jolt of carbon dioxide, which plants need to convert the sun's energy int...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice say a gunman in southern Finland has killed one person and wounded eight others in a shooting. Detective Superintendent Satu Koivisto said Saturday the gunman had fled the scene and police were sti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoOne person has died and three others injured following a shooting incident at a pub, Greater Manchester Police have confirmed. The shootings took place at the Cotton Tree pub in Droylsden, near Oldham. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe Government is facing an angry backlash from unions and within its own ranks over its decision to allow billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart to import more than 1,700 foreign workers to a mining pr...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 11 hours agoOn numerous occasions on this blog I've identified cross-strait organized crime as a major beneficiary of increased Taiwan-China trade (see, for example Art Theft in Taiwan and China). These links are now ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoThe cute, cuddly-looking creature of Australia is often referred to as a koala bear. However, a koala is not a bear at all; but, a marsupial. Marsupials are a class of mammals that give birth to young tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoOne of the Pope's butlers has been detained by the Vatican, accused of leaking secrets about the Holy See. The Italian media is reporting the Pope's butler has leaked confidential documents and letters f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMillions of ten-inch-long mice have colonised a 25-mile-wide island - and are decimating local bird populations. Gough Island is a remote British colony between the tips of South America and South Africa...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoWith the McGovern headquarters still a possible target -- they would do, perhaps, both McGovern HQ and the Watergate incursion while the Cubans were in town -- Gordon Liddy and Frank Sturgis go to check ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA British businesswoman accused of having drunken sex in a taxi in Dubai has been fired. Rebecca Blake, 29, wept after she was told to clear her desk by embarrassed bosses at recruitment firm Manpower Pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn escaped monkey in a plane's cargo hold delayed a fight from New York's JFK International Airport for nearly four hours yesterday. The 12-inch monkey described as 'a slippery little beast,' according to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA secret East German-style rescue package is being cooked up by Germany as the eurozone's 'engine-room' desperately bids to save the single currency. German chancellor Angela Merkel is preparing a six-poin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA rapist who beat a legal secretary and left her ‘unrecognisable’ at the end of their first date was jailed for 12 years yesterday. Peter Ramsey, 26, punched the woman to the ground, ripped her clothing a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA brave Saudi woman confronted members of the country's religious police after they accused of breaking strict modesty rules with her freshly painted nails. The woman, who has not been identified, refuse...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 12 hours agoAttention authors and maintainers of Google Chrome: ALT-E-P is *paste*, not *print*. That is all.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMembers of the Jidda Kings United all-female team in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, but no women athletes from the state will be attending this summer's Olympics. Saudi Arabia look likely to be the only nation com...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 12 hours agoEvery now and then Southern Man surfs the Craiglist singles board just to see what's out there. He even emails a few from the southernmanblog address but rarely gets a response; perhaps one in ten. This is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Church of England vicar has apologised for some unholy language on his Facebook page, his bishop said. Canon Paul Shackerley, Vicar of the Minster Church of St George in Doncaster, raised eyebrows by u...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 12 hours ago[image: 4DayCoastMay2012__232] The bad news and petition are online here: We are very concerned at Yushan National Park’s plan to introduce a double-pricing system for hikers staying at Paiyun Lodge on Ja...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA quarter of all crimes are committed by offenders under the age of 18, official figures suggest. A report has revealed that young offenders committed more than a million crimes in a single year. They we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe family of a couple killed by an illegal immigrant drink-driver have blamed Britain’s shambolic border controls. Failed asylum seeker Eduard Mereohra, 26, was kicked out of the country in 2009 but sli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHe was the man who made millions by creating one of the world's most successful internet security firms. John McAfee - co-founder of McAfee - had for many years enjoyed the lavish trappings of wealth aff...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:23:56 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (46.5 miles) Southeast from Kuche...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoUNITED NATIONS: Syrian groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad now control "significant" parts of some cities and the risk of all-out conflict is growing, UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned. Syria government...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Home Office is drawing up contingency plans to cope with a possible large increase in immigration from Greece if the euro collapses. Home Secretary Theresa May told the Daily Telegraph "work is ongoin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSyrian human rights activists have said more than 50 people have been killed by government forces in the province of Homs. Pro-democracy campaigners claimed at least 13 of those who died in shelling in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 116.5 km (72.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:59:45 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (70 miles) West ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck North of Svalbard at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:27:04 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 724 km (449 miles) NNE of Nord, Greenland No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck North of Svalbard at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:25:20 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 702 km (436 miles) NNE of Nord, Greenland No...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 13 hours agoSince being disappointed that the 'trailer' being touted wasn't for another cheesy conservative Christian horror film, I became curious as to whether the perpetrators of the 'new' Abortion Caravan, "Canadi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 120 km (74.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:30:26 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) Southwest from Paltin, Romania No Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 64.8 km (40.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:19:28 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) South of Tapachula, Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:51:25 UTC Saturday 26th May 2012 The epicenter was 102 km (63.2 miles) Northeast of Tadine, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 30.4 km (18.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:24:19 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) W...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoMichael channeled by Ron Head May 25, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages This morning we will speak of the progress being made, which you so eagerly await. Many envision a huge, almost cataclysmic oc...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago*Darling.* The person leading the opposition to independence for Scotland was once a Trotskyist and a leading member of Tony Blair's cabinet. The spooky Alistair Darling was born in London. He is t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:47:04 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 2013 km (1248 miles) South of Pue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe head of the International Monetary Fund has said she has more sympathy for deprived children in Africa than she does for the people of Greece facing poverty. Managing director Christine Lagarde compl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago"Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?" ~ Calvin and Hobbes
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThere are a few subtleties to the great euro crisis you only really pick up when you spend a bit of time on the other side of the Channel. Among them is how deeply ingrained in the German psyche is the fe...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*SCHUMANN: "Widmung" ("Dedication"), Op. 25, No. 1* You my soul, you my heart, you my joy, o you my pain, you my world in which I live, my heaven you in which I soar, o you my grave in which I have buried ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Brazil Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira, 25 May 2012. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed parts of a controversial bill which regulates how much land farmers must preserve as fore...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoWar Dance underway: Protectors ready to defend Winnemem Wintu Coming of Age Ceremony By Brenda Norrell brendanorrell@gmail.com Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/05/protectors-ready-to-def...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 15 hours ago[image: image] NZ reeds man Nathan Haines is already a jazz legend—especially now he’s increasingly playing more jazz and less dance music. But until recently he still didn’t feel ready to record a “re...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago*The Masters of Destiny To The Slaves of All Ages: Sacrifice. * "With what eyes do you think Homer made his gods look down upon the destinies of men? What was at bottom the ultimate meaning of Trojan W...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"The natural man has a difficult time getting along in this world. Half the people think he is a scoundrel because he is not a hypocrite." - Ed Howe
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*"I actually DO have a Facebook page. I didn't put it there, no-one knows who did or why. It is unvisited, like an anonymous and unattended grave, unadorned, gray and stale. But as unwanted as it is by al...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"Cosmic dust clouds dim the light of background stars. But they also reflect the light of stars nearby. Since bright stars tend to radiate strongly in the blue portion of the visible spectrum, and the int...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"The iPhone Way of Happiness"* by Chet Raymo "Humans spend a lot of time thinking about stuff other than the activity they are currently engaged in, such as things that happened in the past, things th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped in Syria had been freed and were safe in Turkey, but produced no sign of the hostages at the centre of a kidnap drama heighte...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours agoStart at about 1:30 seconds. At approximately 1:58 there is a very large light flare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMsuKDvhTd0&feature=relmfu A red glow ensues in the aftermath of the flare Hat tip: Ch...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agoIn 1958 he won the largest majority government in Canadian history.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"Honor is simply the morality of superior men." - H. L. Mencken "He does not believe who does not live according to his belief." - Thomas Fuller Isn't it curious how so many "talk the talk",...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Looks like it was a deceptive pump and dump -- as predicted**. * "Facebook’s stock slides in 2d day of trading" by Barbara Ortutay and Pallavi Gogoi | Associated Press, May 22, 2012 NEW YORK — Faceboo...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agoAlex Levin This quotation is faintly anti-German, playing to the idea that Germans are naturally inclined to obedience (not something I have noted much in my dealings with real life Germans). But I do ...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 18 hours ago*Update: A reader pointed out this May 18 story in the Georgia Straight - certainly adds some interesting B.C. context to my post! * The organization I work for here in Honduras took me along to a *rendici...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBeijing, China (CNN) -- China criticized a "woeful" human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijing's own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPortland police need the public's help in identifying three children found Thursday morning abandoned in a shed.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIstanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- A suicide bombing in central Turkey on Friday morning left one person dead -- not including two suicide bombers killed by the blast -- and 18 people wounded, the country's prime ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMiami (CNN) -- A 24-year-old Canadian man will probably face federal charges after allegedly rushing to the front of an American Airlines aircraft after it landed in Miami on Friday, the FBI said. Two pas...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours agoGainesville, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced du...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago"Stabbing victim testifies in Michigan trial" Associated Press, May 16, 2012 FLINT, Mich. - Bill Fisher pulled up his shirt in court, showing jurors the scar from his stab wound. He then pointed to a suspe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago“While there is life there is hope- and while there is hope there is life.” - E. E. Holmes
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*I hate saying I told you so, but.... * "R.I. races to save Curt Schilling’s company; Default feared in $75m loan deal" by Hiawatha Bray | Globe Staff, May 16, 2012 Curt Schilling’s video game company w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago* "A Message About Facebook From Founder Mark Zuckerberg"* by Andy Borowitz MENLO PARK, CA (The Borowitz Report) – "The following letter to Facebook users was issued today by Facebook founder and CEO,...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*Another rip-off*: "Design selected for R.I. Holocaust memorial" April 20, 2012|By Erika Niedowski PROVIDENCE - A design incorporating granite columns and simulated railroad tracks has been selected f...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"Facebook Fallout: * *A Lesson in How Wall Street Really Works"* by Bill Bonner "How do you like those wimpy, whiney investors? They lose money in Facebook. Do they take their losses like men? Nope. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago* "Borrow-As-You-Go Politics"* by Addison Wiggin "Today, let’s take a look at the “logic” of the American Empire and what you can expect in the year(s) ahead… regardless of whether a donkey or an elep...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoIf you watch closely, barely a day will pass when there isn't some scandal somewhere about a cardinal, bishop or priest raping a child or covering up the rape of a child by another cardinal, bishop or pr...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours ago*Got this in the mail today, this is an additional meditation to support the ongoing changes. -AK* ------------------------------ Hello AK, Just wanted to let you know about this : Unified meditati...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agoPA are reporting: 'Greek exit from the euro could set off a "chain reaction of uncertainty" which would result in a "grinding slowdown in economic activity" across Europe, including the UK, Deputy Prime M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 31.8 km (19.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:36:15 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 277 km (172 miles) ESE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:57:23 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21.7 miles) Northeast from S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSpain's fourth largest bank Bankia has asked for 19bn euros (£15bn) in state aid - on top of a previous injection of 4.5bn euros. In a statement, the struggling lender said it would ask Spain's bank res...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours agoThe criminal and terrorist state of Israel desperately wants to get their nice little regional war against Iran off and running. But we have seen in the last while that several roadblocks have occurred t...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoRegarding my discovery that the Senate is getting older in part because incoming recent Senators have become a lot older, which as I said earlier I had found but couldn't explain, by brother has a theory: ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoYesterday Potrblog issued a maximum alert based on unusually high radiation readings: Thursday, May 24, 2012 !MAXIMUM ALERT! Unusual Jet Stream Radioactivity Detected http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.co...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 22 hours agoYay, it's great news for everyone here in UK. According to Anya Briggs (speaking via Skype from New York in the video below), a *Rebel Faction *of the 'Corporate War Machine' has *stepped in and nullified...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:37:11 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 635 km (393.7...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours agoThe perfect storm: High unemployment - people hurting Oil companies - corporate greed This leads to states and cities opening up their states to the unknown dangers of fracking because of the financial op...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoFlynt Leverett, a former senior member of the National Security Council, *tells AntiWar Radio's Scott Horton* that the Obama administration didn't want to strike a deal with Iran, but to put on a show and ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*“The Real Federal Budget Deficit For 2011:* * 5 Trillion Dollars”* by The End of the American Dream “If the U.S. government used the same accounting methods that most U.S. businesses use, the real fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA former Army captain felt he was “untouchable” after police failed to prosecute him for two rapes and one sexual assault, leaving him free to go on and rape his fourth victim, a court heard yesterday. B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours agoLast week 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 su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThis from an article in The Sun by David Cameron promising a referendum on the EU "reform treaty" 2007 the moment the EU Constitution was dreamt up by elites in Brussels, the Conservative Party’s squadron...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoNuclear weapons just don’t make sense. Walter Pincus. Washington Post [Excerpt] "The United States has a multi-billion-dollar program to upgrade its three major nuclear warheads and a more costly effort t...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoI may have some breaking news from GW Sunday night. The meditations this month may have sped up the energetics required for the round up of the Cabal. I don't have a lot of details yet, and will be o...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoR. v. Cole, 2012 ONCA 347 holds, in considering a procedural issue arising when an accused failed to attend trial due to oversight, that a designated counsel may enter a plea in summary conviction matters:...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoSaLuSa, May 25, 2012 There are many signs that the old systems are collapsing, and it is inevitable as they have proven to be unsuitable to overcome your problems. They will need a new way of cond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSanto Domingo, May 22 (Prensa Latina) At least 60 people were hospitalized due to suspected cholera in Tamboril, a town of Santiago de los Caballeros, which required the intervention of the Ministry of Pub...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Winds and erratic flames forced firefighters to sit on the sidelines Thursday as a massive fire that destroyed a dozen homes and several other structures in small New Mexico commu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStaff at the secure mental health facility James Nash House have placed the building into lockdown as part of a dispute with the centre's management. The Nursing and Midwifery Federation says the action ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAGARTALA: As many as 19 deaths, including that of six children, were reported from tribal-dominated remote villages of Longtari Valley sub-division in Tripura's Dhalai district. According to reports, vira...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago*“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 - 1 day agoMADISON, 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 - 1 day 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 wing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoOne 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 - 1 day agoUN 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day 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!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoA 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day agoYesterday 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 Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* May 24, 2012 *House Votes Down NDAA Amendment to End Indefinite Det...
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