FAIRFIELD, CT - MAY 28: Members of the 102nd Infantry National Guard from Norwalk, CT participate in the annual Memorial Day Parade on May 28, 2012 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Across America towns and cities will be celebrating veterans of the United States Armed Forces and the sacrifices they have made. Memorial Day is a federal holiday in America and has been celebrated since the end of the Civil War. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
FAIRFIELD, CT - MAY 28: Area veterans participate in the annual Memorial Day Parade on May 28, 2012 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Across America towns and cities will be celebrating veterans of the United States Armed Forces and the sacrifices they have made. Memorial Day is a federal holiday in America and has been celebrated since the end of the Civil War. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
ARLINGTON, VA - MAY 28: People watch as members of the U.S. Army Old Guard perform a changing of the guard before U.S. President Barack Obama attends a wreath laying ceremony on Memorial Day at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery on May 28, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. For Memorial Day President Obama will pay tribute to veterans past and present who have served and sacrifice their lives for their country. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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ANSONIA, CT - MAY 29: People wait for the start of the Memorial Day Parade in the economically stressed region of the Connecticut Valley on May 29, 2011 in Ansonia, Connecticut. Hundreds of towns and cities across America will celebrate Memorial Day with parades, cookouts and family gatherings. Memorial Day, the unofficial start to the summer season, was conceived as a day for Americans to commemorate U.S. Service Members who died in every war, including current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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- What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security......all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 minutes agoOccasionally a situation will appear in the sphere of the social sciences that has all the features of a laboratory experiment. One such “experiment” with direct relevance to Christchurch has just appear...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 12 minutes agoWhile the Athabasca is the most well-known of the rivers within city limits, there are 4 others as well. The Clearwater and The Snye have been mentioned a few times on this blog and the Horse River I hike...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoEl Mundo reports that the country can no longer resist the bond markets as 10-year yields flirt with 6.5pc again, and the spread over Bunds – or `prima de riesgo' — hits a fresh record each day. Premier ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 58 minutes agoWaxing gibbous with cirrus clouds on a Wednesday evening. Photo by Bob King / Astro Bob. Moon Musings: Second Quarter Moon (May 29 - 31, 2012) By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / May 28, 2012 Second quarter mo...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 hour ago** *... another deliberate distraction from reality? * *Contributor: "YYC"* This revolting tale made it all the way from Miami to the Ottawa Citizen: Miami police kill naked man found eating another man’s...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 1 hour agoThese days, Memorial Day is meant to honor those who have performed military service, particularly those who have died doing so, but is also an apt day for remembering the horrors of war and the follies that...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*I'm sorry, readers, but time **is not on my side. * *I did my best but I guess my best wasn't good** enough. * *I guess you just got**** lucky, and I'm not ready to make nice**. * *Hey, peace sells but...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - British electrical retailer Dixons has spent the last few weeks stockpiling security shutters to protect its nearly 100 stores across Greece in case of riot. The planning, says Dixons chief Se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - Security experts have discovered a highly sophisticated computer virus in Iran and other Middle East countries that they believe was deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored Vietnam War veterans on Monday, saying the United States had learned "hard lessons" from the conflict and promising not to send U.S. troops back into harm's way ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoSuccess, at last. It's Sunday night. Their locksmith, Virgilio Gonzelez, spent the day flying to Miami and back to get the proper equipment that they would need to get into the Democratic National Committ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 hour ago------------------------------ OP-ED COLUMNIST Plantations, Prisons and Profits By CHARLES M. BLOWPublished: May 25, 2012 | Original here Charles M. Blow “Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. Th...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour agoAll photos are "screen grabs" from Health Happens Here. I am a huge believer in Food Forests. I think they are wonderful for the environment (both human and other); a great source of food that can be fora...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Sabah, Malaysia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:44:11 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) South of Lahad datu, Malaysia ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago*The 2 best bets in California next week: Lee Rogers & Norman Solomon* We've been talking a lot about next Tuesday's heroic efforts in Wisconsin to recall the one-percent's governor. How classic that DNC C...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 2 hours agoPeriodically I am asked details about myself, and I routinely answer to the effect that I cannot answer. I am not being standoffish by this reluctance to part with personal information. Rather I am bein...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours agoFrom The Telegraph: 'The Telegraph's Rowena Mason writes: Tony Blair has admitted “intervening” on Rupert Murdoch’s behalf with the Italian Prime Minister when the media tycoon was trying to buy a multi-...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours agoTrain car outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. Image from Big American Night. 'Another fine mess...' The 2012 elections won't bring progressive change If Obama returns to the White House it will be to the same mess ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoBobby1, whose highly reliable work I've cited before, has produced a graph representing rising Iodine-131 detections in the sewage sludge from Gunma Prefecture http://optimalprediction.com/wp/ The data...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago"Big things have small beginnings..."
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours agoDo you find the billions and billions of the UK debt and deficit too large to visualise? Try this comparison...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoI hope everyone is enjoying the holiday.* Greg is still playing hooky, so I've been over at Plum Line more than usual. Today I had one on where the presidential race sits now, and another on what to expect...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoCourtesy *The Tyee.*
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago*Saladin's tomb in Damascus, Syria*. "We believe that there have been fewer suicide bombers coming through Syria, and we are cautious about this assessment, but we do think that the Syrians may have ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored veterans on Monday by noting "the light of a new day" of having U.S. troops home from Iraq and returning soon from Afghanistan, while promising not to send soldi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago(Reuters) - They were dismissed as prophets of doom. Now, as the euro struggles to survive, long-standing critics of Europe's single currency are more like prophets in their own time. But when they say ‘I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoWitnesses say Chinese forces have clamped tight controls on community life in the Tibetan capital after two young men set themselves on fire in an apparent protest of Chinese rule. China says one of the p...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 hours agoAnother case of reckless journalism aimed at selling war. *by Tony Cartalucci * *March 28, 2012* - The Guardian in their piece titled, "Houla massacre survivor tells how his family were slaughtered," admi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours agoFox News has just reviewed the content of an article in Nature Climate Change: Global warming skeptics as knowledgeable about science as climate change believers, study says (Fox) ----------------------...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoSLAP CHOP THIS AIN'T. It's a piece of malware called "Flame". And what a piece it is: compared to Stuxnet, the malware that gutted the digital controllers for Iranian uranium centrifuges, a smallest-you-can-...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Tomorrow I am going down to the Town Hall and changing my registration to unenrolled. * "Mass. GOP moves to invalidate caucus ballots; Ron Paul backers cry foul" by Stephanie Ebbert | Globe Staff, May ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThirteen toddlers are among 19 people dead after a fire ripped through a large shopping centre in Doha, the Qatari government has said. Seven girls and six boys were killed after the blaze broke out at a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA grandmother who was being treated for rabies after reportedly being bitten by a dog while on holiday in India has died. The identity of the woman, who is thought to be in her 50s and from Greater Londo...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agoBlossom Goodchild - May 28, 2012 May 28, 2012 Good morning and indeed a beautiful one here in Australia. Got time for a natter?? *To engage in conversation with you when conditions allow is alwa...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours agoYep. Doug Finnson, the union's chief negotiator, says it's only because the government said it would act that CP management isn't at the table. "Collective bargaining in this country is under attack, cer...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 4 hours agoProfessor, author and World War II veteran Paul Fussell died last week at the age of 88. I first encountered his scholarly work, and still have his well-regarded book, Poetic Meter & Poetic Form, on my shel...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours ago"Middle East memo" calls for ending ceasefire and purposefully perpetuating violence. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 28, 2012* -The Brookings Institution is a Fortune 500-chaired and funded (p. 35 .pdf) US p...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours agoInadvertently got caught up in the periphery of an internet outrage last night. Didn't have a clue what was going on, but after seeing five references in the first ten tweets in my timeline to some big pil...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*He may not even win the nomination the way Ron Paul is **accumulating delegates** at state conventions. * "Mitt Romney lags with N.H. independents" by Christopher Rowland | Globe Staff, May 25, 2012 ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours agoClosing the river River closed Forest Service Forest Service with Winnemem . Photos by Klamath Media. Thank you from Censored News! Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours ago"The Weight of Liberty." Sculpture by Juliana Murcia Ortiz. Ah, irony: Sweet Land of Liberty When liberty serves the interest mainly of the plutocrats who are largely in control of this country, we no longe...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*But not over this issue*: "Results of surveys on gay marriage not reflected at polls; But votes in fall could end streak of state bans" by David Crary | Associated Press, May 28, 2012 NEW YORK - Poll ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*Well, after what happened to Mendenhall** who can blame 'em?* "Wary of fan anger, athletes largely avoid political fray" by Callum Borchers | Globe Correspondent, May 25, 2012 They are some of the best...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 5 hours agoMike Quinsey - SaLuSa, May 28, 2012 SaLuSa, May 28, 2012 For some souls who have only just awakened, their reality has been shattered and for a while they will cling to what they believed to be t...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 5 hours agoThis is a great story and may even have some practical merit. I am more inclined to think that our most effective option once in space will be to harness the prevailing Magnetic field throughout the S...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours agoAnd it appears to be state sponsored! Flame. A complex targeted virus has been discovered stealing data in the Middle East, security researchers announced today. The malware -*- dubbed Flame* -- has been ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours agoLloyd v. Bush, 2012 ONCA 349 has a useful review of the law on reasonable apprehension of bias: [24] In Chippewas of Mnjikaning First National v. Ontario (Minister of Native Affairs), 2010 ONCA 47, l...
- posted by ProfPTJ at The Duck of Minerva - 5 hours agoSeven years ago today, 28 May 2005, is the day that this blog was, in an important sense, born. The previous day the day Dan officially posted the announcement that The Duck of Minerva was henceforth a col...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoMore to Follow
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 6 hours agoEgypt's Muslim Brotherhood Joins US-Euro-Israeli Chorus for War in Syria. *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 28, 2012* - One would expect allegedly "outspoken" critics of the US and Israel to represent the antithes...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 6 hours agoTwo weeks ago, there was another good news in the health front from The Economist blog, that *"Africa is experiencing some of the biggest falls in child mortality ever seen."* http://www.economist.com/blo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 62 km (38.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:36:46 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) East of...
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- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours agoThe reportedly gay Michael Rockefeller, who died mysteriously during an expedition to New Guinea. 9 11 suggests incompetence. The secret rulers of the world carried out an operation that was quickly rev...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoRecently I finished a book, The Last Circle, that ties together arms dealers, an organized drug operation run by rogue elements of the U.S. government, covert operations, technology theft, murder, the R...
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- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 6 hours agoWHO HELP THEMSELVES. At least, that's what The Lizard Farmer believes. What a great reason to get a Barrett .50 BMG and a nice variable scope, though for less than 3-400 meters, a nice 7mm magnum or a .25-06...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
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- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 6 hours agoGenuine question. Have any of our right-wing libertarian friends spoken out against Charest's "emergency" law, Bill 78? The one that makes any "demonstration" of 50 people or more illegal if they're held w...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 6 hours agoMoments ago, I sent the following email to Louis Bachicha, executive vice-president of sales for Sealy Inc. in North America. I don't know if I found the right email for him and I have no idea if he's the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFourteen children are among 20 people dead after a fire broke out at a large shopping centre in Doha, the Qatari government has said. More to follow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:44:12 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (7.4 miles) Southwest of Káto mazarákion, G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 506.2 km (314.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:39:46 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 484 km (300 miles) NNW of Raoul I...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 6 hours agoIt all helps and sticking your tongue out at your smart phone is a great start in making medicine way more accessible. In the best of worlds coming soon to a mall near you, we merely sit dow...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoThe UNITED has just announced that African megalomaniac, Robert Mugabe, and his Zambian sidekick, Michael Sata, have been appointed United Nations international tourism ambassadors in recognition of the ...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 7 hours agoThis segment is from May 25th. Whatever one thinks of Biden otherwise, he has faced great personal tragedy in his life, and understands something of grief. I particularly like his discussion of people who ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAFP - A 10-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization said Monday, the country's third fatality from the virulent disease this year. The child developed a fever and sho...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 7 hours agoWhen asked to describe his vision of the new Dominion of Canada, John A. MacDonald famously quoted Isaiah: The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoAndrew Coyne has discerned, finally, what the Harper government is all about - of late, anyway - the economy. *The government's agenda thus has three broad objectives: One, curb (somewhat) the growth in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:39:05 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 276 km (171.1 miles) East of ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 28, 2012* *Prologue—The New York Times cares about horses:* Who does the New York Times care about? How about Gail Collins? By their works ye shall know them! To all appearances, the New York...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- A week into Facebook's debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange, its initial offering price of $38 per share dropped to $31.91. Retail investors' fears deepened as they realize they are losing a lot of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- Upon his arrival in Damascus, Syria, joint U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan called Monday for those responsible for Friday's massacre of 108 people in the town of Houla to be held respo...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Security experts have discovered a new data-stealing virus dubbed Flame they say has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a sophisti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Spanish 10-year borrowing costs neared the 7 percent danger level and Bankia shares hit record lows on Monday after the government, struggling to sort out its finances, proposed putting sovere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFive-time world boxing champion Johnny Tapia has been found dead in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home. The star fighter, whose turbulent career was marked by cocaine addiction, alcohol, depression and ru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAn MSNBC broadcaster has caused outrage by saying he feels 'uncomfortable' branding soldiers who have died in battle 'heroes'. Chris Hayes, a liberal commentator who hosts Up with Chris Hayes, said the w...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoAnyone else know the feeling?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFormer England footballer Sol Campbell has warned fans to stay away from the European Championships because they 'could end up coming back in a coffin'. The former Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur defender ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Kerry hits Romney on foreign policy; Says he is wrong to see Russia as foe" by Bobby Caina Calvan | Globe Staff, May 26, 2012 WASHINGTON - Raising his visibility as a *leading voice for President Obama ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada could once again be freed onto Britain's streets today as his bid for bail is heard. Qatada, described by a judge as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, will h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWhen angler Mark Sawyer went fishing in Cambridgeshire, all he wanted was to catch a carp. Instead he ended up with a goldfish, a roach, and a bream - but, bizarrely, all in one fish. The Frankenfish ev...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*And we are paying them for this?* "Bills in Congress seem intended for politicking Congress is producing little this election year that will become law, yet both parties are *churning out bills* designed...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Drop-off in gifts to Obama in Mass.; Far fewer give maximum as enthusiasm wanes" by Tracy Jan | Globe Staff, May 23, 2012 The number of Massachusetts *supporters contributing the maximum to President O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe British middle-aged woman facing the death penalty for allegedly trafficking cocaine worth £1.6 million into Bali has been branded a 'neighbour from hell'. Housewife Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was allege...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours agoEnjoy the view.... *BLOGS*: - Frog in a well: Feb 23, 1938: The Day the Russians Bombed Taipei. The Danshui History blog has a detailed post on the event from two years ago. I always thought it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNAIROBI — A blast that wounded dozens in central Nairobi Monday was a "terrorist" attack, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said, contradicting earlier police reports it was caused by an electrical fault...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBEIJING — Two men set fire to themselves Sunday outside the holiest temple of Tibetan [image: Link]Buddhism in the center of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, and one died, according to Xinhua, the Chinese stat...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoDisability claims are flooding in from surviving veterans of America's failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The *Associated Press* reports that about 45% of these vets have filed claims. The news has ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*I'll still be voting for her come November.* "Primary rival may distract Elizabeth Warren" by Frank Phillips | Globe Staff May 27, 2012 Massachusetts Democrats will head to a state convention next ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, insisted on Monday that "both sides" in Syria's conflict were responsible for the Houla massacre, and gave little sign that the Kremlin will use its leverage to re...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*"Travel has been a hallmark of Patrick’s second administration, as he promotes his memoir and campaigns on behalf of President Obama"* *That is why you reelected him isn't it, Massachusetts voters?* *I ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA codeine addict who contaminated packets of Nurofen Plus in a ruse to fund his habit has been jailed for 18 months. Christopher McGuire cost the manufacturers £2.5m and saved himself just £7 by placing s...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago*Times-Picayune employees to learn their fates next week ~Kevin Allman, Gambit* *An Open Letter to Steve Newhouse* *~Getting rid of the daily Times-Picayune is like closing down Galatoire's, ending Jazz F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA protester has branded Tony Blair a war criminal after storming the Leveson Inquiry hearing where the former prime minister is giving evidence. The man, who told reporters his name was David Lawley Wake...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 149.2 km (92.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:15:03 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) Southeast of Gorontalo, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Santiago del Estero, Argentina at a depth of 592 km (367.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:50:56 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) Northwest o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Rota Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 100.8 km (62.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:29:27 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Atacama, Chile at a depth of 22.9 km (14.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:22:09 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 77 km (47 miles) NNW of Vallenar, Atacama, Chil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe New South Wales Greens will introduce a private member's bill that would let victims of sex abuse by Catholic clergy sue the property trust that holds much of the church's wealth. The trusts hold bill...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*Every four f***ing years no matter who is in the office, sigh.* * * *Titled Invisible Ink because it never appeared in my printed paper. * "Is Obama spreading himself too thin with fund-raising? The pres...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*Make it a checkbook.... * "Democratic Newark mayor criticizes Obama attack Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark, a *prominent Democrat enlisted as a surrogate for President Obama*’s campaign, *criticized it Su...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*Kucinich passing the baton* Next Tuesday, June 5th, is primary day in several states, including three where we have crucial contests pitting progressive, dynamic leaders against, at best, garden variety ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours agoHappy Memorial Day! I hope you have wonderful plans to spend the day with your families. Memorial Day is actually not considered a holiday down here in South Texas. I know, I live in a crazy place. Sinc...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 10 hours agoFrom South Carolina to New Jersey to Wisconsin—and all across the U.S.—universal public education is under assault by the bully politics of education reform. In my home state of South Carolina, Governor H...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours agoWhen criminal disclosure is sought to be used in a civil proceeding a Wagg order to allow for same is necessary. Such order must be obtained regardless of the status of the criminal case -- specifically it...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 11 hours ago*Light Butternut Squash and Warm Goats Cheese Salad!* Now that the sun is coming out, it makes me want to make a ton of summery salads, and soups. The summer is all about keeping it light and feeling grea...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoErase the Border is an art project with the O'odham youth from Ali Jegk community on O'odham lands divided by the United States/Mexico border. A Project by Boston artist Catherine D'Ignazio and O'odham VOICE...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoBombay is a city with some of the best string theorists in the world (or at least the best ones among those who aren't affiliated with the most prominent U.S. schools) – and maybe the highest theoretical p...
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- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours agoThis morning bond markets continue to reflect the tensions in the EuroZone with the spread between 10-year Spanish and German bonds rising to 5.05 percentage points, this is a record difference. If you th...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago*Researchers release the initial microscope image known as Olympicene, a tiny part that resembles the five rings of the Olympics logo*. It was first completed by collaborators at the University of Warwic...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours ago*Richmond, BC poised to become GMO free* *Food Freedom News, May 28, 2012* *By The Richmond Monsanto Welcoming Committee* Need your help MONDAY, May 28, as Monsanto comes to town: A call for support fro...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago*Face book has launched a picture sharing smart phone application known as Camera. *According to Brian Blau, research director at the technology analysts Gartner, the move may surprise some, but thought ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoThere is no further information to provide from GW Hardin about immediate events at this time. He and his protege are waiting for further information to show up.
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago*Congratulations Loreen, your team and to the people of Sweden.* Loreen was the winner of the European Song Contest 2012 Final last Saturady night in Baku. http://www.thelocal.se/41062/20120527/
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 14 hours agoCobra at 2012portal.blogspot.com asked me to post this tonight. Sunday, May 27, 2012 MAKE THIS VIRAL! *RETURN OF THE GODDESS* *6-5-2012 * After the great success of World Liberation Day and even great...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoCustoms and excise officers at Ngurah Rai International Airport have announced the arrest of a British national, named Lindsay June Sandiford, for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country, an offici...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours agoThe BBC report that: 'Mali Tuareg and Islamist rebels agree on Islamist state Two rebel groups that seized northern Mali two months ago have agreed to merge and turn their territory into an Islamist state...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMoscow (CNN) -- Police detained about 40 gay-rights activists in Moscow on Sunday, alleging they attempted to hold an unauthorized demonstration during Moscow gay pride events, the police press service sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Beryl threatened to wipe out Memorial Day festivities across north Florida and south Georgia as it pelted the region with heavy rain and gale-force winds early Monday, forecasters...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours agoUrgent Warning: Fukushima Estimate of Situation*By Major General Albert N. Stubblebine* *Food Freedom News, May 28, 2012* *Estimate of Situation about Fukushima, Japan, focusing on the immediate threa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- A U.S. citizen has been kidnapped in the West African nation of Benin, a U.S. State Department official said Sunday. The official, who asked not to be named given the sensitivity of the situation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTokyo (CNN) -- Police have detained two American men as part of an investigation into the strangling death of an Irish exchange student in Tokyo, Japanese authorities said Sunday. Nicola Furlong, 21, wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAthens (Financial Times) -- Greece's public finances could collapse as early as next month, leaving salaries and pensions unpaid unless a stable government emerges from the June 17 election, according to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- Users of Sina Weibo, China's popular Twitter-like micro-blogging service, now have to abide by new rules aimed at preventing online rumors and other controversial posts. The "user cont...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSeoul (CNN) -- Watching the public execution of his mother and older brother, Shin Dong-Hyuk thought the punishment was just. They had planned to escape the North Korean labor camp they were being held in...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours agoMay 23, 2012 *TRANSCRIPT:* ** President, today I'm offering an amendment to the FDA. I'm troubled by images of armed agents raiding Amish farms and preventing them selling milk directly from the cow. I...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago*Carnicom Seeks Morgellons Patients For A New Study* *Food Freedom News, 25 May 2012* *CARNICOM INSTITUTE RESEARCH PROJECT: SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE MORGELLONS CONDITION* HOW TO SUBMIT INFORMATION FOR THE...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 15 hours agoOscar nominee James Spione discusses his film 'Incident in New Baghdad' about Army veteran Ethan McCord's life-changing experiences following a U.S. helicopter attack that killed journalists and civilians ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 16 hours ago...like a star, indeed. Listen to the pain and anguish and restrained emotion in this semi-final effort from Becky Hill on BBC's THE VOICE. To pick Vince Kidd over this girl shows (to me) that the viewing ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours agoIt appears that Obama’s apologists are learning well from Enron and Bernie Madoff. We all sat and watched the vigorous dispensing of coin go on for a full year before the politicians became a l...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours agoWe have been so busy attempting to locate a cooperative Sasquatch, that no one attempted to properly research the fossil record before. This has now been done and it turns out to be a home run. ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours agoThis is a wonderful tool and allows us to actually directly link real activity deep down to events been experienced on the surface were they could be measured. To start with, it clearly tells us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAuthorities have discovered human remains near a campsite believed to have been used by a hiker from Chicago who has been missing since October of 2010. James Nelson, 31, was first reported missing by hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMary J Blige’s charity for the empowerment of women has been hit with two lawsuits - and a long list of other embarrassing accusations. The Grammy Award-winning artist’s The Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago*Arguments in favor of finiteness are much more sloppy* I have been discussing the maximally supersymmetric supergravity and its conjectured perturbative finiteness many times on this blog. But the immedi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Oregon politician brother of a man who went missing days before he was due to inherit over a million dollars has been named a 'strong person of interest' in the eight-year-old case. Sheriff Bob Wolfe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe FBI and New York Police Department are at odds over whether the man who confessed to the murder of iconic missing child Etan Patz actually committed the crime. Pedro Hernandez was arraigned on Friday...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 16 hours agoYour blogger with Dave Taylor, back in 2010. Below: Glenn Taylor, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Chima Nkemdirim. While it’s true former Alberta Party MLA Dave Taylor never crossed a bridge he couldn’t ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAn organ is sold once an hour, the World Health Organisation has warned, amid fears that the illegal trade is again on the rise. The U.N. public health body estimates that 10,000 organs are now traded ev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAround 300 workers in Sydney's north-west have been told to hand in their tools following the collapse of the Hastie Group. The firm was placed into voluntary administration this morning after an account...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA disgraced priest who was kicked out of the Catholic church after he allegedly abused two young girls has found new employment supervising airport security screeners for the TSA. The post gives Thomas H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA woman who is nine months pregnant was abducted, set on fire and shot. The 22-year-old and her unborn baby were expected to live after the horrific ordeal on Saturday morning. The unknown attacker appar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe bicycle of missing student Michaela 'Mickey' Shunick was discovered under a bridge today more than a week after she disappeared. Fishermen found the 22-year-old's bike at Whiskey Bay on the Atchafalay...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA two-year-old girl who was found drowned in a bathtub was systematically tortured prior to her death, a court has heard. Investigators believe Koralynn Fister was raped and suffered from prolonged abuse...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTwo Canadian children who went missing nearly four years ago have been found 4,000 miles away in Mexico. Brother and sister Dominic and Abby Maryk, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, were found living under lock-a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSaucer Sam: Sgt Roland Hughes stands beside his fighter with its UFO art painted on by colleagues after he spotted a UFO that was confirmed by radar. A UFO sighting was deemed so credible it convinced a g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe murder of Princess Michael's Russian 'toyboy' could have been a case of mistaken identity, according to the politician who believes he was the intended victim. A senior official and neighbour, who dr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe murder of Princess Michael's Russian 'toyboy' could have been a case of mistaken identity, according to the politician who believes he was the intended victim. A senior official and neighbour, who dr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe man is fighting for his life in a nearby hospital after suffering critical injuries in the savage attack.
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 17 hours agoThey try a second time! Liddy is back in the Howard Johnsons, but this time they tried a more direct tactic: they signed in at the main floor security desk with phony names, took the elevator two floors hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoNot even the mollycoddled BBC has been able to escape these straitened economic times as it has been forced to get to grips with budget cuts of 20 per cent. All the more surprising then that it is still ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTory Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi was urged to resign yesterday following allegations that she claimed £165 a night in accommodation expenses while staying rent-free with a friend. Former sleaze watc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice turned away hundreds of protesters yesterday at the site of a genetically modified crop experiment. Officers prevented the activists from entering the field of chemically altered wheat, which they...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoGoogle is facing an inquiry into claims that it deliberately harvested information from millions of UK home computers. The Information Commissioner data protection watchdog is expected to examine the wor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA German girl has been rescued by Bosnian police after allegedly being held captive by a couple for eight years during which she was forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart. A neighbour who raised t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAround 70 firefighters are trying to contain a large fire in southeast London near the approach to the Blackwall Tunnel. The warehouse in Peterboat Close in Greenwich caught fire in the early hours of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoElectricians employed by engineering company Hastie Group have been told via a text message they will be stood down without pay for 28 days, a union head says. Electrical Trades Union (ETU) Victorian sec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAlmost 3,000 workers have been stood down in Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT after engineering services company Hastie Group was placed into administration. Administrator PPB Advisory said 2,700 Au...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe latest version of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” being sung by the Big-Oil Tabernacle Choir is a variant of the old favorite, “Drill, Baby, drill.” The new lyric is that we have drilled, baby, drilled (or mor...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 17 hours agoIs college too easy? As study time falls, debate rises. Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/is-college-too-easy-as-study-time-falls-debate-rises/2012/05/21/gIQAp7uUgU_story.html?w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck Santiago del Estero, Argentina at a depth of 589.3 km (366.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:07:23 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) ESE from S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAdd to the list of mortal threats to the continued existence of the industrial age another inevitable, natural event to which we have exposed the throat of our machine. You may know about the threat of ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 17 hours agoLater today or tomorrow, the Senators will vote whether to convict or acquit the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I am posting some comments below from some of my friends (all from UP), posted in their ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 17 hours agoI posted on this a few days ago. http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/reprocessing-nuclear-fuel-to-continue.html The story I reported on then: Asahi: Panel backs nuclear fuel reprocessing after talks w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe US Geological Survey has been getting things right since at least the 1930s, when it correctly identified the Dust Bowl — while it was occurring — as a human-caused, not natural, event. Few people reco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIs there anything Americans care less about than species extinction? It is as if their house were on fire, but they continue to watch TV because a) they didn’t need that stuff in the garage anyway, and b) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWhile the American president doesn’t discuss it, and the candidates vying to replace him swear it doesn’t exist, scientists working for, and under the supervision of, the government of China are warning th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFatih Birol is the chief economist for the International Energy Agency. Throughout most of its history, the Agency (like its American counterpart, the U.S. Energy Information Administration) gave short sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoLike some crazed fan-dancer, the oil industry (along with its wholly owned subsidiaries such as the US Congress) is doing its best to conceal and distract us from the naked truth. It has waved in our face...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThis is how the media deal with stories such as bee-colony collapse disorder. It is as if, on day one, they sight a forest fire approaching the city and begin to air breathless bulletins containing little ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMoney is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies. As I detailed yesterday, people do not wan...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours agoMajia here: This headline is perplexing. I don't have a subscription so I cannot get the entire story. However, the brief excerpt indicates that profits were 8.9 billion yen despite a 94% cut in the amou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning. Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks. For a small natio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWhy does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless? These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse. Governor Brown...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoYou are not going to believe how much money is being spent on our former presidents. At a time when U.S. government spending is wildly out of control, a total of 3.6 million dollars is being used to suppo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe U.S. House Armed Services Committee on Thursday adopted an amendment that urges the Obama administration to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula. The amendment to the defense auth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThree Chinese fishing vessels have been seized by North Koreans and are being held to ransom, CCTV reported on Wednesday. The unidentified North Koreans demanded 1.2 million yuan or W220 million. Accordi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTeacher's Day on Tuesday is being overshadowed by several recent incidents of violence against teachers by pupils and angry parents and generally low morale in the profession. The Korean Federation of Te...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA device that can send verbal warnings over a long distance or emit a beam of pain-inducing noise will be used in London during the Olympics, officials said. Britain’s Ministry of Defense confirmed the U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDiminishing the principle of state sovereignty is fraught with the destruction of the world order and a full-scale war, even with the use of nuclear weapons, warns Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours agoThere is a lesson here that needs to be taken to heart. All lending is local. That means that maximum profitability has to take advantage of just that. The error inherent in large banks is th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoCrime is down in Louisiana, but the state still holds the ignominious title of “the world’s prison capital.” An exposé by the New Orleans Times-Picayune found that Louisiana incarcerates more people per c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThirty North Korean officials who took part in talks with South Korea were either executed or died in "staged traffic accidents" for failing to improve relations, according to Amnesty International. The...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*The Coming Crisis, upon analysis of developing information, has determined that a North Korean nuclear test may be imminent (on Memorial day). We will update this alert as more information comes to light....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTOKYO, May 28 (Reuters) - The euro bounced off two-year lows on Monday after Greek conservatives topped opinion polls ahead of another general election, triggering covering of massive short positions on ho...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 18 hours agoTwelve-Year-Old Daughter flew in yesterday mid-morning for the summer so the apartment will be filled with sound and music and laughter and squabbling daughters for the rest of the summer. It will be great...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. can't count on Russia — a major arms supplier to Syria — to force President Bashar Assad from power, Sen. John McCain said Sunday, blaming President Barack Obama for embracing a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSpecial envoy Kofi Annan is to visit Damascus on Monday, the day after the UN condemned Syria for its use of heavy weaponry in the town of Houla, where at least 108 people were killed. Forty-nine childre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Hebei, China at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 02:22:57 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) East of Tangshan, Hebei, China No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southern Italy at a depth of 28.4 km (17.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:06:31 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) North of Cosenza, Italy No Tsu...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 18 hours agoToday we celebrate Southern Father's birthday! And now you know where Southern Man gets his dashing good looks. Happy Birthday, Dad!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 42.1 km (26.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:16:30 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) WSW of Tap...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago*Barack Obama is a cannibal president who protects cannibal banksters. * What's the difference between the *naked cannibal in Miami* who ripped apart and ate the face of another naked man, and the *nak...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*At least he didn't rub** a black boy's head. * "Romney faces tough questions on education proposals" May 25, 2012 PHILADELPHIA - If praise was what he was looking for, Mitt Romney had a hard time finding...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoThis post isn't going to be about Channing Tatum; sorry. But I was inspired to write it by a quote of his, as he talked about his new film Magic Mike, vaguely based on his own life as a 19 year old strip...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 19 hours ago*Due to a holiday in the US (& the "green" picnic we're having * *in the mountains) there won't be a Meet & Greet * *link-up this week. * * Meet & Greet will be back next Monday. Happy Memorial Day, Ever...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours agoJon Toogood, Shayne Carter, Ladi6 et al making music for adults. Which is no comment whatsoever on their day jobs. (Another one-NZ-music-post-per-day for NZ Music Month.) Content is copyright PC.BlogS...
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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*I'm not the one putting the image out there.* "What a 5-year-old’s request says about Obama’s race role; Enduring image speaks to Obama’s racial significance" by Jackie Calmes | New York Times, May 24,...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*Unfortunately, one realizes over time that the EUSraeli empire's interest in the region extends to its weapons-smuggling hub (thus explaining why the region is awash in weapons and in such terrible shape)...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago“Few butterflies have a wingspan this big. The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often named for flowers or insects, and NGC 6302 is no exception. With an estimated surface tempe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"Revealed: Hundreds Of Words To Avoid Using Online * *If You Don't Want The Government Spying On You"* By Daniel Miller "The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of ke...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours agoNATO learned from the best. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 28, 2012* - As information trickles out of Houla, Syria, near the city of Homs and the Lebanese-Syrian border, it is becoming clear that the Syrian ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*Well, they are buying up banks and movie theaters and Massachusetts businesses are moving there*: Fed says Chinese bank can buy US lender All three applications were approved after high-level talks last ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 22 hours agoWe've just returned from the Marxism 2012 conference, a weekend of inspiration, education, and revolution. I plan to transcribe all the talks that either I or Allan attended, either from notes or from au...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago*Onsite caption: "A vertiginous view of New York circa 1910. 'Broadway from Chambers Street -- City Hall Park, Post Office, Park Row, City Investing and Singer buildings.' 8x10 inch dry plate glass negativ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago"Myanmar protests put government changes to the test" by Grant Peck | Associated Press, May 27, 2012 BANGKOK - Protests in Myanmar over *persistent power shortages* have provided a *test of how the coun...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*For.... bankers?* "India struggles to balance its books as citizens lust for gold; Jewelry shops help keep wealth of clients hidden" by Shyamantha Asokan | Washington Post, May 27, 2012 MUMBAI - Kumar...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours agoNorth Vernon, Indiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 23 hours agoIt is Memorial Day weekend in the United States, and I want to first pay tribute to those veterans of the many conflicts that the United States has been involved in the 236 years of its existence. Now tha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Six Things" * by Chet Raymo "My mother was part of the last generation of Americans who were welded into a national cohesiveness by the classroom memorization of poems by English language poets - L...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Barbarians"* by Alex Noble "Some of the photos (released by the Department of Defense and ISAF overt the last few years) discuss instances of troops helping with the destruction of poppy fields. Ma...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"War Pigs: The Fall Of A Global Empire"* by Jim Quinn "Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of deaths construction In the field...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:* *THE VICTORIA ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR:* Fall rolls around once more, and, as the leaves are turning colour the colourful Victoria Anarchist Bookfair will be blowing into town...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvador at a depth of 75.1 km (46.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:52:52 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (37 miles) SSE of SAN SALVADOR, El ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Western Xizang at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:50:21 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 178 km (110 miles) SSW of Lumaringbo, Xizang (T...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago*[image: _McGrath001]This week, Dr Richard McGrath is listening to state radio!* I'm recommending readers find fifty minutes to listen to this MP3 podcastfrom National Socialist Radio, a.k.a. Red Radio, ...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoYou don't understand the power of offensive realism. From Steve Coll's *Private Empire:* Vice President Cheney seemed particularly interested in China's vulnerability to U.S. naval power. His experience o...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago[image: image] Here’s the update on tonight’s programme with our friends at the Auckland Uni Economics Group: Hi All, What is money? What are all these bits of paper we carry in our pockets, or (if we...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day agoWith the weather being ever so inviting I headed out for a short hike late this morning. I wasn't really sure where I was going to go, only that I just couldn't while away the day indoors. I decided to hea...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*They got rid of the one good candidate.* "Some Egyptians sit out election, shun candidates; But presidential contenders seek to widen support" by Kareem Fahim and Liam Stack | New York Times, May 27, ...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoI abhor the loss of life in Syria or anywhere for that matter. So many civilians have died. Lives ruined. But that has not stopped NATO previously, nor will it now. Blood feeds that organization. Like the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Ken and his wife Renea are having a baby in 3 weeks* Given Ken's exemplary military background and his commitment to our nation's veterans, we thought Memorial Day would be the most suitable day to pick ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:25:43 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4.3 miles) Northeast of San felice sul panar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhile Christine Lagarde might not care about how the Greeks deal with their financial disaster, I think she might be a little more contrite, since the IMF happily let it all happen (It's payback time: don'...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo people have been killed after a rally car went out of control on a rural Irish road and crashed into a crowd of about 30 spectators. Seven others were injured after the vehicle smashed through a fence...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 122 km (75.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:01:43 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) NNE of Calama, Antofagasta,...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoTHE ARAL SEA: trashed by the Soviets in the 1960s, it has yet to recover, if that is even possible with global warming. Now, Canada is environmentally threatened by right-wing extremists, with psychopathic g...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Gotta get things all spiffy for the vote.* * *"Anger against the country’s military rulers also spilled into the streets where a *protester was killed *late Saturday outside the Ministry of Defense. Prot...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoOh, let's talk about drugs a bit. Do you think that Democratic politicians support the status quo on drugs -- in particular marijuana -- because they really believe that it's good policy? Because they beli...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago[BREAKING NEWS: NC Businessman's Principled Stand Against Amendment One Has Cost Him Let's give this gentleman some business at Replacements, Ltd.] With the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the cos...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*The State spoke from the Almighty's vacant tower: * *1.* I am the Forever Knowing One, thy Father, thy Government, thy Savior and Eternal Protector, which gives you life and guides you to the light, to...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoA couple of days ago I left two comments on Mike Schouten's (the guy behind We Need a Law (Like a Hole in the Head) brain-twister in the National Post, in which he threatens PMSHithead that for abandoning ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoWhat's your reaction to the string of defectors from the GOP? If you disagree with them: why does this seem to keep happening, if they're wrong? If you agree with them (that is, in their shared claim that ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Saudi envoy returns a week after recall" Associated Press, May 06, 2012 CAIRO - Saudi Arabia’s ambassador returned to Cairo on Saturday, a week after he was recalled following a wave of protests against t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 28-year-old man was being questioned on suspicion of murder last night after a woman had her throat slashed in an underpass in Berkshire. The 43-year-old’s body was discovered by two brothers yesterday m...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*1.* The turnout in the first round of voting in the presidential election in Egypt was only 41%. (Financial Times, 26 May 2012) In other words, the majority of Egyptians have given a thumbs down to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 486.8 km (302.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:40:24 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 166 km (103 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Malian rebels who declared an independent Islamic state in the country's north said on Sunday they would impose sharia but not in a strict form. The National Movement for the Liberation of Aza...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US-led coalition has disputed reports that eight civilians, including children, were killed in a Nato airstrike in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said an airstrike on Saturday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTEHRAN — Iran will not halt its 20 percent enrichment of uranium, the country’s nuclear chief said Sunday on state television, backing away from an earlier offer that suggested Tehran might be prepared to...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*Source: Vice*.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:18:45 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) Northeast of San felice sul panaro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 71.6 km (44.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:05:50 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) West of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, M...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoYesterday, I experienced something that I've gone through many times in my life and probably regularly (at several "best points"): when I ride my mountain bike which has a hole in the seat and a metal ri...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day agoRock star Jack White understands how to set prices to clear markets.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"50 years on, fire still burns underneath Pa. town; Dump fire sparks gawking, conflict" by Michael Rubinkam | Associated Press, May 27, 2012 CENTRALIA, Pa. - Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:30 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) South of ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Little Caleigh was gone, and so was family’s center; It’s been 5 weeks since a 2-year-old vanished on a Rockport beach, apparently swept away with the tide. Grief, anger, and a thread of hope have defined...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Reporters and Tepco workers at Reactor No. 4 at Fukushima Daiichi, which the environment and nuclear minister visited Saturday, 26 May 2012. Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg News] By HIROKO TABUCHI a...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThis is an excellent one-hour documentary by *Alternate Focus*.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIRUT — Syrian authorities on Sunday denied responsibility for a weekend massacre in the central town of Houla that the United Nations said left about 90 people dead, more than a third of them children. ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago* * *Jiji: EXCLUSIVE: TEPCO to Back Ex-Execs in Shareholder Lawsuit Saturday May 26, 2012* "In their written complaint, the shareholders insist that the TEPCO executives neglected to take safety measures,...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau* *(1925-2012)* *To fill out the fourth LP side of their 1959 EMI recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), with Fischer-Dieskau and tenor Murray Dicki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe response by NOAA’s Martin Hoerling to James Hansen’s recent op-ed does not reflect the scientific literature. I’m traveling, so let me focus first on Hoerling’s incorrect statements — posted on this ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Obama campaign and the super PAC Priorities USA recently fired back at Americans for Prosperity, highlighting Mitt Romney’s ties to a funding source of $18.5 million in energy attack ads: Koch Industr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEven with the wettest April on record, some areas of England are still facing “exceptional” drought conditions. After two years of dry winters — including the fifth-driest March — the ground hasn’t been a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe fossil fuel industry is aggressively pushing its drill-everywhere-drill-anything agenda, which would open up every square inch of America to extraction. So what would happen if we gave the industry w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn a recent PBS documentary, the mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, Paul Fraim, talks about how flooding has become a monthly occurrence in his town, and how global warming and sea level rise are as much a daily...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA simmering trade dispute between the U.S. and China will likely come to a head tomorrow when the U.S. Department of Commerce issues its determination on alleged trade violations by Chinese solar manufact...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Department of Interior released an updated analysis of fossil fuel leases today, finding that more than two thirds of offshore leases and half of onshore leases are sitting idle — “neither producing n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Tungurahua Volcano spews incandescent rocks and lava on Dec. 4, 2011 as seen from the town of Runtun, Ecuador. Volcanos often erupt with little clear warning, and efforts to predict them rely on monit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMali moved a step closer to being broken in two on Sunday when al-Qaeda-linked Islamists and Tuareg rebels declared the nation's north an independent country to be ruled according to sharia law. The anno...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCAIRO (AP) — Three top candidates in Egypt's presidential race filed appeals to the election commission ahead of the deadline Sunday, alleging violations in the first round vote that they say could change...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's nuclear chief says his country is planning to build at least two new nuclear power plants next to an existing facility that became operational with Russia's help last year. Fereidou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHillary Clinton harshly condemns Syrian president as Obama reportedly plans to urge Putin to back a transition of power. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said the perpetrators of the Houla massacre ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"His lawyer, Harvey Fishbein, said Pedro Hernandez, the former bodega worker arrested Thursday and accused of killing Etan Patz in 1979, had a “*long psychiatric history*’’ that included diagnoses of schiz...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoNile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com May 27, 2012 *Video: Geopolitical analyst Nile Bowie explains the ongoing efforts by the West to destabilize and overthrow the Iranian government based on an increasing...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Your New Orleans Ladder just provided for 1000 meals at 2nd Harvest Food Bank! *
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 52.3 km (32.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:42:01 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) WSW of Tapachula, C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 53.9 km (33.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:34:41 UTC Sunday 27th May 2012 The epicenter was 281 km (174 miles) East of Kuril'sk, Kuril I...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Sure looked like one*: Putin names Russia’s new Cabinet ministers Putin surrounds himself with longtime confidantes *How do you say deja vu in Russian?* *Gimme something new, will ya?* "Russia launche...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*We can start you with a Sunday Globe Special*: "Bombing at Italian school kills 1; Organized crime among suspects" by Elisabetta Povoledo | New York Times, May 20, 2012 *Smells like intelligence agency...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoAn amazing article this morning on Daily Kos. Topic: A French (oo-la-la , that will piss off the Repugs) newpaper reporting on the US - GOP led class warfare. Not going to snip it – you really need to rea...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoR v. Oersted 2001 BCSC 230 is a useful case dealing with attempt. Basically you can be convicted of attempted to pick an empty pocket - factual impossibility of the offense is not a defence. That said,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man has drowned after rescuing two children playing in the sea at West Wittering Beach in West Sussex. The 25-year-old went to the aid of the children who got into difficulty after playing with a rubbe...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoThe UK coalition government is possibly the most hated government in living memory, and it is certainly a contender for the least democratic. At a time when the policies of government have pushed the peo...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoThis morning in the Tennessean – you will find an article on ALEC’s beloved Arthur Laffer - "author of annual *ALEC* “Rich States, Poor States” report, which features the ALEC/Laffer State Economic Competi...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago
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These days, Memorial Day is meant to honor those who have performed military service, particularly those who have died doing so, but is also an apt day for remembering the horrors of war and the follies that instigate and perpetuate them. We've looked at the impulse to dehumanize one's perceived enemies in the past, and sadly, the subject always seems relevant.The cognitive dissonance really is remarkable (if perhaps sadly predictable), isn't it? As we've examined before, people doing horrible things tend to come up with all sorts of "interesting" rationalizations for their actions, and the most common route is to dehumanize their victims, decide that they deserved it, or that they don't mind it being done to them. One can argue that this or that military conflict is necessary, but this sort of grotesque hypocrisy and self-deception tends to needlessly start and prolong wars.
Driftglass urges that "We Should Have a Day of National Remembrance" for Max Blumenthal's 2007 interviews of chickenhawks. Agreed.Being "pro-soldier, anti-war" normally means: given a war, the troops should be well equipped, the generals shouldn't be stupid with human lives, and the war should be fought to be won. However, the most obvious way to be "pro-soldier" is not to endanger any troopers unnecessarily. An unnecessary war, a fundamentally flawed mission, an assignment where the danger far outweighs the potential gains – none of these "supports" the troops. Being truly "pro-soldier" necessitates being "anti-war" in this sense. There are also times when it is sheer folly to continue a war. Heroism in war is to be honored, and the camaraderie between troopers in war is greatly prized, but this is because of helping one another through a horrible ordeal. There's nothing "good" about the ordeal itself. Surviving an atrocity does not somehow ennoble the atrocity. War is anything but glorious...From "War and the Denial of Loss":
Gary Trudeau satirized the "not die in vain" mentality superbly in a 2005 Sunday cartoon, which includes this line from his Bush: "Again, we'll stay the course. We cannot dishonor the upcoming sacrifice of those who have yet to die."
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