DALLAS, TX - NOVEMBER 22: Richard Sheridan carries a sign on the 48th anniversary of JFK's assassination in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 2011 in Dallas, Texas. The 48th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy as he rode in a Presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza, will be marked on November 22. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Northern Itay at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:25:51 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) Southeast of Concordia Sulla Secc... - posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 6 minutes ago
JFK narrates this powerful demonstration of freedom to Occupy Ball-Parks! *Related Topics...* * * *organ trafficking* * * ***Levy Rosenbaum Convicted of Organ Trafficking* *Ten people [yiddish khazars ac... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Bulgaria at a depth of 7.9 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:23:31 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) West of SOFIA, Bulgaria No Reports of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has not handed the Shiga Prefectural Government predictions on the spread of radiation for 2 1/2 months despite requests from the ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes agoLos Angeles County sheriff's deputies are investigating a complaint that Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber roughed up a man who was taking pictures of the performer at a suburban shopping centre, police...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoFears mount over Madrid's ability to shore up its banking sector Spain seemed to be moving closer to an official bailout yesterday as the country's borrowing costs soared and doubts over the ability of the...
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A 5.8-magnitude earthquake has hit northeast Italy - a region struck 10 days ago by a quake which killed six people and left thousands in tents. Early reports said one person was dead and four others woun... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoMay 28 - A fire at an upscale Doha mall killed 19 foreigners, including 13 children. Deborah Gembara reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoMay 28 - Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq's headquarters were attacked by protesters as his opponents held rallies against him in Tahrir Square.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago(Reuters) - Hiroshi Kosaka has an unorthodox pitch for his realty business: instead of pictures of swanky condominiums his website features Japanese debt statistics and budget meltdown scenarios usually l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago(Reuters) - When Israeli economists contemplate their country's untapped natural gas finds far out in the Mediterranean, they dream of energy independence and lucrative export deals. Those charged with I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes ago(Reuters) - Returning from an annual European trade show last month on a flight packed with successful Irish retailers, Ian Martin felt his country's battered economy might finally be turning around. A s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes ago(Reuters) - An earthquake was felt through much of northern Italy on Tuesday, just over a week after a tremor struck the region killing seven people and destroying or damaging hundreds of buildings. Itali...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago(Reuters) - Demonstrators furious that Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister made it into the run-off for Egypt's presidential election set ablaze his campaign headquarters on Monday, witnesses said, unders...
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The federal government is expelling two Syrian diplomats from Australia following a massacre in the town of Houla. Foreign Minister Bob Carr says Syrian Charge d'Affairs Jawdat Ali and another diplomat h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
(Reuters) - The second highest al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan was killed in a weekend airstrike in the country's volatile east near the border with Pakistan, NATO-led forces said on Tuesday. Saudi Sakhr a... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co has sold an estimated $25 billion of profitable securities in an effort to prop up earnings after suffering trading losses tied to the bank's now-infamous "London Whale," c... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
A paedophile who abused two girls throughout their childhood years has been sentenced to at least 15 years in jail. The sentencing judge has described the man's crimes as "grotesque". The Adelaide Distric... - posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 46 minutes ago
RightsCon Rio: Send us your questions! *Here is your chance to help shape the debate on the future of your internet.* On May 31 and June 1, Access will be hosting the Rio de Janeiro Human Rights and T... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes ago
The sex industry has traditionally been considered a non-cyclical activity, or one that becomes more profitable during bad economic times. But times have gotten so tough in Greece that its once booming se... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes agoWASHINGTON (AFP) - US and South Korean special forces have been parachuting into North Korea to gather intelligence about underground military installations, a US officer has said in comments carried in U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes agoThe Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has reached an agreement with a subsidiary of the collapsed Hastie Group, which should enable hundreds of workers to access their entitlements. The Hastie Group went Abo...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago*Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, two male royal servants in Egypt. * Thirteen out of the first fourteen Roman Emperors were bisexual or gay. Nero married a man called Pythagoras and then a man called Sporus. ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour ago* * * * *Lloyd's of London preparing for euro collapse* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9292511/Lloyds-of-London-preparing-for-euro-collapse.html By Andrew Cave 2:50PM BST 27 May 201...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(CNN) -- A pilot and passenger were killed as two small planes collided in the air above Fauquier County, Virginia, on Monday, the FAA and Virginia State Police told CNN. The midair collision happened ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(CNN) -- Canadian authorities are investigating reports that debris fell Monday from a troubled airliner and caused damage to vehicles in southern Ontario. The incident centers on Air Canada Flight 001, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(CNN) -- The Colombian defense ministry will cease all military operations in an area of the country Tuesday evening ahead of the release of French journalist Romeo Langlois, Red Cross officials said. La...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(CNN) -- According to Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, it is payback time for Greece. Despite being forced to "clarify" her comments after a furious reaction from ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 hour ago*Austrian director Michael Haneke has selected the Cannes pictures festival's top reward for the second time. *Haneke's movie paying attentionon an aged couple whose association is experienced when the w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoProtesters say the Tinaya copper mine owned by Xstrata plc is contaminating local water supplies and sickening animals. Peru's government has declared a 30-day state of emergency in a highland province af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA law banning so-called "homosexual propaganda" in Russia could be introduced nationally after it is debated in parliament next month. Critics, who include high-profile stars such as Madonna, say the law ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Northern Itay at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 07:00:03 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) NNW from Bologna, Italy No Repor...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 hour ago*According to the researchers, a composite targeted cyber-attack that collected private facts from countries such as Israel and Iran has been revealed*. It is the one of the most complex threats ever rev...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours agoWe just learned something very important in terms of the management of gene expression. Importantly, it is an ongoing process that can also be plausibly managed by the organism to achieve results. ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours agoThis is a delightful item in which another unexpected species response successfully to a marginal existence by adapting to a new food supply. I do not think that the geranium is native to England ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours agoChina is presently passing into a period of long overdue consolidation and slower growth. In a way, much is built and it is time to manage it all properly. As this article points out, China is still a...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 2 hours agoDavid Lawley-Wakelin is the man responsible for yesterday's Leveson Inquiry intrusion where he accused ex-Labour prime minister Tony Blair of colluding with bankers JP Morgan for the deal on Iraq, content ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 2 hours agoPostMedia CEO Paul Godfrey holds a translation of his memorandum to the chain’s newspaper staff yesterday. Warning, senior Canadian newspaper executives may not appear exactly as illustrated, or as below....
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours agoOn Monday, American particle phenomenologists celebrated the Stop Squark Memorial Day. Their publication of three extremely similar papers on the search for light stop squarks could be viewed as circums...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours agoMay 28, 2012 Quebec's university student federation has confirmed it will return to negotiations with provincial authorities on Monday. The talks over tuition fees stalled over a month ago, sparking a w...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoE*nenews is reporting on radiation-contaminated tuna caught off San Diego* CNN: All 15 bluefin tuna samples off California had Fukushima radiation… back in AUGUST 2011 — “This year’s fish are going to be...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours agoPneumonia Vaccine Shown to Actually Increase Bacterial Infections It Is Supposed to Prevent *By Dr. Mercola* It's estimated that nearly one in 7 U.S. adults have been diagnosed with sinusitis in the...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours agoMay 21, 2012 This is a powerful production by Tim Watts, the co-host of The Freedom Link radio broadcast on The Orion Talk Radio Network. A great informational and inspirational video to present to peo...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 2 hours ago** * (VISITING WITH HERMAN: From left to right are Herman's sister Vicki Wallace, Herman Wallace, Jackie Sumell, Emily Posner, Angad Bhalla. Emily reports that "our group visited with Herman for the full...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours agoDevils Kitchen has the explanation: 'The simple fact is that the people of the Developed Nations have selfishly continued to vote for politicians who promise to give them more of other people's money. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA police officer's fight for life was captured on camera as he shot a robbery suspect who stole his baton and attacked him with it. The attack took place in west Philadelphia on Saturday after a police o...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 2 hours agoNorthern blue fin tuna. Photo via: TreeHugger.com It's been more than a year since an earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered tsunamis and the nation was brought to the brink of nuclear disaster, but ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA drug cartel lieutenant has been arrested over a series of firebomb attacks on Mexican potato-chip company Sabritas, a subsidiary of U.S. food giant PepsiCo. The gang-related bombings are believed to be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA Harrisburg City police officer accidentally shot his wife in the buttocks over the weekend. According to officials, the officer fired a shot at around 6am on Saturday morning along the 1400 block of Wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAs Tropical Storm Beryl moves across the Atlantic, tens of thousands of people were left without power as beach vacations and some Memorial Day remembrance services were drenched. Though winds raged to 70...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 hours agoTomatoes ripening on the vine. Photo courtesy: Ajith_chatie/CC BY 2.0 If you have ever grown tomatoes in your backyard, ideally from heritage seeds, harvesting each plump red fruit at the height of ripenes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 42.4 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:07:36 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122 miles) ENE of Anataha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA chilling photo of dozens of climbers making their way up Mount Everest shows a deadly traffic jam at 30,000 feet. Mountaineering experts believe a similar bottleneck at the Hillary Step, a 40-foot rock...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAssassins backed by Iran targeted US diplomats in Azerbaijan, planning to kill them and their families with car bombs and silenced sniper rifles, a new government report reveals. The foiled plot, which a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA teenager accused of stabbing and beating his ex-girlfriend to death and then setting her house on fire has been arrested. Jarod Lane, 19, who was named as a person of interest in the murder of Jessica ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoTwo female college students who disappeared 900 miles and 12 months apart may have been abducted by the same man, police feared. Investigators in Bloomington, Indiana said they had contacted authorities ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA disgruntled resident of the trendy Manhattan neighbourhood of Chelsea has gone on an anti-tourist tirade, slapping posters on light poles to lecture people on how to behave when visiting the area. Hoar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA photograph taken by a passenger appears to show blood on the edge of a lifeboat canopy The FBI is apparently closer to answering how a groom fell overboard on his honeymoon cruise seven years ago after...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoWe first witnessed the Arab Spring which has so far produced little meaningful change on the ground. Then came the American Spring in the form of Occupy Wall Street. Now, people are talking about a Euro...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 3 hours agoThese quotes below are useful. First group I got from the facebook wall of a friend, *Banner C*. The second group I got from the facebook updates of a good friend, *Lawrence "Larry" Reed*. --------- "We h...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 3 hours agoMay 27, 2012 SF BayView *by Mary Ratcliff* On May 22, brave prisoners at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike. Their decision to starve themselves in an effort to be heard is the lates...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA parcel delivery driver who killed himself may have been ‘tipped over the edge’ after a recruitment company fired him via text message. An inquest heard that Martin Wood took an overdose just three days ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThis is the first look at the naked homeless man who ate another man's face while high on a new potent form of LSD. Rudy Eugene, 31, pictured in an old police mugshot was shot dead in Miami, Florida yest...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 3 hours agoMay 28, 2012 Occupied London Earlier today, anarchist Simos Seisidis was acquitted in court and will be finally be released tomorrow (May 29th, 2012). Simos was shot in the leg by police on May 3, 2010 a...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 3 hours agoMay 24, 2012 Athens Indymedia Athens – Solidarity Benefit Consert for the Revolutionary Struggle case Athens, Saturday May 26th 2012, 21.00 PEDIO TOY AREWS (GREEN PARK) Assembly for R.S. case The concert...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 3 hours agoMay 24, 2012 Electronic Intifada The father of Mahmoud Sarsak, a member of the Palestinian national football team jailed without charge or trial by Israel for almost three years, has called on the sport...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA detective broke into a sleeping woman's home and raped her after she had turned him away at the end of a date, a court heard today. The prosecution claim detective sergeant Trevor Gray forced the securi...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 3 hours agoMay 24, 2012 PNN [image: asra5] Wednesday, May 23rd, Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights stated that prisoner Sameh Elaiwe, 50, was transferred from Nablus city to Administrative deten...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 4 hours agoMay 23, 2012 Gay City News Tarif and Evelyn Warren at a May 14 press conference. | GAY CITY NEWS *BY SUSIE DAY |* On May 14, Evelyn Warren and Michael Tarif Warren, attorneys at law, held a press conferen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA woman who injected ‘waste matter’ into a child’s intravenous drip as she lay ill in hospital has been spared jail, after a judge said she needed help. Nicola Clark was caught on CCTV injecting the bact...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours agoHow Wall Street & London Manufacture Tragedy to Sell War & Regime Change. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 29, 2012* - In the wake of the Houla massacre in Syria, and evidence exposing the West's initial narrati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDavid Cameron demanded proof that Britain is ready for a eurozone catastrophe yesterday as he held an emergency summit on the crisis. The Prime Minister summoned Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King a...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 4 hours agoOscar López Rivera is a Puerto Rican political prisoner serving a 70 year sentence for seditious conspiracy. He was arrested on May 29, 1981 and as part of the campaign for his freedom, the National Bori...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDavid Cameron’s top media adviser was caught on camera berating a BBC political correspondent over his ‘partial’ coverage of the scandal engulfing Jeremy Hunt. Craig Oliver was facing embarrassment last ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 4 hours agoMay 25, 2012 Avtonom In spring of 2012, anti-fascist movement of Russia has been targeted with new repressions. An excuse for the repressions was an incident in Moscow club "Vozdukh", where 17th of Decembe...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 4 hours ago"The falling soldier". Robert Capa, September 9/5/36.
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 4 hours agoAlan Blueford murdered by Oakland Police May 24, 2012 Davey D's Hip Hop Corner Since the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, there have been closed to 30 Black or Brown people shot and killed by law enfo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia Region at a depth of 19.6 km (12.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:17:32 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 227 km (141 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAbu Qatada, the Islamist cleric, was denied bail today because of the impossible strain it would place on the police and MI5 if he absconded during the Olympics. The extremist preacher, once described as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California have been found to have radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident. The fish would have picked up the pollution while swi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoVATICAN CITY — The flood of secret Vatican documents leaked to the press, enraging the Holy See, aims to oust the Church's powerful number two and maybe to replace the pope himself, experts say. The so-c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoUN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is due to hold talks on Tuesday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Mr Annan's plan to end the country's conflict has been overshadowed by international rev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoProtesters have set fire to the headquarters of Egyptian presidential run-off candidate Ahmed Shafiq - an ex-prime minister under the ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak. "We were inside when they attacked us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThree triplets from New Zealand were among the 13 children killed when fire swept through a shopping centre in Doha, Prime Minister John Key has revealed. Mr Key said the triplets, believed to be two-ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 605.4 km (376.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:33:26 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 450 km (280 miles) WNW from NUKU...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia Region at a depth of 36.5 km (22.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:40:57 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 207 km (128 miles) ESE ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoAubrey McClendon has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to politicians running for Congress. Although most of them are Republican, not all of them are. There's something else they all have in common....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.6 km (25.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:56:05 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 307 km (190 miles) East ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 71.8 km (44.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:15:25 UTC Tuesday 29th May 2012 The epicenter was 287 km (178 miles) North of Tern...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago“My poetry would like to kick your poetry’s assonance…” Freaky Meat, filmed, not too well, at the Titirangi Toolroom. (Another one-NZ-music-post-per-day for NZ Music Month.) Content is copyright PC.BlogS...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 226.6 km (140.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:47:11 UTC Monday 28th May 2012 The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) NNW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga No Tsunami ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoFrom the ALEC Rich States Poor States Report 2011 Whichever state eliminates its income tax first will send a blaring message to the rest of the country: *Our state is open for business. * State corporate i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Memorial Day Thoughts on National Defense"* by Robert Reich "We can best honor those who have given their lives for this nation in combat by making sure our military might is proportional to what Ame...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 6 hours agoPatrick Henningsen RT - Infowars.com May 29, 2012 *Video: Journalist Patrick Henningsen reports on mass media manipulation by the West regarding the Syrian conflict. Also read Patrick Henningsen's art...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 6 hours agoSince the tsunami, earthquake, and subsequent explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power station last March, I have always had that little voice gnawing inside me that was telling me that something is amiss...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours agoH.L Mencken famously observed that a puritan is someone afflicted with the haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be having fun. I doubt however that even Mencken, an unvarnished cynic, would ever h...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours agoLittle has been or is being reported about this in what passes for our local news media, but it looks like the next economic domino to fall is Argentina, which government borrowing and printing has helpe...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 7 hours agoWith my primary focus over the last while on the continuing dire situation at Fukushima Japan, and the continuing push for war against the innocent nation of Iran by the criminals in both the criminal and ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 7 hours agoIn honor of those who gave all that this might ever be a banner of freedom. Southern Man began this busy day assisting old friend RCJ in the conversion of his fiancé into his wife. As is not unusual fo...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 7 hours agoAccusations that former-British PM was paid-off by JP Morgan for Iraq War should be investigated. *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 29, 2012* - A protester who interrupted the Leveson inquiry in England, called ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago*"I guess I'm known as a RINO now, which means a Republican in name only, because, I guess, of social views, perhaps, or common sense would be another one, which seems to escape members of our party. . ....
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours agoDemonizing Mexican-American studies is unjust by Roberto Rodriguez - May. 28, 2012 Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com I pick up the phone at my office at the University of Arizona ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago------------------------------ *Opium Wonderland Afghan Style* Uploaded by PigMine3 on Jul 11, 2010 Cherchez la Verite
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agoTepco has gone all out to demonstrate to the global public that spent fuel pool #4 is intact. I think the best photos can be found here: http://cryptome.org/2012-info/daiichi-12-0526/daiichi-12-0526.htm ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoRemember, she was accused and not convicted: http://www.thestar.com/mobile/news/article/1201902--prisoner-observed-using-toilet-has-drunk-driving-charges-stayed Videotaping prisoners using the toilet in ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago*Could New York Be Wronger About New Orleans? ~Harry Shearer*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Memorial Day"* by Bob Englehart "My father served in the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. The OSS was the forerunner to the CIA. When I was a kid, I’d ask the inevitable question, “W...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA man has been arrested on suspicion of killing 11 men in China, the official Xinhua news agency confirmed on Sunday, breaking its silence over the capture of a loner dubbed the "cannibal monster". News ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLow levels of nuclear radiation from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima power plant have turned up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, suggesting that these fish carried radioactive compounds across the ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 9 hours agoPoor poor rich people. Do I need to say it one more time? Seems like I do. Big Fiscal Phonies Paul Krugman May 27, 2012 Quick quiz: What’s a good five-letter description of Chris Christie, the Republican g...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Occupy the Neolithic"* by Michael Balter "Even the most democratic societies are rife with social and economic inequalities, as the current tension between the poorer "99%" and the richest "1%" vividl...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 12 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! - 12 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. - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 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! - 16 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...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 16 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 thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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! - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...Shooting the messenger - literally p.s. It takes two to tango
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