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First, U.S. generals David Petraeus and Stanley A. McChrystal played a pivotal role in designing Colombia’s new counterinsurgency strategy to target the mid-level command structures of the Revolutionary A... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visited Colombia on Monday as part of a regional trip that includes Brazil and Chile. Panetta’s visit came exactly one week after Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes agoWASHINGTON: Undeterred by Islamabad's shrill protests about breach of its sovereignty by American drone strikes culminating in a parliamentary resolution calling for a halt to such unmanned attacks, the U...
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Tea Party favorites such as Stephen Fincher of Tennessee were swept into Congress on a wave of anger over government-funded bailouts of banks. Now those incumbents are collecting thousands of dollars for ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
HONG KONG - Medicine by definition is for treatment of diseases or injuries. But drugs contaminated with unwanted poisonous stuff (some poison are necessary to cure certain diseases) will do harm to human... - posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 6 minutes ago
On a personal note ... over the last two years, I have struggled with a number of surgeries to try and fix a detached retina in one of my eyes. Things have not worked out and I lost the sight in that eye... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
We have written in this blog of the high levels of impunity within the Mexican legal system: crimes that routinely go unpunished and justice that is arbitrarily dispensed. We agree with those who argue ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
If the pen is mightier than the sword, then senior members of the Japan writers' P.E.N. Club, who visited the shuttered Chernobyl nuclear power plant in mid-April, are now armed with some mighty ink. "I ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
H5N1, or the Bird Flu virus, may be closer to human transmission than previously thought. Two teams of researchers purposefully mutated the strain in a lab in order to demonstrate how easily the change mi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Moscow rejects Washington's claim that a planned missile defense system is solely to deal with any Iranian missile threat and has voiced fears it will eventually threaten Russia. Russia's top military of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
North Korea has stockpiled enough uranium for six nuclear bombs, an expert has warned. According to a South Korean nuclear expert North Korea has appeared to have started relying on enrichment activities... - posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 22 minutes ago
*It is the first Friday of the month and that means ... another delicious, vegan recipe. As most of you have heard me say (countless times) ... eating meatless meals is one of the easiest ways to walk a li... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 minutes ago
Monday evening, when Buck McKeon didn't show up for the CA-25 candidates' forum in Santa Clarita, Lee Rogers referred to his as a white elephant and then corrected himself to call him an "invisible elepha... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
Baku-APA. The U.S. Department of State sees no threat in South Korea’s ballistic missile program and is set to continue its support for Seoul’s efforts to boost the country’s defense capabilities, APA repo... - posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 45 minutes ago
OK... For the hundredth time... Osama Bin Laden, aka.. CIA trained agent Tim Osman, died of complications due to failing kidneys sometime around December 13th, 2001, and was buried in the Tora Bora mountai... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has made a dramatic plea to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and American lawmakers from his hospital bed. Mr Guangcheng phoned in to a congressional hearing to ask ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 61.4 km (38.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:54:10 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) ESE from... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 50.1 km (31.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:31:31 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) South o... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:00:37 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey No Reports of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 10.7 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:45:18 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey No Reports...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 hour agoHerman Von Rompuy is going to steal your sovereignty. Also, Christmas.There is something refreshing in British newspapers. Empires come and empires go, but tabloids are one of life's constants. So with the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 165.9 km (103.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:20:38 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 283 km (175 miles) Northeast of Kuril'sk,...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour agoIt has been a while since I last put up an article pertaining to important health news, and for this article I found a real good subject to cover. First, it must be said that I am not a proponent of manda...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour agoIt's been observed that the vast majority of those finding a woman's control over her body distressing, repulsive, and just WRONG, have their objections rooted in religious doctrine, even if their faith mu...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours agoMeant to get to this sooner. It drives me crazy when Democrats cave into Wingnuttian hysteria. Like the EPA guy who resigned after the trumped up fauxrage over his cruxifiction analogy. Charlie Pierce put ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 2 hours agoRe: the dust-up between Progressive Bloggers and what became Real Canadian Progressives. I must have read this from Montreal Simon at the time but didn't keep up with the comments -- all 39 of them. To...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 2 hours agoDion Lefebvre, you are a hero sir. Thank you.
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours agoForget about any moves to the center. Apparently having realized there's no going back once you've pledged to the cracked, Romney reached out to the far right media and a bevy of select wingnut bloggers in...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoI've been gone all day at work so I've not had time to follow up on this yellow fog. I saw it on the Tepco webcam this morning. It must have been around 7:30 or 8:00 a.m. Arizona time 5/3. The yellow fo...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago[image: AlterNet] What You Need To Know About ALEC By Diane Ravitch, Bridging Differences Posted on May 3, 2012, Printed on May 3, 2012 http://www.alternet.org/story/155257/what_you_need_to_know_about_ale...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoAmericans believed in global warming/climate change. Then they didn't. But now they do again. Mother Nature has been given the doubters, predominantly from the south and central states, extra lessons ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*On the Noble Desktop website, you can point and click your way to the names and bios of these instructors. At third from the left, by the way, that's Dan Rodney.* *Joke of the Month* A helicopter is fly...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"Close to the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and surrounded by the stars of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici), this celestial wonder was discovered in 1781 by the metric French astronomer Pierre Mechain. Later, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“A Saint In The Wrong Place”* by Paulo Coelho “‘Why is it that some people can resolve the most complicated problems really easily, whilst others agonize over every tiny crisis and end up drowning in a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Zoom”* by Chet Raymo "There are a couple of book on the shelf at home by the illustrator Istvan Banyai that I enjoy looking at now and then, ostensibly children's books, but really engaging for all ag...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 4 hours ago** *... or risk being fired * *Contributor: "Ron"* Le nouveau code de conduite de la SRC inquiète le syndicat *Google Translation:* The new code of conduct of the union concerned about the CBC *[Union] ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours agoAdiemus, "Adiemus" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8kZ-iVk90&feature=related
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours agoAsh Shu`aybah, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago*We Are a Community — Not a Commodity! ~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago"In order to learn, one must change one's mind." - Orson Scott Card
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago*Politics this week has been nothing but sideshows. The biggest of all being the sideshow about John Banks—as if discussing a man’s hotel bill is the most important thing a country’s politicians could be...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 5 hours agoSarah Yesterday morning in the pediatric clinic a mother came into my office and sat down with her baby wrapped in a blanket. She had not checked the baby in at the front desk and offered no dossier for me...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours agoJT Ready stands armed at the Occupy Phoenix protest in October. Ready said he was there with the U.S. Border Guard. Ready and four others died in an apparent murder suicide on Wednesday. (Sara Steffan/Do...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"A Warmer World and Weather Gone Wild:* * The Most Important Story of Our Lives'* by Bill McKibben "The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"The Return of Cheap Oil?"* by Bill Bonner "Will new energy discoveries and new technology sink oil prices? Will lower oil prices rescue the world from the Great Correction? Maybe, say Porter Stansbe...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 6 hours agoObviously, $32,000,000 is not enough to get Pearson to hire test writers who know more than the students they are testing. From NYTimes SchooBook: May 2, 2012, 12:34 p.m. By *ANNA M. PHILLIPS* For ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoAt Plum Line, I noted that reporters and pundits are overhyping each new economic report, and tried to provide a bit of context for how to take new economic reports seriously without overdoing it. And over...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago*NFLPA counsel response to NFL PR conference*
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta speaks at an annual reception for the Environmental Defense Fund at the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C., 2 May 2012. Panetta thanked the organization for reco...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoA few days ago we looked at a gay activist, Paul Morabito, once tapped as the chairman of the GLAAD Advisory Board, giving large sums of cash to virulent homophobes running for office. Why would a gay man...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoIn the logo used by the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, Canada, geographically, figures less prominently than the other parts of the Americas. That seems to fit with the fact that they get a lot o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe fate of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is not yet clear. But that won't stop many from judging that this muddle is of US President Barack Obama's making. The Obama administration looks like it has...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: Debris from the Great Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami wash ashore in Alaska. About 50 continuous miles of Montague Island coast look like this, 28 April 2012. Gulf of Alaska Keeper / Chris Palliste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:40:22 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Southwest of Áyios nikólaos, Gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:41:20 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 641 km (397.4 miles) Southwest from Banda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSyria's deputy foreign minister has accused Britain of being directly responsible for the deaths of civilians in his country. Doctor Fayssal Mekdad's accusation was in response to an incident in which a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"The Tinder-Box Society"* by Robert Reich "The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 13,338 Tuesday, its highest since December, 2007. The S&P 500 added 16 points. Wall Street will remember May 1 as a gre...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours agoI am so incredibly sick of the war on terror. I am sick of the crap we have to deal with at the airports. And now this..... From Yahoo/Kare11 *Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN on* *Postal workers to visit metr...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago------------------------------ * * *Neighborhood Call to Action, RTA's Broadway Corridor Project, Steve Kozachik Press Conference * http://youtu.be/1vztrSrlYx8 Published on May 1, 2012 by AUDITAZ Pr...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoThis MSN article reports two all but unbelievable stories. First that: 'Play School presenters went in front of the camera stoned after smoking "the biggest joint you've ever seen", according to a new BBC...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agotonight I just wanted to share 'something' KUBELIKE with you, ready? now, don't you feel a whole lot KUBIER?
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWe need you to become a sponsor of our magazine (or offer a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your financial help, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researching, re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck North of Honduras at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 18:08:06 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 121 km (75 miles) West of Swan Island No Tsunam...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoGreg Sargent has a nice item up today pushing the press to question Mitt Romney over torture, and specifically whether Romney would overturn Barack Obama's executive order prohibiting Bush-era torture tech...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Letter from Osama bin Laden, April 2011* * * http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/socom-2012-0000010-english In the name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful. To the esteemed brother, Sheikh Mamon, All...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 8 hours agoBy now everyone has heard Dear Leader's re-election campaign slogan: Of course it would not escape The Smartest Man In The Room that his slogan has been a popular one in the history in Marxism and sociali...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoNew action item for you in the quest to Abolish ALEC. 45 seconds of your time to read 30 seconds to sign. An easy way to take action against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Common Cause...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours agoLGen Deschamps, should please just. stop. talking. He does not seem to get just how stupid and corrupted he and his mates are making the RCAF look. Lt-Gen. André Deschamps, who on Tuesday said the air fo...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoThe London Evening Standardreports this: 'Police outside a Tower Hamlets polling station called reinforcements today after a candidate alleged that he had been threatened by activists from rival parties....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRussia’s most senior military officer said Thursday that Moscow would preemptively strike and destroy U.S.-led NATO missile defense sites in Eastern Europe if talks with Washington about the developing sy...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 9 hours agoMichael Riconosciuto & Ted Gunderson's 1986 Meeting with 'Tim Osman' (Osama bin Laden) So, here it is, the damning evidence from the CIA's best at the time, Ted Gunderson and Michael Riconosciuto, that th...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours agoHarper's chief of staff Nigel Wright, they tell us, is a boyscout who dutifully steps out of discussions about the F-35 because of an ethical wall. What F-35? You mean the one presently in an unrecoverable ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: US economist Jeffrey Sachs at the Asian Development Bank meeting in Manila, the Philippines, 3 May 2012. Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA][Desdemona prefers this solution: Atmospheric Vortex Engine] By...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 9 hours agoI might have considered MLA John van Dongen's questions on the $6-million payment of the legal fees of Dave Basi and Bob Virk in the B.C. Rail scandal a fishing expedition. But Attorney General Shirley Bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoKIEV — Ukraine on Thursday denounced a threatened EU boycott of its Euro 2012 football matches as a "destructive" attempt to politicise sport that will hurt mutual understanding and ties. The furious sta...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoYouTube Video Description: http://EndtheLie.com -- Support us! - http://EndtheLie.com/store Smile! You're a civilian internee - http://endthelie.com/2011/12/09/smile-you-are-a-civilian-internee/ Docum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNorth Korea has been busy for the past week, trying to jam the navigation signals going to civilian aircraft over South Korea, according to reports in South Korean media. Through Wednesday afternoon, the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- Thirty-four people were killed and 30 wounded in an attack on a cattle market in Nigeria's northern Yobe state, a government official briefed on the investigation said Thursday. The attack Wednes...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoThe Commentator raises the questions about the suitability of Ken Livingstone to be London Mayor. 'Ken Livingstone has been accused of tax avoidance hypocrisy, a worrying relationship with the Jewish comm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- When the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng staged his astonishing escape from house arrest, he sought American protection at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Six days later, when Chen left the e...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago1. 'Independent' reporter Jerome Taylor relives his bloody experience on the trail of voting fraud in east London , a shocking story from 2010. 2. Andrew Gilligan in The Telegraph reports on 'Tower Hamlets...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJohannesburg (CNN) -- Four minors accused in a brutal videotaped gang rape of a mentally disabled teenager were released on $67 bail Thursday, their lawyer said. The boys fear for their safety and will ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:10:10 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (8.6 miles) East of Simav, Turkey No Repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 16:16:05 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) Northwest of Usak, Turkey No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 57.7 km (35.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:14:18 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 142 km (88 miles) South...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours ago*Yes,* I am going long, because there is a lot to cover. A lot. Besides the taxpayer funded bank bailouts were going to read some news on two Canadian banks involved in some dirty,dirty dealings.... The Ca...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 10 hours agoA commenter at Paul Krugman's site suggested that the reformed Jack Abramoff would be the perfect spokesman for Occupy Wall Street (Occupy the Congress?) . . . "to help clean up a system that none of us re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:24:14 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (7.4 miles) Northwest of Saphane, Turkey No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 15:20:27 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey No Reports of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 22.3 km (13.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:17:03 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) East of Zakynthos, Greece N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:40:57 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 368 km (228.6 miles) Sou...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoI have heard a bit about this particular claim, but not enough to form any opinions and impressions. I was inclined to be dismissive for two reasons. The first because the reports would be scant a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 108.2 km (67.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:28:59 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 99 km (61 ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours agoSo it was one calendar year ago today that the majority of voters said WTF? as they took stock of what would eventually be known as The Great CON electoral fraud. On Twitter, the numerous critics of The H...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago*Interesting web technicality:* Google has localized motls.blogspot.cz in many more smaller countries including Czechia, Slovakia, Denmark, and others. Many of you have surely shared the following attitu...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoI've thought that Jonathan Chait's just been excellent lately, but I have to nitpick his piece on Newt yesterday. Most of it is fine -- he's right to emphasize the importance of the revolt against George H...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 10 hours agoI have no intention of accepting this illegitimate regime. This is the summer of discontent. But how long will the opposition MPs validate this garbage with their participation? OTTAWA - The Harper Conse...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Shark Extinction The Shocking Truth] 4 April 2012 (Surfmeisters) – Ocean lovers everywhere, we are at crisis point. The top predator species in the food chain of our oceans is being hunted to e...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago*Madeleine McCann was in my taxi but police ignored me* *Taxi driver Antonio Castela*, 72, claims he picked up Madeleine McCann the night after she vanished. Castela says he is certain the little girl...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago*R. v. T.S.*, 2012 ONCA 289 deals in detail with the reception of fresh evidence on appeal:** *[114]** * Appellate courts have the broad discretion to receive further evidence on appeal when the co...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 11 hours agoBoy – these ALEC companies just want to keep the ALEC press coming. I am so proud of them. They open up all kinds of lines of communication of, by and for ALEC. Unfortunately for ALEC the press isn't g...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoBasically a grifter who has made himself a multimillionaire by bilking clueless donors to his many schemes, Gingrich has now agreed to endorse Romney. In return for Romney and the RNC, which Romney has n...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Former BP engineer Kurt Mix was indicted on two counts of obstruction of justice in relation to the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Mix is accused of deleting hundreds of text messages from his iPhone that ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvopf6iSmB0&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=5&feature=plcp Yellow tinge starts at about 1:30 Tepco real-time webcam date and time right now as I type this is 5-4 1:08 a...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours agoTo quote Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams' *A Streetcar Named Desire*, for the last couple of years, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." When I first set up this Paypal button a lit...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoOh the naivete of Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. He says that, despite being ordered by Parliament to do so in 2010, the Department of National Defence did not provide him with full information...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Map of experimental and observational sites, covering 14 long-term observational phenology studies and 36 experimental phenology studies (one experimental study site, in Australia, is not shown)....
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoAn academic friend of mine and of other Duck folks, Patricia Weitsman, has gone through hell over the past two years. Today is the the anniversary of her "re-birth" as last year on May 3rd she had a bone ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours agoREGINA -- *The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour is raising concerns about the treatment of temporary foreign workers after three Mexican men say their experience has soured their view of Canada. Ivan E...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012* *Drum returns to the scene of the crime:* Last week, Kevin Drum made a rare mistake—and as we noted, it was a doozy. The analysts cried about his remarks (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 4/...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 12 hours ago*During a Senate hearing in 1977, it was revealed that the Pentagon had conducted numerous secret germ “attacks” on cities without public knowledge in an effort to test the threat posed by biological agent...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012* *But Maddow just blusters ahead:* It’s a basic rule of pseudo-journalism: You do *not* correct Rachel Maddow! Last Sunday, on Meet the Press, Alex Castellanos dared to say that Ma...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agohttp://libertarianreview.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/62610_442593702421042_100000112471687_1865179_970537961_n1.jpg
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 13 hours agoI know I'm *supposed* to have become more sanguine about ozone killing trees, the inevitable crash of civilization and so forth, from multiple, unstoppable converging catastrophes. Along those lines, I've...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours ago*American Scofflaw* The upcoming P5 talks will be a disaster for Netanyahu if the US goes ahead with their stated intention of allowing Iran to maintain their rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Tr...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours agoAn address by Paul Harvey from 1965 which is somewhat prescient. *Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.*
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 13 hours agoThe world has gone crazy and my head is so full of the loud stimulus that I can’t put all the pieces together to form any of the usual speculations and hypotheses. After spring-like winter, the natural ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoThis morning the Fukushima plant is enveloped in a grainy, yellow fog. I've never seen the screen yellow before. People posting at Enenews this morning stated that they saw units 3 and 4 completely "bla...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoWhat I would do? People ask me, `What would you to get the economy going'? and I say, `well look at what the president's done, and do the opposite. That's Mitt Romney's new version of his economic plan, ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoIn March, I discussed Joy Christian's jihad against Bell's theorem. Now you may buy a book he was allowed to publish; if you do so, you will be among a dozen of people in the world who have "invested" the...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoThere was a pretty good entry written regarding the economics of “Rich State Poor States’ report published by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). I hate to see good writing and serious thou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 13 hours agoA very well-done piece from Reuters on the perverse incentives created by special tax breaks for a poorly defined segment of the economy - manufacturing. H/T @gregmankiwblog. *UPDATE*: On this very the...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*"Canadian immigration lawyers on Wednesday said it’s extraordinarily rare for the federal government to grant the right to reside here to convicted felons while they’re still in prison." * *The Globe & M...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoWhile the 99% is burying ALEC - the right is starting to come out with regular articles or commentaries or editorials trying to either praise (* eulogize*, maybe) the American Legislative Exchange Council...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoSTEVIE AND THE CONS love punishing people. Rehabilitation is for wusses — God wants punishment! Well, Medicalxpress has an article that helps explain this nasty mind-set, "Highly religious people are less...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the West coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:38:34 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 338 km (210 miles) SSW f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA well known neo-Nazi who was campaigning to be a county sheriff has been named as the man who killed four members of a family, including a toddler, in Gilbert, Arizona today. Law enforcement sources have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAl Qaeda has called upon its followers to unleash massive forest fires upon the United States this summer. Published in the latest edition of the notorious terror magazine, 'Inspire', are graphic instruc...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 14 hours agoMoscow is once again expressing displeasure with US and NATO missile defense plans. Russia says it is prepared to use "destructive force pre-emptively" if the US goes ahead with controversial plans for a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA married taxi driver who raped a number of drunken passengers has been jailed for 12 years. Asif Iqbal, from Newport, South Wales, was convicted of raping two passengers - but police fear many more wome...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA mother who stabbed her two young sons to death has told how she had believed she was being pursued by the devil and how voices told her she must kill them. Jael Mullings killed Romario Mullings-Sewell, ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012* *Part 3—Doesn’t know, doesn’t much seem to care:* Is Pearson over-charging the state of Texas for its testing services? Rather clearly, this was the “central point” of Gail Collins...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoCHICAGO -- The journal Nature has published the first of two controversial papers about laboratory-enhanced versions of the deadly bird-flu virus that initially sparked fears among U.S. biosecurity experts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe United States has released the final words of Osama bin Laden as he struggled to command the attention of his far-flung terror network. A selection of documents seized in last year's raid on bin Laden...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoCAMBRIDGE, Md. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it is asking the public for information about two bald eagle deaths in Talbot County. The eagles were found Monday near the intersection of Kitty's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoOver 50 thousand fish in a pond near an industrial area in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died overnight on Monday, CRI Online reports. The dead fish are mostly concentrated in the northern corner ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPERRYVILLE, Ark. (WTW) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is investigating the deaths of about 150 white bass in a lake in Perry County. Officials say a property owner on the 1,200-acre Harris Brake L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA second bird of the 2012 season has tested positive for West Nile virus in the Sacramento region, and officials warn that warm weather will amplify the virus in the area. The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito Vec...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*Lakota, Navajo and Supai deliver powerful testimony to the UN Rapporteur in Arizona and South Dakota* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/05/lakota-navajo-and-supai-to-u...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours ago#Cdnpoli - How this headline washes out is beyond me but having a total of 27 percent support for anything means you have a lot of opposition. Asked what federal party is best at making decisions in the...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 15 hours ago· *The primary elements of this essay were delivered to a special UN hearing (conference and consultation) on the rights of Indigenous Peoples on April 27, 2012, and submitted on May 1, 2012.* *...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLAKELAND, Fla. — A case of rabies has been confirmed in Polk County, according the Sheriff's Office Animal Control Section. According to the Sheriff's Office, a resident of Broken Arrow Trail, in Lakelan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoDead sea turtles and dolphins continue to wash up along Mississippi beaches. MPB’s Rhonda Miller reports scientists are still trying to determine the cause of death. "We’ve been responding to quite a few...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoThere continues to be a trickle of Democrats that are allegedly dumping ALEC. Yesterday when surfing I found the webpage for Bold Progressives – Progressive Change Campaign Committee and they have a pag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoNorwegian whale hunters have harpooned the first three whales of the year, nearly a month after the controversial hunting season began, the country's Fishermen's Sales Organization said Wednesday. "Three...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 15 hours agoI have posted the following at the Tallbloke site, where the tropospheric temperature gradient is being discussed: *The fact that the Venus/Earth temperature ratio, at points of equal pressure over the ran...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoGaltung is a pivotal figure in the development of Peace Studies. My only real interface with his work is in the form of his influential "Structural Theory of Imperialism" (PDF), which specified key feature...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThis is pretty interesting news – the NASA Aqua satellite spotted an eruption going on at Mt. Curry* in the South Sandwich Islands. The South Sandwich Islands are located to the southeast of South Americ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMexico City just 40 miles away from volcano throwing poison gases a mile up into the air over Puebla state Mexico remains on high alert as the Popocatepetl volcano continuous to spew gas and volcanic ash ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoIf you contribute to Cecil Bothwell's campaign today, the money will go right up to expand TV coverage with the ad above. Bothwell's scrappy grassroots campaign is up against the full weight and power of...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 15 hours agoA friend of mine passed this around Facebook today (link). This is a picture of Jingguan Village in Nantou. Farmed slopelands erode spectacularly in Taiwan's powerful rainfall events; the picture shows th...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago*From Think Progress* Economy *Move Your Money: Faith Leaders, Activists To Target WallStreet Banks Throughout Month Of May* By Travis Waldron posted from ThinkProgress Economy on May 2, 2012 at 3:05 pm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe website of the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has been taken offline following a cyber-attack. Soca confirmed to the BBC that soca.gov.uk had suffered a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoMUTANT-FLU PAPER PUBLISHED. According to Nature's Ed Yong, Avian H5N1 influenza viruses in the wild may be one small step away from spreading effectively between mammals. Sure hope they get around to ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMOCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry says five soldiers have been killed and three wounded when munitions they were loading onto a vehicle exploded. A ministry statement says the explosion occurred Wednesday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a cattle market in remote northeast Nigeria overnight, killing and wounding many, witnesses and police said. It was not clear who was behind the attack on Wednesday night...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoThe naive among us predicted that, after winning a majority, Stephen Harper's governing style would change. Secure in the knowledge that he had the votes to get his way, they argued, he would act like a...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Christina Hendricks, 37. Our Mrs. Reynolds, indeed. On to the good stuff: 1. Electionate has a nice "ignore the electoral college" post. Well, he or she doesn't say that, but it's the im...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMay 3 - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presses China on human rights but makes no specific mention of Chen Guangcheng. Paul Chapman reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - In a ramshackle township in northwest China's Shaanxi province, red Communist Party banners call on a nearby steel mill's workers to seek "progress" and avoid making "backward steps". The slo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - In April 2003, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York state bank regulators cracked the whip on HSBC Bank USA, ordering it to do a better job of policing itself for suspicious money...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- A U.S. drone hit an al Qaeda training site in southern Yemen, killing 13 suspected militants, three security officials said. The airstrike Wednesday is one of a series of attacks on...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoFrom the front page of Think Progress this morning. If you don't have Think Progress bookmarked - you should. Climate Progress *ALEC’s Top Five Anti-Environment ‘Model’ Laws* By Stephen Lacey and Publi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Syrian forces raided a university Thursday, the opposition said, the latest sign of continuing attacks despite a truce implemented three weeks ago and the presence of United Nations monitors in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBeijing (CNN) -- The Chinese activist who left the refuge of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said Thursday that he regrets the move and now wants U.S. officials to help get him and his family to the United S...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoEDUCATION - NJ/NY ALEC ACTION: May 3 & 4 Today and tomorrow!!! From ALEC Exposed • American Federation for Children, "Trustee" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference[4] ($5,000 in 2010)[5] Fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoKOMAKI, Aichi -- About 80 residents evacuated from their neighborhoods after a fire broke out at a plastic processing plant here on the night of May 2, police and firefighters said. At around 9:50 p.m., ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIt was supposed to be the Christmas getaway of a lifetime. A trip around the Red Sea with all the trimmings a luxury cruise liner can offer over the festive period. But nine holidaymakers have launched l...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 hours agoJust because the sky is still blue and harper's signature hasn't been found on a memo ordering the physical extermination of the First Nations, it doesn't mean he's been transformed into a respectable poli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 562.5 km (349.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:10:43 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 403 km (250 miles) SSW of Ndoi I...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours agoMay 3, 2012 *EPISODE 6: SYLVIA’S BEEN ARRESTED AGAIN* Not content with trespassing into a US Spy Base, Sylvia continues to campaign for a peaceful world by lying down in front of a nuclear truck convoy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 83 km (51.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:10:33 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) Southwest of Puerto m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Gansu-Nei Mongol Border Region, China at a depth of 13 km (8.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:19:37 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 114 km (70 miles) Nor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:09:35 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) Northwest of Dezfu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoArchaeologists in Mexico say they have found conclusive evidence that knives were used in human sacrifice as long as 2,000 years ago. They were speaking after blood cells and fragments of muscle, tendon, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA teenager has told police she is the mother of a baby found dead at a recycling plant. The girl telephoned officers on Wednesday in a distressed state, saying she was the mother of the boy found at Bell...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 16 hours agoWe have long awaited that intuitive voice interface which would gives us back our hands, capture our thoughts as we say them and offer audio play back in voice, pitch and speed that we can easily digest. ...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 16 hours ago*ENJOY: I put together 35+ short OCCUPY videos from around the U.S. and the world. Some of the videos show police brutality against protesters even in the U.S. -* Meanwhile, while police are beating/p...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 17 hours agohttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-gm0UuucFQZ4/T6HEH1hgRII/AAAAAAAAWCg/rqDq0PHKrYY/s144/DSC_4160.jpg
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 17 hours agoJust when you thought the BBC couldn't get any more embarrassingly politicised, it drops to previously unimaginable depths. On the BBC Radio 5 Victoria Derbyshire programme, a 78 year old man with mental...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoThis week's winners are OFQUAL, the exams 'watchdog' for the incredible insight that (as reported by the BBC) 'GCSEs and A-levels in geography and science are easier than they were 10 years ago' Exams get...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 17 hours ago*Once again, New Orleans Saints bounty appeals expected to be fruitless* ~Perceived leaders of New Orleans Saints' bounty program were target for Winch Roger GODhell ~Players' Union statement on league pun...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agoI suppose in fairness Mayor Ford might have been worried about his family -- but if so he should have called the police instead of acting himself. The end result is it looks like the Mayor was threatening ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago *Letter Shows Monsanto Planted GMOs Before USDA Approval*USDA Knew of Monsanto GM Alfalfa Contamination in 2005 By Cassandra Anderson & Anthony Gucciardi Food Freedom News, May 2, 2012 Did Monsanto act...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoNo one knows why ancient people built Stonehenge. Its origin and purpose have long been question by man; but, now scientists think they may have the answer. Photo courtesy: Pete Strasser | nasa.gov The st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 62.8 km (39 miles), the quake hit at 08:14:08 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) WSW from Suchiate, Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia at a depth of 111.8 km (69.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:25:12 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 289 km (179 miles) NNE of P...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours agoThe Ideals of Freedom and Justice: Towards the Reorientation of Greece *Doing one’s duty towards the ideals of freedom and justice until the end* by Mikis Theodorakis Global Research Canada, May 2, 20...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours agoGuido Fawkes reports that the BBC's Stephanie Flanders, the BBC economics editor, tweeted yesterday: 'Just tried to vote. My polling station, in Hammersmith, had closed two hours early. Has anyone else ha...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*Jean-Paul Votron, of Fortis, Maurice Lippens, of Fortis, Fred Goodwin, former CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), and Emilio Botin, of Santander. Maurice Lippens has been linked to the Dutroux Affair a...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 20 hours agoVideo Games as the Fear-Mongering Pop Adjunct of America’s post-9/11 ‘forever wars’ Even tea-partying righties should be pretty shocked at this shameless, exploitative (and wildly inaccurate) manipulatio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe end of the world is approaching, on the 30th of June to be precise and an obscure Christian sect is erecting billboards across the United States to let everyone know. Growing in Grace International ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGPs are being warned that they face legal action if they refuse to accept illegal immigrants as patients. Human rights lawyers have been threatening doctors who have removed failed asylum seekers from th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDissident Chen Guangcheng was not put under pressure to leave the US embassy, its ambassador says, as the activist said he wanted to leave China because he feared for his life. Mr Chen said he left his r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAhead of the second round of voting on May 6, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist frontrunner François Hollande trade barbs in a live election debate watched by millions. A televised debate bet...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSouth Korea's coast guard has impounded a Chinese fishing vessel after four officials were injured in a scuffle while attempting to board the ship. SEOUL, May 1 (UPI) -- South Korea's coast guard impounded...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - China and Russia are resisting a Western push for the U.N. Security Council to threaten Sudan and South Sudan with sanctions if the two countries fail to comply with demands to halt their esca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCHICAGO (CBS) — Plans to keep residents and dignitaries safe during the NATO Summit include a no-fly zone, with a shoot-to-kill warning for those who break the ban. This is no joke. It will be enforced ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn Norfolk, Virginia, reporters for The Virginian-Pilot, Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami, were attacked on a Saturday night as they drove home from a show at the Attucks Theatre. They had stopped at a red...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago-A New Jersey woman has been charged with felony child endangerment after she allegedly took her five-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, where the child suffered serious burns. Patricia Krentcil, 44...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 144.1 km (89.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:42:37 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) SOuth f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Central Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:24:25 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22.9 miles) Southeast of Aydincik, Turkey N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck off the coast of Baja California Sur at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:17:46 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 207 km (128 miles) Southe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the coast of Baja California Sur at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:59:56 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:59:33 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 313 km (194 miles) South of Port...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing' That is a quotation usually attributed to Edmund Burke although those words in that exact sequence are elusive in his works. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck off the coast of Baja California Sur at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:56:15 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 205 km (127 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI generally avoid stories related to the paranormal because like the thousands of UFO reports, there is little useful information that is compelling. Something is generally sensed and it is relat...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoModifying natural shade avoidance is important. Our crops almost always have ample time to productively mature and thus not reacting to shade becomes useful in producing a shorter stalk and lar...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt is pretty bad when fellow running dogs notice that doing nothing is not good enough. The real problem that he faces is rather simple. If he tries to lay out a plan, he will draw attention to ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis piece continues the debate regarding the historicity of Mohammad. As stated below, it is completely creditable that a tribal leader organized a successful war machine out of the Arab tribes...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago*Hints of long-lived superpartners and hadrinos* In January, I mentioned a curiously high number of three events suggesting that there could be a new long-lived charged particle whose mass is approximatel...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 21 hours agoChannel 4 News' Cathy Newman is joined by the former Met murder squad's senior investigating officer Colin Sutton, the former chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Kim Howells and in Germany...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoPremier Alison Redford contemplates Justice Jack Major’s recommendations on MLA compensation. Actual Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Justice Jack Major. Former Supreme Court...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agoFor Star Wars Day, if you have to as then you really are not a fan! Here's the more than two hour hour long 100% fan sourced "Star Wars: A New Hope" fan film... 'In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of I...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoThe pro-choice novel: 'Love Means Second Chances' By Ken Wachsberger / The Rag Blog / May 3, 2012 [Love Means Second Chances by Susan Elizabeth Davis (2011: Bread and Roses Collaborative); Paperback; 256 p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo Federal Reserve officials warned Tuesday that the U.S. could be heading for a "fiscal cliff" at year's end if mandated tax increases and spending cuts are implemented. Charles Evans of the Chicago Fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe U.S. military is discussing significant changes in its war plans to adhere to President Obama’s new strategic guidance that downplays preparing for conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and counts on...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoImage from Grist. The Republican Brain on 'The Republican Brain' (And how my conservative critics prove the point) By Chris Mooney / Truthout / May 3, 2012 Chris Mooney, author of The Republican Brain: ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAbout one baby is born every hour in the United States addicted to opiate drugs, and withdrawal among newborns almost tripled from 2000 to 2009, a study said. Dr. Stephen W. Patrick, a fellow in the Univ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player With the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death looming, American and European authorities told ABC News today that they fear al Qaeda may soon tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoATHENS, Greece (AP) — Reeling from a vicious financial crisis that has cost them pensions and jobs, Greeks have been turning away in droves from the mainstream politicians they feel have let them down. An...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops. The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSupport for banks 'more substantial than Canadians were led to believe': CCPA report Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report relea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoU.S. researchers have identified two dozen new species of lizards on the Caribbean islands, and about half of them may be extinct or close to extinction. Blair Hedges, a professor of biology at Penn Stat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWhen people ask me what it was like growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary in the Seventies and Eighties, most expect to hear tales of secret police, bread queues and other nasty manifestations of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTheir killing power is immense and the surveillance possibilities are endless. Perhaps it's no wonder that the awesome potential of unmanned aerial vehicles is now being so energetically explored – from t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIn the ever-escalating war of words between Israel and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program, some top Israeli officials have repeatedly compared the current regime in Tehran to Nazi Germany and Adolph Hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoGRANTS PASS — Oregon officials were successful in getting permission to kill sea lions that feed on protected salmon trying to swim upriver to spawn. Now they want federal approval to shoot a sea bird that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThousands of men could have undergone painful surgery to treat prostate cancer for little or no benefit, a study has suggested. Research, which has not yet been published, has indicated the standard surg...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoFrom left: Theologian Gary Dorrien, Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer, and Robert Jensen, UT-Austin journalism professor and Rag Blog contributor, in the KOOP studios, Friday, April 27, 2012 . Photo by Tracey Sch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoOne in four Korean households fell into the so-called absolute poverty range for at least one year between 2005 and 2009, a study shows. A household is classified as experiencing absolute poverty if its t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently issued an order to send as many workers as possible abroad to earn hard currency, never mind the risk of defections, according to a South Korean government source....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It can be found across broad stretches of the American economy and around the world. Penitentiaries have become a niche market for such work. The privatization of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIn the quiet waters off the coast of Vietnam lies an area known as Bach Ho, or White Tiger Field. There, and in the nearby Black Bear and Black Lion fields, exploration companies are drilling more than a m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago"There is a lot of tension in society between the great exploring soul, and the assembly line citizen. . . The grand exploring soul is marginalized as an eccentric, or, if necessary, more seriously margina...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- Ramesh Makwana knew the risks to his health by working in an agate factory, but at $4 a day the rewards were too great. Now, after 14 years of breathing in the fine dust created by grin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe number of North Koreans working in and around Dandong, China is growing, with many of them working long hours for quite low wages, according to a new report carried by Chinese economic publication ‘Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHardworking families will be left paying higher tax rates than millionaires because of the climbdown on child benefit, the Government has admitted. Some families face tax rates between 53pc and 73pc on ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTeachers are warning of a "lost generation" of pupils, with seven out of 10 concerned that their students will end up on benefits. The findings, by youth charity The Prince's Trust, highlight the devasta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 23 hours agoI have a soft spot for democracy in all of its flavors. Above is a report on the debate between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande last night. Hollande leads in the polls and a victory later this week ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmid endless claims of economic recovery by the Obama administration and the media, the conditions facing the working class in the United States continue to deteriorate. This is seen nowhere more clearly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor the sake of Afghanistan, U.S. officials routinely invoke the importance of nurturing economic growth across South and Central Asia. But when it comes to advancing policies meant to increase regional t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe first and only time I met Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., he was still undercover and in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency’s all-powerful operations directorate. The agency had summoned me to its Lan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Russia and Iran are helping Syria import fuel which it needs for heavy vehicles including army tanks, allowing Damascus to avoid the full impact of tightening Western sanctions imposed over it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA chart we found on Reddit.com today shows that most products we buy are controlled by just a few companies. It's called "The Illusion of Choice." Ever wonder why you can't get a Coke at Taco Bell? It's b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Arctic is a critical region for Russia, and owing to Vladimir Putin’s sustained emphasis on Arctic revival, the region may become a defining characteristic of a post-USSR Russian identity, says Zachar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Dmitry Medvedev has said that Russia’s relations with the United States have been fairly productive in recent years. In fact, the Russia-US ties have been their best over the past 4 years, he sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRecently, I had published at Asia Times Online an exclusive investigation, Insider Trading 9/11 ... The Facts Laid Bare (March 21, 2012). In this article I presented evidence of informed trading activities...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRon Paul’s strategy to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination to challenge President Obama for the White House in November is quietly proceeding as planned, and after major delegate wins in Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDue to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural traje...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlthough, even here, their predictions understate the scope and depth of the crises, there are powerful reasons to believe that beginning in the second decade of this century, we are heading toward a stee...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWhen I retired from Warner Bros a few years ago I was relatively young-- still in my fifties-- with everything in the world to look forward to. In fact, when I first took the job at Warner Bros many year...
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