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- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 minutes 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...
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To 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 - 19 minutes 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 - 23 minutes 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 - 28 minutes 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 - 37 minutes 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 - 45 minutes 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 - 50 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour ago
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I 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour ago
The 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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" t...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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.
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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! - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 hours agohttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-gm0UuucFQZ4/T6HEH1hgRII/AAAAAAAAWCg/rqDq0PHKrYY/s144/DSC_4160.jpg
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 related to ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 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 larger fru...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 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 the fa...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 hours agoFor Star Wars Day, if you have to ask 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 Intern...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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: Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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! - 12 hours 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...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago*Obama Is Bluffing. He Didn't Really Order The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. Why? Because It Is Impossible To Kill A Ghost. * President "Barack Obama" is playing a winning hand in the 2012 presidential ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago*Obama Is Bluffing----He Didn't Really Order The Killing of Osama Bin Laden.* President Barack Obama is playing a winning hand in the 2012 presidential election, but he is playing with the house's chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe results, showing an engineered flu strain can spread easily between ferrets, derive from a controversial study that stirred debate over doing research with the potential to cause harm. In a long-await...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBritain's banks have slashed their lending to firms by almost £100billion, damning figures revealed yesterday. Experts accused lenders of 'sucking the lifeblood out of business', which is crippling their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBeijing (CNN) -- The Chinese activist who walked out of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday after what officials said was a decision he had made on his own said Thursday that he regrets the move and...
- Link: http://youtu.be/aJA-Tfbbtdg Funny and well-done. Does this or he turn you on? John
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 12.5 km (7.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:57:50 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) WNW of Izmi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 79.4 km (49.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:18:09 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 181 km (112 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoWatch at 1 minute on this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OM8JOAi8_g&feature=autoplay&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&playnext=3 Notice the pink tinge to the steam emissions in this one. May be cesium h...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoI have always said that we in the real truth movement have to periodically check on material presented by other blog writers and researchers for some great information to share with everyone. I have alway...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 37.6 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:54:27 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 191 km (118 miles) WSW of Sibolg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:38:03 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 190 km (118 miles) ESE from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:06:43 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 507 km (315 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 19:50:07 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 654 km (405.8 miles) Southwest of Petropavlov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Southeast of Easter Island at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:06:09 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 2591 km (1606.4 miles) West of Anc...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago*Russell, Dennis and Clyde then and now!* *Thanks to Pearl Means for sharing this photo with Censored News!* AIM Leadership Russell Means, Dennis Banks, former US Senator James Abourezk, and Clyde Belleco...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 14 hours agoWe know that ingesting some radioactive particles is particularly bad because your body considers them nutrients. Your body doesn't differentiate between radioactive and stable iodine. Moreover, radioac...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoI have spent the last while watching and listening to the controlled mainstream media here in Canada put forward any reports on the Talmudvision, or over the radio, pertaining to the ongoing disaster at F...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoThis entry is why we need everyone – I mean everyone - thoroughly and critically looking at the model legislation that is on the ALEC Exposed webpage. Sometimes I read a piece of ALEC “model” legislation ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 14 hours agoSince I'm apparently doing fashion critiques tonight, this Romney fundraisercaught my eye today. At a private fundraiser at the home of pizza giant John Schnatter last month, Mitt Romney is seen on a cell...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours agoBut he said the Liberals first have to set the rules for the contest — including whether Rae will be eligible, given his interim post. "Before I'm allowed to make a decision, I have to hear from the execu...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoNot fit to run a major company. It is a damning judgment on Rupert Murdoch, a threat to his British assets — and a headache for Britain's government. The majority verdict by a divided committee of Britis...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*Thank you to Vi Waln on the Sicangu Lakota Nation, Rosebud, South Dakota, for sharing these photos from the session with the UN Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples.* *Watch videos from sessions today and ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours ago#F35 #Cdnpoli - The Harperistas are changing the name of the procurement secretariat for ... the new national fighter jet, formerly believed to be the F-35. Public Works and Government Services Minister...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours agoGood Lord, somebody get her one. I don't like to deal in bullshit trivia but Ann needs some help here. I have no problem with Mrs. Romney paying almost a cool grand for only one shirt. Fashion designers ne...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"What Is or Should Be the Law?"* by Jeffrey Tucker "It seems that the president is frustrated with Congress. What kind of legislature is this, he asks, that fails to immediately enact the will of the...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoTruer words perhaps have never been spoken on the air. Shep Smith reacting to Romney reacting to Newt's farewell speech. [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 18 hours agoThe Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The late Houston real estate mogul. The Heaven on Earth Inn: Bad Karma in Houston The Guru’s utopian vision somehow took a turn in the wrong direction. By Ivan Koop Kuper / T...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 18 hours agoI love Dr. K and he's not a mean person, but he really nails this guy (Peet) to the wall. Gently. The funny thing (not really) is that Peet is only a stand-in for all those who feel free to talk about econ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 18 hours agoOne year ago today, Stephen Harper turned an "unwanted election" into his first majority government, Jack Layton and the NDP soared to never before seen heights, and Liberals spent the evening curled up ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours agoWhen head of US Homeland Security Janet Napolitano arrived in New Zealand yesterday, was she given a full-body scan at the airport so she’d feel at home here? Do you think Fletcher Building got good val...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Romney Pays Surprise Visit to his Money in the Cayman Islands"* No Timetable for Withdrawal, Says Presumptive Nominee by Andy Borowitz CAYMAN ISLANDS (The Borowitz Report) - "In an uncharacteristic...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours agoLet's see...over at Post Partisan today, more follow-up on discussion stemming from the new Mann and Ornstein stuff. This time, from liberals who object to their claim that the Democratic Party has become ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours agoDebra White Plume, Lakota, arrested at the White House in Sept. protesting tarsands and Keystone pipeline. Photo Tarsands ActionDebra White Plume Testimony on May 1st to the UN Special Rapporteur 1 May 2012...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago*New Orleans Saints linebacker Jon Vilma: "I intend to fight this injustice"~WWL*~ NFL Network reports that the league has suspended Saints linebacker Jon Vilma for an entire season without pay for his rol...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 hours agoPredator drone crew at Creech AFB in Nevada. Image from Drone Wars UK. Robots 'R' Us: Military-style drones reported on 63 bases in the USA By Danny Schechter / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2012 NEW YORK CITY -- ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours ago'But by far the biggest row was over fares. Ken had signed off an above-inflation increase that was due to come into effect the year after the mayoral election, and TfL had started to brief the credit-ra...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoMonday I was a guest on Nicole Sandler's radio show. Her listeners are always so kind and so supportive. When I woke up Tuesday I found this note in my in-box: Howie, I am listening to you on Nicole’s Mo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"The First Amendment Is Now a Felonious Criminal Act"* by Mac Slavo "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the fre...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* * *"A North American Union And A One World Economic System?"* by The American Dream “When it comes to Barack Obama, one of the most important things to understand is that he is a committed globali...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours ago*http://www.anthonyfreda.com* "A picture is worth a thousand words."
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoThe twitterati regularly trash Facebook, but I like them both for different reasons. Different content and content is my life. Found this in my timeline. It's true. Wonder if they even still have that luxu...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 20 hours agoBe thinking ahead to make or just pick things to bring to potlucks, meetups, and parties that are entirely home-grown. It's a great way to introduce the concepts of subsistence, homesteading, organic, loc...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoThis article is incredible, here's the transcript of the video of Ken Livingstone speaking on a Press TV broadcast: '*Is not the problem here that when Zionism was conceived of back in the 1880s, the worl...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours agoStatement of Damon Watahomigie Keepers of the Secret Havasupai Tribe Grand Canyon, AZ (928) 277-6541 supai.waters@yahoo.com *Consultation with* The Honorable Mr. James Anaya, United Nations Special R...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 21 hours ago(James Rielly watercolour - 2009)As any kid who has ever bumped through a bunch of different schools knows, there's an art to knowing how to fit in with a new group. My school years were in fact singularly...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAll courses of action appear to lead to an eventual financial crisis of some sort. But moderate progrowth policies are the best bet to minimize the damage The euro will not die overnight, but it seems inc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoBeijing (CNN) -- Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing under duress Wednesday, a friend of the activist's told CNN, contradicting reports that he departed of his own volition. ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago*Forgotten People goes to the UN to secure * *housing and water rights* *Press statement by Forgotten People* *Photo credit: Forgotten People* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMay 2 - Afghan residents voice their concerns following the signing of a long-term security pact between the U.S. and Afghanistan. Simon Hanna reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMay 2 - Islamist group Boko Haram releases video claiming it attacked This Day newspapers last week and warns of more attacks. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoMatt Yglesias flags something goofy over at Intrade: in their WH 2012 market, Barack Obama plus Mitt Romney only adds to 97% percent. If he had poked around, he would have found worse: Romney still has onl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMay 2 - Just days ahead of the government's monthly jobs report, private data shows weakness on the employment front- putting the stock market on edge. Bobbi Rebell reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMay 2 - Crowds gather outside a Beijing hospital, where activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be receiving medical attention. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago* * Leta O’Daniel, Member Forgotten People P.O. Box 1661 Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ 86045 www.forgottennavajopeople.org info@forgottennavajopeople.org (928) 401-0472 *Consultation with* The Ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Reuters) - The shale energy boom is fuelling a rise in the burning of waste gas after years of decline, a World Bank source told Reuters ahead of the release of new data, giving environmentalists more am...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago* * *Leonard Benally, Member* *Forgotten People* P.O. Box 41 Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039 Phone: (928) 797-9468 *Consultation with *The Honorable Mr. James Anaya, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFilesharing website is now blocked to millions of UK customers after high court rules that it flouts copyright laws. The filesharing website The Pirate Bay has been blocked to millions of UK internet use...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 22 hours agoBrown, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggested he had viewed them as part of an official briefing, and he argued that they were too graphic to be released to the public and could i...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours ago*R. v. Wong*, 2012 ONCA 286 has some useful language about delay in the Ontario Court of Justcie: We cannot leave this case without noting one troubling aspect of this case, however. As we have sa...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago* * Mary Lane, Vice-President Forgotten People P.O. Box 539 Tonalea (Navajo Nation), AZ 86044 www.forgottennavajopeople.org info@forgottennavajopeople.org (928) 864-6413 *Consultation with** *Th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago* * Glenna Begay, Member Forgotten People P.O. Box 893 Kayenta (Navajo Nation), AZ 86033 www.forgottennavajopeople.org info@forgottennavajopeople.org (928) 675-8483 Consultation with The Honorabl...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoexcerpt from my chapter on Fukushima: By May 2012 public alarm about the condition of nuclear plants in Japan was rising. A report titled “Lessons From Fukushima Dai-ichi ” issued October 28, 2011 by BBT...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 36.6 km (22.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:39:28 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) NNW of Enarotali, Papua, I...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago* * Marlene Benally, Member Forgotten People P.O. Box 1661 Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ 86045 www.forgottennavajopeople.org info@forgottennavajopeople.org (928) 401-1777 *Consultation with* The...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago* Declaration of Norris Nez* *Hathalie (Medicine Man) & Board of Director* Forgotten People P.O. Box 371 Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ 86045 www.forgotte...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 22 hours agoYesterday my co-blogger posted the results of her magisterial investigative efforts. fern hill showed us the creepy face of the homophobic, racist and Dominionist fetus lobby that is currently attempting ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*UPDATE, MAY 3RD: The Prime Minister of Israel has cancelled a trip to China, purportedly due to upcoming Israeli elections. A plausible reason. However, note that this trip was to make up for the last tri...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe IDF has issued emergency call up orders to six reserve battalions in light of new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders. And the Knesset has given the IDF permission to summon a further 16 reserv...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago------------------------------ AlterNet/ *By* *Sarah Jaffe* and *Anna Lekas Miller* and *Sarah Seltzer*and *Julianne Escobedo Shepherd* and *Alex Kane* and *Joshua Holland* "Festive, Righteous Anger...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:44:33 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40.3 miles) East of Shahrud, Iran No Repor...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoAccording to ProgressivePunch, Mary Bono Mack's homophobic voting record-- she scores a 14.29 out of 100-- on roll calls of crucial import to the LGBT community, is better than almost any Republican's. H...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoJohn Sides notes that, whatever else one can say about Mitt Romney's "even Jimmy Carter" comment, as it happens Carter isn't particularly unpopular: the last poll John found, from January 2011, had a 53/37...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agoI'm sure they tell all new students on the degree course at The London School of Economics and Political Science (and other such comparative paces of learning) this, "This planet is a LIMITED RESOURCE." ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOfficials Cull Hundreds of Bird and Close Markets After Death of Bali Child Initially Linked to H5N1 Virus Outbreak. Bali Animal Health Officials have again recorded a new outbreak of Bird Flu among Bali’...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJAKARTA, Indonesia — A 2-year-old boy has died of bird flu in western Indonesia, becoming the country's seventh fatality from the disease this year. The Health Ministry says the boy died last week in Ria...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe European Space Agency (ESA) has approved a roughly €1-billion (US$1.3 billion) mission to Jupiter. On 2 May, ESA's Science Programme Committee endorsed the Jupiter Icy moons Explorer, or JUICE, as its...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihPmoeQ3QM&feature=context-chv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ0pX4A3FnY&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USo5Cwgcq4&feature=plcp
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day agoThe huge turnouts for Occupy May Day seem to have stunned the corporate media, which had assumed the movement was dead because they had stopped paying attention to it. Now, they are trying to marginalize O...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Patterns of 50-year surface salinity changes (PSS-78 50 / year). (A) The 1950–2000 observational result from P. J. Durack, S. E. Wijffels, 'Fifty-year trends in global ocean salinities and their ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoIf there are any educational historians around in a hundred years to examine the records from this generation of corporate reform efforts to privateer public schools into corporate revenue streams, No Chi...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 1 day agoRaza Studies has been destroyed in Tucson. But like the story in the Popul Vuh, like this milpa, the maiz is rising again: We have been here forever and long after the ignorant haters are gone, we will be...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoOccupy 1914? 'More Powerful Than Dynamite' By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2012 [More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives and New York’s Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones (2012: Wa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: State Capitol & Legislature Building, Nashville, Tennessee, 22 March 2009. rbglasson / flickr] [Looks like some parts of the U.S. have passed Peak Education.] By ANDREW ROSENTHAL 1 May 2012 Wi...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012* *Dowd extends the tour:* It’s wonderful work if you can get it! Go ahead! Just check the dateline on Maureen Dowd’s thrilling new column: DOWD (5/2/12): *Libertine on the Loose* ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012* *Reciting a well-known script:* Who the Sam or Joe Hill is Rachel Maddow? NBC News has sold her to us in the liberal world as Our Own Rhodes Scholar. Of course, these are the sam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA property owner has ended living in the middle of a new main road after she refused to move out when developers started construction. Hong Chunqin, 75, and her husband Kung, who live in the two dilapidat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoI have a new paper coming out in the journal *Nature and Culture* titled "Post-Normal Science in a German Landscape." The paper is about energy transitions and ignorance, viewed through the lens of brown ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's brought stories of some bizarre finds - from the reunion of a boy and his football washed up on a uninhabited island to the discovery of a Harley-Davidson. And more could be coming thick and fast in...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoFive years ago, Peter, Larry, and a few other folks established bigthink.com, an online knowledge forum, which has featured interviews with 2,000 or so people so far. A week ago, Lisa Randall recorded an...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agoComingSoon.net has released an English language version of the Russian Prometheus featurette which recently aired, dealing with: THE STORY, THE CAST, THE SETS, THE WORLD. This might be the last bit of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man is on the run after shooting his eight-month pregnant daughter and killing her boyfriend and his wife. Kevin Satterfield, 55, from Florida, is wanted by police on two counts of first-degree murder ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoAfter reading my article Fiscal Irresponsibility 23: High Debt and Unemployment and Parliamentarism Hard Sell below, Mr. Orion Perez got ballistic and went tantrums. He posted this in my facebook wall abou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHorrifying new footage was seen for the first time today of the moment a barge slammed into a tour boat drowning two college students. Dora Schwendtner, 16, and Szabolcs Prem, 20, died when a barge collid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA brutal murderer freed early from prison to kill a second time was today put back behind bars - and a judge told him: ‘You will never be released again.’ David Cook, 65, was jailed for life in 1987 for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA cruel mother beat her seven-year-old son to death before torching his body to try to hide her crime, a court was told yesterday. Sara Ege, 31, allegedly killed her son Yaseen by hitting him with a stick...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 19.7 km (12.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:48:14 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 1888 km (1173 miles) ENE fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIJING (AP) — A close friend of Chen Guangcheng says the blind legal activist agreed to stay in China only to protect his family after receiving threats that his wife would be beaten to death if he left ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThis story makes me so angry and frustrated. I can only imagine how the parents feel! I've reached out to some activists I know who are people with disabilities for suggestions on how we can support this f...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: An aerial view shows the army camp of flood effected people in Umar Kot on 27 November 2011. Aid groups warned on November 9 that vital relief efforts for five million people affected by floods i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Comparison of the median costs and the 90th percentile costs per barrel, 2002-2011. The cost of producing the marginal barrel corresponds fairly closely to the overall barrel, especially in terms...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoAs we reported yesterday, the Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) is behind the new player in the Undebate, We Need a Law (that link is to its Myths page; go read). Also yesterday -- the day ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*.... however, when it comes to Conrad Black doing the same .... not so much.*
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: People are trapped by floodwaters on the rooftop of a house in Grantham, Australia, a township between Toowomba and Brisbane, 11 January 2011. REUTERS] [*cf.* U.S. worry about water, air polluti...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoCongressman Paul Ryan: A terrible thing to waste. Image from rrstar.com. A Republican mind is a terrible thing to waste By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2012 “The GOP has become an insurgent o...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI'm in the middle of reading a pair of books that approach a similar subject in different ways. *What Is the What* is Dave Eggers' fictional memoir of the Sudanese refugee who he sponsored and befriended...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012* *Part 2—Gail Collins’ alleged central point:* After killing a great deal of time, Gail Collins “finally” reached her column's “central point.” Or at least she *said* she did (see...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoMay 1, 2012 *Nuclear "Security" and Nuclear Hypocrisy * by grtv As the so-called "international community" once again meets to mouth political platitudes about stopping nuclear proliferation, many ar...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to Neftali Feliz, 24, who gave the Blue Sox (and, I suppose, the Rangers) two solid years out of the bullpen. Good stuff? 1. Interesting observation from Ezra Klein: columnists produced b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe body of a very young baby has been found at a recycling plant, police have said. Staff at the Bell Waste Control site in Scunthorpe called police at about 9.30am this morning after the boy was discov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:33:29 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) West of Port Ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Island, Australia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:17:59 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 970 km (602 miles) West of...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago#Cdnpoli - Greg Weston points out that Harper, instead of providing separate bills to alter or repeal several pieces of critical legislation has bundled them all together in a single bill which will preve...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoA reader asked: James, if you can answer without discussing the actual case involving a hang glider pilot, I would like to know how someone in his position could be charged with "Obstruction of Justice."...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoEric Cantor can't seem to get anything right this election cycle (other than knowing with great certainty that Steve Israel will never allow the DCCC to fund a campaign against him). He may have been forc...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoOn this, the first anniversary of Harperland, the *Globe and Mail *opines: On most of the issues that matter, on the economy, on reining in public spending, on addressing the long-term structural challe...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*More commentary on the Ho Zone ~American Zombie* *The NFL’s Blind Just(us) ~Jason Calbos* *Judge grants River Birch exec's request for hearing on motion to dismiss fraud charges* *House committee approv...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Homeless Boy Steals The Talent Show"* “One cannot help but be moved to tears by this amazing young man; Sung-bong Choi. When Sung-bong decided to sing on the Talent Show "Korea's Got Talent" he had n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 11:37:07 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 m...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 1 day agoAt *The New Republic*, "Making the Grade" poses this about the difference between college professors (notice that term "professor," as in "one who professes") and K-12 teachers: "The vast majority of stat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 32 Yangtze finless porpoises have been found dead in the Dongting and Poyang lakes in China in the last two months, leading wildlife experts to worry whether the rare animals are being pushed cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA SHOCKED farmer says he believes a vendetta is being waged against his family after three of his cattle died in horrific circumstances. Paul Weaving discovered one bullock had been killed by a hammer blow...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoThe Zionist wars of aggression being played out around the globe are a danger to us all. The latest propaganda by the Jewish President of the USA, Barry 'Obama' Dunham seeks to dæmonise Pakistan and to s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck offshore Northern California at a depth of 1.3 km (0.8 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 11:43:12 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (37 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWUHAN, May 2 (Bernama) -- More than 300 tourists were evacuated after a landslide hit a forest resort in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported. The landslide happened at 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCORPUS CHRISTI - Three people sent to the hospital, including one police officer, after they were attacked by bees this afternoon at a house on Pinewood Drive, near airline. Our cameras were rolling as Ve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 37.1 km (23.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:13:37 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (70 miles) Southwest of Tap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - While its European partners agonize about recession, austerity and rising unemployment, Germany is shifting its attention to a very different, and yet familiar, source of angst - inflation. D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The United States, European Union, South Korea and Japan have submitted a list of about 40 North Korean companies to the U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee for possible blacklisting d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Euro zone factories sank further into decline last month but manufacturers in Asia upped their tempo to meet growing demand from the United States and China, exposing a widening gulf between E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Egypt's army said on Wednesday it was deploying extra troops to control clashes that erupted at a protest near the Defence Ministry in Cairo, where medical and security sources said the death ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: The poorly armed rebels still manage to build bombs that can blow a whole building apart injuring over 100 people. (Reuters) - A rebel ambush in northern Syria killed 15 security force members on W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - A court in Mannheim ruled on Wednesday that Microsoft infringed Motorola Mobility's patents and ordered Microsoft to remove its Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system software...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday "of his own volition" after six days, the Foreign Ministry said, and a senior U.S. official said he planned to s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Thousands of people trying to return to South Sudan from Sudan have been stranded for months at the Kosti way station and are running out of "means of support," a United Nations official said Tue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWashington (CNN) -- Three of the 12 Secret Service agents involved in the Colombia prostitution scandal refused to cooperate with authorities and submit to a polygraph test, according to House Homeland S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- As international envoy Kofi Annan negotiated a cease-fire in Syria, government forces raided opposition strongholds, killing and detaining residents in attacks amounting to war crimes, a rights ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoWe are told that we are in a state of drought due to the reduced rainfall over the last two winters but are there other factors that could affect the shortage of water. Shortage of water is a supply issue,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has redeemed the honor of six senior state officials who had been purged under the late Kim Jong Il administration, it has been learned. Sources close to the leadership of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOAKLAND, Calif. – Thousands of protesters in New York demanded an end to income inequality and housing foreclosures. Police fired tear gas to disperse marchers in Oakland, Calif. And black-clad demonstrato...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Assailants targeted protesters demonstrating against the barring of a presidential candidate in Cairo early Wednesday, killing six and leaving scores hurt, the health ministry said. At least 100...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 25.4 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:57:31 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 164 km (102 miles) NNE fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA first-time mother was found guilty of repeatedly stabbing her newborn baby to death and hiding the body in a bedroom closet, a court heard today. Yoselin Torres Tovar, 20, was charged with second-degree...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoWhen I was a freshman in college, the thing that was more difficult than anything else to me was trying to figure out how to correctly cite sources in research papers. I would spend hours looking at the ML...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA New York man has been convicted of plotting an aborted suicide mission against New York City subways in 2009 - a case that featured the first-time testimony from admitted homegrown terrorists about Al-Q...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJust two months after conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart died of a sudden heart attack, a Los Angeles coroner has died of suspicious circumstances. Sources told the Los Angeles Times that Michael Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of Occupy Wall Street activists have clashed with police after swarming banks and businesses in New York as part of the movement's massive May Day protests across the country. In a deliberat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35.5 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:22:29 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnti-capitalist demonstrators tonight moved into Paternoster Square, home to the London Stock Exchange, in what they said marked a small victory - even if they were kicked out within a few hours. As May ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA former detective was tonight charged with murder for allegedly stabbing his hairdresser wife to death in her salon. Natalie Esack, 33, is thought to have left her husband of eight years Ivan Esack, 38,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA heroin addict won £3,000 in compensation after he complained he was mistreated in prison - and then blew it all on drugs when he was released. The Government awarded the payout to Gerard George McBlain,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn a bloody battle between two warring neighbours in Australia today, one man's arm was almost severed with a chain saw, while another had a finger chopped off with a Samurai sword. Surgeons were later t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least six people have been killed in an early morning suicide attack in the Afghan capital, hours after a surprise visit to Afghanistan by President Barack Obama, government officials said. The Taliba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA drunken secretary has admitted hurling racist abuse at fellow passengers on the London Underground after a video of her appeared on the internet. Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, directed a drunken, expletive-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe coroner presiding over the inquest into the death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams has said there is insufficient evidence to consider a verdict of unlawful killing. Sky reporter Mark Stone, at the inquest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Obama recently touted algae as a potential source of energy, and now the Environmental Protection Agency has invested in converting spinach into an energy source. The EPA awarded a $90,000 gran...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEurope (minus Germany) looks more like post-bubble Japan each month. The long-feared credit crunch has mutated instead into a collapse in DEMAND for loans. Households and firms are comatose, or scared sti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFormer U.S. nuke envoy says North is relic of China’s past, not asset for its future North Korea’s rocket launch in violation of a breakthrough deal in February with the U.S. is an indication of “deeper ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the little political battles going on in the background is over the UK's promise to spend 0.7 per cent of our shrinking GDP on overseas development aid. The truth is that it doesn't really matter w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNAIL POLISH BRANDS WITH ONE OR MORE 'TOXIC TRIO' INGREDIENTS - Station - Dare to Wear - Chelsea - Golden Girl - Cacie - New York Summer - High Gloss Mislabelled nail products have the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe toss out 7 pounds of trash a day each, spending billions to manage it Each week, we push our trash to the curb, and it seemingly disappears. But where does it all go: the spent cartons of milk, the comp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought. The results provide an important benchmark for monitoring the impact ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Bali, in Indonesia, a country where handicapped children are often treated very badly.* - Website for this image *In parts of Indonesia, children with deformities are said to be occupied by 'bad' spirit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago3D altitude maps captured by satellites show glaciers in part of the greater Himalaya range are bucking the global trend of continued ice loss. The glaciers flowing between the towering peaks of the Karako...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists from the United States Geological Survey have cautiously weighed in on a subject that has sparked public concern in some parts of the country: spates of small earthquakes in oil- and gas-produci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs ESA's Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica's ice shelves due to climate warming. One of the satellite's first observations followi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBOZEMAN, Mont. – Locked in frozen vaults on Antarctica and Greenland, a lost world of ancient creatures awaits another chance at life. Like a time-capsule from the distant past, the polar ice sheets offe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVIENNA, W.Va. -- A team of experts revealed Monday that it has found a "probable link" between C8 and human cancers, rebuffing DuPont Co.'s longstanding contention that exposure to the chemical is harmless...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA study of pregnant women and their children in New York City has provided clinical evidence that links environmental pollution with childhood obesity. The most up-to-date statistics show that 17 per cent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA much-used herbicide, which for years has helped farmers throughout the United States increase profits, is losing its effectiveness and forcing producers to spend more and use more chemicals to control t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChicken is the top-selling meat in the United States. The average American eats 84 pounds a year, more chicken than beef or pork. Sorry red meat, chicken is what's for dinner. And now the USDA is proposin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn an executive summary report released at this year’s Annual Science/AAAS meeting (Feb, 2012, Vancouver, B.C.), the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) lays out five of the primary “methods of abuse” uti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChinese activist Cheng Guangcheng has left the US Embassy and is headed to a hospital in Beijing where he is to be reunited with his family, according to Sky sources. His stay at the embassy in Beijing h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 36-year-old man has been charged with the murders of Colin Dunford and Julie Davison, Cleveland police have said. James Allen is also accused of rape, false imprisonment, assault and witness intimidati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina has demanded that the US apologises for sheltering blind activist Cheng Guangcheng in its embassy in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said. Chen, who angered Chinese authorities by exposing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:23 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) West of Foça, T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:40:02 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) WNW of Izmir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 36 km (22.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:13:17 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) Southwest of Tapach...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kapulauan Sangihe, Indonesia at a depth of 134.1 km (83.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:23:48 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 232 km (144 miles) NNE of Man...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 50.6 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:14:03 UTC Wednesday 2nd May 2012 The epicenter was 356 km (221 miles) SSW from NUKU'...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoFurther to yesterday's post, have a look at this single graph from New Scientist magazine... It makes the same point rtaher neatly I think. Once again when will the BBC show such a graph to put 'man made ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agoALARUMS ALARUMS ALARUMS Oliver North, you remember that guy, right? Central to the Congressional investigation of the IRAN/CONTRA affair, where American arms were sold to Iran during an already-existing a...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoSource: http://organichealthadviser.com/archives/polysorbate-80-in-swine-flu-vaccines-infertility-in-humans *Is ACLU Aware? Sebelius, HHS Censor Vaccine Concerns, Produce ‘Fertility Impairing Vaccine’*...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoThe UK Met Office's three month weather outlook issued on 23 March ran thus (*my emphasis*): 'The forecast presented here is for April and the average of the April-May-June period for the United Kingdom a...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoFor more info and how you can help visit: http://www.survivingjapanmovie.com/ Inside story of the 2011 Japan Tsunami and Fukushima disaster. A critical look at how the authorities handled the nuclear cri...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 1 day agoFor May Day this year, let's start with a little music. Here's a Woody Guthrie tune, "from Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Concert (Clearwater Concert), Madison Square Garden, 5/3/09. Featuring Billy Bragg, Mik...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoWe continue to smash neutrons together at high energy and derive ever more energetic results. Like the transuranic atoms, the results are theoretically pleasing, but otherwise difficult to get...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThis item is written by a journalist whose father is Cree. As an aside, I suspect that the Cree did best of all native peoples in the Americas in terms of generally surviving the impact of the Eu...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThis is a mechanical assist but it draws fluids of the brain allowing for a superior outcome when brain injury has occurred. This may allow a significant amount of heart attack caused brain injury...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoMost likely the object was acquired by the US government by the payment of a decent honorarium and a signature on the appropriate document outlining the Official Secrets act turning all the cust...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*The short version of the article is "Probably Yes". Here is the extended version:* Lots of blogs and media have discussed a paper in *Nature Climate Change*that has demonstrated a huge warming effect of...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 1 day agoContemplating the thought of three more years of Stephen Harper. Below: Mr. Harper himself. Tory times, as the old saying goes, are terrible times. So it should surprise no one that as we mark the first ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoMay 1, 2012 In the third episode of The World Tomorrow Julian Assange speaks with Tunisia's first post-revolution leader Moncef Marzouki about the West's double standards in protecting human rights. He ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA group of more than 2,000 scientists from 67 countries has called for a moratorium on commercial fishing in the Arctic until more research can be completed on waters that were once covered by ice year-ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn 2006, when beekeepers began to report that their hives were suffering from a mysterious affliction, a wide variety of theories were offered to explain what was going on. The bees were suffering from ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoUN's silence over Syrian opposition terrorism lays bare "international law's" illegitimacy. *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 2, 2012* - Since 2011, reports of arsonists and gunmen amongst Syria's opposition hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Retired police officer Ed Hashbarger is watching in anger as drillers converge on his part of eastern Ohio, at times gaining access to coveted oil and gas deposits through a state la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists shocked to find greenhouse gas 70 times more potent than CO2 bubbling from deep ocean. A new source of methane – a greenhouse gas many times more powerful than carbon dioxide – has been identi...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*The UK does not so far have extensive 4G coverage, and the iPad will be mismatched with it while it does. *The opinion of the regulator is that had received dozens of complaints in relation to the matte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLast year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the economic elite with its defiant populism. It was, according to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScotland would be unlikely to have a AAA credit rating if it were independent of the rest of the United Kingdom, MPs have been told. Although the precise division of UK assets and liabilities has not yet ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNaomi Gummer, a public policy analyst at the internet giant, said it was a "myth" that laws can prevent children from viewing explicit material, because the pace of technological development would render l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Government borrowed £2bn more than expected in March but just about managed to meet its full-year target because of downward revisions to previous months. Britain’s public finances deteriorated furth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe drug wars dominate the discussion in Mexico and in many border states in America as well. There have been nearly 50,000 drug-related killings in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón began his six-y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The real estate market was on fire. Buyers were snapping up sparkling new condos faster than developers could build them. Investors were grabbing two, three, four apartments each, ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoI have seen massive geysers of what look like smoke or steam released from the Fukushima plant on the webcam over the last 2 days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDxI4xG2VSg&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Tensions between China and other nations bordering the South China Sea are escalating, with the oil and gas resources that lie beneath those waters playing a central role. Conserva...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Aging baby boomers got some jolting news on Monday when the U.S. government said the Social Security retirement program is on track to go bankrupt three years earlier than expected if reforms ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTeachers across Canada are having their reputations ruined as increasing numbers get falsely accused of abusing their students, or acting inappropriately with them, experts say. "We are getting more and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArthritis is widely misunderstood by the public as an ailment that only affects older people, but there is a growing risk that those in their 20s and 30s will suffer from it as well. This is especially t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDespite new leadership, the country is still being run based on principles set out by Kim Jong-Il and his father. Tokyo, Japan - At 7:39 am on April 13, North Korea fired a missile (which it called a sate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Islamist movements that sided with Egypt's SCAF have turned full circle and flocked to Tahrir Square in protests. Cairo, Egypt - In late December, a young female protester took a break from the havoc ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmal al-Malki, a Qatari author, says the Arab Spring has failed women in their struggle for equality. Is the Arab Spring a movement leading to more freedom and equal rights? Not for women, according to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea issued a brazen threat against South Korea on Monday, warning that it would take "special actions" that will "start soon to meet the reckless challenge of the group of traitors" -- shorthand f...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago*At night, the snails come out by the thousand.* The Ma Administration, under fire for the sensible move of raising electricity prices but doing it all in one fell swoop, finally bowed to sanity yesterd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Koreans feel new leader Kim Jong-un is getting above his station by having himself appointed first secretary of the Workers Party by the country's rubber-stamp parliament earlier this month, a South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe interest burden on household loans has reached a point where it can seriously threaten private consumption, the Bank of Korea said Sunday. The central bank said the proportion of loan interest to hous...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAll things considered, India acted prudently in preserving its oil imports from Iran. Reports suggest that the European Union [EU] may not, after all, implement in July its oil embargo against Iran. The ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Scientists increasing heritably modified wheat are asking campaigners not to damage their investigational plots, other than come in for a chat instead.* They argue that genes as of the customized strain ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSuppose you were alive back in 1945 and were told about all the new technology that would be invented between then and now: the computers and internet, mobile phones and other consumer electronics, faster...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJANESVILLE — At its best, a recent surge in local foreclosure activity will add to the backlog of distressed properties depressing the real estate market. At its worst, the record level of activity could...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. military has stockpiled $800 million worth of weapons in Israel and the amount is growing, according to a U.S. Congressional report and reported by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu of the Israeli media network...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNetherlands-based freelance editor and filmmaker Sander van den Berg created this beautiful video of Saturn by piecing together raw images from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions. Source
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