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Photo courtesy: © choosecherries.com For the millions who suffer debilitating joint pain and arthritis, tart cherries may help to significantly reduce inflammation and pain. New research from Oregon Healt... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Senior European officials last night issued a grave warning that the very survival of the euro is at risk as the crisis in Spain threatens to tear the region apart. Politicians and central bankers said t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
Exactly nine years previously, Mick Philpott and his beaming bride Mairead stood side by side as they posed for their wedding photographs. Yesterday they stood side by side once more, but this time they w... - posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 11 minutes agoLink: http://youtu.be/7REYjta_6Ig Unfortunately I must report that our little grandson Patrick-Alexandro (4), who lives in Germany, has fallen in the hands of the infamous and controversial German *Jugend...
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The number of households in which nobody has a job reached a record total of nearly four million last year. Rising numbers of workless homes – where no one between the ages of 16 and 64 is employed – hav... - posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 13 minutes ago
Nile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com June 1, 2012 As the long-standing tensions between Washington and Pyongyang remain enflamed, a media report accusing South Korean and US Special Forces of parachuting ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes agoWASHINGTON — Don't worry about when the world as we know it might end. NASA has calculated that our entire Milky Way galaxy will crash into a neighboring galaxy with a direct head-on hit — in 4 billion yea...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 minutes ago"In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now modestly recognized ...
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If the opinion polls in the Republic of Ireland are correct, there will be a victory for the Yes campaign when the votes cast in yesterday’s referendum on the European fiscal treaty are counted today. But... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 minutes agoAnchorage, Alaska, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
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*Romania beats us out for the worst hunger among children, but just barely* We all want this country to be great-- although over on the plutocratic right, they define "this country" in more exclusionary te... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 25 minutes ago*"Tending, As All Music Does, Toward Silence" * by Chet Raymo “One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, the average life span in developed countries was about 40 years. In 1900, it was closer to 50. Today, we'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes agoThe US is heaping new pressure on Russia to change course and support international action in Syria, warning that intransigence by Moscow may lead to open civil war that could spill across the Middle East...
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A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 463.8 km (288.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:51:46 UTC Friday 1st June 2012 The epicenter was 261 km (162 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Vanua Lev... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 20.1 km (12.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:49 UTC Friday 1st June 2012 The epicenter was 204 km (126 miles) SSW of Por... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 31.5 km (19.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:01:01 UTC Thursday 31st May 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) ... - posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 1 hour agoRIP. Erik Loomis has a nice post up and some other clips and links.
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I’ve kinda been waiting for this or something like this. I figured the time would come, I was just waiting. – Please watch it before you read the rest – Its only about 2 minutes. Video by The Uptake It... - posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoPhotos by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog. The Climate Change awareness drought is over Part Two: Voices tell us 'the warmists are dead' Which side is biased and how do we tell with all the noise in the media...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours agoOne of the most surprising (to me) aspects of this case is the gore.comwebsite. Apparently the murder went online (I gather users can post their own videos) and the murder/dismemberment went unnoticed as 'j...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours agoTo Russia with love: A Rag Blog interview with Steven HalliwellWhat Russia shows us is that there’s no easy fix. Getting to a common global discussion is the biggest challenge of the 21st century. By Jonah ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 3 hours agoThese days, I am truly pissed off by what I see going on around the world. We have the economic turmoil in Europe that could (and should) see the end of the fraudulent European Union. We also see the c...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoHillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, bluntly criticised Russia's continued backing for President Bashar al-Assad's regime yesterday. This support was illustrated last night by the disclosure that a...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoYahoo! It's finally out! After 2 long months of work, we've finally sent our subscribers the first issue of the Coming Crisis Magazine, which includes over 400 pages of exclusive material not available on...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 5 hours ago*Navajo Eagle Dancer pencil drawing by Patrick Yazzie* I spent about half a week in Flagstaff Arizona, my daughter attended an orientation at Northern Arizona University. My older sister got her degre...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours agoCourtesy Trail of Broken Promises Haskell students walking to Washington DC to save wetlands By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The Trail of Broken Promises began on May 13 ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago[image: image] Message to those saying Hekia Parata and John Key don’t know what they’re doing: It’s really quite simple. If you don’t think government is qualified to micro-manage education, then don’t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*It's the top of the world, right?* *In the meantime I have been diligently working to prepare some wonderful posts for you **in an entirely new yet similar style, and in an exciting yet still familiar fo...
- posted by Cliff Bob at The Duck of Minerva - 5 hours agoThe *NY Times’* recent article on Obama’s “kill list” of American citizens and others suspected--not convicted--of terrorism includes much disturbing information on what our government is doing in our na...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoI suppose I should take note of the demise of Buddy Roemer's third-party campaign, a few months after the demise of his campaign for the Republican nomination. You know, for President of the United States ...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 5 hours agoWell well well, the plot thickens.....Let me start by saying that the BC Liberals, Mike De Jong and Shirley Bond are bold-faced liars, actually, let me rephrase, all BC Liberals are liars! As you know, t...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours agoThe big news in Canada? Body parts. Porn Stars. Snuff films and murder. There is something seriously off about this bit of news. Seriously off. A lawyer from the US got a conscience and attempted to notify ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than thos...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Quebec protests put government on defense; Emergency laws possible as youth fight tuition hikes" by Sean Farrell | Associated Press, May 18, 2012 MONTREAL - Facing the *most sustained student protest i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"PIMpCO's Gross: When Will The Admission Come?"* by Karl Denninger “There comes a time when one must ask - how long will the self-deception continue? "Yet while the whales have no immediate worries abou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"The Z-Shaped Recovery"* by Dan Amoss "The recovering US economy is not recovering…and neither are the economies of Europe and China. Manufacturing Activity in the Eurozone vs. in the US As the cha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Were it Not for Dumb Money…"* by Bill Bonner "Thank God for dumb money! What would the world be without chumps? Suckers? Bagmen and patsies? Who would buy a ladies handbag for $1,500? Or blue-jeans ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Castro’s daughter speaks on gay rights" Associated Press, May 25, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO - The daughter of Cuban president Raul Castro brought her fight for gay rights to a US forum on Wednesday, stressing th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Man is accused of killing relative" May 09, 2012|Brian R. Ballou and Martin Finucane QUINCY - David Hoelzer’s 45th birthday bash Thursday night in Cohasset turned into a family tragedy after he was kille...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Police said they found several vials of a suspicious material in a Halifax condominium where a man in his 70s was found dead under pillows in a closet Monday. They also discovered a box marked “explosive,...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Why didn't we ever hear about any being collected on 9/11, American? * *Is it possible there were no planes?* "Russian jet’s data recorder analyzed" Associated Press, May 17, 2012 JAKARTA, Indonesia — I...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Did they get a "security" molestation and cancer-causing radiation screen before boarding? * "The team has been invited to Morocco by the country’s King Mohammed VI to showcase the cutting edge of solar ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 6 hours agoWhew. The Republican (Jesse Helms' machine appointees funded by Scaife/Mellon/Koch/who knows the most current? money) stalking of John Edwards has been momentarily stymied. I'm guessing if he never raises ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago*"Obesity is a nationwide problem, and all over the United States public health officials are wringing their hands, saying, 'Oh, this is terrible!' New York City is not about wringing your hands. It's abo...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours agoI'm increasingly convinced the media obsession with daily polling is at the root of our failed political discourse. They waste endless time and money on the polling, and then waste oceans of bandwidth anal...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours agoDrones in space? The US Air Force is preparing for the return of its automated space craft after 453-days and counting in orbit. Here it is, the X-37. *The robotic X-37B, which resembles a miniatu...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoTHE TOMATO GENOME has been sequenced. According to ScienceDaily: "Tomato Genome Gets Fully Sequenced -- Paves Way to Healthier Fruits, Veggies". The genomes from the "Heinz 1706" and a wild precursor were se...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 7 hours agoLegislation to ban sex-selective abortions failed to pass today despite it being supported by the majority of the House. The final vote was 246-168. The reason it failed was that this particular proposal r...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoOne of the ongoing controversies plaguing the F-35 has been what powers it. There was early backing for two engines to be developed but Congress angrily quashed that in favour of but one, Pratt & Whitney...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoCan corrupt incumbents, heavily financed by lobbyists and the industries they're supposed to regulate, be defeated? Historically, the answer would have to be, "almost never." This year, though, something...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours agoI'm serious. They kicked Helen Thomas out for less. Fox spewed four minutes of pure GOP propaganda into the airwaves yesterday morning. I would love for someone to explain to me why they should still have ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoNorth Carolina is firmly Republican and its legislature is just as firmly crazy. Crazy as in detached from reality, liberated from reason, unhinged. From *Scientific American:* "*...the meter or so o...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago*Weller v. Reliance Home Comfort Limited Partnership, *2012 ONCA 360 deals with *General*, O. Reg. 17/05 to the *Consumer Protection Act, 2002**, S.O. 2002. The Regulation governs changes made by a su...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours agoSorry I disappeared. Just realized it's been days since I've posted a thing anywhere. Been on the disabled list. Somehow managed to put my back out while I was sleeping. Been in intense pain for days. I'm ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours agoImage below (inset): ‘Dominoes. Death Row, Texas," 1979. Photo by Bruce Jackson from In This Timeless Time. Image from Prison Photography. 'In This Timeless Time': The limbo of Death Row The life and surr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - If Greece rejects the 130-billion-euro rescue package meant to dig it out of a debt crisis the country will be plunged into a nightmare that it cannot control, Greece's conservative leader Anto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAlmost €100bn (£80.2bn) of cash was pulled out of Spain in the first three months of the year by private and corporate investors fleeing the advancing financial and political crisis. The Bank of Spain sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe head of the European Central Bank hit out at the political paralysis gripping the region as he warned the eurozone's set-up was "unsustainable". Mario Draghi said the central bank could not "fill the v...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoToni Basil - 'Mickey' It was a cover version, the original was recorded by Racey in 1979 Racey - 'Hey Kitty' The song was written by the inestimable Chinn & Chapman. In case there any kids out there...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 8 hours agoWhat is Feminism? Looking at the word, it must surely be something to do with celebrating the female, and all that is feminine, right? Well, no, it isn't. Then what else can it be? If it isn't a celeb...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWe need you to subscribe to our magazine (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your financial help, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researching, reporting ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoThis is what passes for news reporting, in the Sun tabloids. A hospital Tim Hortons in St. John's that was supposed to make hundreds of thousands of dollars to offset the cost of delivering health care is ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago[image: Libyan Martyrs Honored] *Libyans at the Westfield Marriott in Chantilly, VA Website for this image* The Bilderberg Group is holding its 2012 annual at the Mariott Westfields Hotel in Chantilly, Vir...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoU.S. Human rights activists document US participation in massacre of Moskito people "Following the massacre at least one helicopter landed and at least ten, tall, light-skinned English speakers with limited...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 9 hours agoThis post is a continuation of what will eventually be a long series of discussions of innovation in the economy, with a longer-term objective of gaining some clarity on how innovation is understood, dir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - How far is Germany prepared to go to save the euro zone? With Greece's future in the single currency bloc in doubt, Spain scrambling to get a grip on its ailing banks and the euro itself in fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTo the naked eye, the euro is still alive. From a financial perspective, on the other hand, it is already pretty much kaput. In just the same way as the currency union was preceded by an invisible rise i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 9 hours agoSo, last night on Twitter, SUZYALLCAPSLOCK, as @roseblue, was squatting on the #M312 (Woodworth's Wank) hashtag in a prolonged fit of echolalia, obsessively repeating her mantra: 'It is *so* human. It's a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani Taliban vowed on Thursday to kill Shakeel Afridi, the jailed Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA in the search for Osama bin Laden, a spokesman for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWashington (CNN) -- Diplomacy remains the favored option as the U.S. grapples with how best to deal with Syria, but the U.S. military has drawn up plans to use if diplomacy fails. Officials issued fresh...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoJob recovery is scant for Americans in prime working years By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/job-recovery-is-scant-for-americans-in-prime-working-years...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours agoThe “Shabiha” in Syria have been getting a whole lot of media coverage that past few days. I noticed an increased reporting, once again, of their ghostly existence right after the NATO terrorists massacre...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoMichael channeled by Ron Head May 31, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages This morning we shall talk about your similarities and differences. It would seem absurd to say that you are all exactly the sam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- A Syrian government investigation determined that security forces had nothing to do with the Houla massacre and blamed the act on terrorists, officials said Thursday. The massacre, which left m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- For four decades, consecutive generations of the Assad family -- Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father as Syrian president in 2000 -- have interfered in Lebanon to the west, and Iraq to the east....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGANGTOK: Landslides triggered by rains have snapped the road link between Gangtok and Tsomgo Lake, leaving about 4000 tourists stranded near 15 Mile, en route to Tsomgo Lake and Nathu la in Sikkim. Offici...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoInfowars (Rob Jacobson): Free desktop streaming application by Ustream Infowars (Alex Jones, Aaron Dykes, Rob Dew, and Paul Joseph Watson): Live video from your iPhone using Ustream We Are Change (Luke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday laid out arguments against armed intervention in Syria despite last week's massacre in the town of Houla. Speaking to Danish students, Clint...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: The expansion and impact of world fishing fleets in a) 1950 and b) 2006. The maps show the geographical expansion of world fishing fleets from 1950 to 2006 (the latest available data). Since 1950...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoI have a post up at Post Partisan today noting that the new Crossroads ad against Claire McCaskill that hits her on ACA -- but, I note, the substantive problems identified with "Obama - Claire" are all abo...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours agoCrazy. That is the only way to describe my last couple of weeks. At first it was crazy busy and recently is had been crazy painful. Healing has been a slower process than I had imagined, but we moving forw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice believe the porn actor wanted in Canada after a human hand was found in the post and a foot sent to a political party may have already fled to France. Luka Magnotta is suspected of killing and di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 522.8 km (324.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:55:33 UTC Thursday 31st May 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (34 miles) ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoMay 31, 2012 4 Men, 8 Pax, 8 Manik *GFL:* Dratzo! We return! Much continues to happen behind closed doors on your world. The dark cabal bankers have created a situation of such unruliness wit...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoArtur Davis had one of the safest Democratic districts in the South. When he was the congressman from the 7th CD, gerrymandering had packed as many African-Americans into it as they could. It was a 61.7% ...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 12 hours agoWith the release of the National Education Policy Center's 2011 Bunkum Awards, I feel the need to join in the spirit of NEPC's excellent work to highlight the gradual unmasking of the National Council on T...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 12 hours ago** *... or black ops experiments? * *Contributor: "YYC"* A reader sent me this link and commented: *After reading that story about the guy in Miami eating the other guy's face I see we have another man i...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWe're almost there! Just the finishing touches! We should begin sending it out to subscribers in just a few hours. If you haven't subscribed yet, you still have a chance! Back to work... -- Matt & Lynsey
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoWall Street Journal May 29, 2012 p. A2. [excerpt] "Federal investigators are exploring whether BP PLC representatives lied to Congress about how much oil was leaking after the Deepwater Horizon accident....
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2012* *The rage of the world’s dumbest man:* Will Barack Obama win re-election? We become more doubtful by the day. But then, we watch MSNBC, which seems to be trying extra hard to help...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoRobbie Thorpe, Aboriginal elder, speaking in support of "my brother," at the Rally for Julian Assange in Melbourne. (Twitter photo Juice Rap News) Wikileaks exposed attacks on Indigenous Peoples By Brenda N...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoOne personal note: I have been taking some time away from this blog for the last while to take care of some personal and work related business. It has therefore been hard to keep up with all the importan...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: 50Hertz power grid interventions in Germany, 28-31 March 2012. 'Welt Online' reported on 'alarm level yellow' for German power grids on 28 and 29 March 2012. At 8:48 pm one of two circuits of the...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours agoWhen one of the nastiest companies (when it comes to just about everything except price) in the United States "suspended their membership" with ALEC - you know there is somthing terribly wrong with the Am...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoI still consider Matrix theory (BFSS, 1996) one of the most conceptually original developments in theoretical physics of the last 20 years. It is a relatively unusual way to describe physics in the 11-di...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago*R. v. Krasniqi*, [2008] O.J. No. 5815 holds that withdrawals (and peace bonds) are irrelevant as a consideration on bail because they are simply unproven allegations and absent an admission about tho...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours agoThis BBC report struck me as odd: 'Luton police in talks over Sikh protest Police have said they are talking to community leaders following a protest by hundreds of Sikhs at a Luton police station. About...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoJason Mraz, "I Won't Give Up" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLOMvPC1EzQ
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours agoBy Dalina Castellanos 30 May 2012 The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire in New Mexico hasn't just broken the record for the largest blaze in state history, it's shattered it. An infrared reading about midn...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 13 hours ago** *... Bilderbergers in Chantilly, VA until June 3* *Contributor: "YYC"* Intell Hub has live reports all day today. Dan Dicks, of Canada's *Press for Truth*, is reporting on it as well. Here's the list ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 13 hours agoMartin Wolf, the consistently excellent FT economic columnist, has an excellent blog post up which explains why a focus on taxation as a focus of economic policy debates is misguided. he writes: The f...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 13 hours ago*There are many videos on Youtube of the nose exiting the North side of WTC 2. It sticks out about 40 feet and is around 10 feet in diameter, which, I guess is supposed to represent an airliner. However, ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago(The future Canadian Monarch - King Charles III - ..... no thanks ....) *"A three-step process should be considered. First, Ottawa should hold a national referendum on a Yes-or-No question: “Should Canad...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoSuddenly, Stephen Harper doesn't seem all that out of place. The latest from pollster Nik Nanos is that many Canadians are pessimistic about the future that awaits our youth. *"...the low expectations fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 164.6 km (102.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:50:46 UTC Thursday 31st May 2012 The epicenter was 261 km (162 miles) ES...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2012* *Part 3—327 words:* Just an impression: For many people, it’s hard to see how dumb and uncaring our discourse really is. Beyond that, it’s hard to see how deeply uncaring our m...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*Times-Picayune editor on reporting ambitions, salary rumors ~Jim Romenesko* *Scrapping the Scrapbook: New Orleans Newsprint's Loyal Fans ~Karen Dalton-Beninato* *Recalling the Great Flood of 2011 ~Delta ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Rikkert Faneyte, 43. Perhaps not much of a ballplayer, but a good story nonetheless. Plenty of good stuff: 1. Greg Koger on the sudden turn against consensus in the Senate. Explanation?...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTwo fishermen have reeled in what is believed to be the largest shark caught in British waters. Wayne Comben and Graeme Pullen, from Hampshire, caught the porbeagle shark off the Cornish coast at Boscastl...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThe latest polling shows Carol Shea-Porter reclaiming New Hampshire's first district congressional seat from teabagger Frank Guinta. Guinta's one hope-- to swamp her with corporate cash the same way he d...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 15 hours agoWater fowl aren't really my forte when it comes to birding...and not just because of my lack of exposure to them. It's not very often that I get to see buffleheads but I did this past weekend. A few small...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Syria's main rebel commander urged Kofi Annan on Thursday to announce that his peace plan had failed to free insurgents from any commitment to a ceasefire deal, which the United States said ma...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoWhen David Wilks backed down last week -- declaring that, despite his previous comments, he supported the Harper government's Omnibus Budget Bill -- Canadians got an inside look at how raw power is exer...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago[image: Her Excellency Mrs. Asma Al-Assad the First Lady of Syria, Miss Humanity & Charity.] *Asma Assad, wife of the President.* Website for this image Translation of an article by the ANNA News journalis...
- Episode 10 in the Disarming Grandmothers of the UK Documentary Series: "A life enhancing experience"
posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago31 May 2012 *EPISODE TEN: A LIFE ENHANCING EXPERIENCE* **Helen stepped into the peace movement in 1981 when she and four other women chained themselves to the fence at RAF Greenham Common, in protest o... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Treasury has announced the cap on tax relief for charitable donations proposed by George Osborne in the Budget is to be dropped. The controversial plans were criticised by charities that warned they co...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 hours agoSomebody left a copy of the Globe & Mail at the coffee shop. Leafed through it. A Jeffrey Simpson column "The lingering gloom of recession." I thought: "This'll be good for a laugh." Dude got paid a decent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe girlfriend of the man who chewed off most of another man's face believes her boyfriend was either drugged or a voodoo curse was put on him. Naked Rudy Eugene, 31, was shot dead by police after he had ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHerder was the fourth person to self-immolate in remote town, as hundreds are detained following Lhasa protests. A young woman has died after setting fire to herself in the latest of a wave of Tibetan sel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPrison guards across NSW will walk off the job for an hour on Friday after a Newcastle colleague was sentenced for assaulting an inmate. CCTV footage emerged of the October 2011 incident that appeared to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe ACT Government has promised a $25 million boost for child protection amid renewed evidence of systemic failings. An examination of the sector by Public Advocate Anita Phillips makes it clear vulnerab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA low-budget porn actor suspected of sending dismembered body party to offices across Canada allegedly filmed himself hacking his victim's body up with an ice-pick and then posted the sickening video onli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops on Thursday shelled the country's central region of Houla where more than 100 people were massacred last week, activists said. At least one person was killed in the latest viole...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIsrael has dismissed suggestions that it might be behind the Flame cyber-attack. Several media reports linked comments made by the country's vice prime minister with the malware, which has infected more ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoRemember how excited SecondMarket was about the Facebook IPO? I’ll bet they’re not nearly as excited any more. Because if anything demonstrates that there’s a venture-capital bubble in Silicon Valley righ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Iran has cancelled a $2 billion contract for a Chinese firm to help build a hydroelectric dam, Chinese state media said on Thursday, a move that risks upsetting one of Tehran's most important e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMay 31 - Canadian police name suspect in gruesome murder case after body parts found in mail. Sophia Soo reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMay 31 - After killing five and wounding one, suspected gunman shoots dead himself when confronted by police. Sophia Soo reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMay 31 - A car in eastern China collides with a motorcycle at an intersection, sending its five passengers toppling onto the road. Sophia Soo reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMay 31 - Indonesian militant Umar Patek apologises to courtroom for his involvement in the 2000 Christmas Eve bombings in Jakarta that killed 15 people. Sarah Sheffer reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - As law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf embarks on the humbling process of working through bankruptcy, creditors and former partners are bracing themselves for a nasty court battle that could drag on for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Deepening the mystery in a case that is straining Islamabad's relations with Washington, a Pakistani militant group said on Thursday it never had ties to a doctor who helped the CIA find Osama...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors displayed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that some small buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work undertaken at an Iranian military ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Crisis is the watchword in Madrid. Take your pick - liquidity crisis, debt crisis, banking crisis, economic crisis, confidence crisis, investor crisis, jobless crisis. Spain, the ailing euro z...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWind and pouring rain over the past few days have struck central and southern Chile, leaving two people dead and 3,542 displaced, while 194,206 households are without electricity and 9,452 households have ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA ‘green alert’ still allows visitors access to the volcanic areas. The National Emergency Commission (CNE) on Wednesday declared a preventive “green alert” due to recent seismic activity at three volcano...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA chemical mix-up at a Darigold plant in Southeast Portland sent eleven people to the hospital Wednesday morning. Portland Fire and Rescue spokesman Paul Corah says they are being treated for respiratory ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoOne person has skin lesions and 16 animals have died in an anthrax outbreak in northern Colombia, near the Venezuelan border. A notification on the website for the World Organization for Animal Health (O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- The Vatican expressed rare public anger Wednesday in blasting the leaking of private papers from the pope's apartment, a scandal that observers say lifts the lid on a secret power struggle going ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- Hours after being released from jail, a man walked through an emergency door at San Diego International Airport, onto the tarmac and sat down on a United Express plane Tuesday, according to San D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoNew Delhi (Financial Times) -- Indian GDP growth slides to 5.3% a clear sign that the country's slowdown is deepening and affecting all sectors of the economy. Sharp falls in the manufacturing and agricu...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 18 hours agoDigital publishing is not just about pouring the physical book into a digital container, or even about redesigning the content so it digitally stands on its heads, does a twirl and explodes in a sea of mu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoForeign Minister Bob Carr has defended the amount of help the Government has given to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Mr Assange's lawyers have been given two weeks to consider their next move after his...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoCairo (CNN) -- Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's two sons were charged with insider trading Wednesday, just days before a verdict is expected on a separate trial involving them and their father. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- Gunmen kidnapped two American tourists Thursday in Egypt's Sinai region and demanded the release of a man arrested a day earlier for drug possession, authorities said. The tourists, both 31, wer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe parents of six children killed in a fire at their Derby home have been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with murder. Derbyshire Police arrested Mick Philpott, 55, and his wife Mair...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSouth Australian Treasurer Jack Snelling has made deep cuts in his second state budget, as the Government aims to achieve savings of about $800 million. The SA budget will have deficits approaching $1 bil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Australian share market has dipped and the dollar has fallen to a six-month low against the greenback amid fears Spain may need a bailout. The All Ordinaries lost 15 points to 4,134 and the ASX 200 en...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAfter being perched well above the $US1 mark for the first four months of this year the Aussie dollar has come steadily down. Since the start of May it’s been slashed almost 7% as concerns over Greece’s p...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours agoDavid Rath, the main symbol of corruption of the Czech social democratic party, took most of the $500,000+ bribes in a major Czech corruption scandal, the grandest one at least in the last 20 years. (He ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- Rebels in Colombia released French journalist Romeo Langlois on Wednesday, a move that came after negotiations involving government officials and the Red Cross. Langlois arrived in a Red Cross co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- A suicide bomber attacked a district police office in southern Afghanistan Thursday morning, killing four police officers and one civilian and wounding six others, the Kandahar governor's office s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJuba, South Sudan (CNN) -- Sudan has withdrawn its soldiers from Abyei, a disputed border region also claimed by South Sudan, but has left police officers, the United Nations peacekeeping mission said Wed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBaghdad (CNN) -- A series of explosions in a three-hour period rocked several areas in Baghdad on Thursday morning, leaving seven people dead and dozens injured, Iraqi police said. It was unclear who comm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The "Flame" virus, the most complex computer bug ever discovered, has been lurking for years inside Iranian government computers, spying on the country's officials. Publicly unveil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(CNN) -- The news last week was all about Facebook's dodgy IPO. Investors are filing suit against Facebook about withholding "negative" assessment on its business prospects. This IPO not only "Zucked u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoJerusalem (CNN) -- In what has been described as a humanitarian gesture, the Israeli government on Thursday began handing over the remains of 91 Palestinians killed in attacks against Israeli targets over ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSeoul (CNN) -- North Korea proclaimed itself a "nuclear state" this week following a revision of its constitution earlier this year. Kim Jong-Il has "transferred the country into an undefeated country wit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(CNN) - George Papandreou, the former Greek Prime Minister, was indignant: “Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(CNN) -- With Greece probably heading for an exit from the euro, the European and global economies may be facing disaster. However, there is still time for European leaders to reverse this destructive dyn...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 19 hours ago*Weekly Find: Booja-Booja* With the sunny weather comes the ice cream cravings! It's probably been a bit over a year since I had my last ice cream, which was a lactose free version. But since I have found...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoSlugs can be a terrible problem. Not only do they chow down on your veggies; but, they leave disgusting trails of slime wherever they've been. Now I am against animal cruelty of any kind, so leave the sal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Yemen at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:11:54 UTC Thursday 31st May 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17.4 miles) West of Damar, Yemen No Reports of Dam...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoA fatal heart attack during sex is more common when a man is with his mistress than when he's with his wife, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Florence reviewed the available medical...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoA few southern Maine towns will be installing turtle-crossing signs. The road signs aim to warn motorists of endangered turtle road-crossing locations with the hope of reducing road deaths of two of the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAbout 70 workers with the Fairfax-owned Canberra Times have walked off the job over proposed job cuts at the Illawarra Mercury and Newcastle Herald newspapers. They are among the 800 journalists who are ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoJournalists from Fairfax’s biggest Australian newspapers continue to risk fines as they strike in protest against plans to move dozens of production jobs offshore. Staff from publications including The A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTreasury boss Martin Parkinson believes Australia's prospects are very good while warning the local economy is not immune from a further deterioration of the European crisis. He also painted a grim pictur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPerhaps it was boredom or perhaps it was chance to watch people fight on the streets below. Whatever the reason, 27-year-old Russian millionaire Pavel Durov and his vice president made headlines on the w...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago[image: UNGE: Denne kvinnen var bare 19 år gammel da Anders Behring Breivik bestilte kontaktinformasjon om henne i 2005.] Dette var Breiviks hånd- plukkede konekandidater - nyheter ... Anders Breivik took ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 97.7 km (60.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:06:46 UTC Thursday 31st May 2012 The epicenter was 283 km (175 miles) Southwest of N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 51 km (31.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:49:32 UTC Thursday 31st May 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) Northea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 161.7 km (100.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:57:25 UTC Thursday 31st May 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (17 miles) ESE of Pucallpa, Peru No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:06:36 UTC Thursday 31st May 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (16.1 miles) West of Borujan , Iran No Report...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agowhen RUSSIA TODAY goes into intimate financial detail about The Bilderberg Club and The New World Order, you know this is the start of something *very exciting*. and here's another hymn from the Revelat...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 21 hours agothat Vincent Lavendar story, one of the best things I've ever written, and so early in what can loosely be called 'my writing career'. It's set in Victorian London on the day our 'hero' is sacked from his...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoSomehow after all these years someone is well on the road to fixing the flavor problem with tomatoes. A favorite summer fruit for farm kids is to go pick a ripe tomato and cut it open and spri...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThere are two obvious strategies available for the use of so called cyber war. The first is to infiltrate a hidden tool that actually causes direct damage, Stuxnet is possibly the best example of that...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe problem is bone simple. It is impossible to produce gas or oil without a significant water handling problem. Fracking by its nature increases the problem surely by an order of magnitude. ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoYesterday we posted on a compelling piece of ancient evidence in the form of a manufactured chunk of aluminum alloy known as the Wedge of Aiud. It looks like a tooth from an excavator and the metal mi...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago51 Fantastic Uses for Baking Soda *By Melissa Breyer* Food Freedom News, 30 May 2012 EXCERPTS: Baking soda, aka sodium bicarbonate, helps regulate pH—keeping a substance neither too acidic nor too alkali...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours agoSource of picture: http://www.benefitsofgreen-tea.com/Green Tea Compound for Radioprotection*By Dr. Mae-Wan Ho* Food Freedom News, May 30, 2012 Green tea polyphenol antioxidant protects against bystan...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago*The Occupy Movement Grows Up And Takes On The Big Boys At The 2012 Bilderberg Conference.* "What a difference a year makes. Occupy Bilderberg? I love it. The Occupy movement seems finally to have re...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 22 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* MAY 29, 2012 *Bush Convicted of War Crimes at Tribunal* Francis Bo...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 22 hours agoFor those who’ve been looking forward to it … it’s closing time. Music by Brazier, photography by various esp. Murray Cammick, video by Clouso More from Graham Brazier and friends: Last one in my one...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe white supremacist charged with homicide in the drug overdose death of 16-year-old Alexis Rasmussen has altered a tattoo that once honored the wife who is now testifying against him. Eric Millerberg, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA 65-year-old Colorado man was killed and his daughter seriously injured after the home built plane they were flying crashed into a field. Richard M. Tackabury, from Wiggins in Morgan County, was taking h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA drunk, pregnant woman was arrested after she left her one-year-old daughter inside a car while she tried to get a piercing at a tattoo parlor, police said. Stephanie Irene Santana, 20, faces multiple c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoOne of America's most wanted fugitives accused of murdering his two daughters because they were dating non-Muslim boys is believed to be working as a cab driver in New York City. Egyptian-born Yaser Said...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoFrom Andrew Bacevich "the Obama White House let Special Operations Command 'off the leash.'” From a must read essay: May 29, 2012 The Golden Age of Special Operations Obama’s Secret Warriors by ANDREW BA...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA group of rapping, thieving thugs who terrorized New York City were caught after posting the details of their exploits on Facebook... and mistakenly friending a police officer. The Brooklyn District Att...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoLock down: Guests are being kicked out and reservations to the public are being denied at the Mariott Westfields Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia The Bilderberg Group, a collection of top captains of industry...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThere was a narrow escape for the 21 people on board an American Eagle regional jet after a Boeing 747 clipped its tail as the larger plane was taxiing for take-off at Chicago's O'Hare International Airpo...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours ago"America's Murderous Drone Campaign Is Fuelling Terror" By Seumas Milne, Guardian UK 30 May 12 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/29/americas-drone-campaign-terror [excerpt] "More than a dec...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours ago2005 interview profiles psychology of those behind the Houla Massacre. Tony Cartalucci Land Destroyer May 31, 2012 "Both the Syrian and Lebanese regimes will be changed- whether they like it or not- ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA British hostage held for 86 days in Sudan has been released. Patrick Noonan was kidnapped three months ago but has now been released into the care of the World Food Programme in Sudan. Minister for Afr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 41-year-old Atlanta man has been arrested after he raped a 15-year-old girl he 'friended' on Facebook and got her pregnant. Posing as a 25-year-old, Anthony Antonio Norman sent the teenager a friend re...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*“Generation Wii... or Generation We?”* by Dacher Keltner “On May 14, 2012, Greater Good Science Center Faculty Director Dacher Keltner delivered the commencement address for graduating psychology stu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoDURING his three decades in power, Robert Mugabe has dragged once-wealthy Zimbabwe into the gutter. His forced seizure of white-owned farms precipitated the collapse of the economy, leading to devastatin...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 23 hours agoIs wireless internet a good investment for schools? Sent to Seattle Times, May 30, 2012 Re: “Seattle construction levy may include wireless Internet for all schools,” May 28, 2012. By the time voters in S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe eurozone took a hammering on the financial markets yesterday as investors worried about a cataclysmic break-up ran for cover. The single currency tumbled and borrowing costs in Spain and Italy soared ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe largest volcanoes on our planet may take as little as a few hundred years to form and erupt. These "supervolcanoes" were thought to exist for as much as 200,000 years before releasing their vast unde...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHarrowing scenes of newly-born dairy calves being lined up and shot dead simply because they are male have left television viewers sickened. The images of three Jersey calves being killed were filmed to h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe parents of six children who died when their house was gutted by fire were last night charged with their murder. Mick and Mairead Philpott were due to appear before magistrates this morning. They fac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThousands of illegal immigrants have been caught by the authorities before being released ‘to protect their human rights’. One in six of those granted bail later absconds – meaning they must be caught a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAn alleged white supremacist who ranted about shooting US President Barack Obama to remove him from office has been charged with illegally obtaining an AK-47 assault rifle. Investigators say Douglas Howa...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago*Just hours before the Norway attacks, the Norwegian government was carrying out a simulation exercise similar to the actual attacks.* Norwegian Police Confirm Drill Identical to Breivik's Attack. The C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA male porn star is being hunted by police in Canada after a human hand was found in the mail at an Ottawa post office and a decomposing foot was sent to the ruling Conservative Party's HQ. A nationwide ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Sky Broadband has started blocking access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. A sixth worker, BT, has been specified additional time to compose the essential preparations.* It is expected to proceed wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA gunman who opened fire at a Seattle cafe killing five people and critically wounding one other shot himself as officers closed in on him. Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said a plain-clothes detective ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHundreds of thousands of children are facing life-threatening levels of starvation in Yemen as a food crisis grips the nation. People fleeing fighting in the North and South of this troubled country live...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFormer News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been arrested and charged with perjury. A statement issued by Strathclyde Police said: "A 44-year-old man has been arrested in connection with alleged per...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian rebels have given President Bashar Assad 48 hours to abide by the international peace plan to end violence in the country - or face the consequences. In a statement posted on YouTube, Colonel Qas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNasa is launching a new telescope designed to study black holes and the sun that could "open a whole new window on the universe". The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is scheduled to lau...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI was a punk rock guy. My KSAN radio show in San Francisco was the first commercial all-punk show on a commercial station anywhere in America. My partner from that show, Chris Knab, and I started one of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 56.2 km (34.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:59:06 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 186 km (115 miles) ESE of Huanuco, Peru No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Revilla Gigedo Islands Region at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:24:26 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 231 km (143 miles) ENE of...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoIn the latest debate on government management of classrooms, I’m struck once by the number of teachers making the argument that they—the teachers--know better than the government how to manage a classroo...
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