WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 22: Former U.S. first lady Laura Bush (3rd L) speaks as (L-R) museum director Lonnie Bunch, chair of Smithsonian Board of Regents France Cordova, co-chair of National Museum of African American History and Culture council Richard Parsons, council co-chair Linda Johnson Rice, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, Rev. Calvin Butts, and Washington Mayor Vincent Gray listen during the groundbreaking ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture February 22, 2012 in Washington, DC. According to a Smithsonian news release, the 380,000-square-foot museum, located at the corner of 15th Street NW and Constitution Avenue and will be opened to the public in 2015, will house public spaces, including exhibition halls, an auditorium and a cafe; offices; and an education center. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: Fugitive African Americans fording the Rappahannock, fleeing from Jackson's army. [Stereograph] (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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** *... 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 - 58 minutes 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
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One 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 - 1 hour 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...
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I 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 way to describe physics in the 11-dimensiona... - posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour 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...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoJason Mraz, "I Won't Give Up" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLOMvPC1EzQ
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 leftdog at Buckdog - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 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! - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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...
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posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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...
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- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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...
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- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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! - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatla, Russia at a depth of 33.5 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:22:31 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 259 km (160 miles...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoSpencer Perskin of Shiva's Headband in the KOOP studios in Austin, Friday, May 25, 2012. Inset photos below: Susan Perskin and Shawn Siegel. Photos by William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio: Psyched...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Kazakhstan at a depth of 23.1 km (14.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:20:57 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) NNE of Karakol (Przhev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Kuril islands at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:40:09 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 582 km (360.8 miles) Southwest of Petropav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 17 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:12:43 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119.4 miles) Northwest of Gunung, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"Song of the Builders"* "On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God - a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the grains of the hillside this way and tha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astronomer Paul Hickson and colleagues identified some 100 compact groups of galaxies, now appropriately called Hickson Compact Groups. The four prominent galaxi...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 14 hours agoBalochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War Eric Draitser StopImperialism.com May 30, 2012 The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoArt by Alice Brickner / Getty / Big Questions Online. Deadly discourse:How intolerance poisons our wellMost public 'discussion' consists of one side lobbing insults at the other from across an unbridgeable...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours agoHappily, NZ’s premier bluesman Hammond Gamble is still playing. Sadly however, his first big song is still topical. More Hammond here. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 15 hours ago[image: StimulusII] All that stimulus money pouring out of the Federal Reserve, all that extra spending by the US Government over and above what they take in revenues, all that phony rhetoric from Paul ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 15 hours agoAung San Suu Kyi: Poster Child of US-British Recolonization. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 31, 2012 *- In perhaps the most misleading headline of the day, the Guardian's "Aung San Suu Kyi offers hope to Burm...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago*How much does it cost for a legislator to go to a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)?* *From the Common Cause documents that were included in the request by Common Cause to the I...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoFrom ALEC Exposed ALEC PAYCHECK PROTECTION ACT Summary This Act requires labor organizations to establish separate funds for political purposes, establishes registration for the fund, establishes certain...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Who wouldn't like to see Jay Leno someday introduce occasional touches of "humor" to his jokes? But it's more important that he try to cut back on the lies.* *"The Center for Responsive Politics reports ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago*Related*: *The Anti-Truther Bible: The Ten Commandments*. The Anti-Truther Bible: King Bibi Version. 2012. The First Book of Mossad, Called *Genesis of Terror* 1 *1.* In the beginning Mossad...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours ago“We don’t cut spending, or shrink the real size of Government, in a lunchtime libertarian seminar. We do it in long days of expenditure review.” - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, ...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 16 hours ago*The Aztec Incident*, Scott and Suzanne Ramsey, Aztec.48 Productions, Mooresville, NC, 221 pages, no index. Let me say first that this was a fun book to read. I have been aware of the alleged Aztec UFO c...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 17 hours ago*[image: _Kris_Sayce]Guest Post by KRIS SAYCE* The idea of risk is a very personal thing. What we see as risky, you may not. And what you see as risky, we may see as completely safe. One trick to succe...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoDefending the Bench The Justice of the Peace Bench has become thoroughly professional and is a highly trained and skilled body of adjudicators. The ancient office of justice of the peace is one of great ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“7 Ways to Tell If You’re Not Currently * *Living Your Highest Purpose in Life”* By Jacob Sokol *1. You’re not waking up excited in the morning.* If you’re not excited (or at least enthusiastic) in ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 17 hours agoLet's face it: academic American politics blogs get all the love. Not only do they have lots of pretty graphs, but they also make authoritative pronouncements about issues central to the political blogsphe...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours agoProtecting Winnemem Ceremonies May 2012/Photo Klamath Media Thursday, May 31-- Friday, June 1, 2012 Protecting Sacred Places Oakland, Calif. Posted at Censored News http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com A unique ...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 17 hours agoIt's been a stretch without posting, and I'm not sure why. But today I headed to the piscina to help Jody on an outing with the orphans. That meant four hours of Spanish school in the morning - I'm back for...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“All Men Have The Stars”* by Chet Raymo "At the end of his big-bang book "The First Three Minutes", physicist Steven Weinberg famously wrote: "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"Trump Could Help Romney Win Elusive Billionaire A*****e Vote"* Bid to Woo Top .00001% by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "Businessman Donald Trump’s endorsement of former Governor M...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 17 hours agoExcellent video: Jeremy Scahill at the Nation http://www.thenation.com/video/168007/jeremy-scahill-short-history-drone-warfare?rel=emailNation [Introduction to the video] "The United States is on a new tr...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 17 hours ago------------------------------ This video was discovered on Democracy Now on Monday. Democracy Now's embed codes are no longer recognized by blogspot (wonder why?). So I had to search for it on Y...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoToledo, Ohio, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIt should not come as a surprise with unemployment over 8% that good paying jobs in manufacturing are harder than ever to land. At the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama more than 20,000 people have ap...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"The Dishonest Media And The Debt Ceiling"* by Karl Denninger “Watch the spin machine ramp up into high gear! "Europe is crumbling. China is slowing. The Federal Reserve is dithering. Yet the biggest ...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 18 hours agoSome time ago I wanted to have two languages on my blog - one for my natives, one international. WordPress have a solution called WPML but it's paid solution. Second thing, I have blogger running so long I...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander has admitted that Iran has sent its troops to help the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fight opposition forces. “Before our presence i...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 19 hours agoSometimes the comments are more profound than the story: Comment on CommonDreams to Valerie Strauss story on High Stakes Standardized Tests The question, reported by the New York Daily News, referred to a ...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 19 hours agoAll new Blogger templates have an attribution at the bottom of the page like the one below: [image: Blogger Attribution] You can edit it by going to the bottom of LAYOUT and click EDIT on the ATTRIBUTION...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Dead Presidents Stay Dead"* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday, we promised to tell you more about our L-shaped non-recovery. It’s already lasted 5 years since subprime cracked up… It could last another 5…10...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoWould we lose anything, anything at all, if people just stopped using the word "establishment" entirely? That is, in the context of political party factions. Item 1: "Establishment" candidate David Dewhur...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 20 hours agoI guess May Day was also the first day of open season on the LGBT community. Back on May 13th, some godbag by the name of Charles Worley out of Maiden, North Carolina called for rounding up all the gays, ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoIt’s a great year for California Congressional races. When Californians voted to take redistricting out of the hands of politicians and placed it in the hands of a nonpartisan citizens commission, the De...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 20 hours agoOne of the oldest and most well-respected bloggers has brought his online journal to a close. Since January of 2003 - 18 months before I began wmtc - I have been reading The Diary of Samuel Pepys onlin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe parents of six children killed in an arson attack on their home in Derby have been charged with murder. Derbyshire Police had arrested Mick Philpott, 55, and his wife Mairead, 31, on suspicion of mur...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoArticle: *The Anti-Truther Bible: The Ten Commandments*. *Video by ARSONomics*.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoThe Capital in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday, March 10, 2012. Photo by Barbara Rodriguez / AP. Image from The Nation. Wisconsin is important The defeat of Walker and his Republican legislative colleagues...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoSpain is facing the gravest danger since the end of the Franco dictatorship as the country is frozen out of global capital markets and slides towards an epic showdown with Europe. “We’re in a situation ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoGoes to Paul Waldman, who doesn't want the press to overinterpret every blip in the polls, and gives a nice example of how they do it. I have to say that it can be frustrating doing daily blogging that so...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours agoKevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. Now on to a story that - tragically - just won't go away: The Fukushima Nuclear crisis. Radioactive fish are now swimming in U.S. waters. Scientists have...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Part of the fleet of fishing boats moored at Pine Point in Scarborough, Maine. In Spring 2012, Lobstermen there and across southern Maine report an earlier shed in the lobster population than the...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 21 hours agoSent to the Columbus Dispatch, May 30, 2012 High school credit for middle-school courses is of course a step in the right direction, but doesn’t go nearly far enough (“Middle-schoolers get additional shot...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 21 hours agoFor many writers, especially those of an older generation, making the switch to online writing and targeting a digital audience can amount to a substantial challenge. It means amassing some knowledge in th...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago*Long before the CIA killed American imam Anwar al-Awlaki, it killed American President John F. Kennedy.* "But that’s the point: once something is repeated enough by government officials, we become n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFormer newspaper proprietor Eddie Shah has been charged with several sex offences, including rape, against a teenage girl. The 68-year-old, who founded the now defunct Today newspaper, was charged alongs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSEATTLE (AP) - Two people have been killed and three injured in a shooting in Seattle's University District. Police say one of the wounded has life threatening injuries and two are in serious condition. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe devastated family of a hero who drowned at sea saving the life of a five-year-old girl have spoken of their immense pride. Plamen Petkov, 32, had been on a day out to the beach with a friend on Satur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA police detective sergeant has been found guilty of raping a 43-year-old mother in her home. The officer shook his head in the dock as a jury at Derby Crown Court took less than three hours to convict T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA mother found dead in a subway was a fully trained kick-boxer who had been dating the man accused of killing her. Tuanjai Sprengel, 43, was found with her head battered from behind, lying in an underpas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA Tibetan mother has died after setting fire to herself outside a monastery in the latest protest against China's occupation of the country. Rechok, a nomad in her 30s who has three children, died outside...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA suspected serial killer dubbed 'The Darkroom Murderer' who is said to have drugged and then strangled three men has been detained. German police are laying the murder of three, the attempted killing of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoClimate change sceptics are often derided as uninformed - but a new study proves that the opposite is the case. Sceptical individuals are slightly MORE science literate than 'believers' in climate change....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA Florida man has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly biting the lips off a kitten and strangling another to death. Angel Vega Roman, 28, reportedly confessed that he had maimed the cats, wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoDozens of Afghan schoolgirls were rushed to hospital after they were poisoned at school in a suspected Taliban attack. Police officers in Taluqan, northern Afghanistan, said the classrooms at the school ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA stash of 80-year-old photo plates in a Danish basement has proved that Greenland's ice was melting even faster then that it is now. In the thirties, Greenland's ice was melting rapidly, then there was a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPolygamist leader Warren Jeffs has shared an apparent change of heart in his latest 'revelation' from prison, writing that women should not be abused. The Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints Church leader i...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 23 hours agoSome good journalism coming out of privatization scheme for Phildadelphia public schools. The lead is at the top of the article for a change: The fiscal crisis facing our public schools is being exploite...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWorld markets tumbled back into the red today as fears grew Spain will need an EU bailout. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 1 per cent on doubts the nation will be able to afford to re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Flame computer virus which is threatening to bring countries to a standstill is too sophisticated to have been created anywhere other than the U.S., it was claimed today. As the United Nations prepar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA Pentecostal reverend known for preaching with the help of a rattlesnake coiled around his arm lost his life when one of the creatures suddenly bit him. Mack Randall Wolford, pastor at the Full Gospel A...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoHans Noel is blogging Madison and parties over at the new blog. I agree with much of his approach to Madison, but I figured I should jump in and give my own version of this, which overlaps with his. Madis...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 23 hours ago*Like a USED CAR SALESMAN selling us more WARS:* *Syria "SHABIHA" is the propaganda word of the moment on "The Radio News Briefs", like "insurgents", "al qaeda", etc...etc... The jury is slowly coming ba...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 23 hours agoI have a weakness for quoting from the best. This has become my raison d’être in doing the research for this blog every day. Please forgive me. The following short essay is from the Comment section attache...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 23 hours agoAs some of us* are still trying to get our heads around the shocking news that the president has added the title "Lord High Executioner" to his list of accomplishments, let's not forget that a) this policy...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoI'm not sure why the YouTube session I had up started playing this video, but its certainly a good one and though it was done in 2009, still very much valid today. Lots of things happen that way to me l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEU officials have called for the eurozone's emergency bailout fund to be used to directly shore-up troubled banks, by-passing national governments. As Spain's banking problems deepened, the European Commis...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*Of course, the black hole information puzzle has been discussed in dozens of older TRF blog entries* Backreaction has posted a flow diagram that can't hide its similarity with the scheme of a female brai...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThese days when you mention election fraud, everyone immediately thinks of the shenanigans underway in Florida, as Rick Scott tries putting an anti-democracy infrastructure in place to steal the 2012 elec...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*R. v. McIntyre*, 2012 ONCA 356 is a good example of the requirement that, for a murder conviction, the accused must be found to have a subjective intention to kill, or at least to cause bodily harm th...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoGuantanamo remains open. Drones strike far afield. American citizens are being liquidated by their own government without trial or even charge. Is this the legacy of Barack Obama, the normalization of...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt's been 23-years since the last de Havilland Twin Otter rolled out of the company's plant in Ontario. But a fine Canadian airplane isn't that easy to kill off and they're still coming off the product...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoWall Street Journal May 30, 2012, p. A1. "....Japanese companies are in the midst of the biggest boom in overseas investment the country has ever seen." The article notes that a Japanese trading house, M...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012* *Think hard before you respond:* Donald Trump is one of this country’s absolute biggest buffoons. His continued pimping of Obama’s birth certificate is a master example of The Bi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThey're challenging Stephen Harper to come clean. An open letter from four former fisheries ministers, two Tories, two Libs, demands some explanations from the Prince of Darkness about just why he's gutti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck State of Yap, Micronesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:56:11 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 621 km (385 miles) Southwest of Tamun...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago*This is speculative, but a possible explanation of how ascension happens in 3D. I never did like the idea of some who said humans we were going to a silicon based body, silicon simply does not produ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:22:59 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 418 km (259.1 miles) South o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Buryatiya, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:33:35 UTC Wednesday 30th May 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21.8 miles) Southwest Taksimo, Russia...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Atlantic Ocean is brown with runoff from the Rio de la Plata flowing between Argentina and Uruguay. Kim Jenkins]NEW YORK, New York, 22 May 2012 (ENS) – Oceans cover about 72 percent of Earth'...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago** *... and serious pot-banging across Canada, US, and abroad* *Contributor: "Relayer"* *NOTE:* See bottom of this post for locations of *"Casserole Protests" tonight*, May 30th. Of mice, men, and tap-da...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoWe have seen over the last few weeks increasing tensions in Syria. People should know by now that the recent massacres of Syrian civilians was carried out by the so called "rebels" and agents of the Israe...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day agoAbout a year ago, I pointed out a fashionable trend: Some pundits were saying that long-term interest rates couldn't go much lower. Since then, the yield on a 10-year Treasury bond has fallen from 3.18 to...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago1. Open a new file in your computer. 2. Name it 'Barack Obama'. 3. Send it to the Recycle Bin. 4. Empty the Recycle Bin. 5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really want to get rid of Barack Obama 6. Firmly cl...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012* *Part 2—Explaining the state of the crisis:* Is the United States confronting an “education crisis?” Crisis is in the eye of the beholder; there is no objective way to determine...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoThe new TRIP survey is out. While the overall findings don't hold many surprises, there are some nuggets of interest. We'll have more to say later, but for now I want to call out a particular finding. Ev...
- posted by Alana Tiemessen at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago(Originally posted at Justice in Conflict) Photo: BBCFatou Bensouda, incoming Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has put threatening war criminals and defiant states on notice. In seve...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoFrom Valerie Strauss at WaPo: Opposition to high-stakes standardized testing is growing around the country, with more parents choosing to opt their children out of taking exams, more school boards express...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The North Dakota oil boom has brought thousands of jobs and economic prosperity to the region -- along with an increase in crime, pollution, and potential health problems. Gregory Bull / AP Image...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoETHOS Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor and activist Woody Harrelson, Ethos lifts the lid on a Pandora's Box of systemic issues that guarantee failure in every aspect of our lives, from the environme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNearly 6,000 hectares of Cotes-de-Provence and Coteaux-Varois vineyards (between 70% to 100%) were destroyed after a heavy hail storm hit south eastern France last Sunday, writes Elizabeth Gabay MW. The v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA team of scientists from Mumbai left for Nagpur on Tuesday to investigate the impact of last Tuesday’s meteorite shower in the Katol region, which left several houses damaged. The team is expected to reac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - A U.S. citizen has been kidnapped in Benin, the U.S. embassy in Nigeria said on Wednesday, and sources said the American had been lured to the West African country by criminals met on the Inte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - A Pakistani doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden was imprisoned for aiding militants and not for links to the CIA, as Pakistani officials had said, according to a court doc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The European Commission advocated direct aid from a euro zone rescue fund to recapitalize distressed banks in a move that could eventually help Spain, the latest front in Europe's debt wars, o...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoSaw this snip on Think Progress Two Wisconsin Stations Devote More Airtime To Scott Walker Supporters | As the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) nears, a media group is arguing that certain Wisc...
- REUTERS: STATE MEDIA REPORTS OIL PIPELINE IN SYRIA'S EASTERN DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE HAS BEEN ATTACKED.
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago - posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoTwo of my long-time colleagues have had intriguing new books just come out, just in time for the summer reading season. Mike Smith has written short analysis of the Joplin tornado from just over one year ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to Colm Meaney, 59. Right to the good stuff: 1. "Why is opinion writing still mostly male?" An excellent contribution on an important topic, from CJR's Erika Fry. I'll add that it frustra...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago** MONTPELLIER : Mobilisation générale pour l'Ultime marche contre ACTA le 9 juin 2012 *Liste à jour des villes françaises participantes ci-dessous (cliquez sur "Afficher la suite")* Lien du Pad : ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "Inside Japan's Crippled Nuclear Plant"* "Japanese officials tour the stricken Fukushima-Daichii power plant, offering a glimpse inside one of the world's worst nuclear disasters." Video: Reuters ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "Growing Fear Over Fukushima Fuel Pool 4 * *As Wall Bulge Detected"* by Common Dreams Staff "A new bulge in the walls of the Fukushima Unit 4 nuclear plant has driven growing new fears over in Japan...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoGreat – short – article to read. Everything about this article applies to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – even though they are mentioned only twice. Talking points are always important...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoHere is me last week at the Linköping University commencement ceremony where I received an honorary doctorate. I had a great time and was deeply honored to receive the award. The commencement ceremony wa...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Women of the Virtual Storm!* *~Phone, e-mail, post on facebook pages, tweet... use all media at your disposal to contact the House members of the Transportation Conference Committee during this six-hour t...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago*Aufruf*Mitte Juni wird das Europaparlament über ACTA entscheiden.*Deswegen werden wir uns in München am internationalen Aktionstag am Samstag, den 9. Juni beteiligen und noch einmal richtig Druck auf de...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Fukushima Could Still Armageddon The World"* by Modern Survival Blog "The world has become largely desensitized to what has happened and what is still happening in the wake of the nuclear disaster at...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago*MINNESOTA - Be part of a moment in history!!!* Here are some chances for YOU to help kick Walker out of office. Your chance to help Barrett and the other recall replacement candidates win in Wisconsin. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoAll the pundits and bloviating Beltway politicos ignored Beto O'Rourke's race against painfully long-term incumbent, Silvestre Reyes and said the young upstart had no chance. Even the commercialized progr...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoAfter a long night of making love, the guy notices a photo of another man, on the woman's nightstand by the bed. He begins to worry. 'Is this your husband?' he nervously asks. 'No, silly,' she replies, s...
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- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoWhen historians sit down to write about how radical the Harper government was, they will surely focus on how it treated labour. Tom Walkom writes that legislating an end to a railway strike is nothing n...
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