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{SPAM 87.0} GOODNEWS FOR YOU ( Header in Fastmail )
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- FBI
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- Fri, 4 May 2012 7:17 PM (21 minutes 27 seconds ago)
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Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday
Office Hours Monday To Saturday:
Dear Beneficiary,
Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days ago. It is obvious that you have not received your fund which is USD 10,500,000.00 due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the receipt of your fund.
The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria His Excellency Goodluck Jonathan to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes.Now how would you like to receive your payment? because we have two method of payment which is by Bank transfer or by Visa ATM Card?
VISA ATM CARD: We will be issuing to you and a custom pin based ATM card which you will use to withdraw up to USD 5,000 to USD 10,000 per day from any ATM machine that has the Master Card or VISA Logo on it and the card have to be renewed in 2 years time which is 2014. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your local bank account. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten you about how to use it. You should contact the Director General, ATM Payment, Debt Management Office, Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) via contact information below;
ATM Card Center
Name: Dr. Abraham Nwankwo
Email: abraham0218@7bmail.com
Phone: +234-704-528-0869
Contact Mr. Paul smith of the ATM card centre with your information as follows:
Full name:
City:
State:
Postal address:
Direct phone / mobile number:
Current occupation
once you have sent the required information to Mr. Paul Smith, he will contact you with instructions on how to make the payment of USD 220 for the ATM Card Payment Approval Slip after which he will proceed towards delivery of the ATM card without any further delay. you are hereby been authorized/guaranteed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) to proceed towards completing this transaction, as there shall be no delay once payment of USD220 for the Approval Slip has been made to the authorized agent.
Once you have completed payment of USD 220 to the agent in charge of this transaction, immediately contact us back for more investigation for conformation of your ATM card. The both offices are working 24hours to get this project completed.
Yours in service,
Robert. S. Mueller III
FBI DirectorNext question. Even if this was genuine rather than a bulk unaddressed catchall... would you trust the personal data would not be abused at your expense?
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:55:41 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 355 km (220.1 miles) West o...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Ben Grieve, 36. Most similar players include Ivan Calderon, Milton Bradley, and Jeffrey Hammonds. At any rate, time for the good stuff: 1. Real good reminder (and links) from Andrew Rud...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*Lancing the Greenie Myth of New Orleans ~Sandy Rosenthal, Huff Post* ~Also~ Levee Disaster Bike Tour this Sunday! *We Are a Community — Not a Commodity! ~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes* ~Update~ Hospitality District...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoA few weeks ago we talked about how our friends at Cuéntame were calling out corrupt hypocrite Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her scandalous role in the prison-for-profit system. Cuéntame wants to know why ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoThe Daily Beast has come out with an article this morning that is going to make the tweets explode all day. *Former Chair Accuses ALEC of Anti-Democrat Bias* While I like the Daily Beast – I don’t trust D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA 94-year-old grandmother is seriously ill in hospital with a fractured skull and partially severed finger after being beaten in her own bed as she slept. Police said Emma Winnall also suffered a broken ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA Weston-area sheep producer suffered the first loss of livestock to a wolf in Umatilla County since the predators have returned to Oregon, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Depart...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoDebbie Stevens, gave her kidney to a man on the donor list so her boss could secure a match. Was she rewarded? Promoted. Nope. This is corporate America. You can be fired even if you literally give a piece...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoEnvironment Agency workers are battling to contain a major oil spill on the River Bourne in Hampshire. The slick is stretching out across the water which is a popular site for salmon fishing. Officials s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA dead pygmy sperm whale was found beached in West Hampton Dunes Village on Wednesday evening. The estimated 800-pound, 9-foot-long whale was discovered by Village Trustee Catherine Woolfson and her son ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA newborn girl has been found abandoned in a holdall on a doorstep in Reading. Police said a note written in Polish was left with the baby, who was found on London Road yesterday evening. The girl, who...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago*Frankly this always seemed a bit bogus to me -- see my earlier tweets -- while perhaps a divisive figure Julian Fantino is not corrupt and the idea he had hundreds of thousands of secret dollars offshore...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 15 hours agoActions speak louder than words; the Harper Regime©™ plans to slash and burn programs and services for Canadian veterans. “While in Charlottetown last week, VAC staff informed me that because they did the...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Russian premier Vladimir Putin has criticized plans by European leaders to boycott next month's Euro 2012 football finals due to the treatment by Ukrainian authorities of former prime minister Yu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Iran said on Friday it will never suspend its uranium enrichment program and sees no reason to close the Fordow underground site, making clear Tehran's red lines in nuclear talks with world po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - With an uprising in Syria loosening the grip of president Bashar al-Assad, world powers are worried that he could lose control of a secret stockpile of chemical weapons, giving militants access...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours agoOn the thirtieth anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Harper government made no mention of the event -- other than to point out that the germ of the Charter was contained in John Diefe...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 16 hours ago*FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012* *Until tomorrow:* We're postponing the finale of our current award-winning series until tomorrow. For part 3 of this widely heralded series, see THE DAILY HOWLER, 5/3/12. Lucky duc...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours agoPicture is from Nasa My Dearest Companions Of The Stars My Dearest Companions of the Stars! I was up in the hills today and the following came to me. ** *“The Stars may try to guide us and the mind try...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Japan shuts down its last working nuclear power reactor this weekend just over a year after a tsunami scarred the nation and if it survives the summer without major electricity shortages, prod...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - European shares lost ground on Friday and Brent oil sank towards its steepest weekly fall this year, ahead of a reading on the U.S. jobs market that could heighten concerns about the health of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that the United States was willing to work with North Korea if it changed its ways, and also said more pressure should be brought to bear on S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Argentina's Congress nationalized the country's biggest oil company, YPF, by an overwhelming lower house vote on Thursday that underscored broad popular support for a measure that threatens to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA massive sinkhole opened up in a residential neighbourhood in Windermere, Florida today that was 100 feet across and nearly 50 feet deep. Luckily, no one was hurt in the freak accident, though the massiv...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours agoConverge for Justice: Occupy Wall Street South - Bank of America Call to Action! *via NCAgainstCorporatePower.org* *Converge for Justice* * Occupy Wall Street, South Break Up BOA’s Business as Usual! Ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA hair-raisingly close fly-by by Nasa's Cassini Probe aims to learn more about what lurks beneath the icy moon Enceladus's surface - and what exactly lurks in the 'geysers' of ice it spews into space. Cas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoL.A. Lakers basketball star Jordan Hill has appeared in court, after he allegedly choked his ex-girlfriend during a furious argument in Texas. Hill, 24, who plies his trade as a forward for the club, atte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe father of a 23-year-old man accused of slashing his mother’s and grandmother’s throats and dumping their bodies at a school called his son evil. Joseph E. Wright, from Boston, is due in court today t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 16-month-old girl was shot dead by her 2-year-old brother in their Memphis home on Tuesday. Calvuna Reese was killed on Tuesday when her brother allegedly accidentally pulled the trigger of a loaded gu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFirst rule of the anarchist handbook - when attacking the big guns of the capitalist world, try not to endorse their products. An Occupy activist missed the irony in his own dress sense during Tuesday's ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe medical examiner's office has identified the young laboratory research associate at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center who died of an infection that he may have contracted at work. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake say two men have died in a small plane crash. Crystal Lake Deputy Police Chief Gene Lowery says the plane crashed Thursday afternoon just west of the Lake in ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 17 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Mama's Taverna Attention Fellow Home Gardeners and Growers of Tomatoes. There is a trick to growing strong, healthy tomato plants that will produce many sweet tomatoes all summer long. Tom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 14-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murder after he shot his father dead with a single bullet from the garden into their home. Myron Chisem, an Immigration and Custom Officials agent, was stru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice are looking for a man they say tried to stuff two different Georgia State University students in the trunk of his car. The women were accosted outside of their east Atlanta homes just 30 minutes a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA crocodile with a taste for pet dogs has finally been caught in northern Australia. The crocodile was pulled from a river bank in a remote part of the Northern Territory and had, according to police, e...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 17 hours agoHere's the little guy signing his contract. Photo courtesy watchmojo.com Baerke van der Meij may be just a toddler; but, he sure can kick a football. The Dutch child so impressed the local VVV Football Clu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA mother and her three daughters are missing and police are searching for a man in connection with their mysterious disappearance. Jo Ann Bain, from Tennessee, and her daughters Adrienne, 14, Alexandria, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPrime Minister David Cameron has said he is "sorry" for all the "hard-working Conservatives" who have lost their seats in the local elections while Labour racks up a series of significant victories acros...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoRussia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its controversial plan to build a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours ago*Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship smart phone the Galaxy S3.The handset has a 4.8 inch screen, an increase on the 4.3 inch screen of its predecessor.* According to analysts the popularity of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA video promoting the upcoming NATO summit later this month inadvertently moved the meeting 200 miles south when it declared that leaders would convene in the capital of Illinois. The summit, is of cour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA sleepwalking four-year-old girl has accidentally hanged herself from the top of her cabin bed with the strap of a Hello Kitty bag. Her seven-year-old sister, Channelle, found her the next morning and al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe New Jersey mother who is accused of bringing her daughter into a tanning booth with her thinks that she is a the subject of witch hunt. 'There’s somebody out there for my whole life that doesn’t like ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAbuse: Katelynn Sampson died of septic shock after suffering daily beatings from her legally appointed crack addict guardians despite her case having been reported to the authorities. A seven-year-old gi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Baltimore Police Department has released the 911 calls from a Department of Social Services office where authorities said a mother stabbed her 8-month-old daughter five times during a supervised visit...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 17 hours agoThat Indian farmers have been committing suicide at depressingly shocking rates, due most often to high debts incurred when the industrial agriculture techniques and/or GM crop seeds they've been told wil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA mom charged with killing her daughter in a brutal scissor attack has pleaded not guilty on grounds of insanity. Danielle Yvonne Slaughter, 27, claims she heard the 6-year-old speak and laugh in what sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo brothers arrested for the biggest pharmaceutical drug theft in U.S history might have got away with it had one of them not touched a bottle of water at the scene of the crime. Charged in Florida on T...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours agoNATO’s Assault on Syria Cloned Off Hitler’s Destabilization of Czechoslovakia, September 1938. Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV / Tarpley.net May 4, 2012 *Video*: Via PressTV - "A third explosion roc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- Football fans traveling to Ukraine for this summer's European Championships have been warned they will face a "criminal" police force mired in so many abuse scandals that their behavior threatens...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMexico City (CNN) -- At least two of four dismembered bodies found Thursday morning in the eastern state of Veracruz and bearing signs of torture were journalists, Mexican authorities said. The journalis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoCNN) -- At least eight people were killed and 20 injured in an apparent suicide car bomb attack and follow-up blast in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, according to state-run n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA U.S. company which helped to build the Guantanamo Bay detention centre is bidding for a role in a £1.5billion police privatisation scheme. The West Midlands and Surrey forces are considering bids to run...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoLos Angeles (CNN) -- The San Diego County medical examiner's office Thursday classified the death of former NFL linebacker Junior Seau as a suicide, but the finding will probably do little to answer ques...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWeetabix, the breakfast cereal produced in Britain since 1932, has effectively been sold to an arm of the Chinese state. Bright Foods, which is run by the council responsible for the city of Shanghai, is...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Dorothy Voorhees/CC BY-SA 2.0 Plenty of research has been done trying to calculate how ecosystems are going to be hit by climate change, how much productivity in a particularly ecosystem w...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 18 hours agoSmartphones are at one end of the spectrum and PC Laptops at the other with tablets sitting in the middle. You must have a phone and you take it literally everywhere and it’s seamlessly connected 24 x 7...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThis NASA Earth Observatory image released May 3, 2012 shows a photo captured during an IceBridge flight Global warming has had a particularly strong impact on the Arctic, yet the effects on the region's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- An explosion killed 20 and injured dozens in Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Friday, a government official told CNN. A suicide bomber ran into a crowed group...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPhotographer Ginger Morneau caught the chance encounter on camera and posted it to 'Bird Fellow Journal' who put the encounter on their twitter feed An unusual life and death duel between a giant Pacific...
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posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe 13-year-old ringleader of a gang who raped a teenager in McDonald's can today be named as Ibraheem Giwa. As the sentencing was adjourned until tomorrow, Judge Patricia Lees, took the unusual step of ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBeijing (CNN) -- China said Friday that the Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic storm has the right to apply to study abroad after he told U.S. lawmakers that he wants to leave his homeland for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Guerrero, Mexico at a depth of 24.3 km (15.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:06:59 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) ESE of Acapulco, Guerrero, M...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 19 hours ago*LinkedIn and Slideshare* View more presentations from LinkedIn The takeover and initial public offering (IPO) season appears to be in full swing in technology market and following Microsofts dive int...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours agoSupertramp, "The Logical Song" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k3JVfxluFU
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours agoBerries for the Brainby Dr. Andrew Weil Food Freedom News, 3 May 2012 Eating blueberries and strawberries regularly seems to help protect the brain from the effects of aging. This latest good news abo...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 21 hours agoTHE YOUNG TURKS are explaining about the 'ten more years' of American Occupation of Afghanistan. How much is THAT per year? How can anyone afford that? Here's Prez Obama returning from taking a piss behi...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoWe destroyed Tunisia and now the voters are not happy? *Tories lose a third of their councillors and Liberal Democrats HALF.* * * SNP AHEAD OF LABOUR * * Website for this image A spokesperson for Ronan ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhen this scroll was produced, some form of written language was in place for as much as a thousand years. Egypt had the good fortune to preserve documents in the dryness of the desert climate. ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI have written about this plant many months back, and since then, it has become available in health supplement stores everywhere in a range of concentrations and quality. It should be possible to...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is surely an idea whose time has come. It is about establishing a clear cut Graft Free Zone in the countries receiving foreign aid. It has long been apparent that it is graft that grinds a ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoThe New World Order: Paranoia Or Reality? By Brandon Smith Alt-Market , 2 May 2012 The phrase “New World Order” is so loaded with explosive assumptions and perceptions that its very usage has become ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoThe New World Order: Paranoia Or Reality? by Brandon Smith The phrase “New World Order” is so loaded with explosive assumptions and perceptions that its very usage has become a kind of journalistic la...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 21 hours agoThis is my article today in TV5's news portal. I sent this to two Senators who authored a Senate Bill creating the Drug Price Regulatory Board. See my email to them after this article. http://www.interak...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 21 hours agoWill the last person to leave Jasper please turn out the lights? A view of Beauvert Lake, near the Jasper townsite, as the sun sets. Below: Anchors Aweigh! There’ll be nothing at all like this for the goo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe Government wants high street businesses to hire more former prisoners and help get more ex-offenders into work. Forty major firms will be invited to Downing Street later this month to hear the plans...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMay 2 (Reuters) - China's home prices fell in April for the eighth month in a row while transactions also declined in most cities, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday. The average price of 8,711 y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWestern style “democracy” is destroying Africa. It seems everywhere you look in Africa you see elections marked by violence and bloodshed. “Buy, rig or steal” is the name of the game and if that doesn’t wo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Somali pirates are switching back to using smaller cargo and fishing boats as motherships, hoping to evade detection as maritime security is stepped up to foil their attacks on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLONDON - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao went to Iceland in late April, the first time a senior Chinese leader had made a formal visit to this Nordic country since 2002, when president Jiang Zemin paid a state ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPakistan’s foreign minister says her country will not give in to foreign pressure from the United States which aims to make Islamabad give up Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project. Addressing a student...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFor one indigenous people, the internet could be key to saving a language related to no other on earth. Can the internet save a language? For the Ktunaxa nation, an indigenous people inhabiting parts of n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoDozens of US and allied forces' military installations dot the region, from Oman, UAE and Kuwait to Turkey and Israel. Doha, Qatar - US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, al...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoStrange isn't it? (Emphasis all mine) The management and board of directors of SNC-Lavalin faced tough questions from shareholders Thursday as a probe into unauthorized payments at the company's North Afr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe following is based on a presentation given by the author, the Chicago Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), on an anti-NATO panel at Occupy Chicago's April 7 kickof...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Reuters) – Distrust among Sunni Gulf Arab states has scuppered the installation of a joint missile shield which Washington has long urged as the best means of defence against any strike by Iran. The oil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLate last year, hackers with the anonymous hacking group LulzSec raided the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., or Stratfor, a private intelligence company in Austin, Texas, coming away with some 5 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoNEW ORLEANS (CN) - The United States and Alabama say a trial to establish the liability of BP and other companies in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should not be delayed for nearly a year, until after a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe United States and Japan announced last week that the number of Marines on Okinawa will be reduced from 19,000 to 10,000, easing the longtime strain between the countries caused by the presence of U.S. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe state legislature of South Carolina is currently considering a measure (H 4128) that if enacted would make gold and silver legal tender in the Palmetto State. Last week, the bill sponsored by State Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoGlobal warming is making the polar regions of the Earth more accessible, and while the possibility of armed conflict is limited, all regional players are preparing for such a scenario. The opening of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSome have suggested that Russia should welcome global warming as it would make more of the country’s land farmable, but that approach is a little naive. There have been a lot of scientific discussions re...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago*Photo of President Obama Saluting The Burning of The U.S. Constitution.* "Policies of disappearing, torturing, and murdering significant numbers of citizens were aimed at imposing a passive consensus w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAs we slog towards another vapid, largely meaningless exercise in pretend democracy with the selection of a new president and Congress this November, it is time to make it clear that the current president...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoInstitutions rarely vote themselves out of existence. Not if they still have money in their budgets. Large institutions in particular have an almost genetic propensity to cling to life even after their re...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago"We did not choose this war. This war came to us on 9/11. We don’t go looking for a fight. But when we see our homeland violated, when we see our fellow citizens killed, then we understand what we have to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoReplicating post-WW II occupations is planned. Sixty-seven years after war's end, US troops still occupy Germany, Japan and Korea. They're part of America's growing empire of bases. Status of forces (SO...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoGeorge Osborne has warned the European Union that Britain will refuse to sign up to “idiotic” proposals that would water down tough international rules on bank capital requirements. During angry exchange...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoEnvironmental Protection Ministry discounts Channel 2 report of chemical ground disinfection after residents of Tel Aviv, Gush Dan and central Israel complained of a harsh chemical smell, After hours of i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player The men who launched al Qaeda's English-language magazine may have died in a U.S. missile strike last fall, but "Inspire" magazine lives on without...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoView more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Police are looking for 12 female suspects wanted for allegedly taunting two teenage girls on a subway before hauling them off by their hair at a Bronx stati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoPredicting the weather is tricky enough. Now a new government-sponsored report warns that the USA's ability to track tornadoes, forecast hurricanes and study climate change is about to diminish. The numb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSenator Rand Paul has issued a press release in which he vows to lead the charge to “end the TSA” and put a stop to the needless and humiliating groping of toddlers and grandmothers. Earlier this year, P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will use computer modelling to show how a missile shield the United States and NATO are deploying in Europe could threaten its security, a senior defense official said in remarks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - Police in riot gear raided a vacant San Francisco building before dawn on Wednesday, arresting 26 people and taking the structure back from demonstrators who seized it the night before for use...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMiami Beach police are intensifying enforcement efforts this Memorial Day weekend to control massive crowds and avoid last year’s chaotic finale. Terrance Smith hasn’t had much difficulty selling South Be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMINEOLA, Texas (CBS Houston) — A homeowner’s association is suing a returning Army veteran for having a swing set for his kids in his backyard. The Spring Lake Homeowner’s Association has filed a lawsuit ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoLONDON -- Giant US military-industrial company Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is in the running to win a slice of a controversial £1.5 billion (US$2.43 billion) contract to transform the West Midlands and Surr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoRIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia repeated on Wednesday that it would not tolerate threats to the Gulf Arab states' sovereignty, the latest warning to Iran after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - - Nearly 15 percent of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime and 10 percent think the Mayan calendar could signify it will happen in 2012, according to a new poll. ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNew orders for U.S. factory goods in March recorded their biggest decline in three years as demand for transportation equipment and a range of other goods slumped, government data showed on Wednesday. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIt must be lonely for Emad El-Dafrawi. A 24-year-old Egyptian graduate of media studies, he is one of only two self-proclaimed conscientious objectors in a country where the military today doubles as the e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoForeign minister, visiting Jerusalem, says international sanctions should be given more time to work. Japan is urging Israel to demonstrate “maximal restraint” regarding Iran and allow time for internatio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoOne of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called 'New York girlfriend.' Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFirst, U.S. generals David Petraeus and Stanley A. McChrystal played a pivotal role in designing Colombia’s new counterinsurgency strategy to target the mid-level command structures of the Revolutionary A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoU.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visited Colombia on Monday as part of a regional trip that includes Brazil and Chile. Panetta’s visit came exactly one week after Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWASHINGTON: Undeterred by Islamabad's shrill protests about breach of its sovereignty by American drone strikes culminating in a parliamentary resolution calling for a halt to such unmanned attacks, the U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTea Party favorites such as Stephen Fincher of Tennessee were swept into Congress on a wave of anger over government-funded bailouts of banks. Now those incumbents are collecting thousands of dollars for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHONG KONG - Medicine by definition is for treatment of diseases or injuries. But drugs contaminated with unwanted poisonous stuff (some poison are necessary to cure certain diseases) will do harm to human...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 23 hours agoOn a personal note ... over the last two years, I have struggled with a number of surgeries to try and fix a detached retina in one of my eyes. Things have not worked out and I lost the sight in that eye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe have written in this blog of the high levels of impunity within the Mexican legal system: crimes that routinely go unpunished and justice that is arbitrarily dispensed. We agree with those who argue ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf the pen is mightier than the sword, then senior members of the Japan writers' P.E.N. Club, who visited the shuttered Chernobyl nuclear power plant in mid-April, are now armed with some mighty ink. "I ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoH5N1, or the Bird Flu virus, may be closer to human transmission than previously thought. Two teams of researchers purposefully mutated the strain in a lab in order to demonstrate how easily the change mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMoscow rejects Washington's claim that a planned missile defense system is solely to deal with any Iranian missile threat and has voiced fears it will eventually threaten Russia. Russia's top military of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea has stockpiled enough uranium for six nuclear bombs, an expert has warned. According to a South Korean nuclear expert North Korea has appeared to have started relying on enrichment activities...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago*It is the first Friday of the month and that means ... another delicious, vegan recipe. As most of you have heard me say (countless times) ... eating meatless meals is one of the easiest ways to walk a li...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoMonday evening, when Buck McKeon didn't show up for the CA-25 candidates' forum in Santa Clarita, Lee Rogers referred to his as a white elephant and then corrected himself to call him an "invisible elepha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBaku-APA. The U.S. Department of State sees no threat in South Korea’s ballistic missile program and is set to continue its support for Seoul’s efforts to boost the country’s defense capabilities, APA repo...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoOK... For the hundredth time... Osama Bin Laden, aka.. CIA trained agent Tim Osman, died of complications due to failing kidneys sometime around December 13th, 2001, and was buried in the Tora Bora mountai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has made a dramatic plea to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and American lawmakers from his hospital bed. Mr Guangcheng phoned in to a congressional hearing to ask ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 61.4 km (38.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:54:10 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) ESE from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 50.1 km (31.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:31:31 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) South o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:00:37 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey No Reports of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 10.7 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:45:18 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey No Reports...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoHerman Von Rompuy is going to steal your sovereignty. Also, Christmas.There is something refreshing in British newspapers. Empires come and empires go, but tabloids are one of life's constants. So with the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 165.9 km (103.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:20:38 UTC Thursday 3rd May 2012 The epicenter was 283 km (175 miles) Northeast of Kuril'sk,...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoIt has been a while since I last put up an article pertaining to important health news, and for this article I found a real good subject to cover. First, it must be said that I am not a proponent of manda...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoIt's been observed that the vast majority of those finding a woman's control over her body distressing, repulsive, and just WRONG, have their objections rooted in religious doctrine, even if their faith mu...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoMeant to get to this sooner. It drives me crazy when Democrats cave into Wingnuttian hysteria. Like the EPA guy who resigned after the trumped up fauxrage over his cruxifiction analogy. Charlie Pierce put ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoRe: the dust-up between Progressive Bloggers and what became Real Canadian Progressives. I must have read this from Montreal Simon at the time but didn't keep up with the comments -- all 39 of them. To...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day agoDion Lefebvre, you are a hero sir. Thank you.
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoForget about any moves to the center. Apparently having realized there's no going back once you've pledged to the cracked, Romney reached out to the far right media and a bevy of select wingnut bloggers in...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoI've been gone all day at work so I've not had time to follow up on this yellow fog. I saw it on the Tepco webcam this morning. It must have been around 7:30 or 8:00 a.m. Arizona time 5/3. The yellow fo...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 day ago[image: AlterNet] What You Need To Know About ALEC By Diane Ravitch, Bridging Differences Posted on May 3, 2012, Printed on May 3, 2012 http://www.alternet.org/story/155257/what_you_need_to_know_about_ale...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAmericans believed in global warming/climate change. Then they didn't. But now they do again. Mother Nature has been given the doubters, predominantly from the south and central states, extra lessons ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*On the Noble Desktop website, you can point and click your way to the names and bios of these instructors. At third from the left, by the way, that's Dan Rodney.* *Joke of the Month* A helicopter is fly...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Close to the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and surrounded by the stars of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici), this celestial wonder was discovered in 1781 by the metric French astronomer Pierre Mechain. Later, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“A Saint In The Wrong Place”* by Paulo Coelho “‘Why is it that some people can resolve the most complicated problems really easily, whilst others agonize over every tiny crisis and end up drowning in a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Zoom”* by Chet Raymo "There are a couple of book on the shelf at home by the illustrator Istvan Banyai that I enjoy looking at now and then, ostensibly children's books, but really engaging for all ag...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago** *... or risk being fired * *Contributor: "Ron"* Le nouveau code de conduite de la SRC inquiète le syndicat *Google Translation:* The new code of conduct of the union concerned about the CBC *[Union] ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoAdiemus, "Adiemus" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8kZ-iVk90&feature=related
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoAsh Shu`aybah, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"In order to learn, one must change one's mind." - Orson Scott Card
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago*Politics this week has been nothing but sideshows. The biggest of all being the sideshow about John Banks—as if discussing a man’s hotel bill is the most important thing a country’s politicians could be...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*R. v. Jesse*, 2012 SCC 21
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoSarah Yesterday morning in the pediatric clinic a mother came into my office and sat down with her baby wrapped in a blanket. She had not checked the baby in at the front desk and offered no dossier for me...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoJT Ready stands armed at the Occupy Phoenix protest in October. Ready said he was there with the U.S. Border Guard. Ready and four others died in an apparent murder suicide on Wednesday. (Sara Steffan/Do...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"A Warmer World and Weather Gone Wild:* * The Most Important Story of Our Lives'* by Bill McKibben "The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Return of Cheap Oil?"* by Bill Bonner "Will new energy discoveries and new technology sink oil prices? Will lower oil prices rescue the world from the Great Correction? Maybe, say Porter Stansbe...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoObviously, $32,000,000 is not enough to get Pearson to hire test writers who know more than the students they are testing. From NYTimes SchooBook: May 2, 2012, 12:34 p.m. By *ANNA M. PHILLIPS* For ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoAt Plum Line, I noted that reporters and pundits are overhyping each new economic report, and tried to provide a bit of context for how to take new economic reports seriously without overdoing it. And over...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*NFLPA counsel response to NFL PR conference*
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta speaks at an annual reception for the Environmental Defense Fund at the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C., 2 May 2012. Panetta thanked the organization for reco...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoA few days ago we looked at a gay activist, Paul Morabito, once tapped as the chairman of the GLAAD Advisory Board, giving large sums of cash to virulent homophobes running for office. Why would a gay man...
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- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoIn the logo used by the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, Canada, geographically, figures less prominently than the other parts of the Americas. That seems to fit with the fact that they get a lot o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe fate of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is not yet clear. But that won't stop many from judging that this muddle is of US President Barack Obama's making. The Obama administration looks like it has...
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