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So Climate Change Conference (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- There is a fascinating discussion thread at Enenews debating whether crowd-sourced intelligence from Japanese citizens can combat the veil of silence and lies that together constitute official discourse a...
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Today, while rummaging through a drawer, I found an old calendar of botanical watercolors that I had forgotten all about. I brought it home from a trip to Milan in 2006 where I found it at an apothecary s... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 minutes ago
Scott Paul, Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), did an especially excellent OpEd for CNBC.com, The High Cost of Our Addiction to China. It worth reading in it's entirety a... - posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 28 minutes ago*SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2012* *Part 4—Unable to see through Gail:* Is Pearson overcharging Texas for its testing services? Here at THE HOWLER, we have no idea—in part, because we read Gail Collins. Last Saturd...
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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Albania at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:55:07 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) Northwest of Himarë, Albania No Reports ... - posted by Rodger A. Payne at The Duck of Minerva - 46 minutes ago
The Heartland Institute, a conservative think-tank well-known for its skepticism about climate change, placed the above digital billboard for 24 hours along the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago this past... - posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 55 minutes ago
** *Contributor: "YYC"* *Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music Cry * **"Hollande!" ... And to think they once loved me!* *Supermoon*Today is election day in ... - I think that my ex-colleague Andy Strominger is not only a top physicist but also a captivating speaker. This talk he gave at Berkeley in March 2012 confirms it. Click the picture above to try to p...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 hour agoMIT'S TECHNOLOGY REVIEW is a wonderful site for looking at what's coming down the pike at ya. John Pollock has a great article, worthy of your perusal, "People Power 2.0 How civilians helped win the Libyan ...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 hour agoI'm always big on the idea of redemption. And you know, even in the case of pedophiles, it's my understanding that a lot of them suffered horrific abuse as children which destroyed their ability to have no...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 hour agoOPENING RECEPTION TONIGHT COLLAPSE: The Cry of Silent Forms May 5 - June 16 Brandon Ballengée, a biologist and visual artist, will exhibit sculptural installations and photographs at Ronald Feldman Fi...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 hour agoDear Ms Tisch, I heard you speaking last week on NPR and defending what's going on in NYC around the massive investments in testing and companies like Pearson. I'm afraid to tell you, what needs to be t...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour agoIt's no secret that the segregated KIPP testing camps have been viewed as the final urban education solution ever since Feinberg and Levin trotted out a group behaviorally-altered and culturally-scrubbed c...
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Once thought to be the most densely populated place on Earth, with 50,000 people crammed into only a few blocks, these fascinating pictures give a rare insight into the lives of those who lived Kowloon Wa... - posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 2 hours ago
** *As usual, public perception has been manipulated.* *Contributor: "YYC"* Gazette journalist Anne Sutherland under fire for naked protest tweets *The Montreal Gazette posted a note on their website at 4:... - posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours agoPEOPLE BELIEVE IN ALL SORTS OF THINGS — talking snakes, angels, free markets, Trickle-Down Theory, 72 virgins, you name it. Well, the universe we have measured and observed from the minute Planck Length to t...
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------------------------------ *Disinformation On Every Front* ------------------------------ May 4, 2012 | Original here Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix cons... - posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*The Regina Dialogue ~moosedenied* *LSU fan tea-bagged in post-BCS video sues Alabama man* *Morganza task force considers tax options ~Nikki Buskey* *~Hat Tweet *@*LeveesOrg* I am allergic to horses, and ...
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On Thursday the 2nd May, England and Wales went to the polls to vote for local government. Also, there were referenda in ten major cities to decide whether the UK should adopt the American system of dire... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 3 hours agoBecause they lie. They distort. They dissemble. They move goalposts. And they cheat. That CBC 'unscientific' poll is running now at about 64% in favour of reopening the abortion debate. Yeah. Right. A...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours agohttp://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/11-injured-including-4-police-officers-as-quebec-student-protest-turns-violent/article2423712/?service=mobile "More than 3,000 demonstrators disrupted Friday's Qu...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoThe White House had a somber reaction to the modest improvements in the unemployment numbers yesterday. Alan Krueger, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Today’s employment report provides fur...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours agoThe Harper government is intent on passing its 421 page Budget Implementation Bill in seven days. If Stephen Harper were the Leader of the Opposition, he would be up in arms. In fact, as Leader of the O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 13 km (8 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:45 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 718 km (445.1 miles) East Kalmunai, Sri Lan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTOKYO — Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the last of this nation's 50 nuclear reactors switching off Saturday, shaking banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA British tourist has been mauled by two apparently tame cheetahs in a South African game reserve - in an attack caught on camera. Violet D'Mello had just posed for a photograph with one of the hand-reare...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Northwest of the Kuril Islands at a depth of 258.7 km (160.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:00:56 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 261 km (162 miles) NNE of K...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 5 hours agoIf a garden bed isn/t doing anything else, consider broad beans. They will produce a crop and a green manure (vegetable matter to be incorporated for soil improvement and fertility) simultaneously. Instead...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMay 4 - Mexican volcano spews smoke and and ash, raises concerns that authorities are ill-prepared for a mass evacuation
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - An empty pickup truck veers off the winding road near the Tunisian hamlet of Ouni, separated from Libya by only a few hundred meters of unmarked scrub. Three men jump out and begin to stack ga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 26.4 km (16.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:48:05 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) WSW from Ocotlán, Oaxaca, Mex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDongshigu Village, China (CNN) -- As our car moved closer to this tiny village in eastern China, our driver became visibly nervous, looking around for any signs of trouble. He found it. "They spotted us,"...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoATHENS — Not only Greece but also Europe braced on Saturday for an election here that polls indicate will fail to produce a clear winner, and which markets worry will plunge the eurozone into fresh turmoi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say an explosion in car wash in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least five people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Saturday blast ki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA rare white buffalo calf that became the centre of a Native American cult has died mysteriously just days before its first birthday. Authorities are investigating the suspicious death of the buffalo, nam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA seven-month-old baby died after being forgotten inside a pickup truck all day as temperatures soared to 90 degrees. Police in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land are investigating the death of the baby, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Georgia bar owner has sparked outrage by displaying a sign outside his establishment calling Barack Obama a 'n***er'. Patrick Lanzo, of Paulding County, insists that the sign beside the Georgia Peach O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 2.8 km (1.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:23:23 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) East from The Geysers, Cal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoRevenge is generally considered a dish best served cold, but not for a Polish national from Illinois who officials said planned to have six people burned alive for breaking up his marriage Zenon Grzegorc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe percentage of Americans working or looking for work has fallen to its lowest level in more than 30 years, according to gloomy economic figures that are a major blow to President Barack Obama’s hopes of...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago'Awkward Local election stats: WHaigue 38% before 2001 election defeat: Michael Howard 38% before 2005 defeat: Labour 2012 38% and Milliband?' As tweeted by Channel 4's Jon Snow last night, and as the BB...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA California man has been arrested for killing his girlfriend and his two sons after police were called to the blood-stained home he had just vacated. Brought in by police after a long car chase along Inte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFourteen people have contracted salmonella poisoning after handling contaminated foods produced at the Diamond Pet Foods plant in Gaston, South Carolina At least five people were hospitalised because of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA mother has been arrested after admitting to police she burned her 15-month-old son's genitals with a hair straightening iron. Jodi Rock, 19, from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, remains in jail on $200,000 bail a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 47 km (29.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:12:03 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) ESE from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA 31-year-old man faces capital murder and molestation charges after he allegedly stabbed his nine-year-old stepdaughter to death to cover up months of sexual abuse. Prosecutors claim Jacinto Zuniga Truj...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoInstitutional Corruption Is Killing the Economy by Washington's Blog Global Research Canada, 5 May 2012 People Are Losing Trust In All Institutions The signs are everywhere: Americans have lost ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHe should have been enjoying the sweet smell of success. But instead Ed Miliband's local elections triumph turned sour today as he was pelted - with an egg. The Labour leader was on a victory walkabout i...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours ago2001, Stanley Kubrick's seminal space odyssey started it all off, positing that Jupiter's moon *Europa* is a second testbed for the organic exercise that caused Homo Sapiens here on Earth. Avatar, Jam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBeing told the block of flats where you live will also be the home of surface-to-air missiles may leave many bewildered, and no doubt apprehensive. But as these pictures show, the Fred Wigg Tower in Walth...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 8 hours agoThis is my article today in the online magazine, http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/less-gorvernment/1305-labor-rights-and-employee-forever . Below the article is a long comment from a friend, Arcy Garc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJudge John Milford QC, told Stephen Crawford that he 'enjoys the act of rape' before imposing a life sentence which could be as short as four and a half years at Newcastle Crown Court A sneering sex att...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe millionaire British founder of security firm McAfee has been forcefully arrested in Belize following a drugs and weapons bust at his property. John McAfee had his house in Orange Walk, Belize City, s...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 8 hours agoENTERTAINMENT - Spending time with friends and family this summer? Bored? Need a fun trivia game that is good at parties? Introduce your friends to... *COMMON KNOWLEDGE: THE TRIVIA GAME* Created by Charle...
- 'Brilliant' nuclear scientist who worked at Cern laboratory jailed for plotting attacks for Al-Qaeda
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA brilliant nuclear scientist working at the Cern nuclear laboratory was today sentenced to five in prison for plotting attacks on behalf of Al-Qaeda Adlene Hicheur, who is French and from an Algerian bac... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Muslim woman who repeatedly beat a 10-year-old girl with a steel ladle for not reading enough verses of the Koran is facing jail today. Asia Parveen, 31 brandished a knife at the child after accusing he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA teenage gang member who raped a girl of 11 in a McDonald’s toilet will serve only six months behind bars after an astonishing ruling by a judge yesterday. The 16-year-old was one of several thugs who p...
- Poor parenting blamed for surge of special needs cases as a FIFTH of pupils now recorded as affectedposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPoor parenting and weak teaching are driving a rise in the number of children labelled as having special needs, it was claimed yesterday. Many diagnosed as having behavioural problems have simply been bro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDavid Cameron is struggling to contain civil war in the Coalition following a painful setback in local elections for both Government parties. Last night the Prime Minister was warned to rein in ‘wind turbi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe average home now costs £159,883, down 2.4% from £163,796 in March, according to the Halifax Price Index. HOUSE prices plunged by £130 a day last month, new figures revealed. The average home now costs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPoor figures hint at slowdown in America's recovery as elections loom in France and Greece. Stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic saw heavy sell-offs yesterday in the wake of new figures that point...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA US drone strike has killed at least nine suspected militants in the volatile tribal areas of north-west Pakistan, say Pakistani officials. The drone fired missiles at a suspected militant compound in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEgypt's ruling military council imposed an overnight curfew in the area around the defence ministry in Cairo after one soldier was reported killed and hundreds wounded in clashes there. Soldiers used wat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left Beijing on Saturday after a tense week of negotiations with China over the fate of blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who plans to travel to th...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoThe folks at DND have grown used to treating our Parliamentarians and the Canadian public like imbecilic dupes. That much comes through loud and clear in the *160-word letter* the department issued to ju...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThis is a welcome imaging approach and it puts these monuments fully into the public eye as they can now be simulated to any scale. The Great Pyramid is surely high on the list as it is becomin...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThis is an organic fiber derived from photocopying technology that self assembles and has excellent electrical properties. It may be competitive with the oncoming nanotube technologies. This is...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoDam building is naturally ameliorated in China and India by been in one of the well watered regions of the globe. Diversion is far less compelling than in the US Southwest. Preserving the fish...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoGrabbed this piece from Dale Drinnon's site and kept his comment on the bottom. Now that archeologists are accepting a much earlier date for the peopling of the Americas, they are clearly digg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA so-called super moon is set to light up the sky overnight from Saturday into Sunday morning, bringing a lunar spectacle for amateur and professional astronomers alike. Super moons happen when the satel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe bodies of 23 people have been found hanging from a bridge or dismembered in ice boxes and rubbish bags in Mexico. The deaths are an escalation of violence involving rival drug gangs on the US border ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Qinghai, China at a depth of 28.5 km (17.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:39 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 269 km (167 miles) Northwest from Qam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMore than 140 people have been hurt after hundreds of gas-filled balloons went up in flames in Armenia. People scattered as a fireball erupted at a political rally in capital city Yerevan, just days befo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe man who claims he was the mastermind behind the September 11 terror attacks in 2001 will appear in court with four others after years of legal wrangling to hear charges against him. In what has been...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLast year, 86 million Americans were not counted in the labor force because they didn't keep up a regular job search. Most of them were either under age 25 or over age 65. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- There ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 12.7 km (7.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:34:01 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 784 km (487 miles) ESE of Kandy, Sri La...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Bering Strait, Alaska at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:30:49 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) SSW from Point Hope, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:29:41 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51.4 miles) Southeast of Yining, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:05:57 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) Southwest of Tapach...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Iraq at a depth of 14.4 km (68.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:57:11 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) ENE of Tikrit, Iraq No Reports of Damag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southeast of Easter Island at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:14 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 1437 km (892 miles) Southwest of San...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeast of Easter Island at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:11:11 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 1367 km (849 miles) Southwest of San...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea at a depth of 561.4 km (348.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:04:15 UTC Saturday 5th May 2012 The epicenter was 252 km (156 miles) NNW of DILI, Timor-Leste N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck North of Svalbard at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:33:25 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 231 km (143 miles) Northeast of Nord, Greenland ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:19:06 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29.2 miles) East of Abdanan, Ira...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago[image: GCHQ] GCHQ. Top US and UK spies have died in mysterious circumstances. Did they know too much about links between the security services and arms deals, drugs deals, child abuse...? Stephen Drinkwa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam Region, India at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:09:23 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) ESE ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. Y...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoby Will Potter on May 1, 2012 Green is the New Red - - As the Occupy movement carries out massive May Day protests around the country, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task force is trumpeting the arr...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoBy ZEINA KARAM | Associated Press – May 4, 2012 BEIRUT — Syrian forces fired on thousands of protesters Friday in Aleppo, killing a teenager, after a raid on dormitories at the city's main university kill...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoMay 04, 2012 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies Israeli policemen arrested, on Thursday evening, more than 20 protesters during a massive protest held in front of the al-Ramla prison in solidarity wi...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoMay 04, 2012 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies Mahmoud Issa is a Palestinian political prisoner who has been in prison since 1993 and in solitary confinement for the last 10 years. He is allowed only ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoOn Thursday, the Heartland Institute placed a playful digital billboard to the suburbs of Chicago. They also wrote down an explanation. People such as Ross McKitrickprotested and the billboard was remove...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoFriday May 04, 2012 by William Temple - IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Prison Service has confirmed that it is withholding interviews between hunger striking prisoners and their legal representatives as ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoSamidoun Khader Adnan writes in gratitude for the support he was given while on hunger-strike and calls for solidarity with the prisoners: In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, Praise...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoStop the FBI frame up! Call off the trial now! Call L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley at 213-974-3512 Sample text: "Hello, my name is _________ and I am calling from __________. I want District Attorne...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoMay 3, 2012 Samidoun Tadamun International for Human Rights said that the Israel Prison Service continues to repress and harass hunger strikers, transferring the isolated hunger striking prisoners in As...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoThursday, May 3, 2012 Red Bird Prison Abolition According to a level 5 prisoner participating in the hunger strike at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) there are forty-eight (48) prisoners who have refused n...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoThaer Halahleh in court - photo by @Thameenahusary on Twitter May 3, 2012 Samidoun The scheduled ruling of the Israeli Supreme Court on the appeal of hunger striking administrative detainees Thaer Halahl...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 1, 2012 By Daniel Bates , Lydia Warren and Louise Boyle Daily Mail At least 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested after clashes with NYPD In anticipation of protests, NYPD stormed activist...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoTerra.com [image: Getty Images -] *Getty Images* ** *Justice for all? Mmmm, I doubt it. Everyone is talking these days about the vigilante that shot Trayvon Martin in Florida. But there's Leonard Peltier, ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 2, 2012 Samidoun The following statement was issued on May 1, 2012 by the leadership of the hunger strike in Israeli prisons, following on Statements No.1 and 2, highlighting the denial of lawyer visit...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 2, 2012 Samidoun GENEVA (2 May 2012) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk on Wednesday said he was appalled by...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 1, 2012 Solitary Watch by Sal Rodriguez ** Prisoners in California’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have offered their opinions of the recent reforms of the California prison system’s controversial gan...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoGreetings, I received a copy of a letter from Jalil asking that we open his Parole Campaign for his late summer hearing. I have included main page of his web site so that you can get the necessary informa...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoBy Charlene Muhammad -National Correspondent- Final Call | May 1, 2012 [image: political_prisoners05-08-2012.jpg] *(This is the first in a series of articles examining the plight and problem of political p...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours ago30 Apr 2012 Thousand Kites "Calls from Home: Mama's Day Special," a radio project that connects incarcerated mothers to their families, friends, and communities.*Media Literacy Project*, *Strong Families*,...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 01, 2012 By James F. McCarty, The Plain Dealer [image: 5 men arrested in Cleveland area bridge bomb plot] 5 men arrested in Cleveland area bridge bomb plot Law enforcement officials arrested five m...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours ago*NFL's "Independent" Council Really Isn't* *Pardon the hideous ad at the beginning,
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoMay 1, 2012 Newsnet5.com By Mike Waterhouse and Bob Seeley CLEVELAND - The Cleveland office of the FBI announced Tuesday the arrests of five people who allegedly tried to blow up a bridge in northeast Ohio...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoHow big money distorts reality by dominating both sides of every debate. *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 5, 2012* - Like a tentacle of a sea monster breaking the surface of the water, a recent news story starri...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 12 hours agoCONTACT: Ben Turk PHONE: 614 704 4699 EMAIL: insurgent.ben@gmail.com Monday April 30th. Today at least twenty five prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) began a hunger strike. They are demanding that...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoMay 01, 2012 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News The Islamic Jihad movement warned that the Egyptian-mediated truce with Israel will be abandoned if any hunger-striking detainee dies in an Israeli prison or ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoApril 30, 2012 by JAMES KILGORE Counterpunch Last week George Zimmerman joined an elite circle that includes Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Martha Stewart, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn-media figures who o...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoApril 30, 2012 Samidoun Imprisoned Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, confirmed he is continuing his open-ended hunger strike u...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoTesting a new legal strategy, Troy Anderson's lawyers will argue that his isolation violates federal disability law. —By Jean Casella and James Ridgeway Mon Apr. 30, 2012 Mother Jones [image: Troy Ander...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoApril 30, 2012 by John Bowden Periodically reviewing life sentences by the Parole Board is a process required by law and such reviews, known as Tribunals, are intended to assess the current level of risk...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*by Ken* We've had a generous helping of encores sprinkled through the Sunday Classics programs. I always thought that one of these weeks we'd take a neatly organized, carefully rehearsed tour through th...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoApril 30, 2012 Samidoun Palestinian prisoners’ heroic hunger strike is continuing as strikers enter their 14th day of the “Battle of the Empty Stomachs,” launched on April 17, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day....
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoApril 30, 2012 Samidoun NEGEV, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners refused to end their hunger strike in return for an Israeli intelligence offer to end the isolation of about 20 Palestinian prisoners by groupi...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoApril 30, 2012 Samidoun Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association reported today that all of Addameer’s lawyers continue to be barred from visiting prisoners on hunger strik...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoSamidoun Freed prisoner Khader Adnan called out for emergency night marches and rallies in support of Bilal Diab and Thaer Halaleh, following reports that Bilal and Thaer’s health has deteriorated greatl...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoApril 29, 2012 Samidoun *Act now to defend the prisoners’ lives: click here to take action!* Ramon prison management transferred hunger striking Palestinian prisoner and leader, Ahmad Sa’adat to Ramle p...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agohttp://www.change.org/petitions/nys-chairwoman-of-parole-release-jalil-muntaqim-to-buffalo-on-parole-in-june-2012?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=friends_wall Anthony Bottom, aka Ja...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoSamidoun The Leadership Committee of the Prisoners’ Hunger Strike issued a second statement about the continuing open hunger strike, emphasizing that the strike will continue until their demands are achiev...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours agoFormer prisoner Samer Abu Sir reported that Israeli prison administration forces attempted to bargain with imprisoned patient Akram Rakhawi in Ramle hospital, saying they would provide him with inhalers ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 13 hours ago** * freeahmadsaadat.org* *Over 1600 Palestinian prisoners are currently engaged in a steadfast and **open-ended hunger strike** that launched on April 17, 2012 - Palestinian Prisoners' Day. Ahmad Sa'adat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“Jets of streaming plasma expelled by the central black hole of a massive spiral galaxy light up this composite image of Centaurus A. The jets emanating from Cen A are over a million light years long. Exa...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoLancaster, Wisconsin, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours agoDestroying evidence so it cannot be used by the justice system is an obstruction of justice -- I've never heard of swallowing evidence before but if done to destroy evidence it's obstruct justice http://...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA wave of violence in Mexico has led to a string of gruesome discoveries. The bodies of nine people were found hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just 6 miles from the U.S. border. Five were m...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 15 hours agoFour years ago CBC's Keith Boag did this piece on voter data-gathering and microtargeting, including a look at the Cons' CIMS database and cameos from Michael Geist and Con-turned-Lib MP Garth Turner. M...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 15 hours agoToday was taken up by meetings and luncheons and honors ceremonies. Southern Man kicked off the day with an early-morning meeting (Dean's Leadership Team) and then worked hard to set up the late-morning ho...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 15 hours agoToday was the due date for semester projects. These two students wrote a media player that Southern Man has wanted for a while. I swear, it worked this morning... This one goes here, and that one goes th...
- However horrible we thought Willard Inc. might be as president, it looks like he's going to be WORSE
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*It will undoubtedly be seen as an insult to garbage to describe the Incorporated Willard as a stinking pile of worthless garbage. I'll just have to live with it.* *"He's a very accomplished spokesperson,... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*by Ken* One last reminder that the Municipal Art Society has coordinated a bumper crop of 70-plus walks (plus a few bike tours) in all five boroughs for Saturday and Sunday's annual celebration of Jane ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours agoI am fuming. Friggin' fuming. Remember my coffee maker, the Cuisinart electric percolator? I was impressed that Cuisinart, a division of Conair, honoured their three-year warranty. Short version: the r...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoNO, no! go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kist By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine; Make not your rosary of ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 17 hours ago
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 17 hours agoThirty-year old man from Waf Jeremy with cholera--May 4, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll)
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 17 hours ago[If you've gained anything from following this blog, please consider making a contribution, even a small contribution, to it so that it can continue to exist in these most difficult economic times for unem...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago*If bullshit had a name, it would be Barack Hussein Obama.* The first anniversary of the official death of Osama Bin Laden brought two suppressed truths up to the level of collective consciousness. 1) N...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“Jim Rogers’ Warning: Riots Coming To America” * by EFT Daily News "Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Speaking with the "Wall Street Journal" on Friday, commodities trader Jim Rogers of Rogers Holdin...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 18 hours ago*Boycott Pearson*. From KXAN: . . . . KXAN News has uncovered that the state is spending more than $89 million on testing for the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, this year alo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“Right On Cue...”* by Karl Denninger “Oh do come on... MOSCOW – "Russia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defense facilities in Easter...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 18 hours agoA Republican operative convicted of perpetrating election phone fraud for the Republican National Committee told interviewer Stephen Maher that "fraudulent calls in the last Canadian election are likely an...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoAt Post Partisan, I got involved in a thing between Charles Krauthammer and Greg Sargent (who had a nice post) and argued mainly that the liberal talking point about how the Ryan budget would hit particula...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours ago*Ani DiFranco offered a peek behind her creative curtain at the New Orleans Jazz Fest ~Keith Spera*
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 20 hours agoBack in the old days of the Bush Administration, the Bushies paid hacks like Kate Walsh, who were receiving federal discretionary grants from ED, to seed the op-ed pages of America's newspapers with pro-N...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago*Peoria closet case Rep. Aaron Schock, hiding in plain sight* When Michael Musto did his seminal cover story for *Out*, The Glass Closet-- Why The Stars Won't Come Out And Play, he mostly discussed celebr...
- posted by Cliff Bob at The Duck of Minerva - 20 hours agoMy new book, *The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics*, has recently been published by Cambridge University Press. It is available on Kindle for $12.10, Nook for $14.74, and as a paperback...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoSqueeze - 'Cool for Cats' I so remember that appearance on Top Of The Pops so I was shocked to read this comment on You Tube: 'Those girls had no underwear on. I should know... I was there. I was roadi...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 20 hours agoRally at the Capitol: Hundreds will rally at the State Capitol at 11 a.m. on May 7 to call on lawmakers to enact a budget that works for Pennsylvania families. Learn more. Hundreds to Rally in Capitol R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoWashington (CNN) -- Iran, Syria and now China. President Barack Obama faces a third front of vulnerability on his administration's record of defending human rights with the muddled situation involving act...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 108 km (67.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:53 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) SSW from Santiago Atitlán, Sololá, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 35.7 km (22.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:58:47 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 433 km (269 miles) SSW of NUKU`ALOFA,...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 21 hours agoAfter having spent quite a bit of time, looking at far too many media stories on the so called university raid in Aleppo?? I am left with very serious doubts that this raid took place at all, as portrayed...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoHappy Friday!!! Whoa – Big drop today. Major for those that want to know this information. Common Cause went though their ALEC documents and compiled and posted the most current listing of ALEC Corporatio...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoWebsite for this image The official story is that a bunch of navy seals attacked a house that was unguarded. There were no guards. The official story is that the navy seals attacked an unarmed old man a...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 21 hours agoThe Government of Canada welcomes an ex-convict who renounced Canadian citizenship, a man who defrauded seniors of their pensions and life savings. Indeed, the path for his return was cleared while he was ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoRichard Quest of CNN has interviewed our president: Europe needs a fundamental change of the paradigm. Even the Maastricht upper limit on the budget deficit, 3%, is too high simply because we know th...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours ago"Swift Boating" seems to be in the news this week, so here's my quick contribution: Swift Boating -- and the George W. Bush campaign in 2004 in general -- was probably a dud. The most important thing to ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoCoastal British Columbia may not be a great place to live if you have problems coping with rain. We have what I like to call the "Rain Festival" that runs from around mid-October until somewhere betwee...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*“Economic Recovery Education”* by Bill Bonner “Feelings… Whoa, whoa, whoa…feelings…” — Morris Albert “Our plane got delayed. This left us in a small waiting room for longer than we wanted to be the...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoI really do not know what to write today. That is pretty unusual for me. I'll just include some headlines today until I regain my ability to write: Fukushima Diary is Reporting Hydrogen is Concentrating a...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours agoSome people see David Icke as a disinformation agent. BUT, he knows a lot about what goes on in the world
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoFour of the Kent State students wounded by Ohio National Guard gunfire on May 4, 1970 that left four of their fellow students dead want U.S. Attorney-General Eric Holder to order a new inquiry into the tra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Reuters) - The euro zone economy worsened markedly in April, according to business surveys that clashed with the prospect of a gradual recovery augured by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Reuters) - The Chinese village that blind dissident Chen Guangcheng fled two weeks ago remained under lockdown on Friday as Chen, recovering in a Beijing hospital, worried about the fate of friends and f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Reuters) - The Obama administration unveiled long-awaited rules on Friday to bolster oversight of "fracking" on public lands, seeking to allay environmental concerns over the technology that has spurred ...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 22 hours agoYou can make wine as way of preserving nutrients from almost any fruit, or even dandelion blossoms. It might not taste like thirty dollars a bottle, but it will do for home consumption, or is useful in c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTwo British soldiers, from The Royal Logistic Corps, have been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said. Their families have been informed. More follows...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoI was shocked, shocked to learn that Bloggingheads.tv advertised my discussion with Rob Farley over gender and race in *Foreign Policy* / *Game of Thrones* by promoting only the clip where I discussed "nud...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 23 hours agoThe Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre—occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoBERLIN (Reuters) - A Kremlin threat to launch pre-emptive strikes on a planned NATO missile defense system in Europe is unjustified as the system poses no threat to Russia's security, the head of the Atla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNasa and the U.S. military are among high-profile victims of a new group of hackers, calling themselves 'The Unknowns'. The group, who professes to use its hacking abilities as a force of good, contacted...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 23 hours agoRemember before the meltdown of 2007, the private equity bubble was in full-force. Right at pinnacle, just after the eagerly awaited and hyped Blackstone Group IPO came out and enriched those chop shop exe...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago*Fundy Settlement v. Canada*, 2012 SCC 14 deals with the residence of a trust and holds it is to be determined much the same way as the residence of a corporation: [15] As...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoBeastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch has died at 47. The performer, also known as MCA, passed away this morning after a long battle with cancer. Rapper Russell Simmons' website GlobalGrind was the first to rep...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoTo Taegan Goddard, of the essential Political Wire, for flagging this as his Exchange of the Day: Brody: You ran pretty much an impeccable campaign, in terms of a mistake-free campaign. Bachmann: Thank yo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSquatters have invaded the £7.5m mansion once sought after by Hollywood movie star Johnny Depp and footballer John Terry. Police were called the luxury home which comes with two swimming pools, 34-seat c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAuthorities say a bear tranquilized on a Colorado campus last week and photographed as it fell from a tree has been killed by a car. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say the black bear was struck on U...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoOil has lost 4.5 percent today, Dow Jones is losing 1.3 percent at this point. You may be looking for a culprit. What is his name? In May 2012, the main threat for the prosperity of the world isn't a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Generously written for the CC by Gail from Wit's End, our neighbour blog. Gail is also a regular writer for the CC Magazine, whose massively enlightening first piece will appear in our May 2012 issue. S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain could be stripped of even more powers under plans to create a new super-powerful EU president who would not be directly elected by voters. A group of Eurocrats have secretly devised a scheme to me...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 13-year-old ringleader of a gang that raped an 11-year-old girl in a McDonald's toilet was today jailed for five years. The girl had met Ibraheem Giwa, now 15, at a summer camp and was raped by him in ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoFollowing is a contribution from Wit's End as posted in today's edition of The Coming Crisis: *May Day 2012 Protests Much Larger than Mainstream Media Dared to Show* Perhaps it shouldn't have come as suc...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day agoAnother day, another cave. The Obama Administration has just verified the unbelievable rumor that it would be granting a huge concession to the oil and gas industry -- instead of being required to disclose...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoEver see someone dressed to the nines step out of a fancy car, about to walk into a fancy building for a fancy party and realize he has to get the dogshit off his fancy shoes... fast? That would be Wiscon...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Deployment of Brazil military forces. weapons.technology.youngester.com] By SIMON ROMERO 3 May 2012 RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is deploying more than 8,500 troops to the far reaches of the Amazon ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoCold wars, in case you're too young to remember, can be ridiculously ruinous ventures. Just ask Vladimir Putin. The Soviet Union came to an end due to Cold War spending when world oil prices collapsed a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 14.5 km (9 miles), the quake hit at 16:23:43 UTC Friday 4th May 2012 The epicenter was 738 km (459 miles) WSW from Banda Aceh, Sum...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoFrom Valerie Strauss at WaPo: By Valerie Strauss A New York school principal is urging the state’s education commissioner to review the standardized math assessments recently given to students in grades ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoThe London Mayoral election results look worrying. Latest figurees that I have seen show the following: ConstituencyRegisteredScannedVerifiedAdjudication statusBarnet & Camden100% 92%87%In ProgressBexley & ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoMargaret Somerville is a pearl-clutching dissembler and distorter. (But you knew that.) In yet another screed railing against Canada's lawlessness on abortion, first she offers the Baby Seals Gambit, with...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe Institute for Research on Public Policy ranks Peter Lougheed as Canada's best Premier from the last 40 years. Rounding out the top 5: 1. Peter Lougheed 2. William Davis 3. Allan Blakeney 4. Frank McK...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMAKHACHKALA, Russia - Suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 110 in attacks on a police post on the outskirts of the capital of Russia's Dagestan region, local investigators and law enforcement sour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - European shares fell sharply on Friday after worse-than-expected jobs data from the United States dealt a fresh blow to recovery expectations for the world's largest economy. The pan-European ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago[BREAKING: Conrad Black (Mr. Big) Released from Prison Early: Faces Deportation for Fraud] May 4, 2012 (AP) A U.S Immigration van carrying former media mogul Conrad Black leaves the Federal Correctional......
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoClashes between protesters and security forces have been taking place near Egypt's defence ministry in Cairo. The protesters ignored a warning not to approach the ministry building and threw rocks. Polic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US says it expects China to allow prominent dissident Chen Guangcheng to travel abroad soon. The US state department said Mr Chen had been offered a fellowship at an American university, and it would...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDisgraced media mogul Conrad Black has been released from prison, officials have said. The 67-year-old was freed from a Florida jail after serving around three years for fraud and obstruction of justice....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA soldier who died at the Castlemartin military firing ranges in Pembrokeshire, Wales on Wednesday has been named as Ranger Michael Maguire. Ranger Maguire died during a live firing exercise at the milita...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoI don’t normally write about prison privatization because there are a couple of other people out there that do it a hell of lot better than I could even think of doing. But today – two different stories c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA controversial Argentinian TV advert showing an Olympic hopeful training on a British war memorial in the Falklands has been condemned by the agency behind it. Young & Rubicam said it had asked the gov...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agoI love the graphic in this news item, it really gives a SUPER POWER relevance to what's going on in the Middle East right now. I'm expecting the tinfoilhat tactical term "Iran Stargate" to hit the 'alte...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Observed and experimental warming sensitivity of plants as a function of mean flowering day of year. A trend is seen in the observational studies (blue) but not in the experimental studies (red),...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*Tarion Warranty Corporation v. 1486448 Ontario Inc*., 2012 ONCA 288 is a useful source for the proposition that impecuniosity is a factor to consider (even if not dispositive) when determining the co...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoHard to know what to make of this. A Russian general, Nikolai Makarov, has warned that *Russia will use force* against Poland and Romania if NATO deploys a planned missile radar/interceptor in eastern Eu...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago[image: Research have found some bears are swimming more than 400 miles to find ice caps (Reuters)] Research have found some bears are swimming more than 400 miles to find ice caps Polar bears are been fo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAll work and no play makes Johnny a blind boy. *BBC *reports that kids in major Asian cities are *losing their eyesight* - to studying. *Up to 90% of school leavers in major Asian cities are suffering fro...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoCanadians, what do you think should be done about vote suppression and potential election fraud by the Conservative Party? If there is clear evidence that the party in power is responsible for, or complic...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012* *How we liberals get made dumb and dumber:* Do you believe what Rachel Maddow told you Monday night? (For background, see THE DAILY HOWLER, 5/3/12 .) According to Maddow, she had wor...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIf you're from England or ever lived there, you'll know how much Brits love their *May Bank Holiday*. Seaside excursions to the coast, picnics, the great outdoors. Bank Holiday 2012 is shaping up to be ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe point being that global warming denialism is not about science but focused on cheap public relations gimmicks. Here's a billboard put up by the far-rightwing Heartland Institute that proves the point...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThe inhumane, unjust, and, under international law, *illegal* shredding of Canada's refugee system by the Harper GovernmentTM will take effect at the end of June. Of all this Government's policies, the c...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A billboard in Chicago, paid for by The Heartland Institute, along the inbound Eisenhower Expressway in Maywood, Illinois. The billboards compare supporters of climate science to Ted Kaczynski, C...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoThank God for Businessweek. The article they published earlier this week about ALEC lying to them finally fell off the search feeds lst night about midnight - after days of exposure and now they issue a...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day ago[image: Dry Reservoir]The UK is collection of very wet countries. Situated in the west of Europe, and stretching up into the northwest, the UK is famous for its dreary climate. The country of Kernow may ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES* Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the U.S. April 20, 2012 · By Robert Alvarez The radioactive inventory of all the irradiated nuclea...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Climate activists spell out the words 'Save Snow' on Aspen Mountain in 2009. americanindependent.com via 350.org]By Troy Hooper 27 April 2012 Aspen’s chamber of commerce isn’t the first to seve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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