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Multiple UFO sightings have startled people around the world, according to news reports. Over a six-day period, four reports emerged: one in the United Kingdom, one in Australia and two in the United Sta... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
From intrusive pat-downs to body scans to perceived profiling, the Transportation Security Administration always seems to be the target of complaints. Here's another one: It took the TSA almost four year... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
UN's correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat 'racial discrimination' felt by Native Americans A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes ago
North Korea has begun forming troupes to take part in this year’s Arirang mass games performance, leading to a game of wait-and-see between parents determined to ensure that their children are not required... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes agoAs the weather cleared, the action on the streets got hotter across the city. A black-clad group of anarchists ran through the Lower East Side, assaulting journalists, eluding police, and overturning ga...
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Gafni: Those who don’t study Torah and lie about it should be sent to jail A court order to stop Israel’s longtime practice of exempting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service has become a central... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes ago
Channel 2 commentator says PM is going to polls early so he can handle Iran threat when safely re-elected and with Obama paralyzed in presidential campaign Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ca... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
I’d like to introduce you all to a friend of mine Chef Rob Bika . He is also the son of the AOAC co founder Kimberly McCuiston .. Rob was working at a local Gulf Shores Restaurant as a Seafood Chef , how... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Cova Arias usually studies oysters, not tarballs. But when balls of oil started washing up outside her Dauphin Island Lab after the BP oil spill, the Auburn University professor an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoMANILA — The Philippine military on Thursday accused China of sending more ships to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, describing the move as an insult that would further inflame tensions. Four Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoAs the NATO Summit approaches, the possibility of a false flag attack or some sort of agent provocateur madness seems to increase on a daily basis. Madison Ruppert, the founder of the alternative news outl...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 52 minutes ago
*[NOTE: I stumbled on this post accidentally this morning. It was scheduled to run last May but never did. In light of the post we looked at this afternoon about the Indiana Senate race, I thought I'd ru... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 59 minutes ago
A payday loan firm which charges interest rates of 4,200APR or more was at the centre of a storm today after launching a service for hard-up small businesses. Experts said the move represents a stark refl... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 59 minutes agoDelhi faces sanctions if the US determines it has not made a sharp reduction in imports India is trying to avoid a showdown with the US over demands from Washington that it sharply drop its imports of oil...
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A new eurozone crisis is looming as Spain signalled on Monday it was ready to bail out ailing banks after markets shrugged off the election results in France and Greece. Prime minister Marian Rajoy indica... - posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoWell, Ron Paul gets no respect from the media, but while they're busy ignoring him in favor of badgering White House PressSec Jay Carney for an exposive quote on gay marriage, Ron Paul is quietly carrying ...
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The leader of Greece's far-left is to try to form a government after parties backing an international bailout deal failed to assemble a coalition. Alexis Tsipras aims to put together a cabinet that will r... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoFrench President-elect Francois Hollande spent the day with his transition team - as the problems he faces in his anti-austerity drive were thrown into sharp focus by Germany. He was warned there was no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAn al Qaeda plot to blow up a US-bound aircraft using an underwear bomb has been foiled, American officials have said. The plan, around the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing by US forces, i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 169.6 km (105.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:32:56 UTC Tuesday 8th May 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) North of Luganville, Espiritu Sant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 36.7 km (22.8 miles), the quake hit at 00:16:40 UTC Tuesday 8th May 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (72 miles) ENE of ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoSo it's been a long day. I'm too wiped out for much commentary, but some stuff worth looking at if you haven't seen it yet. Charlie has a riveting first person account about the TransCanada and the XL Pi...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 hour agoComing to a school near you, underfunded, overburdened and sold for scrap, if it hasn't already. Camden, New Jersey, across the river from Philadelphia is next -- but not last. Refreshing to se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:31:35 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 707 km (439 miles) WSW of Banda Aceh, Sum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Rota Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 184.6 km (114.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:01:08 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 5.1 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:59:45 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) ESE of Iwa...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoSo I see the campaign season has been declared officially opened. President Obama came out of the gate with some tough populist type talk and the punderati are appalled, appalled I tell you, that he's actu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries, some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way galaxy. Also known as NGC 7...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours agoJohn Baird won't say, but the title of this post isn't wrong. "When they're enriching uranium to 20 per cent, when they've got the volume of materials. … When you're putting all the ingredients in front ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Beijing York) at DAMMIT JANET! - 2 hours agoDear Members of the House of Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee, First, I would like to thank all the Members of Parliament who voted against the proposed Unborn Victims of Crime Bill (C-484). I...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago*PROTEST ALEC AT THEIR SPRING TASK FORCE SUMMIT * Posted on March 30, 2012 by Ron *Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 9:00 am - 6:30 pm * The Westin Charlotte Hotel 601 S College St Charlotte,NC 28202 USA The best...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours agoA well-known lawyer was quoted in the Law Times saying: "... of the last 100 judicial appointments by the Tories, 98 per cent of them have been white men. " Someone slipped up. Diversity in appointmen...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 3 hours agoA trio of caches has been on Southern Man's list for some time but were not suitable for his usual between-jobs jacket-and-tie attire but today he went to work in boots and jeans with a mind to tackling th...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours agoR. v. Li, 2012 ONCA 291 deals with providing parts of jury instructions to jury. The Court holds: [84] In R. v. Poitras (2002), 57 O.R. (3d) 538, Doherty J.A. approved the possibility of providing s...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*To donate, here's the link.* *"[O]pinion magazines, from libertarian to socialist, have cluttered every place I have ever lived. Such publications are about more than brisk polemics. They can change the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Mortal Soul”* by Chet Raymo “Once, many years ago, I made my way to the hillside farm in New York's Catskill Mountains were John Burroughs was born and where he was buried in 1921 at age 84. He was ...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours agoI guess I should not be surprised at this news that the Pentagon did not cooperate with Marvel Studios to make The Avengers movie (h/t to Jacob Levy for pointing this piece out to me). After all, immediat...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago*what will an ALEC Corporate Profit Sector Membership Buy For You?* *From ALEC Exposed* ExxonMobil Corporation, Private Enterprise Board member,[1] "Chairman" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conferenc...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours agoCraziest week ever. Couldn't find an internet connection yesterday either. I suppose I'll never catch up with what I missed. Trying to pick up the thread of what's going from here right now. From what I've...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 4 hours agoGetting cheap, if not free, medicines and vaccines is a primacy concern for many people, especially the poor. And understandably so. But people seldom realize that while drugs can heal, they can also kill ...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 4 hours agoThis is a good sample letter for parents across the rest of the country battling the same misguided and destructive education policies. Parents Across America Connecticut Chapter Letter: Dear Members of t...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoPeel (Police) v. Ontario (Special Investigations Unit), 2012 ONCA 292 deals with the well-established presumption against the retrospective application of legislation and an exception to the presumption – ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoMoody Blues, “Live at the Royal Albert Hall” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8474UHL-dk&feature=g-vrec The entire concert, folks, 2 hours and 41 minutes. Enjoy! - CP
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago*"Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. They must reluctantly admit that they are subject to the laws of nature. But they reject the very notion of economic law . . . economic history...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago*As the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples begins in New York, some Native people living on the land say they are cancelling plans to attend due to this year's focus on rhetoric -- rather than the l...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoTbilisi, Dushet'is Raioni, Georgia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: there are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. The un...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Undistracted Energy: Pure Thoughts"* by The DailyOM "The longer we are able to hold a positive thought, the stronger that energy around us becomes. If we make no effort at all, our thoughts usually ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: Ethiopian farmers Mandefro Tesfaye (L) and Tayto Mesfin collect wheat in their field in Abay, north of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, in this 2009 file photo. Barry Malone / REUTERS] By Katie N...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief." - Lionel Trilling
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*“America Has Become a Piñata…”* by Addison Wiggin “America’s national government has moved way beyond a political spoils system,” wrote Charles Goyette in his book "The Dollar Meltdown." “A spoils sy...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 7 hours ago* * *Reposted from: *http://rsfsocialfinance.org * * *From Intersection To Crossroads: An Invitation to Inquiry into Money and Spirit* March 16, 2009 By John Bloom No productive inquiry begins wit...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 7 hours agoWhen the status quo of any of our social institutions is prodded or challenged to change, those who benefit from the status quo will rise up to protect their interests. And when the status quo is worth bi...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 7 hours agoHaving been in the provincial press gallery during the collapse of public confidence in Glen Clark and the NDP, I can claim some familiarity with government tipping points. There is a day, or maybe a week,...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoI'm not sure which is worse: the idea that we're all supposed to care whether or not Mitt Romney adequately knocks down the crazy every time it's thrust in his face...or the fact that the crazy is constant...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours agoWelfare Minister Paul Bennett has announced beneficiaries already taking the Domestic Purposes Benefit will be “encouraged” to take contraceptives to avoid having further children while sucking on the st...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoTomorrow is primary day in North Carolina and concern is great that the Republicans will manage to pass their hate-filled Amendment One. Aside from that, Blue America is most concerned with the election ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoINTER-PRESS-SERVICE is a quiet site that is devoted to “giving a voice to the voiceless”. Since its inception, back in 1964, IPS proclaims that it has believed in the role of information as a precondition f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"It’s Official: Economy Heading Down"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "There has been so much bad economic news out, recently, I do not see how anyone with half a frontal lobe could say the economy...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Aversion To Truth"* by Karl Denninger "When caught making an intentionally-false presentation people tend to do one of two things. They either fold their hand or they double down. Inviticus did the...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoAOL bring us the vital news that: 'Human prostitutes could be a thing of the past by 2050, as more and more robots get pimped into prostitution. That's the future envisioned by Michelle Mars and Ian Yeoma...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 8 hours agoI hope this individual will not mind that his opinion piece is posted entirely? Prof. Bhim Singh - posted on Kashmir Watch. It is worth reading entirely..... I had an opportunity to visit South and North o...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 9 hours agoA couple weeks ago while I was poking around down at the Snye, I came across a cairn denoting one end of the Methye Portage, an old transportation route linking the Athabasca River to Lac La Loche, across ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Serial Bubble Blowers”* by Addison Wiggin "The shrinking dollar is a modern problem. The U.S. dollar has been shrinking since the inception of the Federal Reserve — the very crew assigned the task o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Where Do Real Jobs Come From?"* by Bill Bonner "The Pentagon goes rogue… “Jobs engine sputters again in April,” reports the weekend Wall Street Journal. What kind of humbug recovery is this? Bloombe...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago*Obama has the power to order a hit on a dead man.*
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 9 hours agoAs I have been blathering on about.... Today is election day in Syria. No results yet. The NATO media has been spinning hard that this election is being dismissed or mocked. Even by the NATO created SNC go...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA former NYPD officer was jailed for life today for raping a young teacher at gunpoint after dragging her into an alley on her way to school. Michael Pena, 28, was given the maximum sentence over the atta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours agoAntiChoice is the term ProChoice attributes to those who believe, based on fundamentalist religious ideology and not actual science, that abortion is MURDER! Wrong. Something that isn't alive cannot be ki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA tornado has killed one person and left more than 3,000 homes in Japan without electricity. Clean-up operations are underway across the prefectures of Ibaraki and Tochigi, near Tokyo, where around 900 ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago*The Hope of the Future: Children and youth* Thanks to Sandra Rambler for sharing this photo with Censored News. On April 27, Miss San Carlos Apache, Desirae Rambler and another youth princess were prese...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBritain is launching a battle against EU plans to force the government to allow non-Europeans a benefit allowance. They have been angered by an EU proposal to sign a deal with Turkey without Britain’s ag...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoI feel as if I should have some comment about Gary Johnson winning the Libertarian Party presidential nomination over the weekend. As Conor Friedersdorf says in a brief history of LP presidential nominatio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 392 km (243 miles), the quake hit at 17:49:40 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 365 km (226.3 miles) East of Labasa, Fiji No Tsun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA neo-Nazi party who advocate forcing immigrants into work camps and planting landmines along the border are today savouring unprecedented political success in Greece. Golden Dawn party will enter parlia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFrance's president elect Francois Hollande today began the task of building his new government as he was thrust right into the heart of the Eurozone crisis. Just hours after his historic victory over Nic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe leader of the conservative New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras, says he is unable to form a coalition after the leftwing Syriza party refused to join. It is now likely that Greece will be forced to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoChinese activist recovering after house arrest says he is concerned about 'lawlessness' in home province of Shandong The blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he fears his nephew may be beaten a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Swedish man accused of targeting immigrants during a year-long campaign of shootings has been officially charged with murder. Peter Mangs will face a total of 20 charges, including three murders and 12 ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoSaLuSa, May 7, 2012 Few of you have any real recollection of your previous lives except perhaps for the occasional flashbacks, yet you have had so many lives full of experiences that have brought yo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoAre Harper and his ilk just born liars? Can their warped, Born Again brains even recognize truth? Courtesy of *The Tyee*, the latest *Northern Gateway pipeline outrage*. It now turns out that pipeline ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012* *He too can’t recite an old saw:* Yesterday’s roundtable segment on Meet the Press was just stupendously bad. In particular, alleged economist Diane Swonk seemed to be auditioning fo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours agoBy Jeff Masters 1 May 2012 A European heat wave of unparalleled intensity for so early in the year smashed all-time April heat records over much of Central and Eastern Europe on Saturday and Sunday. Ac...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours agoThis Russian taxi-driver has bigger problems than we do in London. *Thanks to Old Holborn on Twitter for the spot.*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:58:56 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) Southeast from Zaqatala (Zakataly), A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA sadistic killer who slaughters hedgehogs with a crossbow appears to have struck again. A year ago, the News reported how six of the little animals had been butchered and lined up in a row in a park are...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoGwinnett County Animal Welfare and Enforcement confirmed that a cat tested positive in the state's laboratory for rabies on May 2. he cat was picked up from the area of Lake Carlton Road, Loganville, in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA teenage girl who died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a campsite in Shropshire has been named locally as Hannah Thomas-Jones. All four members of the family were found unconscious in their ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoI never got very excited over the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania pitting über-reactionary Blue Dog Jason Altmire against corrupt anti-Choice, anti-gay ConservaDem Mark Critz. Critz won and he'll now ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoPhoto: Larry King by Shelbie Knox/ENDAUM*EPA MAY THROW WRENCH IN PLANS TO BUILD HIGHLY-CONTESTED URANIUM MINE* *By New Mexico Environmental Law Center and Eastern Navajo Dine' Against Uranium Mining* *Ce...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA carcass of a crested myna found on April 27 in Hong Kong was confirmed to be H5N1-positive after a series of laboratory tests, the city's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said M...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 11 hours agoWhen DJ! wrote about Chen Guangcheng, he was largely unknown beyond fetus fetishists and China-watchers. Now he's the subject of some delicate negotiations between the US and China. But is he really 'p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoZAQATALA, AZERBAIJAN (BNO NEWS) -- A moderate earthquake shook northwestern Azerbaijan on late Monday morning, injuring more than a dozen people and seriously damaging a number of houses, officials said. S...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoThis map says it all: The Tibetan plateau is key to controlling the headwaters of just about every major river in East and South Asia. China controls Tibet, it controls most of the water that it and it...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours ago*New Orleans Saints DE Will Smith, other suspended players, appeal to NFL* *Jonathan Vilma Requests To See NFL's Bounty Evidence Against Him ~Canal Street Chronicles* *Scott Fujita’s Statement re:Suspensi...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HspBjqUbeZM&feature=youtu.be
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoIt's about one thing - a sneak attack against China. And that's just what the United States Air Force had in mind when it conducted Operation Chimichanga. *Wired* magazine's military correspondents David...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe cooling period for 548 of the 1,331 rods was shorter than that for others and the volume of decay heat emitted from the fuel in the No. 4 unit pool is larger compared with pools at other reactor build...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMay 7 - Residents in Athens give their verdict on whether Greece is closer to leaving the euro, after voting against austerity-for-aid policies in the election
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA grandfather who caught and killed a 'giant rat', has said he has been getting death threats from animal rights activists. Brian Watson, from County Durham, says people have called him a murderer since...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours agoI have probably said this before, but the 4th of July is easily my favorite holiday. Nothing else holds a candle (or firework) to it. This year we aren't even into June yet and I have made two patriotic ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 98 km (60.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:47 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4.3 miles) Southeast of S...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoI want to call your attention to an excellent post late last week by Jamelle Bouie, which gets bonus points because he called it "Fear of a Black Polity," which is excellent. I'm not going to quote the mai...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago*I was just contacted by an individual from a site titled Nuclear Power Yes Please* http://nuclearpoweryesplease.org/blog/ *Someone at the site has put hours into "debunking" my **Lessons of Fukushima Po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:15:14 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) ESE of Zaqatala (Zakataly), Azerbaija...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 13 hours ago*Nobody verifies her claims. Rita Katz/SITE says "Al Qaeda" did it, it hits the "news":* Do YOU believe things people simply "SAY"...with no evidence? Then can't someone LIE to you, and you'll believe it...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours agoBy now you've probably seen a shitload of Texts From Hillary memes that have been proliferating on Facebook like Tea Baggers at a free All You Can Eat Buffet. Some are good, others not so much. Here's one...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:19:36 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) Southeast of Bandar `Abbas, Iran N...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Microscopic marine plankton. Changes in the ocean’s chemistry, as a result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, threaten marine plankton to a greater extent than previously thou...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago*Sackville Trenching Ltd. v. Nova Scotia*, 2012 NSCA 39 is a useful case dealing with the duty of disclosure in an administrative context. Sackville Trenching was issued an Administrative Penalty for ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012* *Where have these star players been:* Last Friday, David Brooks did a column about the onset of on-line higher ed. He worried that the world’s “best teachers” may soon be found on-l...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 13 hours agoThe view from Don Humberto's kitchenOne of the areas that my organization focuses on is “secure livelihoods.” This was something of a baffling term for me when I first started communications work with the...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012* *One last trip to the well:* Chris Mooney has written a tragic piece about the way voters get misled. (See our previous post.) Mooney’s piece deals with conservative voters. But it’s...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 14 hours agoEx-Labor Secretary, Robert Reich tells us what the latest job creation number (115,000 in April) means (and it's not good news for anybody): No set of policies between now and Election Day are likely to ex...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: A man in northern Thailand digs around a water intake in a dry riverbed, 3 May 2012. Many parts of Thailand suffer from heat and drought, authorities have launched rainmaking operations in the lo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Unemployment in six California counties, March 2012. Unemployment rates are at 20 percent in the city of Merced, 20.5 percent in Atwater, 23.1 percent in Livingston and 21.1 percent in Los Banos....
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 15 hours agoWriting in the NYT yesterday, Jack Hitt discusses what Jerry Ravetz would call the "extended peer community" in the evaluation of knowledge claims. In the process Hitt produces a concise description of ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*Statement of the* *United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, * *upon conclusion of his visit to the United States* Lakota testimony to UN Rapporteur in South Dako...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago*Are The 2012 Saints A Gathering Swarm? ~Jason Calbos* *The (beautiful) connection between the Saints and Mike Leach ~Dave Gladow* *New Orleans School Board poised to vote on raising property taxes* *Atta...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012* *Part 1—Chris Mooney tells several old stories:* Tomorrow, North Carolina will vote on a constitutional amendment which would ban same sex-marriage and same-sex civil unions. Beyond ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoNowhere is the difference between the Harper Conservatives and the Progressive Conservatives more apparent than in the area of foreign policy. Consider what former prime minister -- and foreign affairs ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:21:20 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 1071 km (665 miles) Northwest of Ascen...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Amy Heckeling,58 (perhaps; sources differ, so I'm assuming wikipedia is correct). And the good stuff: 1. Steve Kornacki gets it: any candidate who wins a solid plurality of the vote wi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoFriday night, after just 2 months in office, Romania's right-wing Austerity government lost a no confidence vote and stepped down. But yesterday, everyone was watching as France angrily voted Sarkozy (the...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoBack in February I asked readers of this blog who they thought would *run *for Liberal leader, and who they'd consider *voting *for. Admittedly, this is as far from a scientific poll as you'll ever get, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoGermany has ruled out reworking the European Union's "fiskalpakt" despite calls to do so by Francois Hollande, France's president-elect. "It is not possible to renegotiate the fiscal pact," government spok...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours agoFrom the mouth of babes? This is my daughter. She gave this speech at a businees meeting in front of 600 people. Her eyes have been opened to a scam that is being perpetrated upon Canadians and the re...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 16 hours agoI wonder if *VOUS, LES PEUPLES FRANCAIS*, knew this -- maybe you don't care, maybe it's a nothing sort of deal. I just find it strange, freakish, worrying, and intriguing that all the candidates for this y...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoMexican American Studies students at Tucson Book Fair 2012 with banned books. Photo by Censored News *The Department of Justice reaches out to Mexican American Studies faculty at the University of Arizona, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - A suspected Hezbollah militant accused of masterminding the killing of Americans in Iraq has been cleared of all charges and will be freed, his lawyer said on Monday, in an announcement that i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - The United States called on Iran on Monday to take "urgent practical steps" to build confidence during nuclear talks with world powers, and the European Union said Tehran must suspend sensitiv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Greek voters dealt a serious blow on Sunday to the fragile political consensus that has kept Europe's currency bloc intact through more than two years of crisis, rejecting the austerity-for-aid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoKathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Rescue workers continued their search Monday for survivors from a flash flood in central Nepal that swept away houses over the weekend, killing at least 17 people and leaving as ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoChief Oliver Red Cloud Click arrow below to watch video . *Chief Oliver Red Cloud addresses UN Rapporteur, May 2012* *Also: * *WATCH PART II on YouTube*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x65jm81wbvA Censored ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Peru's health ministry is asking people to avoid beaches in Lima and north of the capital until officials can determine what caused the deaths of hundreds of dolphins and pelicans. Last month, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA rally at one of Sydney's most prestigious universities has wound up with three arrests, one officer with a broken arm and protesters' claims that police "brutally attacked" students. Hundreds of staff ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Flash flooding in northern Afghanistan killed at least 26 people in northern Afghanistan and rescue workers fear the toll may rise, officials said Monday. Eight hours of relen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoLondon (CNN) -- The success of France's anti-euro National Front party in the first round of the country's presidential elections thrust the far right into the headlines. A day later in the Netherlands,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBerlin (CNN) -- There has been a great deal of austerity-bashing -- that is to say Germany-bashing -- this French election season. Buoyed by his success in the first round, Socialist candidate Francois H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) – With the election of Francois Hollande as the president of France and a Greek poll dealing a major blow to the coalition government in Athens, voters in Europe are pushing back on austerity. "I a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAs Japan no longer has any operating commercial nuclear reactors following the halt of its last commercial nuclear reactor on the night of May 5, the reality in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe discovery of a fresh case of mad cow disease in the United States is casting a pall over Japan's participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade pact negotiations, which opponents say w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTSUKUBA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A tornado that ripped through Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan on Sunday, killing a teenage boy and injuring dozens of people, is believed to have left damage over a 15-kilome...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIt is perhaps fitting that it is Greece, the ancient home of democracy, that has delivered the most damning public verdict on austerity, bailouts and the euro. Much of the attention ahead of Sunday's ele...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoSo – ALEC is meeting in Charlotte this week on Friday and Saturday, May 11 and 12. For newbies to the world of ALEC – you may be wondering what this meeting is and what it is about and an explanation star...
- Mount Rushmore: Iconic site is on list of 'sacred land' UN says must be returned to Native Americans
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA UN human rights official is urging the U.S. to turn over control of lands considered to be sacred to Native Americans, including the site of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. James Anaya, the UN sp... - posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours ago*Source: Misterios del Hombre y del Universo & Pedro M. Fernandez Date: 05.06.12* *Spain: Two Giants Inside a Sphere (1987)* *By Pedro M. Fernandez* *Location: Vicinity of the “Moreno” farm, 3 kilometers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA man has been charged in relation to the murder of four women whose bodies were found in Detroit last December, stuffed into the trunks of cars. James Brown, 24, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, faces char...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe body of a woman whose boyfriend allegedly killed their two children was found by police on Saturday. Shazer Fernando Limas, 31, was arrested early Friday following a car chase that shut down Intersta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe United States has given up on plans to build a consulate in Afghanistan after spending more than $80million and signing a 10-year lease on the site. Federal officials abandoned the project that would...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA desperate hunt for a mother and her three children missing since last month has led to a grim discovery, as two bodies were found buried at a Mississippi home. The bodies have not yet been positively i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 14-year-old girl is in police custody after allegedly stabbing her four-year-old cousin to death in Indianapolis, Indiana. The girl has not been charged, but police say they expect to make an arrest so...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAn airstrike yesterday killed a top Al Qaeda leader on the FBI's most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials have confirmed. The CIA drone attack killed Fa...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 17 hours agoHoodooed: Dr. Helen Caldicott on FUKUSHIMA and WEST COAST US threats! DO NOT EAT PACIFIC COAST SEAFOOD!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe powers that be at Facebook are now blocking comments they consider ‘irrelevant or inappropriate’ before they can be posted – leading to an outcry of further censorship from the social networking giant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThis video shows the shocking moment a man was hit by a car on a Russian highway. The man was moving around beside his own vehicle on the three-lane road, when the incident happened. His car was statio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA county prosecutor in Washington state won't seek the death penalty against alleged murderer Holly Grigsby. Along with her boyfriend Grigsby is charged with going on a killing spree that left four peopl...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 17 hours agoIn the Greek elections, the two main parties, New Democracy and Pasok, who have shared power since 1974, got combined total of 34% of the vote. (They used to share about 85% of the vote.) The Left Coal...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours ago*The Avengers superhero movie has cracked the record for the main US opening weekend, charming $200m, early figures show.* The Disney film was called Marvel Avengers Assemble for its UK release. The Aven...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSearch crews have found the body of a hiker, missing since Easter, in the bottom of a 60-foot-deep hole called the Hidden Cave in the wilderness outside San Diego California. The grim discovery of Guille...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA body found in a stable barn the morning after the Kentucky Derby is being treated as a murder, police said. Adan Fabian Perez, 48, a stable worker from Guatemala was found around 4.30am in a barn at Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThousands of capsules filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today. The capsules are made in China from dead babies, whose bodies are ch...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoI see that Peter Mandelson has been spouting his usual pro-EU line. You can listen to his BBC interview here if you have the stomach for it. I note that line of enquiry regarding Peter Mandelson and the EU...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice are hunting for four men in their late teens and early 20s accused of gunning down and stabbing a 40-year-old man murdered in front of his wife and daughter outside their home. Victor Quevedo, of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAn American hostage held by Al Qaeda urges Barack Obama to meet the militant group's demands and set him free in a video released by Al Qaeda yesterday. Warren Weinstein, who was taken prisoner in Pakist...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWorkers at a Chinese bank spent six hours trying to splice threads of 50,000 yuan (about £4,900) together after a mentally ill woman shredded them. The woman's desperate husband brought the money into th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoOfficials at Heathrow Airport have been forced to stop screening passengers for drugs and guns because they're so short-staffed - a customs insider has sensationally revealed. Staff shortages at Britain'...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 18 hours agoIt's funny. In response to the people's victories against neo-liberal austerity in Europe, the CBC comes out with headlines such as this: World markets rattled by European uncertaintyAthens exchange dives ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 18 hours agoUhmmm, this is my first post on showbiz people and their public fights. I find the brawl at the NAIA Terminal 3 brawl yesterday funny. It involved a veteran journalist for many years, print and broadcast c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 'Good Samaritan' was killed yesterday trying to break up a fight in a Blackpool takeaway. Ricky Guest-Binns, 44, was knocked unconscious during the 1...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 18 hours agoContributing editor *Guillermo Gimenez* has sent us a photo of a possible UFO (upper right hand corner of the image)taken with a Nikon D90 by an anonymous photographer in Salta, Argentina. Whether the ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 18 hours ago*According to researchers **Magnet-making bacteria may be building biological computers of the future. The research may direct to the formation of much faster hard drives. *In addition using microorganis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSYDNEY (Dow Jones)--The Australian share market suffered its biggest drop in four-and-a-half months as investors weighed the risk to global growth from the latest European elections and disappointing U.S. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDisturbing: A screenshot of a Facebook user who calls themselves 'Kidsex Young' appeared to facilitate the trading of illegal images and videos It is the world's largest photo-sharing website, boasting 9...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPrescriptions for ‘chemical cosh’ drugs to treat hyperactivity have soared four-fold in a decade amid evidence that children as young as three are taking the medication. The number of prescriptions for R...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 19 hours ago*A super moon has graced the skies, appearing bigger and brighter than normal, as it comes nearer to the Earth and is expected to bring higher tides*. According to The Royal Astronomical Society's Dr Rob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSenior detainees are being secretly released by the United States from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgents to curb ongoing violence in the country. American officials...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPolice chiefs at the Met have banned staff from using the word blacklist because it is 'racist', it emerged today. Bosses at Scotland Yard sent the orders to IT staff who are also no longer allowed to us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA pregnant British woman could face the death penalty in Pakistan after she was caught trying to smuggle heroin worth £3.2million. Khadija Shah, 25, was attempting to return to Birmingham with her two ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHe’s accused of being involved in the deaths of hundreds of wounded men and women in the Balkan War. But Milan Sarcevic has been allowed to stay in Britain because throwing him out would violate his huma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMore than 11,000 households are raking in benefits that are at least the equivalent of a higher rate taxpayers’ £47,000 salary, it has been revealed. The figure was disclosed by Work and Pensions Secretar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoEurope is facing a fresh economic crisis after France rejected austerity and elected a tax-and-spend socialist president. Nicolas Sarkozy suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Francois Hollande, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGreek stocks have plunged more than 7% in early trade after the weekend's election, as Asian markets also react badly to the poll results in Europe. Francois Hollande's victory is likely to have a big im...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 19 hours agoToday is a Bank Holiday in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the joined countries of England and Wales. In addition to the UK, in Ireland also there is the phenomenon of 'Bank Holidays'. Does anyone ever ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoVladimir Putin has been sworn in as Russia's president once again, for a six-year term. The former KGB agent has spent the last four years as the country's prime minister, alongside president Dmitry Medv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTHE stockmarket put in its worst one-day performance in nearly five months today, as US jobs data and European elections rattled confidence. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index tumbled 2.2 per cent to 4301.30...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA Queensland ecologist is calling for a rethink of Australia's conservation strategy to combat an "extinction crisis". Professor Hugh Possingham, an ecologist from the University of Queensland and the Ce...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 19 hours ago*With the help of **medical equipment, engineers in California have unleashed high-intensity false earthquakes on a five-story building packed.*The building was prepared with a surgical procedure and an in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLess than a year after being the victim of a cyberattack, Lockheed wins a multi-million dollar contract to run the U.S. government's cybercrime lab. Lockheed Martin announced today it received millions of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn a country with huge potential oil wealth, food rationing and distribution is keeping much of the population alive. Salina, KS - In February 2011, with grassroots uprisings having toppled the government...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - In April 2003, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York state bank regulators cracked the whip on HSBC Bank USA, ordering it to do a better job of policing itself for suspicious money...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOver the past few years, high unemployment, the housing market implosion and falling wages have driven many American families closer together -- both financially and literally. Parents are supporting their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago“My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war,” said Barack Obama from Bagram Air Base. “Here in the predawn darkness, we can see the light of a new day on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIndia's economic growth and political stability are at stake in coming years if it does not change its approach to water management, a member of its natural resources planning commission told Reuters on M...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agoNOC or Non Official Cover:*British Secret Operations* has been classified as (and won the 2011 Global Ebook Award in the category of) Historical Fiction, and the content has been vetted (i.e. he lost sev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWhile the President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama "celebrates" the first anniversary of the alleged death of bin Laden, the substantive issue as to WHO WAS OS...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 21.2 km (13.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:36:24 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) SSE from Zaqatala (Zakataly), Azerb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDelays emptying supertankers at ports in China are spiraling as the world’s biggest energy consumer scours the globe for alternatives to Iranian oil to fill its strategic reserves, driving up shipping cost...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoJapan has 54 nuclear reactors, but as of Saturday, not one of them will be in operation – how will the country cope? This weekend Japan will begin a bold experiment in energy use that no one had thought p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoForeign companies have moved back to resume their projects Dubai: Libya is banking on up to $1 trillion (Dh3.67 trillion) in foreign direct investment to rebuild its war-torn economy. Ahmad Salem Al Koshl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFrom La Paz to New York to Athens, urban centers have become the loci of struggles for social justice. In his new book, Rebel Cities, Marxist geographer David Harvey frames these uprisings as the proper a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIndia is speeding up its efforts to sign an agreement for importing gas through the US-backed $10-billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. At the same time, it is going slow o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGrass at as many as 160 parks across Detroit wouldn't be mowed and the length of time between neighborhood trash pickups could be delayed under budget cuts proposed for the department that maintains the ci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTen years after the United States officially ended its yearly review of China's trade status, no one can credibly argue that China is any freer or more attentive to human rights, nor can they claim the Uni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWASHINGTON, Apr 23, 2012 (IPS) - The World Bank continues to facilitate land-grabbing in poor and developing countries around the world, according to new research released here on Monday. The report by F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoExtremadura is often cited by Spaniards as an area that lives off taxes provided by wealthier and harder-working areas Bordering on Portugal, the sprawling but thinly populated region of Extremadura has l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNEW YORK (Reuters) - Manhole covers are being stolen from the streets of New York City, leaving dangerous holes in the roads and sidewalks, authorities said on Thursday. More than 30 manhole covers have ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - Britain's military launched a charm offensive on Thursday to calm residents' fears over plans to put missile batteries on their rooftops to protect this summer's Olympics from a possible 9/11-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoUNITED NATIONS (AP) -- On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders condemned the "astonishing pace" at which journalists are being attacked and murdered - 67 killed in 2011 and 22 more deaths si...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 20 hours agoWent out hiking instead of riding today, to take a break from the bike. Caught some critters on the trail... including this one above, which seems to be an exoskeleton left clinging to a blade of grass. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPay is poor and the hours are long, but there is job security, fresh air and as much pecorino cheese as you can eat. As Italy’s unemployment rate topped 10pc this week, it emerged that young people are fl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBALTIMORE (WJZ)– Johns Hopkins is again at the center of groundbreaking research. One of their astronomers had a simple idea, and as Mike Schuh reports, it led to a once in a lifetime discovery about black...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDefense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat yesterday during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C. "The area of climate change has a dramatic ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoUp to 90% of school leavers in major Asian cities are suffering from myopia - short-sightedness - a study suggests. Researchers say the "extraordinary rise" in the problem is being caused by students wor...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 20 hours ago*Lest we forget...With the recent zio-patriot-sham rituals that have been so much apart of the program of mind control lately, I feel it is important to remember our fallen, in this case the brave young l...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoThree weeks ago, I discussed Christoph Weniger's finding that the Fermi satellite seems to show an excess of photons whose energy is close to 130 GeV in several regions of the sky. *A photograph of our ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe wife of a Beaumont Army Medical Center nurse who died Monday in Afghanistan said the incident took place while she was talking with her husband through Skype's video chat. Army officials have not rel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoStocks finished deeply in negative territory Friday, after the government reported that hiring slowed in April, fueling worries over the strength of the economic recovery. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:40:38 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14.2 miles) Southwest of Methóni, Greece N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoArmy, police representatives say chlorine-like odor that caused scare in central Israel a result of 'unknown gas' used in military drill; IDF later issues official denial of reports Officials say they st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoJERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Thursday received its fourth German-made submarine capable of launching nuclear warheads, expanding a fleet that experts say could be used in an attack on Iran. Defense Minist...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA woman who purchased a box of tampons Sunday at a Utah store returned home to find that the feminine care products were filled with cocaine, police report. The discovery by shopper Cindy Davidson has pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago(Reuters) - The U.S. Congress should pass a law to give investigators freer access to certain cellphone records, an Obama administration official said on Thursday, in remarks that raised concern among adv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department made 1,745 requests to a secret court for authority to wiretap or search for evidence in terrorism and espionage investigations last year. That's according to an A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoLondon condemned an Argentine government advertisement Friday showing an Olympic hopeful training on a British war memorial in the Falklands, as the agency behind the ad urged Buenos Aires to pull it. For...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoCHICAGO (CBS) – Some stations on the Metra Electric Line and South Shore Line could be shut down during the upcoming NATO summit, and passengers at other stations could face airport-style security screeni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoPolice have arrested a 16-year-old in connection with a mob attack by large numbers of black teenagers against a young white couple in a car, a case which has sparked national outrage. As WND reported in ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoBill Wood and Eva Moore on Mass Arrests. Interesting new information on Obama and what to expect in the coming weeks along with the expected disinformation from the banking cabal. MP3's are also avai...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoBe part of the film, Take Back Your Power: Worldwide public footage request by Josh del Sol Take Back Your Power Food Freedom News, May 6, 2012 As we’re currently in post-production, and with a spent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoIt is just getting sad now. In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by a whopping 522,000 from 87,897,000 to 88,419,000. This is the highest on record. The flip side, and the reason why t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Revilla Gigedo Islands Region at a depth of 40.6 km (25.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:08:12 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 213 km (132 miles) ENE from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 39 km (24.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:46:58 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60 miles) NNE of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami Warning Is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:40:30 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) Southeast of 'liabad, Azerbaijan No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:38:04 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) Southeast of Zaqatala (Zakataly), ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 31.3 km (19.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:25:34 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxa...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Outside Marrakech.* Fewer tourists are going to Morocco. "The biggest drops were nights spent by French and Spanish visitors, 16 and 25 percent, respectively, which make up the bulk of Morocco's tourist...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 23.3 km (14.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:40:29 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (8 miles) Southeast of Zaqatala (Zakataly), A...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 21 hours agoI watched Harvey for the first time in many years. Some of it has not aged well, particularly the supposedly romantic/comedic subplots with desperate women pursuing slightly abusive men. The contrived plot...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoDale Drinnon posted this on his site and it points out a very important discovery. Such movement was not happening before the establishment of metal trading opened up the needed trade routes and a...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is a lot of speculation to hang on scant data.* *It is what one would expect, but this is also when data will come along and also surprise. Besides, 5,000 years ago was already at the end o...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhat gives this particular headline some credence is the particular fact that the secret police organization has been specifically neutralized ahead of the upcoming Party summit. It is thus u...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoLord Black has crafted for himself a larger than life persona that is meant to inspire reaction. Unfortunately he allowed himself to get caught up in vagaries of the US legal system and get excess...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoPowerful symbolism, no matter how you look at it: Lord and Lady Black. Below: Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Let’s be honest with ourselves, Canadians. Did any of us ever truly doubt – even for an instan...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours agoGot a heads up on this in my EMAIL, THANKS LAURA! PRESS RELEASE April 23, 2012, 12:01 a.m. EDT Home Owners Across the Nation Sue All Bank Servicers and Their Offshore Havens; Spire Law Officia...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 22 hours agoI am not a fan of outgoing France President Nicolas Sarkozy. But the entry of the new President who defeated Mr. Sarkozy yesterday, Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party and will implement socialist pol...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago*Ashoke Sen's new research is much more interesting when it comes to positive claims* The correct value of the black hole entropy is an important litmus test for assessing the consistency of candidate the...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago*Mankind Is Being Terminated.* "We have become a plague upon [ourselves and upon] the Earth…Until such a time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right vir...
- posted by Cliff Bob at The Duck of Minerva - 23 hours agoAnother Sunday, another military puff-piece from the NY Times. Yesterday's issue promoted the idea that America is threatened by a drug trafficker-terrorist network emanating from Central America. The sour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe civilian labor force shrank in April by 342,000 workers and remains below where it stood when the economic recovery started 34 months ago, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Stati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeople ask, why all the talk about dogs and contraceptives? The reason is: jobs. Tomorrow the Labor Department will release its April employment report. If the rate goes down, the administration will bra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia Region at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 04:00:36 UTC Monday 7th May 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) WSW from N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA French American scientist has developed a new alcohol spray that can intoxicate the user instantly, a U.S. news report said. According to the report, however, the spray’s effects last only moments. Davi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSENIOR Eurocrats are secretly plotting to create a super-powerful EU president to realise their dream of abolishing Britain, we can reveal. A covert group of EU foreign ministers has drawn up plans for m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Greenland's glaciers are sliding into oceans at a faster pace than previously known, but they may contribute less to an expected rise in global sea level than feared, scientists reported Thursday...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day agoToday was spent with friends and family, starting with a late lunch with RCJand his fiancée at their trailer. Then the clan gathered as usual (except for Teen Daughter, who had a date!) at the Ancestral Man...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLos Angeles (CNN) -- A San Diego college student filed a legal claim Wednesday for damages suffered when he was left handcuffed and without food or water in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA leaked U.S. Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking plans for “political activists” to be pacified by “PSYOP officers” into developing an “appreciation of U.S. policies” w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON -- A new kind of genetically modified crop under the brand name of "Enlist" -- known by its critics as "Agent Orange corn" -- has opponents pushing U.S. regulators to scrutinize the product mor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOTTAWA - A new federal environmental review panel “does not have any right to attribute significance to the spirituality of a place per se,” Taseko Mines Ltd. president Russell Hallbauer wrote in a letter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Northern MP has launched a scathing attack on London, calling it a "dead weight crushing the life out of Britain". Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Great Grimsby, claimed "London sucks" in a local newspa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVirgin Media, Britain’s second-largest broadband provider, has become the first to block access to The Pirate Bay file sharing website after a High Court order. More than four million subscribers were cu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHouse prices have now fallen 11.8pc since they reached their peak in October 2007. The figures show that house prices dipped 0.2pc in April, leaving them down 0.9pc on last year, and the building society...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHere's your starter for ten. The European People's Party is the largest bloc in the European Council, as measured by voting weight; can you guess the second largest? Congratulations to anyone who plumped...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoYou may be aware that there's a major anti-bullying campaign going on across the country, a campaign that discourages kids from antisocial behavior towards classmates perceived as "The Other," and thereb...
Monday, May 7, 2012
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