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The Alabama River in Montgomery, Alabama (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 minutes agoHere's how things are around here sometimes. I saw that Ezra Klein had written a post about "The Myth of the Presidential Mandate" late last week and open it in a tab. Didn't read it right away: I figured ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 24 minutes ago
I watched with awe photos of a new motorcycle, patented of course, from my friend Jules Calagui's fb photo album. It's the Yamaha 125 cc Moegi motorcycle. It can run up to 80 kms in one liter of gasoline, ... - posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 27 minutes ago"I can do almost anything that can be asked of me... I can carry out directives that my human counterparts might find distressing or unethical". I think I can see where this is heading...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes agoThe UN peacekeeping chief has said that Syria is now in a full-scale civil war with a "massive increase in the level of violence". On being questioned on whether the situation in Syria warrants Civil War...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 42 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck MYANMAR at a depth of 52.2 km (32.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:02:03 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (80 miles) SSE from Imphal, Manipur, India No... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 52 minutes agoJune 12 - Police surround a Montgomery, Alabama home late Monday where a triple murder suspect is believed to be hiding. Lindsey Parietti reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes ago(Reuters) - African migrants chosen for deportation from Israel were nervously awaiting a knock on the door or a tap on the shoulder on Tuesday as immigration officials rounded up hundreds for departure f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes ago(Reuters) - Raising the stakes in Europe's debt crisis, Austria's finance minister said Italy may need a financial rescue because of its high borrowing costs, drawing a furious rebuke on Tuesday from the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes ago
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Russians marched through Moscow amid a stream of banners demanding President Vladimir Putin step down and challenging new laws designed to curb protest against his strongl... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 59 minutes agoTEKNAF, Bangladesh — Bangladesh has refused 14 boats carrying 550 Rohingya Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar in the last two days, officials said Tuesday, as the UN called for the border to be...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoIndigenous Caravan to Rio+20: Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia Indigenous Peoples are hosting the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Territories, Rights and Sustainable Development, Kari-Oca II, June 13-22, ...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 hour ago
*Spain: UFO Case Histories of Ceuta* *By Angel Carretero Olmedo* [*Ceuta is an autonomous Spanish city on the North African coast – a place of great historical significance that goes back to Carthaginia... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck SERAM, INDONESIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:59:39 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16.1 miles) South of Amahai, Seram, Ind... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck NORTHWEST OF KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 416 km (257.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:16:40 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 317 km (196.5 miles) East of Dol... - posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour agoIs there anything Madonna won't do for publicity? Yes I do know the answer to that question. Here's Madonna's latest bid for attention - a nipple flash during a performance in Istanbul, Turkey.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*George Martinez, censored by TimeWarner* We'll be talking about Brooklyn in a moment, but first I want to take a look at a story from last year in the *Daily Telegraph* by Daniel Hannan, a Conservative M... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago
In the video below, the historian Frederick William Engdahl explains the economic crisis and the Arab Spring. Engdahl has stated that the 2011 Egyptian Revolution was orchestrated by the Pentagon. Acc... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 45.2 km (28.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:48:34 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) ESE of L'Esper... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA at a depth of 49.8 km (30.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:45 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (31.6 miles) SSW of Yibin, Sich...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 hour agoSo, the Commerce Secretary got into a series of unfortunate car accidentsover the weekend, seemingly stemming from medical issues. Nobody was seriously hurt, thank goodness. But judging from the media cove...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago*R. v. Ferrari*, 2012 ONCA 399 finds that, where the special *mens rea*requirements for murder are met, a person can be found guilty of first degree murder as a party to the offence: (b) Party Li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck CHIAPAS, MEXICO at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 13:13:11 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 97.3 km (60.5 miles) WNW of Tapachula, Chiapas, ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours agoTRF has considered that \(125\GeV\) Higgs to be a sure thing since December 14th, 2011. New signals appear every day as experimental physicists say that they're indeed closer to the most official discove...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe European Commission has been providing legal advice to others who are considering possible scenarios should Greece leave the euro, a European Union spokesman said. Olivier Bailly said Tuesday that, l...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoChina has a bagful of environmental challenges. You name it, they got it. Polluted waterways, contaminated air, greenhouse gas emissions that confound attempts to measure them - the lot. When it come...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours agoEnjoy, apart from Daley Thompson's wooden acting. Yes it's an advert for the Mini but it's a good one.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoIf the Liberals are ever coming back, and that's a lot more iffy than many of them want to admit, it will be under a leader determined to reverse the party's corrosive slide to the right. That would mean...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 3 hours agoI for one am extremely angry that we are not being told the truth about the situation at the Daichii nuclear power station at Fukushima Japan. We all know by now about the radioactive fish that were caug...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012* *Postponement—Who is Theresa El-Amin:* No one assembles a panel on race like our long-time friend Marc Steiner, who hosts his eponymous radio program for WEAA, the NPR affiliate a...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours agoWith the help of Gates, ALEC, Broad, Waltons, etc., the Federal government is now engaged in a systematic attempt to use public resources to privatize or corporatize public education. From Dora Taylor in ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoHappy Birthday to John Linnell, 53. Getting this out a bit late today, so right to the good stuff: 1. John Sides, king of all media. I knew him when. 2. When it comes to negotiations, it's always very, v...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 4 hours agoJune 12, 2012 *Episode 8, Part 2* You can't do much online or with your phone without someone, somewhere, knowing what you're doing. But there's one group on your side. They're called the Cypherpunks M...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours agoNorth Carolina recently caused snickers when its state assembly legislated against sea level rise. Their ordinance stipulated that future sea level rise must be calculated on historic results, not on toda...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours agoThe headline says it all: "Quebec protester arrested on way to sister's funeral." Go to the link. Read it. There are no mitigating circumstances. This is fascist intimidation and both its enablers and its...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Falkland Islands are to hold a referendum on their "political status" in a bid to end the continuing dispute with Argentina over their sovereignty. The vote will be held in 2013, the Falklands govern...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Falkland Islands are to hold a referendum on their "political status" in a bid to end the continuing dispute with Argentina over their sovereignty. The vote will be held in 2013, the Falklands govern...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours agoYesterday, in Montreal, the world got a chance to see the Stephen Harper Canadians have come to know so well -- a man who is, above all else, full of himself. More and more, he is adopting the American ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago*Rajoy beso Merkel* Property speculation in the '90s (irresponsible gambling) led to a severe over-extension of Spain's banking system. Last week they-- the country's banks and the government that had bee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDemonstrators on the anti-Putin march in Moscow. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters Opposition leaders summoned by authorities just hours before first big demonstration since president's inauguration. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 31.4 km (19.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:12:48 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 120 km (74 miles) ENE o...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 6 hours agoTwo years ago next month I wrote a post that touched on the silt problems threatening the lifespans of Taiwan's dams. The torrential rains we're getting now, plus the massive downpours we can expect from t...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago*Commitments of the Corporate Class ~American Zombie**~Today (just turned today @ 12:05 am) is going to be a bloodbath at the TP. I am as horrified as the next New Orleanian who pays attention and loves...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoForget Greece, forget Spain have you heard what's happened in Italy? It seems that The Bank of Italy has authorized the suspension of payments by Bank Network Investments SpA (BNI), the bank will be inaces...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours agoHeads up: Freethinker left this link: *Expose NATO Dirty Tricks in Syria BEFORE They Happen* From Land Destroyer. Originating at Voltaire. Below is the prequel to the linked story above. RT covered this l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn international rights group is calling for observers to be deployed in Western Burma, where it is suspected dozens of people have been killed in sectarian violence. Human Rights Watch says Burma's gove...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agohis year's ACT kangaroo cull has failed to meet its set quota due to protests and bad weather. Nine nature reserves have now reopened after being closed to the public for the last three weeks to allow ex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAustralia's ambassador to Libya, David Ritchie, is on his way to meet with Ms Taylor in Zintan in the country's north west. She and three other International Criminal Court (ICC) envoys have been placed ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 7 hours agoLiving in Canada, I am restricted from ever talking about the Jewish "Holocaust" of World War II. Canada passed some very draconian "Laws" back in 1973 (that many Canadians are totally unaware of) that m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA tornado measuring more than 1,000m in height was recorded yesterday in Co Donegal. Lecturer John O’Raw and his daughter Niamh were in their garden at Umricam near Buncrana when they spotted the tornado ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoOn Monday Saint Louis Zoo officials said they have no idea what went wrong in the death of two seals being transported to the St. Louis Zoo from Canada. Jack Grisham, Saint Louis Zoo Vice-President of A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIndia has recorded 48 tiger deaths since January, nearly as many as during all of last year, in a setback to its efforts to save the endangered animal, an official says. "The largest numbers have been ki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Fuego volcano, located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of this capital, on Sunday spewed a column of ash up to a kilometer (about 3,300 feet) high, a government agency reported. The National Vulc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJune 11, 2012 (JUBA) - A young boy has died and 16 people admitted into hospital in Bentiu hospital, after a suspected Cholera outbreak in Hayingas and Tiedbar villages within Bentiu town and Rubkotna Coun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoCHAUTARA: A person died and five others have fallen seriously sick due to an unidentified disease that spread for the past three days at Golche VDC-1 in Sindhupalchowk district. Bhim Bahadur Dong, 53, die...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours agoWatch from 0:46 and see if you think Gordon Brown was answering the question as asked. Question from Robert Jay QC: "Were your aides involved in using the media to force, or attempt to force, Mr Blair's re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNew research shows record spending on services as Australians have got their fill of goods. Maybe the Mayans were right, the world will end in 2012. The material world that is. On the back of last week’s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJune 12 - Injured from Afghan quake receives treatment in hospital while at least 80 are feared dead.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - An earthquake in Afghanistan triggered a landslide which buried mud homes in a mountain village and rescuers feared at least 80 people had been killed, provincial officials said on Tuesday, T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJune 11 - Syrian rebels threaten to fire surface-to-air missiles at President Bashar al-Assad's palace after briefly taking control of a key military base. Deborah Gembara reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoCairo (CNN) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was in a coma Monday in a Cairo prison hospital, officials said. Defibrillators have been used several times to revive Mubarak "due to heart complic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- NATO forces in Afghanistan will no longer use airstrikes against insurgent targets in civilian homes if "other means" to deal with the targets are available, a spokesman said Monday. Forces "wil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Spain officially requested a bailout for the nation's banks Saturday but euphoria about the weekend's announcement was short-lived. Stocks were lower Monday morning as the market q...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- A Hong Kong government minister on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of people questioning the circumstances of the death last week of a prominent Chinese dissident who was found hanged i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A landslide set off by earthquakes has killed scores of people in a remote area of northern Afghanistan after rocks crushed their mud houses, a local official said Tuesday. A ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- If Barack Obama could make three wishes, he would probably ask for the crisis in Syria to go away. That would help him receive another wish: Getting reelected as president of the United States. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) – Action to save the euro is needed in “more shortly than three months,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview. Lagarde’s tight deadline ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- President Obama is celebrated and criticized for greatly accelerating the number of CIA drone attacks in Pakistan, but the similar covert war that he has launched in Yemen has received considerab...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago"Greece has a problem? No – you gave Greece the money, *you* have the problem."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMALDA: Six babies have died of an unknown fever in the last 24 hours at the Malda Medical College and Hospital. Forty-one male babies with the same ailment are currently admitted in the hospital. A team ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoRESIDENTS near Army Road in Pakenham have been advised to evacuate or stay inside after an ammonia leak at a factory in Army Road this morning. A CFA spokeswoman said a mechanical fault was believed to ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe California Department of Public Health is warning consumers not to eat soup sold by Organic Soup Kitchen at the Studio City and Calabasas farmers markets. The soups may have been improperly produced,...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*The European Extremely Large Telescope will have a primary mirror some 40m in diameter, and will be built on top of a mount in Chile.* Member states of the European Southern Observatory association affi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA man missed out on a $169 million lottery jackpot because he was to hard up to play his normal numbers. Carl Nordmann, a 50-year-old factory worker at a computer firm in Renfrewshire, Scotland, has play...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours agoDeuter, "Escape From Gravity" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFjjQ07uTM4
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLAKE MEAD, Nev. -- A construction worker was killed in a freak accident while building the pipeline under Lake Mead. It happened around 4:30 p.m., 600 feet underground, at the Southern Nevada Water Authori...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWASHINGTON - A U.S. Navy drone crashed Monday in a marsh near Salisbury, Maryland. The RQ-4A Global Hawk drone crashed during a routine training flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, according to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSLOCOMB — A tornado uprooted trees and destroyed chicken houses Sunday in southeast Alabama, where an emergency official said a few homes were damaged but no injuries were reported. "I actually saw it my...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoKotdwara (Uttarakhand), Jun 11 (PTI) The Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan (UJS) has stopped drinking water supply from East Nayar river in Pauri district to nearly 17 villages following reports of poisoning. "W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAlmost half of an entire wedding party were left with chronic food poisoning after a four-star UK hotel served undercooked pate at the reception. Nicola Hamill, 29, and husband Alex, 32, fell ill on their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA newly published book by journalist David Uren has revealed that the Australian government’s 2009 Defence White Paper contained a “secret chapter” that assessed “Australia’s ability to fight an air-sea ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Homeland Security Department ordered so many drones it can’t keep them all flying and doesn’t have a good plan for how to use them, according to a new audit the department’s inspector general released ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoVENICE — Concerns grew on Monday that Italy could be the next victim of Europe’s financial infection, leading nervous investors to sell Italian stocks and bonds and damping euphoria over a weekend deal to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFT: The Obama administration said on Monday seven more economies would be exempt from its Iran-related sanctions that come into force at the end of the month, but left open the prospect that China could st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTwo fighter pilots battle it out for honour of joining manned mission to Tiangong-1 space lab. One of two female fighter pilots will become the first Chinese woman in space later this month, after the tw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice officers in Indiana are upset over a new law allowing residents to use deadly force against public servants, including law enforcement officers, who unlawfully enter their homes. It was signed by Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoOSAKA -- After fatally stabbing a man and a woman on a busy shopping street in downtown Osaka on June 10, the 36-year-old assailant was chasing down other pedestrians nearby in an apparent attempt to assa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA group of 1,324 Fukushima residents presented a complaint to public prosecutors on June 11 over radiation damage from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, accusing 33 people including Tokyo Electric Power ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe health and safety watchdog has ordered a clean–up at a second company being investigated as a possible source of an outbreak of legionnaires' disease. Macfarlan Smith, a pharmaceuticals firm based in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJapanese astronomers on Hawaii say they have found a galaxy 12.91bn light years away A team of Japanese astronomers using telescopes on Hawaii say they have seen the oldest galaxy yet discovered. The te...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBumper deal: Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond was the highest-paid boss, taking home £20.97million The row over 'fat cat' pay escalated today as new figures show packages for bosses at Britain's bigg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGunshots rang out and residents fled burning homes on Tuesday as security forces in western Burma struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has displaced thousands of people. The conf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRussian protesters galvanised by raids on the homes of their leaders joined a march against President Vladimir Putin Tuesday despite the threat of fines the size of their annual pay. Hundreds had gathere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe US has expressed fears that the Syrian government "may be organising another massacre" in the town of Haffa in Latakia province, where UN military observers have been denied access. UN Secretary Gene...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoReport into children and armed conflict says children have been tortured and used as human shields by forces loyal to Assad. Syrian government forces and militia loyal to the Assad regime are killing and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoChurches will have to stop holding all weddings if they are forced to approve ceremonies for gay couples, religious leaders are warning. The Church of England claims proposed reforms to allow same-sex marr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDispute: Margaret Louise Decker died in April at age 89 and willed the family ranch to her grandson and not her son A Colorado man who was upset that his mother left her ranch to a 40-year-old grandson w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA California high school awards night erupted in laughter last month when a white student was called up on stage and awarded an African-American scholarship. Jeffrey Warren, 17, of Martin Luther King Hig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA high school chemistry teacher, her colleague and two of her students were hospitalized after a classroom experiment went horribly wrong. Authorities say the teacher at East Valley High School in North H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNew photos have emerged of Bruce Beresford-Redman, the Emmy-nominated reality TV producer who is awaiting trial on charges that he murdered his wife an dumped her body in a sewer while the pair were on va...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoJune 8, 2012 Short promo for the first (hopefully) annual Occupy National Gathering which will be held at Independence Mall in Philadelpha on June 30 thru July 4, 2012. Come and be a part of history. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA SWAT team has charged the house where a man believed to have killed three men in a fight over a girl at Auburn University is thought to be hiding. Officers have fired tear gas into the house in Montgom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe police officer who shot an unarmed teenager in his bathroom was expected to hand himself in to face manslaughter charges tomorrow. Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot dead on February 2 after the NYPD follow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe massive wildfires sweeping through Colorado and New Mexico have claimed their first confirmed victim, as a woman was found burned to death in her remote home. Linda Steadman, 62, was reported missing...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoWebster G. Tarpley Ph.D. Infowars.com - Tarpley.net June 12, 2012 * * *Video: Alex Jones of Infowars.com interviews author and historian Dr. Webster Tarpley regarding the current political crisis in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe leader of a North Carolina religious cult has pleaded guilty to murdering a 28-year-old woman and a four-year-old boy who he thought was gay . Peter Lucas Moses, 27, will face two life sentences for s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 25-year-old Alaska woman has been arrested for dousing her fiancée with gasoline while he slept on the couple's couch, setting him on fire and fleeing while he burned alive, according to police. Gina V...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPresident Barack Obama’s priorities in a second term could include tackling climate change, halting nuclear proliferation, bolstering overseas aid and immigration reform, according to his senior advisers....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Great Recession shrank Americans' wealth so much that in 2010 median family net worth was no more than it was in 1992 after adjusting for inflation, the Federal Reserve reported Monday. Median net wo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo five-year-old girls drowned in a backyard pool after one of the girls’ grandmother, responsible for looking after them, allegedly chatted on a phone indoors. The girls, identified as Mia Penoyer and ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoSir Terry Leahy was interviewed on Radio 4's ever so politically correct Today programme this morning. Much to my pleasure and I am sure the programme's displeasure he was not following 'the narrative'. He...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMIAMI (AFP) - The Ku Klux Klan wants to sponsor a stretch of US road to clean it up, creating a legal conundrum for local officials. Members of the white supremacist organization applied to the "Adopt-A-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe most vulnerable people in NSW will suffer under the state government's latest budget, which includes unspecified spending cuts, Labor and the Greens say. Treasurer Mike Baird's second budget forecast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAuthorities are warning residents in the southern half of Western Australia to make preparations before an intense storm hits later today. The State Emergency Services says very dangerous weather, similar...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoJune 11, 2012 Republicans have given President Obama a lot of heat for the gloomy US economy. The recent jobs numbers released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics have fallen short of what was predicte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA woman was severely burned after being covered in gasoline and set on fire by her knife-wielding ex-boyfriend and father of her child, police said. The 40-year-old, who has not been named, suffered the ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoAstonished Calgarians watch as the Calgary Centre Conservative candidates ride into Cowtown. Acutal candidates may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Joan Crockatt, Rod Love, John Mar. By the time...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago' I hope Cameron collects her soon. She's been droning on about the eurozone crisis for half an hour now.'
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA man hitchhiking across the country writing a memoir called The Kindness of America was injured in a random drive-by shooting along a rural highway. Ray Dolin, 39, of West Virginia, was shot in the arm as...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 11 hours ago[image: Dr. John Thompson was an award-winning historian, lobbyist, and guerilla-gardener who became an award-winning inner city teacher after crack and gangs hit his neighborhood.]By John Thompson Pol...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoWe discover that two sets of teeth in Africa and in Burma that are contemporaneous and closely related and now we know that the progenitors of the primates made it to Africa around 40,000,000 yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA man with 'vampire teeth' was arrested today after beating a homeless man in an unprovoked attack. The 55-year-old victim, who has not been identified, had been sleeping behind a shopping center when he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA turbo-charged computer that could change the world forever is a major step closer after scientists worked out how to store memory using quantum physics. Two separate teams of researchers have figured o...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago*The aim of Operation Cyanide was to topple Egypt's President. US intelligence and military specialists were sent to Israel to plan the operation.* Website The USA has long wanted to help its friend Isr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA couple who were given suspended jail terms for hurling their pet dog into the sea, won their appeal against conviction The terrier dog called Jess was first thrown into the water from a slipway at Exmo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoGreen phytoplankton can be found in the Chukchi Sea between Alaska and Japan, but until now scientists thought it was only in open water The world's largest under-ice bloom of phytoplankton has been uncov...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours ago*XENON-133 WAS DETECTED AT 450,000X BACKGROUND IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST MAR/APRIL 2011* US Particulate and Xenon Measurements Made Following the Fukushima Reactor Accident 1 Pacific Northwest National Labora...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA failed asylum seeker who strangled his British girlfriend to death after learning he was to be deported was jailed for at least ten-and-a-half years today. Ako Amin, 19, flew into a rage and battered 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBritain's ambassador to Libya was in a convoy hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, it was confirmed last night. Dominic Asquith escaped injury during the attack in the country’s second city Benghazi. Howe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoImage: Soaked: Jane Andrews pushes her bike through flood water in Felpham, Bognor Regis, West Sussex - Photographer Helen Yates It poured and it poured. And then it poured some more. Britain was lashed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHebrew graffiti thanking Adolf Hitler and denouncing Zionism have been sprayed inside Israel's own Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. One giant slogan at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem read: 'Thank you H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHuman life is bound to the sea. The sea feeds us, provides us with highways for our commerce, and gives us recreational pleasure. It even provides 50 per cent of the air we breathe. Without it, we would d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA at a depth of 172.5 km (107.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:59:39 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (22 miles) Southeast fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIt is feared house prices in Northern Ireland will continue to fall over the next three months. The latest Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and Ulster Bank housing market survey shows the average v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Asian markets reversed the previous day's hefty gains on Tuesday, with nervous investors far from convinced that a bailout for debt-stricken Spanish banks will halt Europe's spreading debt cri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe US has voiced fears that the Syrian government is preparing a new massacre, as reports emerge saying government troops have renewed attacks on rebel strongholds. There have been reports of shelling ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTests will be carried out to determine whether a set of lungs found on a footpath belonged to a human. A woman made the grisly discovery while walking in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, according to a r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found. Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom on Tuesday that a dingo was to blame for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoResidents in the southern half of Western Australia are being warned to brace themselves for cyclonic winds which are due to hit the state late this afternoon. Towns from Geraldton to Esperance, and the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA father has killed a man he caught sexually assaulting his young daughter in Texas. The incident happened at a social gathering at the family home on Saturday. According to police the father caught the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 52-year-old man has died after trying to fix his friend's storm-damaged roof, south of Perth. It is understood the man was helping repair his friend's garage roof in the suburb of Furnissdale near Mand...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoDuring the financial crisis, Bank of America – where I still maintain a checking account with a minimum allowed balance – received a $45 billion bailout. You could think that this kind of money is being u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIn the 80's and 90's Madonna was celebrated for her fearless persona, erotic video clips, and feminist ideals. Her 'blonde ambition' pushed the envelope in every way possible, and then some. But critics a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN IRAN at a depth of 34.1 km (21.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:12:11 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) North of Bushehr, Iran No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck NORTHERN ITALY at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 01:48:36 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) ENE of Parma, Italy No Reports...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN PERU at a depth of 110.4 km (68.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:37:38 UTC Monday 11th June 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) ENE of Tacna, Peru No Reports...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the WEST CHILE RISE at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:19:39 UTC Monday 11th June 2012 The epicenter was 1178 km (731 miles) Southwest of San Juan ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 13 hours agoNATO preparing vast disinformation campaign. Thierry Meyssan voltairenet.org June 12, 2012 In a few days, perhaps as early as Friday, June 15, at noon, the Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWebsites will be legally obliged to provide victims with the identity of people who post defamatory online messages about them under plans by the Government. Major reforms of the libel laws will also see...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoI didn't go to the Netroots Nation convention this year. If you missed it too, I'd like to share Elizabeth Warren's keynote speech (above). As you know, she's running for the U.S. Senate from Massachuset...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours agoI see Judith Collins, under pressure about the shambolic setup that is ACC, has chosen a scapegoat. She’s sacked the Chairman.* That this will do nothing to change the setup that is ACC is immaterial.** ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Why The Incompetent Don't Know They're Incompetent"* by PSY Blog "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understandin...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 15 hours agoEDUCATORS VOTE YES Chicago Teachers Vote Overwhelming for Strike Authorization as Contract Negotiations Continue; Union to use leverage to fight for smaller class sizes *CHICAGO* – Today, the Chicago Teac...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 15 hours ago*Dingo killed Azaria, coroner finds* A dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found. It’s taken virtually thirty years to confirm that Michae...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“Why are there faint rings around this spiral galaxy? Possibly because the galaxy, NGC 4911, is being pulled at by its neighbors as it falls into the enormous Coma Cluster of Galaxies. If NGC 4911 ends up...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago* Patriotic Syrians demonstrate in the streets in support of their country, which is under attack from the U.S. and Israel.* The U.S., NATO, Saudi Arabia, and Israel continue to stir up trouble in Syr...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 16 hours agoNHK: IAEA training program begins in Tokai village http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120611_25.html [Excerpted] "An international study program on nuclear energy and the Fukushima accident has begun i...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago*From my FB friends: Chungli train station after several days of rain. * Wow. After several days of rain, the island is a sponge, with more still to come. In the south, where 60 cm of rain has fallen in t...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*As best I can remember, Nixon shot J. R. Ewing because of stuff he had in Larry O'Brien's safe about Nixon's (wink, wink) "friendship" with weird rich guy Bebe Rebozo.* *by Ken* My goodness, here we are...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Great Recession wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline. The Federal Reserve said ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 18 hours ago** *... Alberta's not-so-"lucky" streak * *UPDATE: Tues. June 12, 10:50 AM* *See video: *The Roach Motel at the End of the Universe *Contributor: Newfieby* *“It’s actually an exception, if you think that ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours agoCheshire, Connecticut, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"In Search Of The Soul"* by Chet Raymo "Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, like the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl?" - Mary Oliver "The philosopher Rene Descartes in...
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