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English: Nouriel Roubini, Turkish economist, professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. From the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise conference, 2009. Norsk (bokmål)‬: Nouriel Roubini, tyrkisk økonom, professor ved Stern School of Business ved New York University. Fra NHOs Årskonferanse 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
found this on the internet and CAN'T STOP CHUCKLING his little face, oodles of Pinocchio-like boy-glee.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 minutes agoNavajo Anna Rondon Anna Rondon Betrayal: Water rights giveaway is for coal-fired power plant and non-Navajos Letter to the Editor By Anna Rondon, Navajo Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com ...
- Globe Newswire, one of the world's largest distribution networks belonging to the NASDAQ OMX group and specializing in the delivery corporate press releases, has just released one of the most important p...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 15 minutes agoA standard critical argument in my field looks something like this: 1. Phenomenon *X* entails *A* assumptions about the world; 2. Approach *Y* contains assumptions inconsistent with *A*; therefore 3. *Y* ca...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 33 minutes ago"...I remember being here ten years ago, hearing the launch of the Lisbon Agenda. We were told that with the euro, by 2010 we would have full employment and indeed that Europe would be the competitive an...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 37 minutes agoOne of the very few experts who correctly predicted the economic meltdown of 2008, Nouriel Roubini told Germany to Stop "the Savings Madness": Governments in Europe should lower taxes and increase salarie...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 41 minutes agoReligious Freedom & Expression on Trial in Klee Benally Sacred Mountain Defense CaseNo Verdict After 3 Hour Trial Tuesday, June 12, 2012By M. Begay, Contributor, Indigenous Action Mediainfo@indigenousaction...
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The U.N. is funneling millions of dollars worth of tradable carbon credits to corrupt nations worldwide, including Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Uzbekistan in an attempt to encourage clean energy projects... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoSpeaking of reporting... I did an item over at Plum Line about a new Mitt Romney talking point that had already been debunked, but as usual that doesn't slow Romney down much. I looked around the intertub...
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(KMOV)-- Emergency crews worked overnight to stop a dangerous chemical leak in New Memphis, Illinois. The leak has been contained but the chemical is still in the atmosphere. Authorities say an anhydrous... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The Palisades nuclear power plant is shut down. Officials at the plant removed it from service due to what is being described as a "small leak" in the plant's safety injection and refueling water tank. T... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A third significantly radioactive particle has been recovered from a beach at the centre of a contamination scare, it has emerged. Tests are now being carried out on the particle found by scientists in fr... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Big waves swept coastal villages in several provinces in Mindanao and sank a boat in Palawan province, killing at least seven people, as rescuers searched for scores of fishermen out at sea following mons... - posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 hour agoFor the small percentage of our readership that doesn't overlap with that of the Monkey Cage, see its roundup on her passing and a guest post there by Rick Wilson.
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(AGI) Como - Downpours hit Alto Lario, in the area of the Lake of Como. During the last few hours a mudslide fell towards a group of houses in Porlezza, (Como) and the Local Police immediately evacuated t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
More than 15,000 litres of oil leaked into the Danube in the port of the Slovakian capital Bratislava on Tuesday, local media reported. The accident is thought to have happened as the oil was being loaded... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe West, led by France and the US, has increased the pressure on Russia to stop sending arms to Syria, as anti-government demonstrators take to the streets of Damascus. France followed the UN in descri...
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Incredible footage has been released showing Romanian gangsters breaking into the back of a truck as they hurtle along a motorway at night. The thieves quickly drive up behind their target vehicle, positio... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
NASA has launched its latest X-ray space telescope on a two-year hunt for black holes lurking in the heart of the Milky Way and other galaxies. The telescope was launched by a rocket released from a carri... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAn Oklahoma City teenager was sentenced to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a man in what prosecutors have called a murder-for-hire scheme. Michael Richardson, 19, was sentenced to 28 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago'Cancer threat' in your spray-on tan: Toxins accidentally inhaled, warn scientists Spray tans, used by many as a safer alternative to sunbeds, may create serious health problems including cancer, scienti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA make-shift funeral was held for a young humpback whale which died after being washed ashore in Canada. People gathered on White Rock beach in British Columbia to pay their respects to the magnificent c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoHorrifying video taken from a police dashboard camera shows an 18-month-old girl being thrown from an SUV after it rolled while her father was trying to elude officers during a high-speed chase. The tru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN at a depth of 113.3 km (70.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:12:56 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) Southeas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoDenver was covered in a blanket of pungent smoke today as wildfires continued to tear through parts of northern Colorado, 60 miles from the city. The cloud of smoke lasted several hours and stopped firef...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA series of car bomb blasts killed at least 63 people across Iraq today in one of the deadliest attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from the country. The co-ordinated explosions struck mainly Shiite pilgri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA man accused of shooting dead three people at a party near Auburn University turned himself in tonight following a manhunt. Desmonte Leonard, 22, handed himself over to authorities at a Montgomery court...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 2 hours agoObama may be personally popular and likeable enough in the USA. But in the rest of the world, not so much. The rest of the world is not so wrapped up in glitzy presidential campaign propaganda and apparent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAl Qaeda's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi has appeared in a new video circulated on Tuesday despite Washington reporting that he was killed in a drone strike last week. It is unclear whether the foo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFrance has called for the United Nations to enforce envoy Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan for Syria - in a move which could see force used against Assad's regime. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said h...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 2 hours agoWhat you're seeing now in the "news" and hear from our psychopath government leaders and our psychopath mainstream media about Syria, is PROPAGANDA to get us into another war with another Arab Middle Eas...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours agoUnprecedented global warming? Global warming due to man? *I think not.* This is a graph that you will not see on the BBC or in any of the rest of the 'warmist' media. For context take a trip to Watts Up ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*These are the images Kelly & Barber picked for themselves. Voters picked Barber (r)* Arizona is a red state and AZ-8 is a red district. But, after Gabby Giffords announced her injuries were just too grea...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoI can no longer run gamma and beta charts at the EPA's envirofacts interface. The links that previously took one to the interface page are no longer live. I used the EPA's messaging system to ask how I c...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 hours agoKeep in mind this is John Bolton. Former Ambassador to the UN. Promoter of "diplomacy via death squads" -*How Bolton Armed Haiti's Thugs and Killers*. Let's not forget the Iran/Contra scandal. The man is ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoChicago Police hope surveillance pictures help lead them to one of three weekend mob attacks on people downtown. As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, a 23-year-old man w...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoCould this sort of thing change the way reporters do their business? Buzzfeed's Rebecca Elliott did a story about Barack Obama's fundraising, in which she overlooked a point that's been made before: compar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAmber Wright became the third person to be found guilty for her role in the brutal murder of Seath Jackson, 15, who was beaten, shot, mutilated and burned after being lured to a house in a honey trap last...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoTwo 15-year-old girls have been charged with human trafficking after allegedly luring other teenage girls into prostitution. Ottawa police are searching for a third suspect, a 17-year-old girl, who is ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA dating app used on smartphones has been forced to close down to younger users after a third child was raped by a man pretending to be a teenager. The latest case involving the app called Skout concerns ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Rows of houses near the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, along the Atlantic coast in Corolla, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. With virtually no debate, the state Senate nixed global warming rest...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago* **R. v. C.S.,* 2012 ONCA 403 deals with a problem repeatedly seen, a question asking a witness to comment on the credibility of another witness. Such a question is improper: [9] We need not...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn airboat captain from Everglades City, Florida, had his hand ripped off by an alligator while he was allegedly feeding the animal on Tuesday. Witnesses said the victim, an employee of Captain Doug’s Ev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA woman who was allegedly high on bath salts as she choked and punched her three-year-old son has died after state troopers used a Taser to subdue her. Pamela McCarthy, 35, went into cardiac arrest after ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe mistress accused of conspiring with her ex-lover to murder his wife in 2010 may still have murder on the mind, as she now stands accused of arranging a plot from prison to kill him. Millionaire Texas...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012* *Michael Winerip bails:* Apparently, we can’t have nice things, just like Poundstone said. For the past several years, Michael Winerip’s On Education column was one of the outp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSpain's prime minister said he is “battling” to get the eurozone’s central bankers to bring down the country’s record borrowing costs, amid predictions the state will need a second bail-out to save itself....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:41:06 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) Southeast of Kuanhsi, Taiwan No Reports...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 119.6 km (74.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:38:34 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) East of Kuril'sk, Kur...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours ago*France's Hollande and Fabius.* On 13 June 2012, France said that Syria has descended into civil war and that all means, including force, should be used under international supervision to help restore pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTEHRAN — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States on Wednesday of supplying weapons to Syria's rebels, which is worsening the conflict engulfing Moscow's allied regime in Damascus....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*That's because I need to leave for a few hours and want what I feel is one of the most ignored and under-reported stories** by the AmeriKan media to be left on top for a while.* *UPDATE*: "Tuesday, Jun...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Beijing York) at DAMMIT JANET! - 4 hours agoFirst we start with Michael Enright 'meditating' on abortion. Then this morning, on the hour and half-hour news cycle on CBC Radio 1, we hear self-selective abortions could be on the rise!!! Yup, fetal...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*By who else?* "Jamaican drug lord gets 23 years" by Benjamin Weiser | new york times, June 09, 2012 NEW YORK - Christopher M. Coke, the Jamaican *drug lord whose extradition to the United States* in 2...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Ex-Indian Army officer kills family, self" Associated Press, June 11, 2012 SELMA, Calif. - A *former major in India’s army* wanted in the *killing* of a *human rights lawyer* in the disputed *Kashmir *reg...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012* *Pundit runs cable experiment:* On Monday, Kevin Drum linked us to this report about Fox News and MSNBC. The report was done by Tod Kelly. For Drum’s reaction, click here. Kel...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012* *Part 2—Hardball versus Samoa:* We only wish that the great Margaret Mead could have seen what happened last week. First, a famous old cult struck hard once again, as we reporte...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Kenyan official killed in helicopter crash" Associated Press, June 11, 2012 NAIROBI - The death of Kenya’s internal security minister, George Saitoti, is a “great tragedy that has befallen our country at ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Idiocy Is Not To Be Answered With Further Idiocy"* by Karl Denninger "Nouriel has completely lost it, as has Niall Ferguson. "Is it one minute to midnight in Europe? The failure of German public opi...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours agoRay Bradbury in 1982. Photo by Lennox McLendon / AP / Washington Post. Ray Bradbury remembered: The librarian told my dad he was asking for trouble "Ray Bradbury, a boundlessly imaginative novelist who wrot...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 6 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Military Keynesianism is another myth of dubious origins. In 1933, John Maynard Keynes wrote an open letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging the new presiden...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 6 hours agoI have submitted the following comment to Steven Goddard's Real-Sciencesite, where the subject happens to be the intransigence and incompetence of climate consensus defender David Appell, a self-styled "sci...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours agoThe head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, warns we can either accept a realistic approach to sustainable growth or face declining incomes, environmental calamity and social upheaval. ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoHappy Birthday to Chris Evans, 31. To the good stuff: 1. I basically agree with much of what Kevin Drum says about 2009 (other than what I said yesterday about what more I think was plausible in the firs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe U.S. Navy will be sending its most sophisticated ships and aircraft to the Asia-Pacific region as it builds up its presence there. Admiral Cecil Haney, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA deadly gun and arson attack a funeral service in Ciudad Juárez had led to the death of the deceased man's wife and injured eight children - including a baby. According to local media, the incident at a...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoIn 2010 the Republicans were very serious about taking over the House. The NRCC-- their version of the DCCC-- suited up for full on war early on and they decided to not just go after weak struggling fresh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA 17-month-old girl has died from a suspected case of meningococcal after being taken to Swan District Hospital with a rash. It is believed the girl presented to the hospital with a rash earlier this wee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA number of homes have been damaged and crews are working to restore power to 7,000 properties following the third storm to strike the southern half of WA in the last week. A house in Pinjarra lost its r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA senior economist at one of the United Kingdom's biggest banks says troubled European nations should leave the eurozone but keep using the euro currency. Countries in the eurozone are joined by a single ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe parents of Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor, who is being detained in Libya, say it is hard to cope because there is so little information coming from her captors. John and Janelle Taylor say they no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNATO is looking to forge closer cooperation with Australia to combat cyber crime, high-seas piracy and other emerging security threats. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen also declared he wants ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA man who grew one of Australia's largest cannabis crops so he could fund a nationwide anti-abortion protest has told a court he has no regrets. Michael Bennett Gardner Snr, 58, told the Supreme Court in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Syrian government has announced it is fighting "terrorists" and not a civil war, as the Turkish minister declares thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to Turkey in the last 48 hours. Syrian state ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 7 hours agoFor those of you who have been at the beach or in the garden for the past week, Massachusetts teachers were stabbed in the back last week by their own union president, Paul Toner, who gave away core due pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA at a depth of 134.3 km (83.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:31:47 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 7 hours agoIt doesn't happen very often. But, every once in awhile, someone gets under Stephen Harper's skin. It's then we get to see the chip on Harper's shoulder -- a chip which has deformed his approach to peop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 352.4 km (219 miles), the quake hit at 10:11:22 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago*How Times-Picayune Staff 1st Heard the News* ~Heartbreaking audio from 40 year Veteran Reporter Bruce Nolan *After the cuts at The Times-Picayune ~Kevin Allman, Gambit* *The TP is dead....long live the T...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoOh dear, away from the BBC, there are people willing to make fun of Ed Miliband. On Twitter: '@frasereC4 Ed Miliband is the only person I've seen at #Leveson who looks glad to be there... @IAmChrisRams...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago*Quick note:* Please feel more than free to register with Disqus and post testing comments at the Stuxnet playground blog. If you already have a Disqus comment, sign with "D" for "Disqus". If you don't, ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 9 hours agoA few weeks back, I wrote about the different major cloud services. In that post, I mentioned Box.com was my favorite of the cloud services, with its only downside being it didn't have a desktop syncing fe...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoAlder (dark green) and willow (greyish) shrubs grow on the northernmost foothills of the Polar Ural in West Siberia, Russia. An increase in the height of these shrubs has caused problems for the indigenous...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 10 hours ago*Easy And Scrumptious Roast Chicken!* You can't beat a good roast chicken! I know it's more of a winter dish, but it is so versatile, delicious and healthy that why not make it all year around?!? Roast ch...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoThe 33-year-old chimpanzee, Santino, has a habit of sneaking up on visitors and hurling stone projectiles at them. Here, he is slowly moving toward visitors, with two projectiles in his left hand. (This im...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA teenager who was so viciously beaten by a gang of thugs that he was almost blinded and needed plastic surgery to rebuild his face says he feels his life has been 'put on hold' as he slowly recovers from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGerman police have released a photograph of the mysterious English-speaking teenager dubbed the "forest boy" who claims he has been living wild for half a decade. The boy who calls himself Ray turned to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEU finance chiefs today admitted holding contingency ‘discussions’ about possibly putting limits on Greek cash machines to stop mass withdrawals if Greece quits the euro. European Commission officials al...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoHuman muscle collected 17 days after the death of the individual and harboring stem cells that are still alive (inset) and capable of being cultivated. Photo courtesy: Fabrice Chretien Stem cells can rem...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:59:06 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) Southwest of...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoIsmael Mohamad / United Press International June 12, 2012 by Ali Abunimah Electronic Intifada Hafez Omar Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Sarsak is still on hunger strike and is determined to continue until...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:22:22 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) Southeast of Kuanhsi, Taiwan No Repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA worker in China had to be freed from a cluster of metal bars after a 'machine malfunction'. Zheng, a bridge constructor, got impaled on the spikes in Taizhou, eastern China's Zhejiang Province. He was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoGoogle has been accused of misleading Britain’s privacy watchdog over the scandal of personal data stolen from millions of home computers. The Information Commissioner last night dramatically reopened its...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA 14-year-old girl was repeatedly raped at a drug den by a gang of men who treated her with 'indignity and contempt', a jury has heard. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was taken to th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoRussia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, Hillary Clinton claimed tonight. The Arab country's bloody 15-month conflict could become 'dramatically' worse if the arms ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIt is a shocking scene which could so easily have ended in tragedy. This extraordinary CCTV footage was captured from a Metro track in St Petersburg, Russia. It shows passenger Yevgeny Borodin arguing wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoForeign students who fail to return home at the end of their courses push the country’s population up by 75,000 every year, a report revealed last night. The study by the Migration Watch think tank claim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA police union says three Saudi women who refused to remove their face veils at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport have been barred entry to France. A 2011 French law bans people from wearing Islamic face-c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAngela Merkel may be willing to sacrifice Greece in order to persuade German voters to bail out the euro, George Osborne warned last night. The Chancellor suggested Germany may ‘require’ the crisis that w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWhen Edward Putman scooped nearly £5million on the Lottery, he asked to have no publicity. That anonymity was ripped away yesterday when he appeared in court accused of fraudulently claiming £15,000 in b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThousands of Britons living in France face a shock €10,000 (£8,000) fine in a draconian tax clampdown across the Channel, Money Mail can reveal. The French Government is using a stealth ploy to squeeze ext...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoRussian and Polish football fans were involved in violent street fights ahead of last night's Euro 2012 meeting between the two national sides in Warsaw. Police fired rubber bullets and used water cannon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHabbo Hotel, one of the most popular online communities for teenagers, is flooded with pornographic content and is a haven for paedophiles, it has been claimed. Visitors to Habbo Hotel are often exposed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoGoogle is facing a fresh investigation by the information watchdog after renewed concerns over data collected from cars talking pictures for the company's controversial Street View service. The Informatio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoADEN, Yemen, June 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 members of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch were killed when U.S. drones hit their bastions in Yemen's southeastern province of Shabwa early Wednesday, a securi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Soldiers and riot police patrolled the streets of the Myanmar town of Sittwe on Wednesday to enforce a state of emergency after days of sectarian violence in which at least 21 people have been...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSYDNEY (AFP) - Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Wednesday an Australian lawyer and three others held in Libya were entitled to immunity, but admitted the chances of their early release appeared slim. Melin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSYDNEY — NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday that foreign military intervention was "not the right path" in Syria despite the UN's peacekeeping chief declaring the country in civil war. Rasmu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBAGHDAD — A wave of bombings and shootings hit Iraq during a major Shiite religious commemoration on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and wounded dozens more, security and medical officials said. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDoctors in the US have released a photograph of the homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre 'cannibal' attack. The photo reveals Ronald Poppo missing his nose and with much of his face ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe head of NATO has praised Australia's efforts in making the world a "safer place" and has declared his intention to pursue closer security ties during his visit Down Under. NATO secretary-general Ander...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe first officially recognised same sex couple in British history will spend over $100,000AUD to ensure to their next child is a girl. Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow already have five children – four boy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe former chief financial officer of the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) has admitted to authorising more than 22 million euros in payments to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime over a three-year period. Paul I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Queensland judge has ruled a five-year-old girl be told her father is a convicted paedophile. According to News Limited reports, the decision, by Justice Peter Murphy, is designed to help the girl under...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEmergency services will assess damage this morning from the third severe storm to hit the southern half of Western Australia in a week. Gusting winds of up to 113 kilometres an hour, thunder and heavy rai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA homeless man who almost died after a naked assailant repeatedly bit his face is recovering well but is likely to go blind, doctors say. Ronald Poppo was sent to hospital in critical condition after the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 24-year-old woman has admitted to leaving a toddler to drown in the bath as she spent 45 minutes drinking with her neighbour. Danielle Reeves, from Surrey in the UK, had been looking after the one-year...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSky News has obtained disturbing footage of township vigilantes brutally beating suspected criminals in South Africa. The "punishments", which often result in death, are regular occurrences in the impov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAP: OFFICIALS SAY 56 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN SERIES OF CAR BOMBINGS TARGETING SHIA PILGRIMS IN FOUR IRAQI CITIES
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 62.6 km (38.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:06:42 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck WESTERN TURKEY at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:40:32 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Northwest of Saphane, Turkey ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA at a depth of 4.6 km (2.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:21:36 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) ENE of OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA at a depth of 4.6 km (2.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:21:36 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) ENE of OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma No ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*George Galloway MP, his wife Gayatri and Iraqi Muntazer Zaidi, who threw his shoes at George W. Bush in Baghdad, at the inauguration of Al Mayadeen TV in Beirut.* GEORGE GALLOWAY OF MI6? There is a new ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours agoWhen the planning was being done for the London Olympics the aspect that worried me the most, apart from the terrorist threat of course, was transport. My heart sunk even further when I read that Olympic L...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 12 hours agoForeign language mastery: What the research says Sent to the Washington Post, June 12, 2013 Andrew Eil claims that the “easy steps” to foreign language mastery are to study grammar very hard, drill vocabul...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours agoSource of picture: http://www.notowar.com/?p=515This is a request from the Center For Food Safety. *EPA approval of 2,4-D use on Dow’s new GE crops would drive a massive increase in use of this toxic ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoThe problem is that like industry occasionally, the labor union has achieved monopoly and then gone out and gamed that monopoly to the disadvantage of shareholders and taxpayers. Then one mornin...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoAt least we now know that a technical glitch gave us the measurement error. The Earth's content is simply not dense enough to push the envelop here. What I would like to see now is a two magnitude i...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoThis is surely a solar driven phenomena that has simply not been observed yet. The fact that it occurred in historic times and that carbon 14 variability begs a better explanation anyway, sugges...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoI was not aware that robotic meat cutting is well on the way to been realized. This is excellent news as it will end the rush to the bottom in terms of industry employment. The industry will then ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 13 hours agoChinese motorists wear masks as they make their way along a busy intersection in Wuhan on June 11. Wuhan was blanketed by thick yellowish cloud Monday, raising fears of pollution among its nine million i...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 13 hours agoSun News Network commentator Ezra Levant Today’s ruling by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council that the Sun News Network breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Code of Ethics in a Decembe...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 14 hours agoA healthy patch of poison ivy. Photo courtesy: TheOakRidge'sTrailAssociation Not quite gardening; but, a great outdoorsy tip all the same. A run-in with poison ivy is never fun - to put it mildly! But, if ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 14 hours ago[BREAKING NEWS: JPMorgan's Dimon greeted by protesters in Washington ] We read daily that the EU has few alternatives to save itself and the euro, and from The Telegraph we learn the following very diffic...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 14 hours agoHoney comes in many different colours and flavours; and, these depend on the source of the nectar. For example, the light-coloured honey from clover will differ greatly in taste from the dark honey made f...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 14 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Seven Bedard Shortly after they were born, before the turn of the 20th century, two captive Giant tortoises began what would become an epically long relationship. But now, after nearly 115...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours agoWow. That study I critiqued about mice published in *Environmental Health Perspectives* is Getting Some Mileage. The study was titled Integrated Molecular Analysis Indicates Undetectable DNA Damage in Mi...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoGeorge McGovern had a good day on June 6, winning California and emerging as the likely Democratic nominee -- still by no means certain, but now really likely. Which was good news indeed for Richard Nixon....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago"North Korea: no nuclear test planned at present PYONGYANG, North Korea—North Korea says it has no current plans to conduct a nuclear test despite what it calls South Korean provocation. The statement Sat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe night the Berlin Wall fell, Angela Merkel joined thousands of East Germans who pushed west over the border crossing at the Bornholmer Bridge, helping sweep away almost half a century of Cold War divisi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoConcern stems from reports that Assad may be losing control over certain military capabilities including air defense base; Hezbollah might move missiles to Lebanon to stop rebels from capturing them. Con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoJune 12 - After a joint NATO-Afghanistan operation kills 18 civilians, President Hamid Karzai says NATO will no longer attack civilian areas by air. Lindsey Parietti reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Authorities in Ivory Coast have discovered and prevented a plot to overthrow the government organized by exiled military officers and a close advisor to former President Laurent Gbagbo, the in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - The leader of Greece's leftist SYRIZA party on Tuesday ruled out forming a government with pro-bailout parties after June 17 elections that could decide the nation's future in the euro zone. I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 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 - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Florida prosecutors filed a perjury charge against the wife of neighborhood watchman and murder suspect George Zimmerman on Tuesday, alleging she lied about the family's finances during her hu...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoAncient aliens religious figures were very concerned about how and what we eat. Cannibalism was a real no-no-- and neither Jews nor Muslims are allowed to eat pigs, shellfish or amphibians. And then ther...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 16 hours agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Barack Obama stoutly defended his economic record on Tuesday after a stream of bad news - and an uncharacteristic verbal misstep of his own - rallied Republican hopes that they can defeat him ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTunisia has declared an overnight curfew on eight regions, including the capital, an interior ministry official says, in the wake of serious rioting. The eight-hour curfew was introduced after several vio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTOKYO, June 13 (Reuters) - The euro edged lower on Wednesday, tethered to a familiar range with many investors sticking to the sidelines ahead of an Italian bond sale the next day and a weekend vote in Gre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDAMASCUS Syria on Tuesday accused Washington of encouraging more massacres in the strife-torn country and of meddling in its internal affairs even as a top UN official said Syria is now in a full-scale ci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMoscow, June 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Moscow is ready to host an international conference on Syria to discuss peaceful settlement of the Syrian crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. In order t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoGermany's central bank has shot down EU proposals for a European banking union, warning categorically that eurozone liabilities cannot be shared without a fundamental shift towards fiscal and political un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSANA, Yemen — The Yemeni government said Tuesday that the army had driven out militants linked to Al Qaeda from two of their strongholds in southern Yemen, a region that has become a focal point of Americ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoALTHOUGH Europe may seem far away from the economic life of the average American, the fate of the euro zone weighs heavily on the United States economy. Pension funds have invested in bonds issued by sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAt least 10 football fans have been injured during violent clashes at the Euro 2012 match between Russia and Poland in Warsaw. TV footage showed fans running away from exploding fireworks and flares on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck OFF THE COAST OF COSTA RICA at a depth of 23.4 km (14.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:00:09 UTC Wednesday 13th June 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) Southwest of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:12 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) East of Rodos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SULAWESI, INDONESIA at a depth of 83.2 km (51.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:54:17 UTC Tuesday 12th June 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) South of Gorontalo, Sul...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Libya demonstrates the agenda-pushing aspect of the paper quite nicely. Was a concern until Khadafy was killed; coverage has done a fade since.* "Militias try to storm Libyan official’s office; Guard kill...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, b...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 17 hours agoPolitico Tim Mack Josh Gersten Under threat of a House contempt citation over the botched Fast and Furiousgun-walking operation, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke in a conciliatory tone Tuesday about his...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 17 hours agoAttorney Bill Risner Speaks to Judge Kyle Bryson After Arizona's Appellate courts ruled in favor of the Libertarian's argument for prospective relief in rigged elections, Judge Kyle Bryson granted Pima Cou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoPeruvian melody, “El Condor Pasa”, as popularized by Simon & Garfunkel. "I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail. Yes I would, If I could, I surely would. Chorus: Away, I'd rather sail away, Like a swan tha...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Report found of 1st doctor to treat Lincoln after shooting" Associated Press, June 06, 2012 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was shot in a Washington theat...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 17 hours ago** *... Obama's White House and Harper's House of Commons* *Contributor: "YYC"* Who’s leaking the White House’s classified national security information? *Kill lists for drone strikes personally ticked of...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"AT&T chairman donates $30,800 to Republicans WASHINGTON - AT&T chairman Randall Stephenson *lost $2.08 million in bonus pay* after *Democrats killed his bid* to build the biggest mobile provider. Six wee...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*I'll bet the military would straighten 'em out.** * *“Americans, they’ll work a day and quit.” * * * *I'm really tired of hearing that insultingly lame argument.* "Student worker visas draw complaints; R...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago“To some, the outline of the open cluster of stars M6 resembles a butterfly. M6, also known as NGC 6405, spans about 20 light-years and lies about 2,000 light years distant. M6 can best be seen in a dark ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"Roles of Support: Doing Our Best Work"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "Each one of us is very much needed and we all have our role to play adding to the success of the whole. In the great symphony o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"The Psychology of Stupidity"* by Jonah Lehrer "Here's a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 17 hours agoI hadn't initially planned on blogging about the case of Mr. Lynden Dorval.In case you aren't familiar with the details, Dorval is an Edmonton high school physics teacher who was suspended by the Edmonton P...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoFacebook find of the day. An age old truth. If they could figure out how to charge us for the sunlight, we would be running on solar power now. [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours agoThe Keystone Progress folks are my heroes at the state level. They are amazing in the way they research, w rite and take progressive action in the battle against the American Legislative Exchange Counci...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*The scenic Dutch Kills tributary of Superfund site Newtown Creek* *by Ken* There's a lot of news to cover, but some of the events I promised to tell you about as a continuation of Sunday's Urban Gadabout...
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