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American Legislative Exchange Council (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Thursday, June 14, 2012
Alabama Takes Action Against ALEC
ALABAMA – Who woulda thunk….
AN ALEC ACTION Any State could do.
Event: 10:00AM Thursday, June 14, 2012 at the Alabama Attorney General’s Office in Montgomery, Alabama***
Petition To Be Delivered To The Office Of Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange
Over 1,000 Signatures On Petition Calling For Alabama Attorney General To Investigate American Legislative Exchange Council
A petition signed by over 1,000 people calling on Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange to investigate the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) tax status and its compliance with Alabama’s lobbying laws.
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- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours agoTerrorists support Israel and NATO? Who knew.
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- The world is in dire need of peace, Rodney Carrington has the answer to the 'too much hate going on'posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoRodney Carrington - "Show them to me" - I know I've posted this before but it does raise a smile every time I see this video.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Despite the media mouthpiece makeover*: "Senators press a contrite JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon" by Zachary A. Goldfarb | Washington Post, June 14, 2012 WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:26:01 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) Northwest of Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunam...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 9 hours agoI've been meaning to write substantive posts about my recent trip to Taiwan, but between the time change, conference prep, and getting sick, I haven't had the time. In the interim, I found a video of the k...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoThe Prague Post has published an interesting interview with the guy who was in charge of the Czech side of the Czechoslovak currency split: Lessons for Greece from Czech-Slovak split The man was Mr Pave...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it was "deeply disappointed" by a Bahrain court verdict which failed to strike down sentences against medics over their role in last year's pro-democracy up...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Assailants kidnapped and killed a reporter who covered the crime beat in Mexico's Veracruz state, officials said on Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on journalists amid a relentless...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoJune 14 - A car bomb detonates in a Damascus car park, wounding two people according to Syrian state media. Travis Brecher reports.
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- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoWhile I was reading about the history of nuclear power I came across an article published in The World Today vol 6 (12) in 1950. The article is titled "The Present Situation in Persia" The lead sentences...
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- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours agoGlobal Research Ronda Hauben *At a press conference held on June 4 marking the beginning of China’s presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of June, Li Baodong, China’s Ambassador to the UN, ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoBaglow v. Smith, 2012 ONCA 407 was just released. It suggests that summary judgment is not appropriate in an internet defamation case largely because such needs a factual basis impossible to have on summar...
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- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoNatural gamma rays linked to childhood leukaemia. June 12 http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120612.html [Excerpt] "The team found that there was a 12% increase in the risk of childhood leukaem...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*The good news is that progressive Canadians are not going to fall for this last gasp, desperate plea by 'Liberals' who I fear would rather have Conservatives in power than New Democrats. 'Liberal / Tor...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 12 hours agoWe can now potentially look at any Western attempt to bomb the crud out of Iran's nuclear facilities as an invitation to a war against China and Russia!!
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 12 hours agoGUEST BLOG: Against the Digital Nursery, Douglas Storm Against “technology” consultants “integrating” education and technology “in the classroom.” Against the Society of ED TECH creating the professional ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012* *And the latest associate professor:* James B. Stewart is one of the genuine posers of the modern press corps. That said, it wasn’t Stewart who decided to run this long and point...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agoJust got a copy of this excellent book: Four Words of Wisdom
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012* *Part 3—A wide range of societal groups:* In 1968, Napoleon Chagnon spoiled everything with his best-selling book, Yanomamo: The Fierce People. Until that time, Margaret Mead’s C...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours agoYes, it's long! But worth reading First we’ll start in Haffah/Haffeh- depending on where your reading? Yesterday the “activists” were claiming that Syrian army continued “bombing and burning Haffeh” Ho...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours ago*American Scofflaw* * *The official jobless figure is calculated from people just now filing for unemployment and people still receiving such benefits and looking for work. But it does not include the 86 ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taki...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours agoRain still continues..... it is hard to believe the heavens could hold this much water. Luckily the typhoon looks to be swinging past us moving north a distance from Taiwan, according to info that my man T...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoEagles, “The Last Resort” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q0Rsge_laQ&feature=related
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoLyrics Light is in the air right now Two thousand and two rebel music The saga continues Listen, children What's the problem in Manhattan Every ten men they look like Bin Laden So I have problems when I ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHe has sold more than 45million records as part of the boyband Westlife. But singer Shane Filan has been declared bankrupt after his property empire crumbled. The decision came after the 32-year-old was ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoThe Japanese supposedly go whaling for "scientific research" purposes. Hard to tell what they're looking for. Maybe they're exploring new ways to kill whales or the process by which they die when you...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago*Foote v. Canada (Attorney General),* 2012 BCCA 253 provides a helpful definition of indigent. The concept is relevant across the law, being relevant for security for costs, costs generally and represent...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: TEPCO workers stand near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reactor buildings in Fukushima, 29 February 2012. Yoshikazu Tsuno / REUTERS via telegraph.co.uk] By Kyung Lah, CNN 11 ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Boy George, 51. Here's the good stuff: 1. Brendan Nyhan details what seems obvious to many of us: campaign trail gaffes don't matter much, if at all. 2. Excellent Nate Silver discussi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago'Reign of Terror' AIM Photo Exhibit June 15--30, 2012 Photo by Michell Vignes/Alcatraz Occupation By AIM-WEST Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ SAN FRANCISCO -- AIM-WEST, a non-profit com...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 14 hours agoI'm not a voyeur, so I couldn't bear to watch the public orgy known as the Dimon-Senate Banking Committee hearing writhe its way to completion yesterday. I'll paraphrase what I did watch, with one hand ove...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA STAMP collection in Berlin’s German Historical Museum sums up what, to many Germans, is the price of economic recklessness. A Weimar-era postage stamp worth five pfennigs in 1920 doubled in price the fol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSeventy-six suspected paedophiles, including a Scout leader, a retired teacher and Government employees, have been arrested across the UK in a major police investigation into sickening child sex images on ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago*Chris Rose: End of story **~It was, indeed, a day of infamy at the Times-Picayune, a once great and proud institution which descended into sudden, bumbling cannibalism this week; it's managers ordered to ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoWe're been agitating for a courageous DCCC that takes on powerful Republican committee chairmen, especially the ones who are causing the country so much damage and who are electorally vulnerable. We've us...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago*Thank**s go to Jan, at Gnostic Media,* for relinking these two interesting interviews!! *If you missed these the first time- Don't miss them this time! * Part 1: Podcast: Play in new window | Download (...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(HERALD, Calif.) — Brian and Deborah Campbell’s backyard has been hit by a plague straight out of the Bible. Locusts, thousands of them, are eating through their commercial garden, destroying crops and le...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTAOS, N.M. (KRQE) - The New Mexico Department of Health is reporting a case of plague in a cat that lives in the city of Taos. Officials think the cat was most likely infected when hunting rodents and pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoVISAKHAPATNAM: In the worst-ever accident in the history of Viskhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), 16 workers , including some officers, were burnt alive following a huge explosion in the recently commissioned o...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago14 june 2012 *“Peace Activists on trial for Terrorism”* *EPISODE 12: A CREDIT TO THE COMMUNITY* Almost a year since their arrest, Helen and Sylvia’s trial for terrorism begins. The consequences of a co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a 20-year-old British citizen on charges related to attacks by the LulzSec hacking group on the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony's film...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours agoEvery year, along with the electronics, the BBQ tools, and the gift cards, I like my little girl to have something to give her dad for Father's Day that reminds him of why it is so wonderful to be a fath...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoJune 14 - Refugees fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar trying to enter Bangladesh by boat are turned away. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoJune 13 - The Yemeni Defense Minister visits Zinjibar a day after the Yemeni army retakes the city from al Qaeda-linked militants. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Ex-military officer Ahmed Shafik was given the green light on Thursday to run for president when Egypt's constitutional court ruled against a law that would have thrown him out of the race, ju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - A United Nations convoy arrived in the Syrian town of Haffeh on Thursday to find it almost deserted, with burnt down state buildings, abandoned shops and a corpse in the street, a Reuters phot...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 15 hours agoORNGE - $1.3 billion. (The actual waste and corruption is probably $500 million?) F-35 fighters - $35 billion. (For an attack fighter-bomber that might not work.) Toronto G20 - $1 billion plus. (Mainly a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - In early October of last year, German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler landed in Athens on a plane packed full of corporate executives, carrying a message of hope. Germany and its leading fir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe Fukushima Prefectural Government asked a research team from Hirosaki University to stop conducting internal radiation exposure tests on prefectural residents after the outbreak of the Fukushima nuclea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Federal investigators say they have joined Cleveland Police in their search for a serial rapist, thought to be linked to four rapes and a homicide dating back to 1996. "We're just hoping by reac...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoRight is Wrong again! The right spent millions and millions and millions of dollars lying in radio and TV campaign ads in Wisconsin – but when the left decides to use the radio to finally grab people’s a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Turbulence forced a United Airlines flight bound for New York's LaGuardia Airport to land shortly after takeoff Tuesday night and sent five people to the hospital, a United spokeswoman confirmed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe FBI issued this composite drawing of the suspect in a 2005 sexual assault that is linked by DNA evidence to the 2009 murder of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. Metallica is doing its part to ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoBill C-38 is no ordinary piece of legislation. It is a full frontal assault on Canadian institutions and Canadian workers. That point is made this morning by two men from opposite ends of the political ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAnchorage, Alaska (CNN) -- In Ballroom E of the Den'aina conference center here Wednesday, a small group of astronomers and journalists listened to the NASA feed from Kwajalein island, between Hawaii and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBeijing (CNN) -- Nationwide outrage continued to grow Thursday in China over a late-term abortion forced upon a woman by local family planning officials, even as authorities pledged to punish those respon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Financial Times) -- France is pressing the EU to adopt a financial stability package to stem the eurozone crisis, believing negative market reaction to the €100bn bailout of Spain's banks shows the need ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Nokia said Thursday it will cut up to 10,000 jobs worldwide by the end of next year, part of an accelerated cost reduction program at the Finnish cellphone maker. The company also ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(CNN)* -- Syria's government on Thursday dismissed a U.N. official's claim that its conflict has turned into a full-scale civil war, saying the description contradicts the nature of the fight. "Any talk...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago*New York is doing good!!* Thursday June 14, 2012 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Several Democratic state senators said Wednesday that a national conservative group appears to be a lobbyist in New York that hasn’...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* * *Baghdad (CNN)* -- Casualties from Wednesday's wave of attacks across Iraq rose to 93 people dead and 312 wounded, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, making it the deadliest day in the country sin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong said Wednesday the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency intends to "dredge up discredited" doping allegations against him in a bid to strip him of his seven Tour de France vic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBangalore, India (CNN) -- Nineteen-year-old Reshma Banu sits on the stairs outside her parents' home, staring at the tiny screen on her cell phone. The video on the screen has her mesmerized: a very shor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSevaré, Mali (CNN) -- The town of Niafunke, on the banks of the River Niger, was made famous by the legendary Ali Farka Toure, one of a legion of great guitarists to emerge from Mali. But nowadays, Niafu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHurlburt Field, Florida (CNN) -- An Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed Wednesday during a routine training mission north of Navarre, Florida, injuring five crew members aboard, a military official said. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAn Akron, Ohio, ex-foster father who sexually abused five boys he was supposed to care for was sentenced to life in prison today. Roger Ball, 65, was convicted of one count of rape, one count of sexual b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe U.S. State Department has warned American travelers to Mexico to beware of possible violent retaliation after this week's arrest of alleged Zetas drug cartel associates within the U.S. Despite the wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA Houston jury convicted a man Wednesday of murdering his neighbor during a confrontation outside the neighbor's home two years ago, rejecting his claim that he was within his rights to fatally shoot the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice were hunting for a prominent trauma surgeon in connection with the fatal shooting of a former girlfriend at the hospital where they both worked. Timothy V. Jorden Jr, a 49-year-old former Army med...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe US national soccer team, nicknamed 'The Stars and Stripes,' apparently wasn't feeling very patriotic when players stepped off the plane and were greeted by American troops in Guatemala. The players r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS at a depth of 561.9 km (349.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:04:03 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 241 km (149 miles) Southwest o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck OFF WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:58:25 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 545 km (337.9 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA teacher in Montreal, Canada, has been suspended after he made his 10th-grade class watch the horrific video that allegedly shows Luka Magnotta murdering, eating and dismembering his lover. School offici...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA man in Oregon has been infected with the plague, the same disease that wiped out up to 60 percent of Europe in the Middle Ages. He caught the rare, but deadly, strain of the bacteria after he was bitten ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe family of a young Brazilian man who died after being in Sydney earlier this year is still struggling to come to terms with his death. Roberto Laudisio Curti's friends and co-workers in Australia are al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoLONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - The euro slipped against the dollar on Thursday as Spanish and Italian bond yields surged, highlighting the risk of euro zone contagion ahead of Sunday's elections in Greece tha...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 17 hours agoEmi Nakamura, Jon Steinsson and Nicolas Vincent stand up for data collection .
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe cost to Spain of servicing its debts hit a critical level on Thursday after the country's latest credit rating downgrade and a blow to hopes of a resolution to the euro crisis. The interest rate on S...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 17 hours agoThe English Defence League appeared overnight as a movement to oppose the Islamification of England. The organisation was suspect from the outset, due to its strict allegiance to internationalism, and it...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 17 hours agoPress TV A renowned American political analyst says Israel gets away with numerous violations of international law as the Jewish entity is a client of the US and therefore enjoys “total impunity,” Press T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA machete used by a man who butchered his girlfriend to death was left with the haunting message 'This is what cheaters get' scrawled along the length of the blade. It was found alongside the mutilated bo...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 18 hours ago*Weekly Find: Hale and Hearty Falafel Mix!* I bought this mix a couple weeks back, just to try it out. And as much as I love falafel, I have to be honest, it sat in my cupboard untouched for some time. Un...
- Link: http://youtu.be/s2eZzyit3mg Finally an analysis that pays attention to the patchwork of old-fashioned nation-states that Europe is. The Euro-Crisis regarding spending and overspending a single curren...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe daughter of a woman whose charred bones were found three years after she vanished has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Lois Hounslea, 21, was arrested by detectives investigating the death of Pa...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 18 hours ago*Under government plans Facts of internet use in the UK will have to be stored for a year to allow police force and intelligence services to access it*. According to Rachel Robinson, policy officer for Lib...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo drug addicts have been found guilty of murdering a transvestite and keeping his rotting body in a suitcase in a squalid flat for several weeks. Big Issue sellers Tracy Hurrell, 32, and David Hardman, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoScientists have discovered a methane-rich tropical lake and several ponds near the equator of Saturn's largest moon Titan. Lakes were previously spied near Titan's polar regions but it was previously bel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA frail woman was battered to death with a hammer after her killer tricked his way into her home by posing as a volunteer from the charity Age UK, a court heard yesterday. Judith Richardson, 77, was murd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe head of NATO has added his voice to calls for Libyan authorities to release detained Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and her colleagues. In Canberra for talks with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and ot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA tornado ploughed through Venice on Tuesday uprooting trees, tearing roofs off homes and shredding the city's famous gondolas. In pictures captured by amateur photographers, a dark black twister can be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLance Armstrong could be stripped of his seven Tour De France victories and banned for life from cycling after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) brought offical doping charges against the legendary athle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThere are few physical feats left in the world that nobody has ever dared attempt, but tomorrow one of them can be struck off the list when Nik Wallenda steps out on a 2 in-thick steel cable to make a 1,8...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA bug that normally gives children the sniffles could help fight cancer. Researchers are hopeful that reovirus, which usually causes mild colds or stomach upsets, has the power to shrink tumours. The vir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoCredit downgrades for Spain and Cyprus and worries about elections in Greece this weekend rattled investors on the Australian share market today, with banks, miners and energy stocks among the major loser...
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