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English: Helianthus californicus in Riverside County, California, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 minute agoMany civil society organizations (CSOs) leaders remain unfriendly to the idea of moving society from more government to less government via more CSOs and voluntary groups. Below is one of the debates I've ...
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A bat discovered last week tested positive for rabies, officials say The discovery of a dead bat in Riverside County Tuesday afternoon brought the number of recent dead bat incidents in the region to three... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
Authorities are warning boat users and swimmers to keep their distance from protected marine animals after a dead fur seal was found on a Melbourne beach. The animal was discovered on Black Rock Beach on... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes ago
TERNATE, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — Hundreds of residents in northeastern Indonesia fled their homes on Wednesday after a brief eruption at Mount Gamkonora, spewing towering columns of ash and smoke and prompt... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Prime Minister David Cameron has delivered a strong rebuke to Argentina's claims to the Falklands, saying that Britain was not prepared to play a "game of global monopoly" with the islands and that they wo... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes ago
Germany cannot save the euro single-handedly, Angela Merkel has warned, expressing her growing anger over British, American and G20 demands that she does more to tackle the eurozone debt crisis. The Germ... - posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 17 minutes agoSo, I was listening to "Prison Song" by System of a Down and I had an epiphany about stephen harper's irrational vendetta against the safe injection site INSITE: So to sum up, heaps of evidence suggest...
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The peace process in Afghanistan is "certainly not in reverse", Foreign Secretary William Hague has said. But Mr Hague, who is in Kabul for a conference on Afghanistan's future, said it was "a difficult ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by violent clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma's north-western Rakhine state, officials say. Htein Lin, security and border affairs minister for ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 minutes ago(Reuters) - The Syrian town of Haffeh was smouldering and nearly deserted on Thursday after days of clashes between government forces and rebels, while activists reported more army assaults on pro-opposit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes agoCHICAGO — Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in jail for a $7 billion Ponzi scheme Thursday, closing the book on the flamboyant ex-tycoon's stunning fall from grace. Th...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 46 minutes agoFAILS in relation to cost. AND this will probably the first of many reports like this!!! The experiment of the free market - pushed on us by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and their ma...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 52 minutes ago*“Nonetheless, although the respondents come close to asserting – but do not quite assert – that “anything goes” in these types of exchanges, is that the case in law? Do different legal considerations ap...
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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a man was found in a canal. Police were called to Canal Street in Manchester city centre where they made the discovery on Satu... - posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
In the beginning of June the world woke up to a new era: The United States admitted to using cyberweapons. Citing unnamed sources, the New York Times published a lengthy article, discussing U.S. use of c... - posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour agoIntelHub The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt has announced that Egypt’s lower house of parliament must be dissolved following a court verdict which determined a hastily considered election law was i...
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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck WESTERN TURKEY at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:06 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24.2 miles) South of Fethiye, Turkey No ... - posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 hour agoFor the first time in United States history, a practicing Mormon appears to have secured the nomination for President in a major political party. Mormons have always been politically active. Founder Jos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 ...
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Nerve-wracked students often go to extremes around exam time - marathon library sessions, expensive study guides, cheating - but one young man has taken test preparedness to an entirely new level. Accordi... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago*Baca, with the Golf Channel's Michael Breed, comes to life* This spring, avid golfers were furious at 4 holier-than-thou teabagger congressmen-- Justin Amash (R-MI), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Reid Ribble (R...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour agoThis delightful couple of self-professed jihadis call the EDL's Tommy Robinson a "paedophile" - surely this is actionable, declare Israel a terrorist state - completely untrue, state that Israel want to w...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 hour agoThere's no indication that Obama's re-election team is behind any of the pot legalization initiatives, but there are Democrats who are hoping that it will boost turnout among weed's biggest fans: young pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 9 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:19:11 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (4.9 miles) East of Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunami Warn...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:15:14 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15.5 miles) East of Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunami Wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:54:12 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56.4 miles) South of Bambanglipuro, Jav...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 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 - 2 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...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012* *A testing boondoggle in Florida:* On Monday, Michael Winerip penned his final On Education column at the New York Times. He discussed a statewide testing snafu in Florida. In ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 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 - 2 hours ago*The good news is that progressive Canadians are not going to fall for this last gasp, desperate plea by 'Liberals' who would rather have Conservatives in power than New Democrats. 'Liberal / Tory .. sa...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 hours agoJust got a copy of this excellent book: Four Words of Wisdom
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 hours ago Photo by Michell Vignes/Alcatraz Occupation 'Reign of Terror' AIM Photo Exhibit June 15--30, 2012 By AIM-WEST Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ SAN FRANCISCO -- AIM-WEST, a non-profit ...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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! - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 hours agoEmi Nakamura, Jon Steinsson and Nicolas Vincent stand up for data collection .
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 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. - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 33-year-old Indonesian man has been charged with trying to sexually assault a nine-year-old NSW girl who was holidaying with her family in Bali. The girl was snatched from her bedroom about 9pm (local ti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA thug high on cannabis ripped a veil off the face of a Muslim woman in a violent unprovoked rage because the movie he wanted to see was not being shown, a court heard today. Ian Brazier, 26, tore off 26...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoAmong the editors of *Scientific American* whose names I can recognize, George Musser is the most reasonable one. *The relevance of this babe will be clarified below.* Nevertheless, I still find his r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMore than 100 armed police officers swooped on a home and engaged in a tense 19-hour stand off with a man armed to the teeth - with a bottle of Cillit Bang. But despite his kitchen arsenal of bleach-base...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 9 hours ago------------------------------ * * *Bob Fitrakis* *Wisconsin: None dare call it vote rigging * June 14, 2012 If vote-rigging prospers, none may call it vote-rigging. It simply becomes the new norm. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThis is the moment an angry punter punched a woman cashier twice in the face - because he lost a bet. Horrified gamblers could only watch as the man, wearing a green T-shirt, leaned over the counter that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA bogus GP who called himself the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ faces jail after he was found guilty yesterday of sexually assaulting four women. Antonio Gobbato, 51, used a cosmetic spatula to examine patients, and tol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Muslim mother faces a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of drugging and kidnapping her own daughter when she broke off an arranged marriage and secretly married another man. Shamim Akhtar, ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoI have just watched the most jaw-dropping piece of anti-Israel video, made in the UK. I need to check a few things before I post it here.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn the early hours of this morning, rows of police officers stood shoulder to shoulder, watching as a security firm moved in to evict Occupy London protesters from their seven-month stay in Finsbury Squar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA hero schoolboy who dived into a swollen river to save his six-year-old neighbour from drowning said he was just trying to be 'like my brave mum.' Policewoman's son Luke Pace, 12, leapt into action after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPlans for a hugely controversial ‘snoopers’ charter’ giving the police, security services and taxman the power to monitor the public’s every internet click will be unveiled today. Home Secretary Theresa ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Far Right party has threatened to remove immigrants and their children from hospitals and nurseries in Greece if it gains power following Sunday's general election. Golden Dawn issued the warning at an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA graphic new image shows the grisly scene just moments after the Miami cannibal was shot dead by police as he chewed off a homeless man's face. It shows Rudy Eugene lying naked in a pool of blood next to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEverybody laughed at the Yorkshire Building Society last year when it announced plans for a new savings accounts operated solely by using a passbook. In the days of the internet, surely nobody wanted a s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoVictoria's health commissioner says data showing hunger and thirst are to blame for more than three deaths a week in the state's hospitals doesn't necessarily indicate neglect. Freedom of Information figu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMore than 9,000 troops will take part in a military exercise starting in central Queensland next week. Exercise Hamel will be held at Shoalwater Bay, north of Rockhampton, over the next month. Brigadier...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDozens of prisoners are helping to fix damaged property and clear fallen trees and debris after wild weather struck the state's south west earlier this week. The Department of Corrective Services says it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAustralia's ambassador-designate to Libya has demanded authorities allow detained lawyer Melinda Taylor to call her parents in Brisbane. Overnight David Ritchie held a series of meetings with Libyan govern...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOn the 30th anniversary of the end of the Falklands war, Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will travel to the UN in New York to reassert her country’s claim to sovereignty over the isl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Government will today announce legislation leading to a huge expansion of surveillance powers of communications on the internet and mobile phones. The Communications and Data Bill will allow the poli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man has been shot dead and another has suffered serious injuries in a double street shooting in Liverpool. Merseyside Police are investigating the incident which happened in the Norris Green area in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the TURKEY-SYRIA-IRAQ BORDER REGION at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:52:54 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) Southwes...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoAny more need saying? Please take note BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, Richard Burden MP, George Galloway MP etc.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the TURKEY-SYRIA-IRAQ BORDER REGION at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:50:02 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) Southwest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck SALTA, ARGENTINA at a depth of 532.1 km (330.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:47:47 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) South of Tartagal, Salt...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoIt is always good to see questions long thought answered come under review with modern methods and produce much better answers that are also clearly much more convincing. It would be worthwhile ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoOne thing that is poorly understood about the sea is that the actual variation in oceanic ecosystem throughout the globe is rather small. If the surface temperature is too warm, one merely sinks...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoLet us have it right between the eyes. Our present diet is not optimal in producing the best breast milk for a developing infant. Our diets hardly optimal anyway in view of the obesity epidemic. ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThe good news is that a simple validation protocol is now available on a real time basis and does not necessitate expensive lab work. This is great as by the time it is obvious it is already risky...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 11 hours agoyou know me, I refuse to accept The Bible (or the Torah (or any such Holy Book)) as the "literal word of God". Why? Well, it's just too obvious and not even worth going into, frankly. But we can all a...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoThe president and his political director talk over in Nixon's executive office building office: -- Colson: You know, I've still got a memo here that I sent over to that gathering place across the street...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoNHK offers an interesting reference to unit 5. NHK: TEPCO studied huge tsunamis in in-house training http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120613_21.html [Excerpted] Tokyo Electric Power Company says it...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 12 hours agoPolice officers walk in Saturday’s Pride Parade. Below: Danielle Smith, Alan Hunsperger. Since she won’t apologize for remarks made by one of her candidates during the recent election campaign that many ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago*Damascus on the eve of war*. "In August 1914, most Germans regarded the armed conflict they were entering in spiritual terms. The war was above all an idea, not a conspiracy aimed at German territoria...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours agoSource of Picture: http://overmuch.blogspot.se/2008/10/genetically-engineered-food-safety.html Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Deaths from GM Corn *Corporation faces criminal charges for con...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 12 hours agoIs this the TIPPING POINT in the sheer mountain of legislation our Corporate Government has been quietly laying the foundation for since the military landline or *internet* was 'given away for free' to Y...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours agoSandra, killed by the CIA's terrorists in Homs in Syria. Website for this image Website for this image "The BBC’s World News editor, Jon Williams, began a June 7 blog emphasising ‘the complexity of the ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoThere are various interesting papers on the arXiv today, including new proposed models (based on NMSSM) for the 130 GeV Fermi gamma-ray line. One of the papers notices that the CP-odd Higgs mass is cutely ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoWow. I don't really have anything to say, but I have to post something about Matt Cain's perfect game. Just wow. Lucky for me, I was able to watch it on the Astros feed, and then I flipped over to MLB n...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 13 hours agoI read a great deal of fantastic stuff on the internet tubes I rarely get around to linking, apart from my Mike's Blog Roundup stints at Crooks and Liars. (Limited blogging time, alas.) Without slighting t...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tIyaNkJlzA&feature=youtu.be Brought to us by Nuckelchen This one is a must watch.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoJune 12, 2012 Ukraine’s Poisoned Past. The New York Times. By JERÉ LONGMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/sports/soccer/a-visit-to-chernobyl-which-some-athletes-can-recall-firsthand.html?pagewanted=1&_r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHigh Street retailers turned their backs on a leading internet game yesterday after an undercover investigation revealed sexual predators had used it to groom children. Tesco, WHSmith and Game all withdr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Government yesterday issued a glowing report on the Olympics coming in under budget – despite the cost being almost four times the original estimate. Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson said it was a ‘s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAny Londoner will tell you you can't leave your car for a minute without incurring the wrath of the capital's traffic wardens. One poor tourist learned today you risk more than a fine when you park illeg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoWhen he found travelers’ caravans had arrived on his land, Dave Dawson had two options. He could either alert the authorities and wait for the slow turning of the wheels of justice and officialdom. Or he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoImage Murdered: Steven Grisales, 21, was stabbed through the heart by a 15-year-old boy who had ripped off his tag just days earlier. The full extent of how thugs on electronic tags routinely breach their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoConflict stirs Cold War-style rhetoric; threat of rolling back US-Russia "reset." WASHINGTON/MOSCOW- An escalating crisis in Syria, echoing with Cold War-style recriminations, has badly frayed US-Russian...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoOn the Wednesday after the first Tuesday in November, Beltway insiders are going to get out of bed after a pretty sleepless night and they're all going to come to the same conclusion: "I should have know...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:08:12 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 195 km (123.9 miles) Southeast of Nari...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA at a depth of 5.9 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:17:15 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) North ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one perso...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoLean streets of Quito. Image from Lonely Planet. Sell on wheels: Pitching and rolling on the lean streets of Quito A man dressed as a circus clown boards a bus selling packs of magic candy, two for a doll...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIn June 2008, Sir Allen Stanford landed his helicopter on the turf at Lord's with a box full of cash and the world seemingly at his feet. Almost four years to the day he will sit in court in Texas facing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoOxfam is calling for an increase in the minimum wage to protect low income workers from dropping below the poverty line. The charity says that the rising cost of living, combined with falling wages, and ...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 15 hours agoAfter a few warm days we may actually get a big storm tonight. The forecast has been calling for thunderstorms the past few days but so far nothing has materialized. This photo doesn't quite do it jus...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Intense Mobile And Computer Use Leads To Sleep, Health Problems"* by Connie K. Ho "Technology can be addicting. You switch on your computer, log online, and are inundated by social media networks, e...
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