The planetary nebula Messier 57, also known as the Ring Nebula, in the constellation Lyra. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Map of Cygnus giant molecular cloud. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Composite image showing young stars in and around molecular cloud Cepheus B. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Cederblad 214 and NGC 7822 Nebulae (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: An easterly view down Main Street in downtown Johnson City, Tennessee. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
10:02 pm MDST- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 minute ago*Yes, in the click-through we're going to hear Callas, in what I think of as one of her great recordings.* *by Ken* I'm not being intentionally mysterious . . . okay, I guess I am, but not * gratuitously* ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 38 minutes agoPresident Obama announced a new DHS directive ending deportation of young undocumented immigrants. It's a small and temporary fix but it's the best he could accomplish against intractable GOP obstructio...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 46 minutes ago“Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region lies abo...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoBy Klee Benally Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com French translation: http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=806 Ya'a'teh, Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming support! The Judge's ruling co...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour agoI have long said that as a true student of real history, I am sickened by the lies that are being taught to our children in our failed education system... It has therefore been one of my primary goals to b...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour agoJudges are amiable people. They make good golf partners and interesting dinner guests. As a group they are well educated, intelligent and polite. But they are not legislators and are not the voice of the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.” - Seneca
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoJohnson City, Tennessee, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Drone Me Down on the Killing Floor"* by Pepe Escobar "Lord knows, I should'a been gone Lord knows, I should'a been gone And I wouldn't've been here, down on the killin' floor..." - Howlin' W...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 2 hours agoFriday, June 15, 2012 Portal 2012 Posted by Cobra MAKE THIS VIRAL! WORLD LIBERATION MOVEMENT (Weekly Liberation Meditations) After the great success of World Liberation Day and even greater success ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoIt's about time. A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has upheld a terminally ill woman's right to physician-assisted suicide. Justice Lynn Smith held the ban to be discriminatory and unconstitutional....
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Plus: A right-wing slug in the Rose Garden hijacks a presidential statement* *The Daily Show with Jon Stewart* Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours agoProtect Sogorea Te (Glen Cove) No Celebration for Desecration – Saturday, June 16th http://protectglencove.org/2012/no-celebration-for-desecration/ Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Taking them long enough. * "Irish leader urges vote for EU treaty" Associated Press, May 28, 2012 DUBLIN - Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland made a nationally televised appeal Sunday to voters to supp...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Yes, that is the **purpose** ** of my newspaper. * "Israeli Parliament rejects legalizing some West Bank houses; Move clears way for removal of five buildings" by Isabel Kershner | New York Times, Jun...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 4 hours agoQuick, pick the smartest one in the room. Oh, sure. This should work out just fine. In between Brother Dumbfuck referring to Rob's wife as "the Polack" (hey, who knows? Maybe there are some "coons," "h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"March Of The Drones"* Map reveals 66 military bases for unmanned aircraft on American soil... and 22 more on the way. by The Daily Mail "The US military operates 66 bases for unmanned drone aircraf...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 5 hours agoThis is not for the squeamish. But since many of you wanted photos here it is. This is my right leg this morning. The blister has popped and is draining some awful looking fluid. My leg frankly looks l...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago*Levee breach sites rejected for National Register of Historic Places* *The Keeper’s Response to our Appeal and our Assessment ~Levees.org*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"We Don’t Need No Education"* By Paul Krugman "Hope springs eternal. For a few hours I was ready to applaud Mitt Romney for speaking honestly about what his calls for smaller government actually mean...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours agoWatch Scott Noble's new film, *"The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and The Rise of the National Security State."* Reviews *(from the official site of the film)*: "A gripping, deeply informative account...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 6 hours agoWhen people ask me why someone with my education and background has had such a difficult time obtaining long-term employment (with or without benefits) in the last five years, I've generally responded by c...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.15.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Forget about the Greek Elections because, in the end, Greece still has to pay its bills. There probably will not be any one party that ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMOSCOW — The chief of Russia’s state-controlled arms exporter said Friday that his company was shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoAt PP, I noted again how wrong I've been about the public option, and called out liberal activists for forgetting about it. Seriously: I'm baffled that the liberal favorite in a contested primary in Hawaii...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Now what could these 2 gonifs have in common?* I think when most people think about corruption they think about predatory crooks and lone wolves like Bernie Madoff or, to stay current, Rajat Gupta, anoth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWASHINGTON — The United States is "troubled" that Egypt's top court has ordered parliament to be dissolved, and is studying the implications of the move, the State Department said Friday. "We are trouble...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSunday's Greek election is a choice between staying in the euro and going back to the drachma, the leader of the centre-right New Democracy party has told a final campaign rally in Athens. The general el...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMURPHY -- A large wildfire known as the "Con Shea Fire" is currently burning out of control four miles north of Murphy, Idaho on the south side of the Snake River. The fire is thought to have originated a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFirefighters continued to build containment lines around the Round Mountain Complex fire Thursday night just east of Tularosa on U.S. Highway 70, Otero County emergency services coordinator Paul Quairoli ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA lightning strike was the apparent cause of an explosion and major fire at the JBS plant in Grand Island Thursday night. Grand Island Fire Department was called at approximately 7:50 p.m. with reports o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSEABROOK, N.H. (AP) — An ammonium hydroxide spill of less than a gallon in a stockroom at NextEra Energy Inc.'s nuclear power plant in Seabrook, N.H. required the plant to declare an "unusual event," the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe people of North West River and Sheshatshiu are being told to pack their bags and get ready to hit the road as a forest fire encroaches on the Labrador communities. The province issued an evacuation no...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck NORTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 1.1 km (0.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:07:06 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) North from The Geysers, Ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck NEVADA at a depth of 7.5 km (4.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:51:58 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) Northwest from Beatty, Nevada No Report...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoIt's remarkable how diametrically opposite conclusions may be reached by various people when they look at the very same data. Sean Carroll talks about Sid Meier's *Civilization I-V*, a famous series of c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 19 km (11.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:27:22 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 212 km (131 miles) ESE of ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 7 hours agoMy husband is extremely musical and it's very important to me and him to have our daughter be musical as well. In our family, we have a rule that she must play the piano until she is good enough to acco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSOMA, Fukushima -- A fishing cooperative association conducted test fishing off the coast here on June 14 with a goal of restarting commercial fishing in the area for the first time in 15 months since the ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoFashion TV is renowned for its occasional nipple slips but now some kind people have put them all together for you on YouTube so you don't have to spend hours waiting! and and
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agofour lovely photo realist PAINTINGS by Alyssa Monks
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe long chase is over. Some 17 years and three months after the AUM Shinrikyo cult launched its deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, Katsuya Takahashi -- the final fugitive in the terroris...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoVANCOUVER—The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that a terminally ill woman is allowed to have a doctor-assisted suicide. Story here The stunning decision Friday gives Gloria Taylor, a 64-year-old woman with ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 9 hours agoCounterfeit drugs are dangerous. A patient taking it may develop new diseases as the original illness is not cured and may have evolved into something more serious inside the patient's body. Here are two ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Spain should not rush to cut its public deficit at a time of extreme economic weakness, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, while urging Europe to take action to prevent a banking c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoComments by UN commander in Syria General Robert Mood suggest escalating violence is putting his mission at risk. UN monitors could be forced to abandon their mission in Syria in the face of escalating vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoQueensland will be taken over by feral pests and crocodiles if it does not follow the lead of its trigger-happy neighbours, outspoken federal MP Bob Katter says. His comments come after the federal gover...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoKOLKATA (AFP) - A female Indian athlete who won a gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games appeared in court on Friday charged with raping her former lover who has alleged that she is actually a man. Pinki Pra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCAIRO — A controversial court decision on the eve of Egypt's second round presidential vote gives the nation's army the means to keep its key political role and challenge the Muslim Brotherhood, analysts ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Seven months after Occupy Wall Street's eviction from Zuccotti Park, the round-the-clock encampment in lower Manhattan that was once the movement's center, one protester has created his own ve...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*Arizona Wilder* *1.* For a few years, an American woman known as *Arizona Wilder* claimed to have have presided over hideous blood rituals for the lizard people who govern our planet. "Gra...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 10 hours ago*"It would be some consolation for the feebleness of our selves and our works if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoMallorca looks like a fun place to go!
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoMany Liberals, displaying the stubborn arrogance that moved their party from Sussex Drive to Stornoway to Motel 6 in just three election cycles, are fawning all over Justin Trudeau as a party leadership...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoIn light of the horror show taking place in Ottawa, this would be the perfect time to post notes from "Can We Stop the Harper Agenda," the big panel discussion at Marxism 2012. However, I'm waiting to get ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoNBC's First Read, which is Chuck Todd (who I often think is quite good) and others; my emphasis added: Another thing that struck us about yesterday’s dueling speeches by Obama and Romney: their selective ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*Photo of Obama falling asleep on the job. * ** To win in November, Barack Obama is giving boring speeches around the country to put the rest of America in a state of sleep until November 5th. Read t...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoFor those that haven't seen the news, three G4S armoured car employees were tragically shot to death last night at my alma mater, the University of Alberta. A fourth remains in critical condition. Footage s...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoWednesday I went downtown to meet a Democratic candidate, Lee Rogers. I was surprised when I walked into his office and met a Republican-- a Republican who had been running against Buck McKeon, the Republ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) and its lead underwriters Morgan Stanley (MS.N), Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) have requested that shareholder lawsuits over its $16 billio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Manufacturing output contracted in May for the second time in three months and families took a dimmer view of their economic prospects in early June in signs the American economy's recovery is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTAKEBI, Myanmar (Reuters) This village in northwest Myanmar has the besieged air of a refugee camp. It is clogged with people living in wooden shacks laid out on a grid of trash-strewn lanes. Its children...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoKwassuh and children/Photo Kwassuh Wildlife officials arrest and jail Northern Paiute hunter/gatherer By Kwassuh, Wesley Dick Kwassuh/Toi-Ticutta/Numa/Nevada Censored News http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/201...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago*Website for this image -Damascus, Syria. 1900-1920.* * * In Syria, "There were reliable reports about deadly attacks against government forces by well armed perpetrators, allegedly foreign financed, as e...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 11 hours agoI'm feeling like the blog's just a little too much "all about me" lately, but hey, it's a big week. The Times Colonist team I was part of won the Michener Award on Wednesday for its coverage over two years...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Financial Times) -- At least one country will leave the eurozone in the next five years, according to a survey of central bank reserve managers who collectively control more than $8,000bn. The results of...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoAmerica's historic bread basket, the Great Plains, is just about finished. Like the Canadian prairie, the Great Plains was a massive expanse of grassland inhabited by migratory creatures and native tr...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTokyo (CNN) -- Japanese authorities arrested the last fugitive suspected in a deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, police said Friday. He was caught in front of a comic book cafe in Tokyo aft...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours agoFacebook find of the morning. Conveys much in one simple image. I still remember reading the NYC newspapers as a young kid. Every week there were stories of women who died alone in dirty alleys from bot...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoListen to internet radio with NationalProgressiveTalkRadio on Blog Talk Radio This is the chat I had with Lee Camp on NTPR a few days ago about Occupy. I come in at exactly 24 minutes in (you can fast fo...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoTo Matt Yglesias, for something that we've seen many time before but is always worth pointing out: that, as he puts it, "only a fool would outline a credible specific plan to reduce the deficit" because Am...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoCan China create the next Steve Jobs? The New Yorker discusses a quasi-official Chinese attempt to find the next Steve Jobs--a sort of * Apprentice* with less Donald Trump and more pseudo-Confucian standard...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 12 hours agoDrip, drip, drip. Some leaker just leaked to Reuters that the drone strike and Obama Kill List leaks are not part of the leak investigation. This is because the CIA, which ostensibly is in charge of the d...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012* *Joan Walsh explains Ronald Reagan:* Do our liberal intellectual leaders actually know what they’re talking about? The question popped into our heads when we read this report by Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(CNN) -- China will launch its historic space docking mission Saturday along with its first female astronaut in space. Liu Yang has been selected to join two male astronauts, Jing Haipeng and Liu Wang, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBerlin (CNN) -- The story of the so-called Forest Boy -- a riddle that has perplexed people in Germany and elsewhere for months -- is a lie, police in Germany said Friday. The 20-year-old hoaxer, who cla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Euro 2012 soccer championship is embroiled in further racist frenzy, as Gdansk’s deputy mayor calls the Polish host city’s residents “normal civilized white people.” Andrzej Bojanowski, the deputy ma...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoA friend noted a certain absence on wmtc and wondered if perhaps I'm not thrilled about turning 51. I do usually announce my birthday here! I didn't this year because (a) it seemed inappropriate to put up ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCNN talked with Jay Newton-Small, who recently reported for TIME magazine on some of the technology help the U.S. is giving the Syrian rebels. Here's an edited version of that conversation. CNN: What did ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(CNN) -- The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria says the increasing violence across the country is impeding his group's work, and he urged all parties to give the U.N.-backed peace mission a chan...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 12 hours ago*American Scofflaw* Obama has committed an impeachable offense (Although it is a give Congress will not act). The President's job as the "Executive" is to enforce the laws, not to proudly proclaim that he...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoThe Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station was Tepco’s first nuclear plant. The plant was built in the 1960s by Ebasco, an American general contractor that no longer exists. Reactors one through five at...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 12 hours agoBushStole04 Bob Fitrakis If vote-rigging prospers, none may call it vote-rigging. It simply becomes the new norm. Once again, the universal laws of statistics apply only outside U.S. borders. The recall ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoColin Kahl sent me a list of recent work he's done on the US-Iran standoff. The first is a CNAS report, *Risk and Rivalry: Iran, Israel, and the Bomb *( PDF). The abstract: As Iran's nuclear progress conti...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoHalifax (Regional Municipality) v. Canada (Public Works and Government Services, 2012 SCC 29, released a few moments ago, has a good summary of the law regarding the standard of reasonableness review: [4...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoAs if controversies over graphic sex, gratuitous nudity and rat torture weren't enough, now this. Yep, that's George W. Bush's head on a spike, in the *Game of Thrones* Season 1 scene where Joffrey tormen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(CNN) -- Egypt's presidential runoff begins Saturday, even as the country teeters on the edge of renewed chaos after a court ruling that dissolved the country's parliament and raised questions about wheth...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Panetta meets Zahid in Singapore, June 2012.* US-Malaysia ties to soar United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has been meeting Ahmad Zahid, Malaysia's defence minister. "During the meeting, both...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) *You can’t help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can’t help but wonder how they’d've operated these times… The crime you see now, it’s ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012* *While Romney goes uncorrected:* What counts as news in the New York Times? We were struck by a pair of reports which sit side-by-side on today’s front page. One of these reports...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*Postponement:* Tomorrow, the kula ring
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 13 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 117 km (72.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:04:50 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) East of Bitung, Moluccas, In...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck LAKE BAYKAL REGION, RUSSIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:46:19 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30.4 miles) Southeast of Kich...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 13 hours ago[image: NorthCrossJune012__104] The NY Times offered a rare piece in an Establishment newspaper: one that pointed out that the US and China are on a collision course. Unfortunately, basing its argument on ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago*ThirtyDashThirty: Times-Picayune Employee Assistance Fund * *The Levee offers levity amid T-P disaster ~Kandace Graves, Gambit * *Nice angle on T-P bloodletting from Mark Loundy of the National Press Pho...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoAP Photo Indigenous Peoples Denounce Green Economy and REDD+ as Privatization of Nature TIME: 10:00 a.m. DAY: Friday, 15 June 2012 PLACE: Clube de Engenhara, Avenida Rio Branco 124-18 andar Indigenous Peop...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoIn case you haven't done so already, please read and sign this petitionfrom Amnesty International, about Canadian Hamid Ghassemi-Shall. It's a terrible story, and we may not be able to save Ghassemi-Shall's...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 14 hours agoCouple of things up front: I am not a lawyer. And I have not polled other DJ!ers on this. I'm speaking solely for myself. I have no dog (so to speak) in this fight beyond my status as Internet user: blo...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Ice Cube, 43. The link is to the imdb page, not the All Music page...could have gone either way, but wanted to mention that I don't think I ever got around to writing a post about Three K...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours agoI am going to be updating this post...stay tuned *Updates at Bottom * The U.S. military has completed its own planning for how American troops would conduct a variety of operations against Syria, or to as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA federal agency charged with preventing the spread of infectious diseases has come under attack for 'serious' airflow problems in one of their buildings that houses anthrax, SARS and monkeypox. The Cent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe owner of a string of martial arts schools killed himself at his Fort Lauderdale home early Monday, days before local police were to file charges he sexually molested an associate. Stephen LaVallee, 5...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoWith even Scott Walker distancing himself from Romney's extreme anti-public employee pronouncements, several Romney surrogates have doubled down on plutocracy's nominee's insistence that America needs few...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe US military operated 66 bases for unmanned drone aircraft on American soil and has 22 more planned across the country. A new map released by Public Intelligence, a nonprofit group dedicated publishin...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA high school student who was kayaking for the first time saved a man from drowning after he plunged into the Chicago River. Emmanuel Gonzalez, 17, was in the water with his girlfriend when they heard pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoStunning video shows hail the size of baseballs cutting a swath through North Texas causing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage. The weather system which hit on Wednesday smashed everything fr...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoI remember. In Quebec, the phrase has always captured a sense of grievance, which goes back to the Plains of Abraham. But, stamped on the bottom of Quebec license plates, it has come to stand for more t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA suburban Chicago couple is behind bars and their five children are in protective custody after two of them were discovered blindfolded and with their limbs bound in the parking lot of a Walmart, police ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago*R v Gardipy*, 2012 SKCA 58 is a recent Saskatchewan decision with a helpful summary of the reliability indicia for the principled approach to the hearsay rule: [16] Sean’s statement clearly constitutes...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoThe ALEC ethos of lies and misleading statements is at work again - this time in Florida. They must chant something like this as the ALEC pledge of allegiance: Remember to word it carefully - so that the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoParts of California's scenic Yosemite National Park will close for good after geologists confirmed that tourists and employees are in danger from possible giant falling boulders from Glacier Point. Eight...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoJune 15, 2012 - On June 14th, for the second day in a row, sunspot AR1504 erupted and hurled a CME toward Earth. The quickly-moving (1360 km/s) cloud is expected to sweep up a preceding CME and deliver a...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoThe EEOC, in a landmark decision, has declared that Title VII protects transgendered employees under its prohibition against sex discrimination. This ruling isn't too surprising considering that gender ste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe main challenger to the pro-bailout parties in Sunday's Greek elections has promised to rip up the agreements with the country's international creditors. But Alexis Tsipras, leader of the radical lef...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 15 hours agoWell, to no one's surprise, despite the symbolic, peaceful protests, the harpercons' Bill C-38 passed the House of Commons. Canadians are a busy people. Just because our present inhabitants of government p...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours agoPioneering Texas journalist Ronnie Dugger in the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, Friday, June 8, 2012, during broadcast of Rag Radio. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio: Crusading journalist Ronni...
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- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours agoCultureMap Austin's top political bloggers: Above, The Rag Blog's Thorne Dreyer, photo by James Retherford. Inset, below, from the top: Rachel Farris, photo by Wildhouse Photography; Harold Cook, courtesy of...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoA couple of days ago I reported on an article that was out there trying to defend ALEC. *∞ ∞ ∞ ∞∞ ∞ *** In that post I noted the following items: Mr. Frizzell also said the Common Cause whistle-blower sui...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 16 hours ago*Grilled Squid Salad! * It's summer (or it's supposed to be, but with this London weather we're not feeling it so much!), so the need for summery foods is essential! This grilled squid salad is delicious...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFacebook is asking each of its more than 900million active users to provide it with their mobile phone number. The move is part of a drive to improve security on Facebook, and comes in the wake of much-p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA teenager paraded naked through a Tesco store and karate-kicked a policeman in the face after taking the £10 legal high Benzo Fury, a court heard yesterday. Katie Wilson, 19, spoke of her shame after sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Central banks from Tokyo to London checked their ammunition on Friday in preparation for any turmoil from Greece's election, with the European Central Bank hinting at an interest rate cut and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMOSCOW — Russia on Friday denied holding discussions with other nations on a political transformation in its Soviet-era ally Syria that would include the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. Foreign M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES at a depth of 638 km (395.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:04:22 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45.8 miles) South of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAs Chris Brown is reportedly questioned by police over his involvement in a New York City nightclub brawl over Rihanna, Drake has moved to deny 'any wrongdoing' in the fight that left Brown with a ghastly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago"The forest boy known previously as 'Ray' has been identified as Robin van Helsum. from the Dutch town of Hengelo, Dutch police confirmed Friday morning." (Germany's The Local) It took only about two day...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours agoOriginal French Text: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/hpq5u1 This Sunday, June 10, 2012, I attempted to take part in a protest-action: over the course of a few hours, I would take the metro back and forth...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoA 'criminal's' mug shot -- King was more than just words People of faith perform corporal works of mercy. Remember that next time someone suggests otherwise -- people of faith can be liberals and care a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe boy who said he spent five years in a German forest is Robin Helsum from Hengelo. School Contemporaries recognized the 20-year-old boy who disappeared last year from pictures that the police of Berlin...
- 2012 LZ1 Asteroid the size of a city block hurtles past Earth (it was 'just' 3.35million miles away)
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA giant asteroid that astronomers have compared to the size of a city block flew past Earth in the early hours of this morning. The chunk of space rock - dubbed 2012 LZ1 - is up to 700metres wide and pas... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA burglar who was jailed for three-and-a-half years threatened his victims from behind bars - with a Facebook warning that 'your time is coming'. While serving time at HMP Dartmoor, Lee Fitchett wrote, wit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThree men in Tennessee have notched up a staggering 78 children by 46 different women between them - and are doing their best to squirm out of paying for a single one. Terry Turnage has 23 children with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAn Indonesian man was jailed for 30 months after writing "God doesn't exist" on his Facebook page. Alexander Aan, 30, was imprisoned on Thursday for sharing explicit material about the Prophet Mohammed o...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 17 hours ago*"I want to work with people who have relevant experience in our neighborhoods, whose kids go to the same schools mine do, and who believe in the self-determination of all communities. I do not appreciat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA light aircraft in Colorado has crashed onto the appropriately named Cessna Drive, coming to a rest at the base of the road sign. The propeller craft lost power immediately after take-off from Erie Muni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIran has arrested the killers of two of its nuclear scientists, as the row continues over claims that Israel and the U.S. 'sabotaged' the country's controversial nuclear program. The suspects are accused...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPaedophile: PCSO Gary Hastings 48, had helped to organise school days warning children of the danger of strangers A PCSO who helped organise 'stranger danger' days for school children has today being jai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a man was found in a canal in Manchester city centre. Police were called to Canal Street on Saturday afternoon, after a body wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice say DNA results confirm that the body parts mailed to two Vancouver schools last week belong to the Chinese student who was killed and dismembered in Montreal. Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck PAKISTAN at a depth of 18.8 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:36:22 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (88 miles) WNW from Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA man accused of masquerading as a Church of England vicar today appeared in court charged with defrauding charities to the tune of £25,000. George Gordon, 51, who was known as ‘the Reverend’, allegedly si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHorrific attack: Munir Ahmad, 39, pictured, was cut with a kitchen knife by Luke Sheldon, 17, after making him drive to an industrial estate This is the horrific injury inflicted on a taxi driver when his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 165.1 km (102.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:35:21 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) Northwest from Kuril'sk,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThis image is believed to show the Foxconn worker preparing to jump from a dormitary building on June 13. Another worker at Apple supplier Foxconn leapt to his death yesterday, the first apparent suicide...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGerman chancellor Angela Merkel rejected any quick solution to the eurozone's deepening debt crisis as counterproductive. She said Europe must instead pursue the 'Herculean task' of closer political inte...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"Always, the strong carry the weak, the rich carry the poor, the healthy carry the sick, and the happy carry the sad. And whether or not they remember it, this was once their promise, to thank those who...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFamous feckless father Keith MacDonald, known to the public having allegedly sired 15 children with 14 women is being sought by police for attacking his ex-partner. He was given the nickname ‘Sunderland ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the BISMARCK SEA at a depth of 17.4 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:43:30 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 180 km (111 miles) SSW of Lorengau, Manus Is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPeople in Washington D.C. have been buzzing about what they thought was a UFO atop a flatbed truck on the Capitol Beltway. Turns out the disc-shaped object was just a run-of-the-mill military drone. MyFo...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours agoDr. Tarpley discusses the latest on Syria. Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV - Tarpley.net June 15, 2012
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours agoThis is my article today in TV5's news portal, http://www.interaksyon.com/article/34803/fat-free-economics-p2-trillion-of-taxes-new-debts The main preoccupation of governments almost anywhere is to spend-s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoHip-hop rivals Chris Brown and Drake turned a New York City nightclub into a war zone that sent four innocent bystanders to the hospital early Thursday when they started a brutal brawl over the pop music ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 20 hours agoSounds like a robbery gone bad: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/touch/story.html?id=6786020 Three employees of an armoured vehicle company were shot and killed at the University of Alberta early Friday m...
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