O cupimzeiro (Termite mound) - Fazenda do Lobo - Wolf's Farm - Brazil (Photo credit: de Paula FJ)
The Liberal Democrats: 'We've Done Some Redecorating...' (Photo credit: Byzantine_K)
Stornoway Harbour Historical (Photo credit: http://www.uhi.ac.uk/sustainable)
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Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario/Quebec (Photo credit: Rappzula)
Arizona wild cotton (Photo credit: treegrow)
Mallorca 2010 (Photo credit: Joel Greijer)
MAJDAL AL-SHAMS, ISRAEL - MAY 20: An Israeli army vehicle drives along the border fence between the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria on May 20, 2011 near the Druze village of Majdal al-Shams, Israel. The Golan Heights area was captured from Syria by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. On May 19, U.S. President Barack Obama called for a return to Israel's pre-1967 borders as part of a resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
MAJDAL AL-SHAMS, ISRAEL - MAY 20: Israeli soldiers patrol along the border fence between the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria on May 20, 2011 near the Druze village of Majdal al-Shams, Israel. The Golan Heights area was captured from Syria by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. On May 19, U.S. President Barack Obama called for a return to Israel's pre-1967 borders as part of a resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 12 minutes 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 - 20 minutes agoMallorca looks like a fun place to go!
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 29 minutes 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 - 40 minutes 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 - 43 minutes 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 - 50 minutes 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 - 56 minutes 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! - 1 hour 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 hours ago*Postponement:* Tomorrow, the kula ring
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 3 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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! - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 hours agoI am going to be updating this post...stay tuned The U.S. military has completed its own planning for how American troops would conduct a variety of operations against Syria, or to assist neighboring coun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 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 - 5 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! - 5 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 - 5 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 51.1 km (31.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:31:51 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) East f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck NORTHERN TEXAS at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:02:33 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) NNE of Cleburne, Texas No Reports...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRetired sheep farmer Nicholas Cordery, 62, who is accused of being involved in sex parties involving children and animals. He owned the bungalow where the sex parties are alleged to have taken place A co...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 10 hours agohere's a new article from site Bloody Disgusting showing (from a cutting room floor incident involving the opening scene of Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUS) an Elder Engineer. Just what the CORPORATE FUCK hap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMass protests are expected in Cairo later amid growing chaos in Egypt's transition to democracy on the eve of the country's crucial Presidential run-off vote. Revolutionary groups have called for a marc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:53:36 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) ESE of Salina Cruz, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck OFF THE COAST OF ARAUCANIA, CHILEN at a depth of 15.6 km (9.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:43:10 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 138 km (85 miles) WSW of L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the BANDA SEA at a depth of 316 km (195.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:16:25 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 305 km (189.1 miles) South of Ambon, Moluccas, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:12:14 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 166 km (102.9 miles) Southwest of P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 43.3 km (26.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:47 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) East o...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoIn Israel Muslims can own land, vote, be elected to the Knesset (Parliament), become judges; in short have the same rights as Jews. In the Palestinian Authority administered 'West Bank' this is not the cas...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoWhat is surprising here is just how fast the power industry is now jettisoning the coal industry. This could only happen if the long term supply situation was completely convincing. Coal was the...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThe obvious take home is to shift your diet away from milk fat in particular to start with and see if it does any good. This requires a lot of care in terms of processed food but we knew that a...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoIn the end remnants of the great mammoth herds were plausibly hunted into extinction if only through the successful killing of young animals. Yet the real killer was the comet blast around 12900...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThis a pretty straight forward proposition and it is easily shown to hold up. As birds became more agile, they went after the obvious food supply as they do today. In fact, the presence of a hug...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 11 hours agoThis one's been running through my head for the past couple of weeks. Here's a live version from their KCRW session. (It's good, but I like the stronger harmonies on the studio version.)
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago* “In Praise of the Enlightenment”* by Chet Raymo "In an essay "Why Religion," the poet Czeslaw Milosz tells us that he lived at a time when human imagination was dramatically changing. Heaven and Hell...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoAmericans saw wealth plummet 40 percent from 2007 to 2010, Federal Reserve says. By Ylan Q. Mui, Published: June 11The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fed-americans-wealth-d...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago“Nearby and bright, spiral galaxies M65 (top) and M66 stand out in this engaging cosmic snapshot. The pair are just 35 million light-years distant and around 100,000 light-years across, about the size of ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago*Terrorists and propagandists hide behind the innocence of children. Real humanitarians leave children out of conflicts.* Getting rid of Assad and bombing Syria with U.S. drones is the new pet cause o...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoMainichi: U.S. senator hopes Japan, U.S. split quake debris removal costs http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120615p2g00m0dm041000c.html [Excerpted] "According to an estimate by Japan's E...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoDharmasyd and Heart of the Rose posted this at Enenews. Must watches from a year ago today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBuq-PFaIXQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mHbw_67OuY&feature=plcp Meanwhile, ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 11 hours agoComing soon to a political website near you: Alberta Diary’s new look. Below: Author David Climenhaga. (Alberta bloggers may not be exactly as illustrated … any more.) Alberta Diary started out as a pers...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago*The world's first tax on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser was introduced by The Australian online retailer Kogan.com.* The charge is set to 6.8% - 0.1% for every month since the IE7 launch....
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoThe dock that washed ashore in Oregon is 66 feet long and covered with an estimated ton of marine life. Photo courtesy: Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation A Japanese dock that ripped from its moori...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Anders Breivik* In an alleged statement to police, read out to the court in Norway, Wenche Breivik, the mother of Anders Breivik, allegedly indicated that she was terrified of Anders Breivik when he wa...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoWomen using the water pack. Photo courtesy: © Back the Pack Water has long been an issue with me. I believe everyone should have reasonable access to fresh, clean water without fear of rape, beatings or ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe mother who beat her three-year-old son while allegedly high on 'bath salts' was photographed running naked through the street - moments before police used a Taser to subdue her. Pamela McCarthy, 35, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA feud between rival gangs responsible for the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones is feared to have erupted with the killing of a crimelord in Liverpool. Joe Thompson, 30, had been a leading member of the no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA 21-year-old computer hacker has been jailed for three years for masterminding a scam which enabled £27million of fraud to be committed. Jay Moore set up fake shopping website Freshshop to ‘farm’ credit ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFamilies saw their biggest fall in income for three decades last year – as those on benefits received increased payments. Official figures released yesterday show that typical weekly household income in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHe is familiar to viewers of Watchdog as one half of the motorbike-riding team of investigators who chase down unscrupulous tradesmen and bring them to justice. Now Dan Penteado, who co-hosts the Rogue T...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoI, and others, in this the real so called "truth movement" have always been puzzled by the sheer ignorance and blindness by the general public to what is actually going on in our world, and exactly WHO is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN PERU at a depth of 202.1 km (125.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:33:05 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 77 km (47 miles) Southeast of Puno, Peru No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNato's Secretary-General has urged the release of four International Criminal Court (ICC) delegates detained in Libya amid a conflict over who should be responsible for the trial of Muammar Gaddafi's son....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoState department acknowledges Damascus already owned attack helicopters, cited by Hillary Clinton as escalating violence The US state department has acknowledged that Russian helicopters it claimed had be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoVoting in the run-off for Egypt's landmark presidential election over Saturday and Sunday should have marked the final stage in the country's tumultuous democratic transition following last year's popular...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe government has published plans to force internet service providers to retain data on all online communications made by UK citizens, including those on popular social sites such as Facebook and Twitter....
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 14 hours agoPhoto courtesy: © prb10111 - awol In 2006, there were possibly as many as 15 northern white rhino left in the wild; and, spearheaded by renowned conservationist Lawrence Anthony, a strong movement to prot...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoTuesday one of the 9 conservatives the Blue Dogs are trying to slip into the Democratic House caucus was defeated-- Arkansas state Rep. Clark Hall, who went down (and went down ugly) to Scott Ellington. T...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoA new PR firm, and a slick green hoax, are aimed at the theft of Navajo water rights and keeping one of the nation's dirtiest coal fired power plants polluting on Navajoland. By Brenda Norrell Censored New...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(Reuters) - The government and central bank will flood Britain's banking system with more than 100 billion pounds ($155.43 billion), seeking to pump credit through an economy struggling to escape recession...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA second man has died from an outbreak of legionnaires' disease in Edinburgh. The man, in his 40s, was from the Gorgie area of Edinburgh, which is in the centre of the area affected. Sky News understan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTony Blair has been heckled by an anti-war protester, who attempted to make a citizen's arrest on the former PM as he gave a speech at the University of Hong Kong. The protest comes a week after Mr Blai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the FIJI REGION at a depth of 459.4 km (285.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:05:03 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 218 km (136 miles) Northwest from NUKU'ALOF...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:14:11 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47.1 miles) Southeast of Pundaguit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:51:29 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) WNW of Korla, Xinj...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoALABAMA – 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA CITY URBAN AREA, OKLAHOMA at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 20:24:26 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) NW of OKLAHO...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:21:51 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5.6 miles) East of Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunami War...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agocouldn't help myself. Maybe some of you remember the Marlboro man. Found this: Altria's main brands, Marlboro, represents four of every 10 cigarettes bought and smoked in the US, Reynolds has an impressi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 56.5 km (35.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:17:24 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (137 miles) Northwest from Ternate, M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 0.4 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 19:30:57 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.8 miles) East of Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunami Warn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck EASTERN TURKEY at a depth of 4 km (2.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:17:43 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Northwest of Pervari, Turkey N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck NEAR EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 18:40:39 UTC Thursday 14th June 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (67.5 miles) South of Petr...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago*Susan Lynn Makes Plans to Resume Public Service* MOUNT JULIET, TN— Susan Lynn has officially announced her re-election plans for the House District 57 seat in the August Republican primary. At a gatherin...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 15 hours agoToday is Flag Day, when we celebrate the adoption of the Stars and Stripesas our national banner. May it always stand for freedom! To celebrate, here's The Duke and the Pledge of Allegiance. Hat tip to Ga...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours agoNorthampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoThis is real. We may be moving into a Provincial election: Today Premier Dalton McGuinty released the following statement: "For months, Ontario's MPPs have had before them a budget that will keep our ec...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 16 hours agoThe Republicans in my virtual home state of Michigan, living exemplar of GOP dominance in government, got a little too arrogant with their power today, drawing well deserved national mockery. In the Sta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“When My Mind is Still”* “When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart, I remember things too easily forgotten: The purity of early love, The maturity of unselfish love that asks - desir...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.” - Pierre Abelard
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago* * *“Remember the Words of Joseph Stalin”* by Mike Krieger “Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.” “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 17 hours ago** *Contributor: "YYC"* Politicians are nothing if not vaudvillians (vaud-villains?). *aka Political Science*The day before the marathon voting process began we were regaled with what a feat of endurance ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*Once the Incorporated Man and his cohorts in the superrich decide how much of the nation's wealth to allow to trickle down to the merely rich, there isn't likely to be much left for the rest of us.* *by ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 17 hours agoLabour’s David Cunliffe continues to head around the country pretending he knows what he’s talking about. The bloke with a face like a cat’s arse disgraced himself in his first speech with his lack of le...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 17 hours agoBrian Barabe comments on ACTFL featuring “Speak the Language,” on SMARTBRIEF. "Speak the Language" appeared in a highly circulated magazine, and promoted heavy grammar study, memorizing vocabulary and forc...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoReally like this. I'm sure President Obama thought about it ahead of time, but powerful words. Wonder what the other guys wrote? Especially Christie. "We remember. We rebuild. We come back stronger!" - wh...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours agoPetition posted 5/29 and brought to you by Progress Michigan. Sign the petition >>>>>HERE<<<<< LANSING - Today citizen’s group Progress Michigan announced that over 8,800 Michigan residents have signed a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“Compassion – Killer of Society?”* By Casey Research "In politics, it is the idea that counts. So also in philosophy, pop music, pedantry and philanthropy. The idea is everything. And between the ide...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 hours agoWind turbines on the mainland as seen from the backside of Padre Island National Seashore, at mile 25 on the four wheel drive only beach. Photo © Bruce Melton, 2012. The Climate Change awareness drought is ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 19 hours agoThis post is a part of an ongoing discussion of innovation policies at the conceptual level, which will eventually lead into a much more empirically focused set of discussions. For me, these posts are ab...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago"Battered region of northern Italy rocked again by quake; Latest tremor leaves 14 dead, hundreds injured" by Elisabetta Povoledo | New York times, May 30, 2012 ROME - Less than 10 days after an *earthqu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*It's the appearance of the article in the agenda-pushing paper as well as the reported event.* "Seven UN peacekeepers are killed in Ivory Coast" by Germain Ndri | Associated Press, June 10, 2012 ABIDJ...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 20 hours agoAfter my book, *Crash – When UFOs Fall from the Sky *was published, Scott Ramsey told one radio show host that he wanted to debate with me about the Aztec UFO crash. I declined, but only because I hadn’t r...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA pair of veteran canoeists did whatever it took to save a pair of wild animals recently. About two weeks ago Bonnie Couchie and Gord Martin found two baby moose struggling in a strong current on the Bl...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours agoTeam Rmoney, proving they have the collective maturity of a bunch of ten year olds poring over a Playboy centerfold, unleashed their latest campaign tactic this afternoon. The Romney bus circled a Obama ev...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoYesterday we talked about Buck McKeon in terms of beating a powerful Republican Committee chairman who uses his office to line his own pockets and the pockets of his family. Today we'll just concentrate o...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoIt's a screen capture from a beheading scene during the first season of *Game of Thrones*. Go ahead, take a close look. Who does that look like? Whose head is that on a stake? Full marks if you gu...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago*THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012* *The shape of our modern politics:* Around Christmas of (maybe) 2005, we had our second brush with greatness with George Allen. We were appearing as a guest on the Washington Red...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoHey, it's just corporations exercising their newfound political voices. According to *Politico*, U.S. defence contractors are planning to throw a wrench into November's presidential and congressional ele...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoThe theory, published in *Asia Times*, is that Chinese authorities have figured out their homeland can support a population of 700-million, max. With current numbers at 1.2-billion, China has to jettison...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoSorry for the slow blogging today; some of it is that I'm doing stuff that will turn up elsewhere, some of it is recovering from the Matt Cain gem last night (note the time stamp on not one, but two posts ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours agoTerrorists support Israel and NATO? Who knew.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago* "The Disconnect Between Household* * Wealth and GDP Growth"* by Bill Bonner "Twenty years of going nowhere! Where are we, Hokohama? Dear Reader…and anyone who has been paying attention…you already k...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoRounding square pegs. That, in a nutshell, is the message being delivered by the Royal Society and 104 other national science academies, to delegates of the Rio+20 Earth Summit if mankind is to get throu...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 22 hours agoProfessors' Rodriks' piece should be required reading for US politicians and media. Unfortunately the politicians are owned by the banks and are prevented from writing legislation that will protect the pub...
- 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 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 Pavel ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - Forty militants were killed in southern Yemen when government troops captured a military position and trapped 300 fighters there, the Defense Ministry said in a text message sent on Thursday. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 hours agoJune 14 - A car bomb detonates in a Damascus car park, wounding two people according to Syrian state media. Travis Brecher reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - The threat of turmoil sweeping across global markets next week if Greece's election prompts a panicky flight of money from the euro zone has policymakers from Beijing to Zurich preparing to pr...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago*I know I know, we must never complain about the way capitalism distributes wealth because the market is always right...* A company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday reveal...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 23 hours 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 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 - 23 hours agoAuthorities 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 - 23 hours agoTERNATE, 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 - 23 hours agoPrime 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 - 23 hours agoGermany 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 - 23 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe 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 - 23 hours agoTens 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 - 23 hours 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 day agoIn 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 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 day 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 day 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 ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNerve-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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoJust got a copy of this excellent book: Four Words of Wisdom
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago'Reign of Terror' AIM Photo Exhibit June 15--30, 2012 Photo by Michell Vignes/Alcatraz Occupation By AIM-WEST Censored News http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/06/reign-of-terror-aim-photo-exhibit-june.h...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
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- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day 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 ...
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- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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