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- American actress Lake Bell who starred in the final season of The Practice has a joke to tell. Try, if you can, to focus on her face whilst she tells the joke - tricky isn't it? Really tricky!
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 23 minutes ago
With rain in the forecast I wasn't as adventurous this morning as I'd have liked to have been, choosing to do some birding a little closer to home. I checked out a couple small storm ponds nearby but othe... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 41 minutes ago
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago
Bashar al Assad is a huge fan of the Electric Light Orchestra. *The New Lion of Damascus* is book about Bashar al Assad by American academic David Lesch. Lesch is sympathetic to Assad. Lesch states tha... - posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Portland's bureaus of Police and Parks will join forces this weekend to increase security in Laurelhurst Park after reports of two large-scale fights there Wednesday and Thursday nights. According to tho... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan has given the go-ahead for operations to resume at two nuclear reactors on its western coast, the first to be restarted after the government shut down all reactors following the 2011 ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(CNN) -- A storm over southwestern Mexico weakened further Saturday to a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center said. Carlotta was expected to continue to drench the area for another day or tw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Cairo (CNN) -- On the eve of a presidential runoff election, Egypt's military council formally dissolved parliament Friday, in line with a ruling from the nation's top court that declared the legislative b... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The United States says it is tracking a Russian military cargo ship as it makes its way to Syria carrying weapons, ammunition and a small number of Russian troops. U.S. intelligence believes the Russians... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoWall Street Journal Bank Rules Get Fresh Look: In Victory for Lenders Regulators to Make it Easier to Meet Liquidity Targets. by David Enrich and Victoria McGrane [Excerpt] "International regulators are ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoBy Craig Whitlock, Published: June 13The Washington Post OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-expands-secret-intelligence-operations-in-africa/2012/06/13/g...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
Thursday evening NPR had a long and insightful interview by Terry Gross with journalist Jane Mayer about her much-discussed new feature in *the New Yorker*, Bully Pulpit. She said that although the subje... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoThe Wall Street Journal June 16-17 2012 p. A3 by Kris Maher " A Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty of illegally dumping millions of waste water from gallons of shale-gas drilling over several years was ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 3 hours ago
* This is my article yesterday in the online magazine TL. The photos at the bottom are not part of the original article. --------- http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/less-gorvernment/1321--sustainable... - posted by paul at Paying attention - 3 hours ago
Dr. Jody Paterson: 'There's nothing saintly or special about social justice - it's just work.' We're back from Honduras for a week, after five months. While it's great to see everyone, we were strongly mot... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours ago
*Japanese PM orders to restart two reactors* On March 11th, 2011, Japan was crippled by a magnitude 8.9 earthquakefollowed by a giant tsunami. The number of casualties was clearly high. A week later, Gen... - posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours ago
Activist Post Stephen Lendman On July 6, 1945, Harry Truman authorized awarding the Medal of Freedom "to any person....who, or on after December 7, 1941, has performed a meritorious act or service which h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
(Reuters) - Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker warned Greeks not to turn their backs on the euro, saying in a newspaper interview that a win by anti-bailout radical leftists in a vote on Sunday would have ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 3 hours agoTomorrow is Father's Day. My father's been dead for almost 35 years. He was, as they say, a colourful character -- raconteur, man-about-town. And a pathological liar. One story -- I got a million of the...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours agoOn January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run ou...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2012* *Interlude—A bollixed professor calls bullroar:* We’re always happy to hear from Professor Mead in one of the dream visitations such figures are allowed after they have returned ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 4 hours agoSo, Michigan state Representative Lisa Brown was banned for an indefinite time from speaking at the Reichstag Michigan State House last week for using the word "vagina." Apparently, that was too much for ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 4 hours agoT*ORONTO - **Always read the fine print. And when dealing with the McGuinty government, always remember that the devil is in the details.At a media event in Scarborough Wednesday, I asked the premier if ...
- posted by Rodger A. Payne at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours agoNot long ago, Robert Elias, a Professor of Politics at University of San Francisco (and editor of *Peace Review*), published *The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy & Promoted the A...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 4 hours agoAl Fin Since 1989 the US government has spent almost $100 billion on climate studies, modeling, prediction, regulations and more. In the end, the best models developed so far do 2 - 3 X worse than chance ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBAGHDAD — Car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims in the Iraqi capital killed at least 32 people on Saturday, officials said, marring commemorations for a revered Shiite imam attended by tens of thousands. A...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 4 hours agoI happened across an interesting story of a rare muskox sighting courtesy of an local online forum I frequent and thought I would post it here. Muskoxen are one of those quintessential northern creatures ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA woman accused of shooting dead her husband and 14-year-old daughter and sitting at home with their bodies for three days has claimed she only turned the gun on the man after he killed the girl. Regina ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe father of Josh Powell, who killed himself and his sons after his wife went missing in mysterious circumstances, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for voyeurism. Steven Powell will also spend ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 5 hours ago** *Contributor: PAJU* Zionism is sometimes described as one of the world’s most successful modern political movements. This description hides the ideology’s dark reality. Formulated in the late 19th cent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe father of a three-month old girl fed a mixture of vodka and baby formula has been charged with murder in a crime he says was an accident. One year after Keith Furlow's daughter died after consuming the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoCyberwarfare is developing eerie parallels with the race to build the first nuclear weapons warned the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists today. Claiming that western governments in the United States and I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA Pennsylvania mother allegedly hooked her 14-year-old daughter on drugs, including heroin, and injected her with them hundreds of times when the teen was too sick to do it herself. Investigators say Bra...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 5 hours agoWe can all understand this simple analogy of Driving a Car, right? The Car is something that has particular properties; its colour, its price, its size, its horse power, its chassis, its level of finish, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA man was arrested for the fourth time for having sex with a teddy bear in public. Charles Marshall, 28, received a citation on Wednesday for masturbating with the stuffed animal in an alley near the Elm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoCalvin Sneed, a 22-year old Los Angeles man, was shot dead by a pair of vigilante parents that wanted revenge on the man who they believe pimped out their teenage daughter, according to police. Lupe Merc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA land and sea search will resume at first light tomorrow for an English yachtsman and his Australian companion after the wreckage of their yacht was found on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck MAUG ISLANDS REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS at a depth of 131 km (81.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:05:33 UTC Saturday 16th June 2012 The epicenter was 283 km (176 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoUN monitors in Syria have suspended operations because of increasing violence over the past 10 days between President Bashar al Assad's supporters and rebels seeking his overthrow. "The observers will no...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago*Times-Picayune’s Anderson noncommittal on return ~Eric Wemple* *Supporter of new fund for laid off T-P employees: 'We have their backs now' * *Something historic happened at the last Jefferson Parish Coun...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 6 hours agoMethane. A powerful greenhouse gas; human activities pump it out like crazy. By now educated readers are aware of the problem of methane from production of cattle and other ruminants, which worldwide accou...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 6 hours agoLast week, Mitt Romney declared that President Obama had it all wrong: “He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers.” Then he declared, “It’s time for us to cut back on government and he...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoThe obvious, of course, is that both Romney and Stanford worked up business models that involved financial manipulation, lax off shore Caribbean islands and Swiss bank accounts. But Sir Allen is headed fo...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoCorporations Confronted for Roles in Snowbowl Human Rights Violations Call to Action: Call-in! Don’t Give-in! Week June 18 - 22 Photo by Dawn Dyer By James Kennedy protectpeaks@gmail.com http://www.pro...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago*Back in the 80s, just as his career was taking off, which Hollywood megastar was paid $1 million and a sports car by a Saudi Prince to have sex with him?* Website http://www.wanttoknow.info/johnper...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe English-speaking 'Forest Boy' who said he lived in a German wood for five years is actually Dutch and only left home five days before his 'discovery', it has been claimed. German police said the man'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA thug who attacked a bus passenger with a claw hammer in broad daylight then told the driver ‘sorry about that, drive’ has been jailed for three years after the sickening CCTV footage of the incident was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoheck·led, heck·ling, heck·les 1. To try to embarrass and annoy (someone speaking or performing in public) by questions, gibes, or objections; badger. President Obama became embroiled in a furious confront...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Muslim woman who repeatedly beat a ten-year-old girl with a steel ladle for not reading enough verses of the Koran was jailed yesterday. Asia Parveen, who was five months pregnant at the time, left the ...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 7 hours agoThe following data visualisation was sent in by Peter from College At Home. The data refers to the academic performance of homeschoolers in the USA in comparison with those who go through the Public Schoo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA doctor caught plotting revenge after he was jailed for trying to poison his pregnant mistress was today locked up for an additional two years. Edward Erin asked former cellmate Joe Mallia to kill Bella ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA teenage schoolgirl didn't attend class at her Melbourne high school for three months before her teachers finally reported her as missing, police say. Detectives then discovered the 17-year-old's mother...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe family of Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor has welcomed the United Nations' calls for her to be freed from a Libyan jail. Ms Taylor and three of her colleagues from the International Criminal Court ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo retired Perth sailors have accused WA's former top navy officer of raping them aboard the ship he commanded in 1973. Both victims are among almost 900 people who submitted allegations of abuse within...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA 63-year old woman from South Korea became pregnant with 12 baby squid while eating a portion of cooked squid, claims a scientific paper from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA homeless man who stumbled across a bag full of cash and gold coins has been told he can keep the haul – worth over $70,000. Timothy Yost, 46, struck lucky when he took a walk on the banks of the Colora...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:29 UTC Saturday 16th June 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (66.9 miles) South of Sumbawa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA convicted sex offender who raped and murdered a vulnerable pensioner in her sheltered housing home has been jailed for at least 21 years. Kevin Rooney attacked mother-of-five Rosina Sutherland, 74, afte...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Námo Mandos) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoSo this is a bit of a delicate post to write, because I'm going to disagree with two friends, one of whom is a fellow DJer. This is about the whole legal tiff referenced in the last post by Fern, where a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoChina has launched its latest manned space mission - whose crew includes its first female astronaut, Liu Yang. The Shenzhou-9 capsule rode to orbit atop a Long March rocket from the Jiuquan spaceport on t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy made a plea on Saturday for greater political and fiscal union in Europe, urging Greeks to stick with the euro as they gear up for an election whose ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoOfficial figures out today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the UK’s trade deficit has widened to its highest level for seven years. And in a double-whammy for the UK economy, data f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe people of Greece are preparing for an election which could see the country effectively voting itself out of the eurozone. Greeks are choosing far more than just a new government - their vote could s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSaudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has died "outside the kingdom", state media say. Prince Nayef, who was also deputy prime minister and interior minister, had left the country for ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoHere's part of what he says in today's column: "The more natural modern coalition, it seems to me, is between economic liberals (in the European sense) and social liberals; between free marketers and env...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA at a depth of 30.9 km (19.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:37:37 UTC Saturday 16th June 2012 The epicenter was 165 km (103 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 124.6 km (77.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:13:06 UTC Saturday 16th June 2012 The epicenter was 212 km (131 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, Kuril Is...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoJune 15, 2012 *Welcome to Totalitarian Sweden. Another travesty of justice awaits.* Wikileaks editor Julian Assange could be sent to Sweden by the end of the month, where he's wanted for questioning ov...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoThe UK government's Climate Projection Study of 2009 predicted that climate change would cause much drier summers in the south of England, with rainfall dropping by up to 60% during June, July and August. ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 10 hours agoreaders of Free Planet will remember seeing the glossy white concept C-1 two-wheel stabilised monocoqued motorbike from Lit Motors (who contributed positively to the comments section of that post) going t...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours ago*Tell Congress to Dump the Monsanto Rider*! The biotech industry has quietly inserted a dangerous policy rider into the Agriculture Appropriations bill now being debated in the House Appropriations Com...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago"What do we get? ... Economic development,... a proper reformed budget for Europe" Oh really Mr Bliar?
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 10 hours agoWhat? Where is Bob Mortimer? You remember him, he used to be the other half of comedy duo Reeves & Mortimer. Turn on TV this morning, graze the channels, come across THE MINISTRY OF CURIOUS STUFF. As y...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 12 hours agoDr. Stephen Duckett, right, doesn’t mince words while talking to Doug Knight, then the President of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, in September 2009, Below: former Health Minister Ron Liepert....
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis is a secondary strategy to run parallel with the strategy we described some months back in which populations of genetically modified males are dumped into the environment to produce a generat...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis appears to be promising because it provides a protocol that allows the agent to be safely transported to its target in order to conduct its attack on the cancer cell. In this particular case...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThe bad news is that we are pretty well due to experience a monster Icelandic flood volcano this century and it will be unpleasant for months. Our recent eruption was no more than a gentle remi...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoI was a tad skeptical at first, but this could be surprising. My Interest is in knowledge itself and what is unexpected is that a key connective in the search for a complete knowledge base is the...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*George Jamieson, aka April Ashley.* George Jamieson "seduced actors Omar Sharif and Peter O’Toole." George Jamieson, aka April Ashley MBE, also attracted "the amorous attentions of Salvador Dali and Pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFrance and Italy may need massive bailouts, as the euro approaches its 'day of reckoning', Gordon Brown warned last night. The former Prime Minister, who played a key role in co-ordinating global action ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA 14-year-old boy has been arrested over claims at least 26 school pupils were stabbed with a medical needle during a lunch break. The teenager is understood to have gone on a rampage at Toot Hill School, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA former Goldman Sachs director accused of feeding confidential information to a corrupt hedge fund manager has been convicted of conspiracy and three counts of securities fraud. A jury acquitted Rajat G...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago*“Medicare is so central to our national narrative that how we reform it will determine the future nature of our country,”* *Roy Romanow* *Medicare needs strong federal vision **The unifying force medica...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago*Replace the ape with Assad, and the woman with the Syrian people. Propaganda doesn't change; the characters do.* *I. Defining Reality Is Power, Directing History Is Godly* "It is surprising to see wh...
- Drachmageddon? Middle-class poverty. Feral gangs. Neo-Nazis. Athens waits for the volcano to explode
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAntonis Perris was a devoted son. When his elderly mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s four years ago, there was no question of putting her in a state facility. He would care for her at home in Athens ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThousands of children from dysfunctional homes should be taken from their families and put in boarding schools, the head of Ofsted claimed yesterday. Sir Michael Wilshaw, chief inspector of schools, said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMore than a million patients will face disruption because of the first doctors’ strike in nearly 40 years next week. Members of the British Medical Association will refuse to treat patients for 24 hours ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe new rules mean that under-16s who are not accompanied by an adult will be barred between 9pm and 6am Children have been banned from a city centre at night in a drastic measure taken by police to try t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoUS-South Korean expansions in East Asia could provoke China’s growing military Seoul and Washington made plans at a meeting of foreign and defense ministers June 14 to work together on extending defense ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSyrian rebels have held meetings with senior US government officials in Washington as pressure mounts on the US to authorise a shipment of heavy weapons, including surface-to-air missiles to combat the Ass...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoUS President Barack Obama has been heckled by a reporter while making a statement on immigration at the White House. It is almost unheard of for the president to be interrupted by a reporter in such a w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEgyptians go to the polls later in the final stage of the country's presidential election, amid growing turmoil and accusations the old regime is trying to re-claim power. The vote pits Ahmed Shafiq, ous...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoGreece's elections are a straightforward choice between sticking with the euro or returning to the drachma, the country's conservative leader has said. Antonis Samaras was speaking at the final election...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA tightrope walker from a long dynastic line of high-wire stunt performers has completed a historic crossing of Niagara Falls. Nik Wallenda from the famous Flying Wallenda family walked directly over the...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours ago*Read below for some interesting headlines and my interpretation of their implications.* Noda orders restart of two nuclear reactors at Oi plant. Japan Today. National Jun. 16, 201 http://www.japantoday....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION at a depth of 57.5 km (35.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:19:40 UTC Saturday 16th June 2012 The epicenter was 263 km (163 miles) SSE of Nueva...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck TURKEY-SYRIA-IRAQ BORDER REGION at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:48:15 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) South of Silopi,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA at a depth of 74.3 km (46.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:18:30 UTC Friday 15th June 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19 mi...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 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 - 17 hours agoJohnson City, Tennessee, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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! - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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!) - 22 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...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 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 - 22 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! - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 com...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 hours agofour lovely photo realist PAINTINGS by Alyssa Monks
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 dr...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 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 in Manchester city centre. Police were called to Canal Street on Saturday afternoon, after a body wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agohere's a new BEHIND THE SCENES article from site Prometheus News showing (from a cutting room floor incident involving the opening scene of Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUS) an *Elder Engineer*. click image to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 prefer the stronger harmonies on the studio version.)
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
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