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With its soaring skyscrapers, ever-green golf courses and even a ski resort, the desert city of Dubai is testament to a determined battle between man and nature. Yet with the global downturn and mounting... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute ago
A senior master at a prestigious boarding school for girls was today jailed for three years for sexually assaulting a teenage pupil. Anthony Brown had been a trusted chemistry teacher at Goldophin School,... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
A father upset over his daughter's lifestyle chopped off her head with a sword before parading it around his village, police said. Marble miner Ogad Singh's 20-year-old daughter had been living with her ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
We spent most of yesterday on a beach in Devon — the family and me, that is. The sun was shining, the sand golden; gentle surf washed the shore against a backdrop of soft woods and green fields rising fro... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes ago
Spain became the latest EU country to descend into turmoil yesterday as David Cameron warned the eurozone crisis could last for years. The Prime Minister said the situation was so grave that Britain would... - posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 20 minutes ago*Posted by Benjamin Fulford* *June 18, 2012* * * As the old cliché goes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Empirical evidence proves the current financial crisis has been caused by an ar...
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A Socialist victory in France’s parliamentary elections means the country will now try to tax and spend its way out of trouble, putting it on collision course with Germany. But as France prepared to ramp... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 24 minutes ago
*3 progressive winners folks in DC don't know about...yet: David Gill, Beto O'Rourke, Patsy Keever* This afternoon, Digby did an important post, a must-read for progressives who are being bombarded by imb... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 25 minutes ago
*Demand regime change in Washington and let's bring President Barack Obama to justice for Crimes Against Humanity. Source for poster: Infowars.* The Western press likes to pick on Assad and other anti-... - posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 25 minutes ago* * * * *Monday, June 18, 2012* *The Veil* *Posted by Cobra at Portal 2012* Time has come for me to release more intel about the Archons as we are entering the period when the destiny of this pla...
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(Reuters) - The United States warned an Iranian dissident group on Monday to follow through on plans to close a base in Iraq founded under Saddam Hussein, saying it was "gravely mistaken" to believe there ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes agoA Canadian porn actor suspected in the dismemberment of a Chinese student has arrived in Canada via military transport from Germany, where he was arrested this month. Luka Magnotta did not fight his extr...
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A Russian ship believed to be carrying helicopters and missiles for Syria was effectively stopped in its tracks off the coast of Scotland last night after its insurance was cancelled at the behest of the B... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes ago(Reuters) - Asian shares edged down on Tuesday as rising Spanish bond yields stoked fears its tottering banking system is dragging Madrid deeper into crisis, snuffing out a relief rally that followed a wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoPressure is growing on eurozone countries at the G20 summit in Mexico to find a resolution to what the head of one international organisation described as "the single biggest risk for the world economy"....
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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck CRETE, GREECE at a depth of 40 km (24.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:48:00 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) South of Pirgos, Greece No Tsun... - posted by Megan H. MacKenzie at The Duck of Minerva - 52 minutes agoForeign Policy just published its latest issue online. The letters section includes a response that expands on my earlier blog post calling the recent "Sex" issue a Teen Magazine. For those interested in r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck WESTERN TURKEY at a depth of 19.8 km (12.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:46:15 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Northwest of of Saphane, Tu... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 13.4 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:47:24 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 1137 km (706 miles) South of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 30.7 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:36:21 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60 miles) WSW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami Warni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck VANUATU at a depth of 262.6 km (163.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:29:16 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) East of Port-Olry, Vanuatu No Tsu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:24:46 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68.2 miles) Northwest o...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoOne of my favorite fairy tales is The Twelve Dancing Princesses. I once had a Golden Book version that so beautifully illustrated, the images stuck in my head all these years. I was thinking about this boo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the REVILLA GIGEDO ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:18:54 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 269 km (167 miles) ENE of S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:09:50 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 202 km (125 miles) ESE from Mahon, Bal...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour agoURIEL: Surviving The Calm Before The Storm. By, AuroRa Le. June 18, 2012. Posted on June 18, 2012 by The Angel Diaries The tiniest light can illuminate a room and it takes but a scant few torchbea...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours agoI have been an avid reader of the works of Les Visibles who writes the blog: Smoking Mirrors, at www.smokingmirrors.com, for quite sometime now. But when you combine the work of Les Visibles, with the ha...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours agoI missed the 40 year anniversary yesterday but Charlie has it covered. He's right. We didn't learn the lessons of Watergate. Memories fade. Vigilance wanes. So then we had Iran-Contra. We didn't learn the...
- The GOP on disclosure of contributions: When you can't even fool Fred Hiatt, you must be REALLY lame
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*CORRECTION: My mistake! The link I used was to the second webpage of Fred's column. It's all there -- sorry!* *UPDATE: As I think on it, I suspect that the "page 2" link in fact came from a washingtonpos... - posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 3 hours ago** *How and why Israel tried to steal the Palestinian cultural heritage* *Contributor: PAJU* In April of 1948 Israeli soldiers invaded the Arab ‘Katamon quarter’ of Jerusalem. Many of the city’s Palestini...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoFirst up: at Salon, I had a column over the weekend about the unusually intense dead zone we're in now, and why it's a ready-made trap for reporters -- leaning on Brendan Nyhan's research on the press and ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours agoBit worn out from a lovely weekend, so, lazy blogging. Twitter find of the week. Funny -- and sad -- because it's true. [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago[image: _NOrman]"Selling our power companies is the worst way to go,” says Green co-leader Russel Norman. “ They should instead be supercharged,” says Norman, “so they can develop clean, green energy tec...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours agoIt's amazing! To be fair I've never heard of WaWa myself. Never saw one on the road and I travel a fair amount. Guess they don't advertise on the highway exit signs. [More posts daily at the Detroit Ne...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago*Guest post by Dale Halling from the **State of Innovation** blog.* A NUMBER OF ALLEGED SCHOLARS suggest the logical basis for property rights is scarcity[1], since property rights efficiently allocate t...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours ago"Atomic orthodoxy and the ascent to heaven" by Karl Grossman http://enformable.com/2012/06/atomic-orthodoxy-and-the-ascent-to-heaven/ Majia here: Important people in the sciences are celebrities who are ca...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours ago"Atomic orthodoxy and the ascent to heaven" by Karl Grossman http://enformable.com/2012/06/atomic-orthodoxy-and-the-ascent-to-heaven/ Majia here: Important people in the sciences are celebrities who are ca...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago"It's a nation of children just begging to be hurt by the new world order." - Alex Jones.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Newseum ousts reporters from Romney Q&A" June 15, 2012 WASHINGTON - The front of the Newseum has a 74-foot high marble engraving of the First Amendment, making it a *massive monument to the freedom of the...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours agoSunday, June 10, 2012 Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Superior Court Judge Kyle Bryson Rules in Direct Opposition to the Appellate Courts Attorney Bill Risner Speaks to Judge Kyle BrysonAfter ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*As opposed to the public unions they have left all wet by holding their convention in a right-to-work state.* "N.C. seeks blue law change RALEIGH, N.C. - Adding a *twist to blue laws* in an *increasingly...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Adelson reportedly gives $10m to pro-Romney super PAC" by Callum Borchers | Globe Correspondent, June 13, 2012 Restore Our Future and a legion of other conservative groups - including Americans for Pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Facebook Inc is paying $55 million to $60 million to buy Face.com, according to people familiar with the matter, acquiring the company that provides the facial-recognition technology used by t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJune 18 - Greece is still going to default on its debt despite a pro-bailout party victory in weekend elections, according to Sean Egan, President of ratings agency firm Egan-Jones.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*But if I were Obama I would be worried about Ohio given its history.* "Loud protesters interrupt Romney speech in Ohio Protesters shouted throughout Mitt Romney’s campaign appearance Sunday in Troy, Ohio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJune 18 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel says a new Greek government has to meet commitments made to international lenders
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Russian naval source said Moscow was preparing to send marines to Syria in the event it needed to protect personnel and remove equipment from its naval facility in Syria's Mediterranean port of Tartous,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck NORTH OF FRANZ JOSEF LAND at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:14:54 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 1851 km (1147.6 miles) North of Alta, N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA at a depth of 161 km (99.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:13:52 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39.6 miles) Southeast fr...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoAbove is not a scene from director Benoît Jacquot's *Farewell, My Queen*, a movie I saw Friday. (It comes out next month, on Bastille Day.) If I can find a clip on YouTube, I'll append it to the bottom o...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 7 hours agoBusiness Insider Michael Kelley U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Egyptian Major General Rouini on October 4, 2011 Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has issued a new c...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 8 hours agoOccupied Palestine TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israel’s army moved military tanks towards the country’s border with Egypt on Monday, after an earlier cross-border attack killed a man working on Israel’s b...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 8 hours ago*New Orleans Saints suspended players appeal adjourns abruptly ~James Varney** * *Vilma video: Goodell is ''judge, jury and executioner.'' ~WWL* *Ginsberg chastises Goodell for distortion of evidence, de...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 8 hours agoNews Worldwide ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. – Terrell McCullum did not commit a federal crime by carrying a shotgun and a rifle out of his ex-girlfriend’s house.But he is serving a federal prison sentence for it. ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 8 hours ago[image: Un día de verano en la playa de aguas claras y arenas blancas]
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoWaaah! “We are disturbed that this man would bully and assault young women trying to speak up for other women as well as children,” said Stephanie Gray, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Bi...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Chinese farmer caused chaos on the roads when he ducked out to feed his flock of 5,000. Hong brought streets in the eastern city of Taizhou to a standstill when, accompanied by a colleague, he took his...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 3 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:03:51 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) Southeast from Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunam...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 9 hours agoIt turns out that even if you're lucky enough to have health coverage, you've probably denied yourself the privilege of indulging in actual health care. By the time the profit-bloated insurance leeches hav...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 9 hours agoDuring the 1950s and 1960s, advocates for government investments in science and technology (mainly basic research at universities) pulled off a remarkable coup. They successfully integrated conceptions o...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoKevin Drum makes what I think is a potentially good point – including the necessary caveat that we don’t want to pre-interpret a Supreme Court decision that hasn’t been issued yet – about what a Supreme Co...
- posted by What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 10 hours agoCharles Clover’s book, *The End of the Line*, is a heartbreaking story about the seafood industry’s War on Fish. The poor fish don’t have much of a chance anymore, because there’s nowhere to hide from the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAdidas has sparked outrage and been accused of 'promoting slavery' by creating a new pair of trainers which have bright orange 'shackles' that fit around the wearer's ankles. The clothing giant is under ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA mammoth asteroid that had been feared to be on a collision course with Earth will not slam into the planet but fly safely past, Nasa have announced. Astronomers had been worried that 460ft-wide asteroi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMillions of people could see the value of their pensions slashed by up to 20 per cent because of new EU rules. Those with a £100,000 pension fund could be more than £1,100 per year worse off in retirement...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 10 hours agoFor whatever they're goddamned worth: "Information on Enforcement of the Canada Elections Act" "Director of Public Prosecutions" Check 'em out!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared to indicate that Iran would be prepared to stop high-grade uranium enrichment. Ahmadinejad said he would meet the demand of the United States and its allies...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Duchess of Argyll has voiced her 'disbelief' after learning that £100,000 of jewellery she lost at Glasgow Airport six years ago had been sold on by bosses there for a fraction of its value. The 68-y...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 11 hours agoWe're finishing a brief trip back to Canada to visit friends and families and so my partner could pick up an honourary degree from the University of Victoria. It was, of course, much fun, and it was especi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn illegal immigrant who battered a father-of-two to death with a brick after being released on bail for robbery was locked up indefinitely today. Rostam Ahmadi, 23, launched the savage random attack on 4...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoPoor Sally Quinn. Of course, she's still worth millions, but no longer powerful as real money talks and walks (across a different stage) now. And she'll whine about it. Just you listen. In April, at the W...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 11 hours agoThe Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia has announced last week that the Annual Conference this year will be held in Hong Kong this coming November 5-8. I assume that November 5th is a welcome dinner with ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Towns strikes back-- endorses Charles Barron* Earlier today, we talked a little bit about how insurgent Democrats like Matt Cartwright and Beto O'Rourke have been beating tired old Machine hacks (and in ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago*Votes will be added for him*: "Florida machines may add ‘phantom’ votes" June 04, 2012 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Almost half of Florida’s voters will have their *ballots counted* this November by *machines...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA 14-year-old girl was driven to suicide after falling victim to bullies, her friends claimed today. Jade Stringer, from Bury, Greater Manchester, died on Saturday six days after being discovered unconsc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe brother of a former EastEnders actress whose 'headless and limbless' body was found in a canal will stand trial later this year, accused of her murder. Tony McCluskie, 35, appeared at the Old Bailey ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA British mother killed her two young children just days after her fugitive paedophile lover was captured by police, a Spanish court heard on the first day of her murder trial today. Lianne Smith, 45, al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFrench police have arrested a man who is believed to have shot dead two female paramilitary gendarmes with a gun belonging to one of them. The officers, who were aged 29 and 35, were killed in the village...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*I can't see 'em for the trees.* "Fires fuel urgency to restore forests to more natural state" by Susan Montoya Bryan | Associated Press, June 15, 2012 ALBUQUERQUE - As firefighters battle blazes in New...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoR. v. Evans, 2012 ONCA 412 is a helpful source for the principle that a self induced drug intoxication does not support a not criminally responsible disposition: [12] The respondent relies on R.v.B...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*Why not just give all the animals their freedom?* "US judge orders SeaWorld to keep whale trainers safer; Ruling follows death of worker during orca show" by Lizette Alvarez | New York Times, June 08, ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoThe results of the Greek federal elections that took place yesterday are finally in, and I will call it as I see it... The criminal Rothschild controlled IMF switched enough votes to give their puppets in ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoLast week, I listened to Barack Obama's campaign speech and what I heard is that he intends to run against Congress -- and against MittRomneyandCongress. As a fan of Congress in the abstract, I'm not happy...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours agoI got nothin' else. Like four years ago, I'm apathetic over this election and I feel like I've said it all, anyway, and have shouted it down an empty well. Wake me up when an asteroid gets within a 1000 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJust after dawn, they started removing large metal plates from the windows surrounding the National Bank of Greece on Syntagma Square. Their concern was that the election could presage another bout of vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF KERMADEC ISLANDS at a depth of 232 km (143.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:04:39 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 586 km (363.3 miles) Northeast of W...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago*The House(s) That Brian Built* If there was any people NAFTA was supposed to help, surely it was the Mexicans. It was supposed to be their admission ticket to industrialization and the great Middle Clas...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoWhen I look at the information coming forth from our own governments and the clowns in our media about the real situation at Fukushima Japan, I get absolutely livid. I am truly sickened by the lies and f...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 13 hours agoRosettes are easy and a no-sew person's dream. They require hot glue instead of threading your machine and much less cursing. I love rosettes and I have made them for just about every single one of my da...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 13 hours agoThe Guardian Dominic Rushe * * *Search engine company has said there has been a troubling increase in requests to remove political content from the internet* Over six months Google complied with 47% of req...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012* *Part 4—Repeating what Margaret Mead said:* During her brilliant career as the world’s most famous anthropologist, Margaret Mead had teased out the logic in quite a few cultural pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTime is running out for a diplomatic solution to Western concerns about Iran's nuclear program, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Monday in an interview with CNN. He said Iran continues to flout the U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- As the political crisis in Greece slowly moves toward a resolution, Spain continues to lose credibility in the bond market. In a sign of continued jitters over the euro debt crisis,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAthens (CNN) -- Greece has been at the heart of the European debt crisis -- and its weekend election was a critical test of the 17-country eurozone's ability to retain its common currency. The pro-bailo...
- Wall Street slips on euro zone contagion fears....Seems not everyone is fooled by the latest Charadeposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - Stocks were lower on Monday as rising Spanish and Italian bond yields indicated increasing fear of euro zone debt crisis contagion despite a victory for pro-bailout parties in the Greek electi...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 13 hours agoBusiness Insider Michael Kelley The U.S. military withheld information of fatalities from a June 1 attackon a U.S. outpost near the Afghanistan-Pakistan as two Americans were killed, reports Joshua Partlo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoIt's grey and wet outdoors. It's been grey and wet since, what, October? Just kidding, we've had a few nice days. Everybody's sure of it even though nobody can agree just when we got them or how man...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 13 hours agoAmerican Thinker Russell Cook Is there any issue more dependent on widespread lapses in critical thinking than the idea of man-caused global warming? Nothing wrecks an argument faster than a question re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe parents of six children killed in a house fire will go on trial for their murder next year. At a preliminary hearing at Nottingham Crown Court, Mick Philpott, 55, and his wife Mairead, 31, who was ca...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoGood article today on how ALEC membership can be toxic for Corporate Sector Members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ACCEPTABLE RISK? – American Legislative Exchange Council REPUTATIONA...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMOSCOW — Iran and world powers on Monday locked horns in hours of tense talks in Moscow seeking a diplomatic solution to the crisis over Tehran's nuclear programme with no breakthrough in sight. At talks...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours agoThe folks over at New Economic Perspectives are sponsoring a contest"offering t-shirts to the top three readers who identify passages that contain the worst predictive and policy follies in Mankiw’s textboo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBarrier between Israel, Egypt is of supreme national interest, says Netanyahu, adds security forces must act against attackers; IDF tanks that moved near southern border returned to regular positions hour...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 13 hours agoGlobal Research Frank Morales* * *Back in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a "Strategy Essay Competition." * *The winner was a National War College student paper entitled, "The Origins of th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: The Christian Reformed Church’s governing body said that 'human-induced climate change is an ethical, social justice, and religious issue', during Synod 2012, 8-14 June 2012. crcna.org]By Matt Va...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSometimes fantasy makes more sense than fiction. When looking at the latest developments in the diplomatic standoff between Iran and several Western nations, the words of Gandalf in that epic Lord of The ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Severe rain floods Hampton Blvd. in the Larchmont neighborhood of Norfolk, on 29 July 2010. Amanda Lucier / THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT] By Darryl Fears 17 June 2012 NORFOLK, Virginia – At her cozy hous...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA mid-level officer of the Indian Foreign Ministry told me that he was startled by the language used by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during his visit to India on June 6. India, Panetta said, is the "...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoLooming threats of military strikes and tougher economic sanctions have pushed Iran and the world powers gathered in Moscow to seek amicable ways of dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions. The latest talks...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012* *Softball king learns a new trick:* We weren’t surprised by Bob Schieffer’s questions, which resembled softball played from a tee. (We expect to discuss a few of those questions as...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: a, C stocks. b, N stocks. The stocks are divided into above-ground tree biomass (grey fill), above-ground shrub biomass (black fill), roots (hash fill) and soils down to the underlying parent mat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck ECUADOR at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:34:57 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.8 miles) Northeast from Pujilí, Ecuador No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:32:02 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (7.4 miles) Southeast from Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunam...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 14 hours agoHere is the Nobel prize winner's *NY Times* obituary.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck HALMAHERA, INDONESIA at a depth of 9.2 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:50:38 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 257 km (159 miles) Northeast of Ternate, M...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoElisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D, Evolutionary Biologist, Professor, Author, Speaker and Consultant on Living Systems Design, talks to Dr. Gary Null about why we allow bad medicine - Part 1 of 4
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*The question is does that **mean anything** anymore other than socialism for bankers?* "France backtracks, lowers retirement age" Associated Press, June 07, 2012 PARIS - France’s new Socialist governmen...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 14 hours agoI have in the past given the title of "Fantasy Island" to the UK for pursuing an impossible approach to carbon dioxide emissions reductions. Over the next week a much bigger island will take that title (...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago*Lin's chastity and piety memorial arch in Dajia, Taichung.* Rounded up a few links today. Have at'em! Typhoon/Tropical Storm Talim is on the way, so batten down the hatches this week, we're gonna get soa...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 14 hours agoEarly morning in good old YVR, where we arrived at 6 a.m. today to settle in for our five-hour wait until the next leg of the flight kicks in. Bad connection, but so it goes with points flights. Had a won...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*Not mine*: "New chance for far-right in French parliament vote" by Elaine Ganley | Associated Press, June 08, 2012 HENIN-BEAUMONT, France - Far-right leader Marine Le Pen's ultimate plan is to explode...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours agoBy James Astill 16 June 2012 STANDING ON THE Greenland ice cap, it is obvious why restless modern man so reveres wild places. Everywhere you look, ice draws the eye, squeezed and chiselled by a unique...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours agoEgyptians, realising that their country has been undermined by the CIA-Mossad Arab Spring, appear to have boycotted the presidential elections of June 2012. "Official turnout figures were not released y...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 14 hours agoYou are thinking, no way ! It isn't going to happen. Israel attack Egypt ! But, they have a peace agreement! When did something as insignificant as a peace agreement ever get in the way of imperialism, la...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012* *Do these ruminations make sense:* According to David Brooks, modern Republicans want to spend less on education—and they want to spend more on schools! See previous post. To us,...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Sir Paul McCartney. 70. On to the good stuff: 1. Sarah Binder on the Thurmond Rule. 2. Andrew Rudalevige on second terms. 3. Working without a mandate: the case of Washington state, by...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*There's an avatar of fierce progressive values in this photo* The first time I ran for office was at PS 197 in Brooklyn. I won by one vote and was elected Secretary of my class. My opponent cried and the ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago"Televangelist faces battery charges ATLANTA - A 15-year-old daughter of televangelist Creflo Dollar said he choked and punched her after an quarrel, a police report indicated. Dollar faces misdemeanor ch...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012* *Part 1—Brooks, then Collins:* Does anything we read or hear make any actual sense? Consider the most recent columns by two of our best-known columnists. On Friday, David Brooks...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours agoI will be posting your comments later along with an explanation as to why you are so wrong.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours agoNotice how the water is almost free of ice?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe U.S. decision last week to leave China off a list of seven additional countries exempt from looming U.S. sanctions on Iran has led to questions about how the U.S. and China will resolve issue before t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoEarlier this year, US news outlets began revising their false boilerplate that the United States believed Iran was building a nuclear bomb. They grudgingly recognized that US intelligence didn’t believe th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMOSCOW — Russia is preparing to send two warships to the Syrian port of Tartus, where Moscow operates a strategic naval base, to ensure the safety of its nationals, the Interfax news agency reported Monda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDAMASCUS — Syrian forces on Monday shelled rebel bastions in Homs and Damascus despite pleas for help from the opposition and a warning by the United Nations that such bombardment amounted to crimes agains...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA Spanish climber fell into a crevasse while scaling Ecuador's Chimborazo volcano and police have mounted a rescue operation, a police spokesman told Efe. Jairo Domingo Peña apparently died in the climbi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPlumes of smoke and ash are continuing to rise from Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano. People living on its slopes said they had heard "strong, strange noises" coming from the summit of the 5,346m-high ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAs a stark report on the care system is published by MPs, Labour MP Ann Coffey, the Chair of the all-party parliamentary group for runaway and missing children and adults, says care services are failing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoADEN, Yemen, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The Yemen-based al-Qaida branch has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the port city of Aden that killed the commander of Yemen's southern military region alon...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoIt is difficult to think of a much more offensive consideration than this - well, maybe asking if a father's religion makes him unfit would count. How about saying, 'listen you are hard of hearing, you bet...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago*Times-Picayune News Staff Indispensable – A Reader’s Despair ~Avenue Pub* *Monday tease: Slabbed finally locates the MIA Jefferson Parish DA Paul Connick. Simple junior, the Buddy System in action* *Inve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSurrey cricketer Tom Maynard has died after being hit by a District Line train on the London Underground. Cardiff-born Mr Maynard, 23, died in the early hours of this morning. Surrey Chairman Richard Tho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- When assuming office, every government official must take an oath to abide by and uphold our Constitution. Since 2010, I have made that my mission in Congress. Unfortunately, the Obama administra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- A central Florida elementary school principal has been arrested on drug charges after a sting operation, authorities said Saturday. David Groover, 43, was arrested Friday after deputies searched ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- The use of hydraulic fracturing to open underground natural gas formations has a low risk of triggering earthquakes, experts reported Friday, but some scientists say the debate is far from over....
- posted by Ben O'Loughlin at The Duck of Minerva - 17 hours agoOne of the most unsettling findings of *our media and radicalisation research* was the way in which the suffering of certain individual women is turned into a cause by radical Islamic groups that leads to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Pro-bailout party New Democracy may have come first in Sunday's Greek election but the radical left anti-austerity SYRIZA bloc was celebrating like the real winner well into the warm Athens ni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will press Vladimir Putin over Russia's role in the Syrian crisis when they meet on Monday but appears to have little chance of persuading him to budge on Moscow's resis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAbuja, Nigeria (CNN) -- Three church bombings and retaliatory attacks in northern Nigeria killed at least 50 people Sunday and injured more than 130 others, the Nigerian Red Cross Society said. The serie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan has announced a ban on polio vaccines for children as long as the United States continues its campaign of drone strikes in the region...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- Israel sealed off a stretch of its southern border with Egypt on Monday as part of a manhunt for militants who launched an attack against Israelis working on a security fence being erected betwee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- The elusive quest for peace in Syria is now crippled with setbacks, as a U.N. observer mission has suspended operations and attempts to rescue civilians trapped in violence have proved futile. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoCairo (CNN) -- An Islamist backed by the Muslim Brotherhood declared victory as Egypt's first democratically elected president even as the country's military rulers issued a decree that virtually stripped...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAthens (CNN) -- Two elections, two interim prime ministers and 221 days since Greece last had an elected government, Greek President Karolas Papoulias will ask the leader of the center-right New Democracy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoNAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Around 5,200 people rallied Sunday in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa against the planned deployment of MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- A powerful typhoon was moving toward the Japanese archipelago Monday while maintaining its strength, with the storm possibly making landfall by Wednesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA search for four Japanese climbers struck by an avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley has been called off, officials at Denali National Park & Reserve said on June 17. Rescue team members found a piece o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoImage: The blaze broke out at the sheltered housing complex./ Strathclyde Fire and Rescue More than 30 residents had to be evacuated from a sheltered housing complex following a large fire in Lanarkshire....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoLOS CABOS, Mexico — World leaders expressed relief on the eve of a G20 summit that Greek voters had stepped back from the edge and elected a government that supports painful reforms in exchange for a Europ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoForeign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has arrived in Libya to personally press the case of imprisoned Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor. Ms Taylor and three colleagues from the International Criminal Court (IC...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoGeorge Bush threatened to topple former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith if he failed to back Tony Blair over the Iraq War, Alastair Campbell has claimed. Mr Campbell, who was No 10’s director of communicat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoOne frustrated homeowner went to extreme measures to deter any intruders from trespassing onto his property. Robert Baird decided to take serious action against a gang of squirrels who were sneaking into...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice are investigating a complaint of assault after tennis player David Nalbandian kicked an advertising hoarding at Queen's, injuring a line judge. Scotland Yard said a complaint had been made followin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoGermany has reiterated that Greece's bailout terms are non-negotiable, as the country attempts to form a new coalition government. Greek voters decided to stick with the euro in an election which narrowl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPresident Barack Obama hit a major milestone as he marked his 100th time on the links during a Father’s Day weekend getaway in his hometown of Chicago. Despite the fact that the 50-year-old Obama had nev...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 17 hours agoAngela A. Allen-Bell speaks in Baton Rouge at the Louisiana State Capitol on April 17, 2012 when Amnesty International delivered a 67,000 signature demanding Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox's immediate r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago28 years after deserting the U.S. Air Force, a serviceman believed dead has stunned his family by contacting them from where has been living, as a fugitive, in Sweden. Now aged 47, David Hemler vanished ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoAirports and border crossings in Canada are being wired with high-definition cameras and microphones that can eavesdrop on travelers' conversations, according to the Canada Border Services Agency. A CBSA ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoIt would seem that home made rocket launchers are not just part of the fabric of life in Gaza and Afghanistan, one has been spotted in Spain *Thanks to UK Commentators *for the picture spot.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoCrews in northern Colorado are facing powerful winds as they battle a blaze that has scorched about 86 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA screenwriter, who has previously worked with Steven Spielberg, allegedly killed his poodle by punching it in the face. Ted Shuttleworth, 51, was arrested on Saturday morning at his Queens, New York, ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn 18-year-old recent high school graduate threw a house party where 200 teenagers showed up and engaged in underage drinking, police said. Laurenz Jacobsen is under investigation for violating a social h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA 10-hour standoff between an off-duty New Jersey police officer who barricaded himself inside his estranged wife's house while sporadically shooting at police has ended. Richard Klementovich, 42, an off...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPredator: Johnathan Kendrick was convicted of misdemeanor child molestation in 1994 and lewd acts with a minor in 2004 In a landmark ruling, a California jury has awarded record $28million in damages to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA six-year-old suspected illegal immigrant was arrested on Friday – the same day President Obama softened the U.S. deportation policy towards young immigrants. The young girl was arrested with 15 other s...
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 18 hours agoZZ Top's *Tres Hombres* (1973) was a fantastic album, but the inside art made it even better. Yum!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new study has quantified a problem that many political pundits have been complaining about by reporting that Congress has gotten collectively dumber over the past seven years. By analyzing trends in sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA woman looking for family videos on a relative's computer was shocked to find a huge stash of images showing young girls in sexual poses. And she was even more devastated when she remembered that the rel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoChristian missionary groups crashed an Arab-American festival on Friday night armed with a pig's head on a stake and placards making bigoted remarks and promoting the hatred of Islam. Tensions flared whe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAfter being confronted by a naked woman quoting Scripture in the streets of St George, South Carolina, police attempted to calm her down and cover her with a blanket. But the 80-year-old woman apparently...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe U.S government has asked Britain to help intervene a ship, believed to be carrying Russian attack helicopters and munitions, heading for Syria. A Russian cargo vessel, the MV Alaed is thought to be ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the AZORES ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:53:00 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 389 km (241.1 miles) Northwest of Ang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA British driver has broken his back after a spectacular crash in the opening hours of the Le Mans 24 hour race. Anthony Davidson's Toyota TS030 Hybrid flipped in mid-air before careering into heavily in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHeadstones on World War Two military graves in Libya have been desecrated in the second such attack in four months. The latest vandalism occurred in a cemetery in Benghazi, the starting point of last yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMillions of workers who go on strike will lose the right to have their missed wages topped up with benefits. Union members who withdraw their labour do not get paid by their employer for time off during ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck MENDOZA, ARGENTINA at a depth of 14.1 km (8.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:29:03 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) ESE of Mendoza, Mendoza, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDaniel Kiunsi, whose home is pictured, has issued a High Court writ for the distress he says he has suffered since the decision to eject him An immigrant is suing the Government for £11million for making ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRoast pork and sausages have always been a staple of British diets. But now hundreds of school children will be denied them for school lunches because of 'religious reasons'. Pork, which is not eaten by d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoVictim: Police discovered Mohammed Taki's remains under the patio at the flat in leafy Fulham, west London A flat owner made a deathbed confession to strangling a man whose skeleton remained buried under...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo Canadian sisters have been found dead in their hotel room in Thailand. Thai police suspect Audrey and Noemi Belanger, aged 20 and 26, may have succumbed to 'serious food poisoning.' Officials said th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA radical Islamist sect has claimed responsibility for three church attacks in northern Nigeria in which at least 21 people were killed. Boko Haram made the announcement in an email statement received by ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGoogle removed 640 videos from YouTube in the second half of last year amid fears they promoted terrorism. The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) made a request for five user accounts to be clos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMOSCOW — A new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear ambitions began in Moscow on Monday, with a significant gap looming between the two sides’ positions as painful new sanctions are set to come into effect to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Muslim Brotherhood is claiming victory in Egypt’s Presidential election, setting the stage for a showdown with the country’s military which has granted itself sweeping powers. The Islamist movement ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 93.3 km (58 miles), the quake hit at 06:28:51 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) West o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:20:36 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) East...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck EVREYSKAYA AVTONOMNAYA OBLAST', RUSSIA at a depth of 13.1 km (8.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:11:34 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) NNE o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA at a depth of 39.6 km (24.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:57:43 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) ES...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:51:40 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) Eas...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*That type of talk always scares certain people. * "Many German tourists drop Greece from vacation lists" by Alex Webb | Bloomberg News, May 27, 2012 FRANKFURT - After Germany’s insistence that Greek ad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA at a depth of 39.3 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:11:47 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) Ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScientists are warning that if obesity continues to grow the world's population is in danger of running out of food. The problem could have the same implications for world food energy demands as an extra...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 20 hours ago
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours agoDoes Your Doctor Have a Fake Degree? The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas *There is a major crisis in the world of higher education: the large and growing number of fake...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 21 hours ago*According to new research Governments should focus more funds on policing the internet and less on anti-virus software.* Computer scientists at the University of Cambridge agreed out the cybercrime stu...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI think that we sort of suspected that meditation methods had a direct physical impact on the brain. Now we have direct confirmation that this is explicitly true. It also immediately demands that...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoOne problem that I have with these studies is that they naturally select for individuals who are serious about their health and we all know that does not stop at taking vitamin D exclusively. Ch...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe giant problem facing the globe today is the popular support for Islamic-Fascism that has hijacked the religion of Islam itself and the natural loyalties attached to it. Egypt happens to be ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt appears we may finally have a solution for damaged spines. The actual surgery is pretty scary as it is way to easy to cut significant nerves while installing such a device. Otherwise it is a...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 21 hours ago*I have posted quite a bit on Japan's reprocessing of nuclear fuel to produce plutonium.* * * *Japan decided in 2010 to discontinue its efforts to "close the fuel cycle" by "breeding" plutonium fuel in fa...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoJune 17, 2012 Even the cold early spring of 2012 could not deter Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists in New York city. People from different backgrounds continue to come out onto the streets. The agenda ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours agoJune 17, 2012 Even the cold early spring of 2012 could not deter Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists in New York city. People from different backgrounds continue to come out onto the streets. The agenda ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoThe Gardner Canal, a Pacific Ocean inlet near Kitimat, B.C., planned terminus of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. What’s in the project for British Columbians? Not much, and they know it. Below: B....
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoThey were caught. Well, you know about that, and while the details are fun, I'm going to skip past them because there's more to get to. First of all, let's put everyone in place. Five burglars, includin...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours ago*Remembering Rosalie Bertell Author, distinguished scientist, environmental activist, international expert on radiation, sister of the Grey Nuns by Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri* http://www.globalresearch.c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoChildren are to be banned from a city centre under draconian plans to tackle anti-social behaviour. Critics said the decision to stop anyone under 16 walking the streets of Bangor after dark was akin to s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:52:24 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 1830 km (1137 miles) South from Fianara...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago. Indigenous Environmental Network Ben Powless, Mohwak, Clayton Thomas Muller, Cree, Tom Goldtooth, Dakota Dine', with Indigenous. DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF NATURE Indigenous Peoples are gat...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Terry Morrone, Professor Emeritus of Physics at Adelphi University, writes: * *Dailycensored.com* It started when I was a child. I was taught that America was the land of the free... I began to doubt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA at a depth of 39.5 km (24.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:58:09 UTC Monday 18th June 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) Ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA female keeper was today mauled to death by a pack of eight wolves at a popular Swedish zoo, police said. The 30-year-old woman had entered the wolf enclosure at Kolmarden park, in the Ostergotland dist...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoA kind reader sent me this video, I just love it. Its done a lot to lift my spirits, perhaps it will cheer you too. ....btw, in reference to grounding, I do go barefoot a lot - I'm usually criticized...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo brothers who killed a man in his own home have been allowed to stay in Britain together because of their human right to a ‘family life’. One of the reasons for granting the second brother permission t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRecent case: MPs said appalling failings in the care system that allowed a group of Pakistani-born men (pictured) to rape White girls in a recent case in Rochdale were common across the country. Children...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Camerron will warn today that the world economy faces ‘five big threats’ that could lead to a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. The Prime Minister will urge world leaders to ‘get a grip’ on the eu...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoA few weeks ago *millions* of Spaniards took to the streets as Spain followed German orders to wreck the country's public education system in the name of Austerity. And this weekend, even with Spain's rig...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day agoWelcome to Meet & Greet Monday! Banner by Art Ist Grab our banner for your site: Do you have an Eco-friendly blog or site? Do you occasionally write about the environme...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoRico at Theo Spark thinks that there might be. Do read the whole piece, it's thought-provoking, but this is the key passage: 'It is worth noting that George Soros has just tripled his position in Gold. Sa...
- Edward Putnam revealed as a rapist: Man who claimed handouts after £4.5million win attacked girl, 17
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe £4.5million lottery winner who was exposed last week as a benefits cheat is also a convicted rapist. Edward Putman, 46, declined publicity when he won the huge sum in September 2009, but his identity... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Events in Egypt, Bahrain and Syria illustrate the limits of U.S. influence in the Middle East following the Arab Spring and a U.S. reluctance, at times, to exercise such clout as it has. Cour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - For decades, American and Canadian expats have flocked to the shores of Chapala, seeking refuge in the spring-like climate of Mexico's largest natural lake, where English author D.H. Lawrence ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*NATO-backed Islamist savages have killed citizens in Syria for over a year, and their campaign of terror is only beginning. * "War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoATHENS, June 18 (Reuters) - Political parties supporting Greece's international bailout will begin forging a government on Monday after an election victory over radical leftists staved off the prospect of ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoThe Hoary-throated Spinetail is predicted to lose more than 80% of its habitat in the Amazon, according to the latest survey of the world's birds. Photo courtesy: IUCN Birds in the Amazon are under increa...
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