DALLAS, TX - OCTOBER 03: Members of the media take a tour of the future George W. Bush Presidential Center on October 3, 2011 in Dallas, Texas. The George W. Bush Presidential Center is a future complex that will include former President George W. Bush's presidential library and museum, the George W. Bush Policy Institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: In January 2009, President of the United States of America, George W. Bush invited then President-Elect Barack Obama and former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter for a Meeting and Lunch at The White House. Photo taken in the Oval Office at The White House. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President George W. Bush stands with Mrs. Laura Bush and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove on the South Lawn Monday, August 13, 2007, shortly after his longtime friend and senior advisor announced his resignation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
DALLAS, TX - APRIL 12: Karl Rove, former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush, prepares to lead a panel discussion at The 4% Project Conference on April 12, 2011 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The economic conference, sponsored by the George W. Bush Presidential Center, intends to increase awareness of public policies and private business strategies that increase opportunity and prosperity for Americans. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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Health Benefits of Epsom Salt Baths
Our magnesium levels have dropped by half in the last century due to changes in agriculture and diet. Industrial farming has depleted magnesium from soil and the typical American diet contains much less magnesium than that of our forefathers. And in fact, the modern American diet with its fat, sugar, salt and protein actually works to speed up the depletion of magnesium from our bodies.
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NSA: Revealing how many Americans we’ve spied on would violate their privacy
A bill passed in 2008, shortly before President George W. Bush left office, gave the NSA broad new powers to spy on electronic communications so long as it believes one participant is outside of the U.S. As a Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama claimed he was opposed to the bill, but ultimately voted in favor of the new powers.
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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*I'm not surprised if you have never heard of him before.* "The president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, may be the single most powerful figure in the eurozone drama, as head of the only inst...
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- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 6 hours agoEarlier this month, Tony Hancock passed away. I did not know Tony, but I am aware of his work. Tony Hancock was an individual, who had his own views on religion and politics. He valiantly fought agains...
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posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThree VAT fraudsters who cheated the taxpayer out of £39million in just 69 days in the first case of its kind have been jailed for a total of 35 years. Mastermind Sandeep Singh Dosanjh, 30, splashed the p... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBrussels bureaucrats have been accused of launching a power grab over Britain’s lucrative North Sea reserves. The European Commission wants to regulate offshore oil and gas safety in a bid to prevent acc...
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- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoYesterday Paul Ryan got his head handed to him by a busload of nuns in his hometown, Janesville. Rob Zerban was there to greet the nuns, who are so incensed by Ryan's shockingly anti-Christian Ayn Rand bu...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSpanish miners fire homemade rockets towards Spanish Civil Guards in Cinera, near Oviedo, northern Spain on June 19, 2012. Spanish coal miners burned tyres and blocked roads on June 18, 2012 during a m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoEuro leaders are set to unveil fresh efforts to save the single currency, after pledging at the G20 to bring down dangerously high government borrowing costs. The world leaders meeting in Los Cabos, Mexi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoKirsty Lane, of Lewis Close, Adlington has been sentenced to 20 Months in Jail after previously pleading guilty to 10 Counts of Fraud. These charges relate to when Lane was employed as an accounts assista...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours agoTell the ITU: Release your documents! Representatives from around the world will gather from Wednesday to Friday at the International Telecommunications Union, where they will finalize proposals that coul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPolice divers searching for an Irish football fan missing in northern Poland have found a body. James Nolan, 21, from County Wicklow, was following Ireland in Euro 2012, and was last seen on Saturday nig...
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- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 7 hours agoPhilip Jennings has Stephen Harper's number. Jennings, the General Secretary of the Switzerland based UNI Global Union, recently told the *Huffington Post* that: Stephen Harper is a male version of Ma...
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- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours agoLate yesterday the story breaks, via the *Washington Post* also picked up by the BBC , that the *US and Israel developed the Flame computer virus to attack Iran's nuclear power efforts.* Why would this a...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 65.5 km (40.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:59:03 UTC Wednesday 20th June 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) West of Kuri...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago Also the bears are white and not black & white
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- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours agoFrom: Formosan Association for Public Affairs We are pleased to let you know that the new issue of Taiwan Communiqué is hot off the press (attached). This issue starts with a summary of the May 19th prote...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 9 hours ago*Yummy Turkey Burgers!* I always love a good burger, and using lean turkey meat instead of beef makes them a whole lot healthier. Another issue with burgers is that they tend to include bread crumbs or c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe kinds of drones making the headlines daily are the heavily armed CIA and U.S. Army vehicles which routinely strike targets in Pakistan - killing terrorists and innocents alike. But the real high-tech...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago"Greece will be forced to return to the drachma and devalue, and the default will cause bank runs and money flowing into Germany and the United States as the only viable safe haven bets," he declared the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday. Professor Patrick Pul...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 10 hours ago[image: NDP Leader Adrian Dix says the closure could have dire consequences for local businesses.] What will it take, how many spills, how many more lies from Enbridge before Christy Clark stands up for ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Russia and China have not agreed to any plan for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad from power but do recognize the danger of an all-out civil war in Syria, U.S. President Barack Obama s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - In the mid-1990s, Helmut Kohl was asked how he ever hoped to convince Germans to give up the deutsche mark for a nebulous new currency that was later dubbed the euro. "It will happen," the ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Pakistan has captured an "important" al Qaeda leader in an operation near the Pakistan-Iran border, officials said on Wednesday, amid criticism from the United States the country was not doing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - With economic storm clouds gathering abroad and signs the U.S. recovery is flagging, the Federal Reserve may feel compelled on Wednesday to launch a new round of monetary stimulus. Confronted ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- A Lavaca County, Texas, grand jury did not return an indictment against a father who killed a man he found allegedly sexually abusing his daughter, officials said Tuesday at a press conference i...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 11 hours agookay, let's, "Keep it pure," as requested by Zacharia Sitchin just before his death in October 2010. Now, Mike, why would you bother with this particular mythology crap, when there are a) LOADS OF THESE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- Forecasters are expecting warmer than normal temperatures and gusty winds Tuesday in a northern Colorado area already ravaged by a wildfire, not a good combination for the legion of firefighters ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWashington (CNN) -- The House Oversight Committee could proceed Wednesday in considering a contempt measure against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder unless he provides at least some of the documents the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghans in government uniforms launched three attacks on U.S. and Afghan forces in a 24-hour period, including one that breached the perimeter of an American outpost near Kand...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- Fighting between Kurdish rebels and government troops in southeastern Turkey left more than two dozen dead Tuesday, according to reports from officials and a news agency. Eight soldiers and 10 f...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoWhen I used Google Maps in the morning, I noticed that all streets of Pilsen have been mapped via StreetView and the photographs are available online right now. In fact, it turns out that most of Czechia (...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- The U.N. monitoring mission in Syria will remain in place for now, despite having halted its activities amid rising violence, its leaders said Tuesday. Security Council members met in private wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoLos Cabos, Mexico (CNN) -- The United States on Tuesday supported European leaders' efforts to ease the debt crisis, including the formation of a "banking union" to safeguard their financial systems. "I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- The message sent by the military council that rules Egypt was simple: "Don't mess with Egypt's armed forces." The message received by the activists who flooded Tahrir Square 18 months ago: "Egypt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAthens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece is hopeful a government could be formed as early as Wednesday after the leaders of three political parties signaled that talks among them were going well. Representatives o...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours agoNot a very happy bunny is she? Bit confused too! *Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe United States says the South Korea-U.S. combined naval drills slated for Saturday is NOT intended to be a threat to anyone. U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Captain John Kirby told reporters Tues...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLOS CABOS, Mexico — Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was "heartened" by Europe's approach to the eurozone crisis but wished the G20 would have paid more attention to the size of US foreign debt. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated Moscow's strong opposition to the U.S. missile defence system on Tuesday, saying that President Barack Obama's re-election would not end the dispute...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWestern officials tell Washington Post massive piece of malware secretly monitored Iran’s computer networks, sent back steady stream of intelligence to prepare for cyber-warfare campaign WASHINGTON – The ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours agoTell EPA to Protect our Honey Bees from Pesticides Honey bees and other insect pollinators are dying off at unprecedented rates and pesticides are a clear causal factor. This week and next, EPA is deci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - Japan's parliament approved government guarantees on insurance for crude oil cargoes from Iran on Wednesday, paving the way for it to become the first of Iran's big Asian oil buyers to get rou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago"It's a differently-shaped table," noted Baroness Catherine Ashton, the world powers' lead negotiator as she sat down opposite her Iranian counterpart Saeed Jalili. Even this was a problem. Iran's conse...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe remains of a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip. Photograph: David Buimovitch Four Israeli border guards injured in the rocket fire as fighting flares along the border. About a dozen rockets were fi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA senior Conservative peer has been acting as an adviser to a European lobbying firm for five years without declaring it to Parliament, an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The In...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe US has warned that Europe faces a "critical" summit in Brussels next week, as the White House tries to keep up pressure on the continent's major powers to find a way out of the debt crisis. The world a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFormer Egyptian president's health crisis adds further layers to what is threatening to become a new chapter of unrest and political power struggles in Egypt The ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A remote Aleutian volcano that has been restless for the past year rumbled to life on Tuesday, shooting a thin cloud of ash several miles into the sky, which could pose a sli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck ATACAMA, CHILE at a depth of 87.2 km (54.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:33:22 UTC Wednesday 20th June 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (84 miles) South from Copiapo, Chile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck NEAR ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA at a depth of 29.8 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:35 UTC Wednesday 20th June 2012 The epicenter was 179 km (11w miles)...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours agoMaud Allen was an American dancing girl, born in Canada, but brought up in California. Maud's original name was Beulah Maude Durrant, but she changed her name after her brother Theodore killed two girls,...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoThis item is a major confirmation of two separate paradigm shifts been developed in this blog. The Eemian warm spell lasting 10,000 years and beginning 125,000 years ago was driven by the so...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoIt is unsurprising that solar installations rigged to integrate with the grid would fail to have an expensive default of alternate power supply in the event of a grid failure. This is all compl...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoI came across this piece which nicely fills in the blanks on the pterodactyl or pterosaur phenomena. We can spell out what is presently known rather well now. 1 There are two types identified...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoThis is pleasing to see. Biochar is now beginning to invade the flower pot. All this leads to increasing confidence in the process for initiates to the process who all have to do it themselves before t...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours agoSource: http://www.facebook.com/REALFOODREALLOVE Biodiversity and the Environment: Silent Spring For Us? by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research Canada, 20 June 2012 *In 1962 Rachel Carson caught M...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 13 hours agoFederal Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, centre, with Public Safety Minister Victor Toews, left, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, get ready to assure members of their party’s Al...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 13 hours agoHere's a neat little history lesson... Here's who really owns what... Now, you didn't know that, did you? You didn't realise that not-only Americans but-also Britains are paying their taxes to the VA...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours agoIn 2009 I scribed a post arguing that PRC police presence in Taiwan would surely result in intelligence sharing between the CCP and the KMT on Chinese dissidents and other freedom supporters in Taiwan. App...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoNixon and Haldeman are still in Florida on the Monday after the break-in, so no tapes, and the published Haldeman diary has them thinking about George Wallace again; nothing at all there about Watergate (a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 15 hours ago*Sina Weibo, China's largest Twitter-like micro blogging platform, has introduced a membership charge for quality features. For a monthly fee of 10 yuan its 300 million users can include personalized pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Weakening Typhoon Guchol passed from Japan into the Pacific on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and one missing and bringing heavy rainfall and strong gusts to many areas mainly in east...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSanctions against Iran must "be toughened" unless Tehran negotiates seriously over its controversial nuclear programme, France has warned. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the EU should fully a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoJune 19 - Iran to hold more talks in Istanbul with world powers after failing to come to an agreement during two days of negotiations in Moscow. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIn a landmark vote, MPs last night ordered judges to stop granting foreign rapists and killers a ‘human right’ to stay in Britain. The motion – the first of its kind – was passed after the Commons heard t...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours agoNuke Pro has quite a few good articles on plutonium and uranium from Fukushima: Uranium and Plutonium Launched into Atmosphere Conclusion – Fukushima really blew up, launching TONS of Uranium and Plutoni...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"This was not one of the more spectacular of the APODs (Astronomy Pictures of the Day), but it caught my attention (click to enlarge). Two spiral galaxies, with rich dust lanes, one more tightly bound tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLOS CABOS, Mexico, June 19 (Reuters) - Italy put forward a proposal at a G20 summit in Mexico on Tuesday for the euro zone's rescue funds to start buying the debt of distressed European countries, and the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoDavid Cameron has refused to accept a letter about the Falkland Islands from Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the G20 summit in Mexico. The pair came face to face during the first...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLOS CABOS, Mexico — US President Barack Obama said Russia and China understood the dangers of a Syrian civil war but had not yet "signed on" to a plan to prod President Bashar al-Assad from power. Obama ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe euro fell, snapping yesterday’s gain, before Spain auctions bonds tomorrow with European leaders struggling to contain the region’s debt crisis. Demand for the dollar was limited amid speculation the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoOusted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak was on life support Tuesday after suffering a stroke in prison, officials said after conflicting reports emerged about the 84-year-old's deteriorating health. Mubarak...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*“On The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”* by Chet Raymo "I seem to remember that it was Lawrence Durrell, somewhere in the Alexandrian Quartet, who said: "Science is the poetry of the intellect, and poetr...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours agoSpeaking at press conference on March 25, 2011, Dr. Yablokov, author of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, warned of the potential scale of the Fukushima disaster g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Anti-poverty groups complained on Tuesday that Europe's troubles hijacked the G20 development agenda and pushed into the background its work on addressing poverty and food shortages in the worl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Canadian porn star suspected of killing and dismembering his lover has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, appeared by video link in a packed Montreal courtroom after being e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck CRETE, GREECE at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:06:04 UTC Wednesday 20th June 2012 The epicenter was 66 km (40.7 miles) Southeast of Palaíkastron, ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoWe never mentioned the DCCC National Grassroots Challenge here on *DWT*, mostly because anyone who voted was giving their e-mail address to the DCCC which will then use it to try to collect money to promo...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 16 hours agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 16 hours ago*Erin Weir is an economist with Canada's United Steelworkers. * *Mr. Weir was recently treated in what can only be described as McCarthyist fashion by the Harper Conservatives.*
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Time to withdraw some money and have some fun*: "Colleges, banks in card deals that are costly to students" May 30, 2012 WASHINGTON — As many as *900 colleges are pushing students into using payment card...
- posted by Josh Busby at The Duck of Minerva - 16 hours agoI just returned from a week long program at American University called Bridging the Gap: the International Policy Summer Institute (IPSI). Organized by the new Dean of AU's School of International Service ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA at a depth of 18 km (11.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:41:45 UTC Wednesday 20th June 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62.6 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:42:48 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (7.4 miles) Southeast of Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunami...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 32.5 km (20.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:28:47 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) North...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThousands of people are starving to death in North Korea's South Hwanghae Province even though it is the country's rice bowl, according to a defector. "Villages in remote mountains can resort to slash-and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA at a depth of 22.2 km (13.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:13:37 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 162 km (100 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck NEAR ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA at a depth of 21.7 km (13.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:56:53 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) WN...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck GUJARAT, INDIA at a depth of 22.5 km (14 miles), the quake hit at 20:14:05 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) NNW of Bhachau, India No Rep...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago*Why War? The reasons are endless. * Giving Americans And Muslims Reasons To Fight: 9/11, Al-Qaeda, Drones, And Counterinsurgency "Americans (especially media figures) have been so inculcated with a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE at a depth of 17.1 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:39:01 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 751 km (466 miles) Northwest of ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Thanks for wasting the taxpayer buck, government.* "a circus atmosphere.... a trial steeped in tabloid detail.... *No wonder it was in the paper so much. * "Acquittal, mistrial in Edwards case; Found no...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 17 hours agoReaders, I have been under attack over the last while from others in the real truth movement that say that I have been "soft" on failing in my articles to constantly hammer home and call the criminals by t...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 17 hours agoIts interesting to note how little we know about gravity.... -AK Holy levitating Slinky! June 19, 2012 From: http://kottke.org/12/06/holy-levitating-slinky In this series of slow motion clips, you can s...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 18 hours agoBreaking news....Enbridge pumping station leaks 400,000 litres from above ground pipeline... ______________________________________ *EDMONTON - Cleanup is underway after an oil spill Monday along Enbridg...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 18 hours agoWeb of Debt Ellen Brown When Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase Bank, appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on June 13, he was wearing cufflinks bearing the presidential seal. “Was Dimon trying to...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 18 hours agoI`m not quite sure what is going on here, perhaps NPA`s Peter Ladner has suffered a severe brain injury.. Peter Ladner was on with Simi Sara today and he wants the helmet law for cyclists removed...He cl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours agoPort-of-spain, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and TobagoThanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“Research Shows Wisdom May Indeed Increase With Age”* by Amanda Enayati Google "the aging brain" and you will find a largely sobering landscape of cognitive deterioration. ("Funny," said the dashing ol...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 18 hours agoMiami Heat head coach Eric Spoelstra, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and majority owner Micky Arison Last week, *The Nation*'s sports editor Dave Zirin presented a number of excellent arguments ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*VA Governor Bob spoke to the Washington Post from Sweden today expressing reservations about the way the firing of U. of Virginia President Terry Sullivan was handled.* *"I would have liked to see things...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Buying Life Experiences To Impress * *Others Removes Happiness Boost"* by San Francisco State University "Spending money on activities and events, such as concert tickets or exotic vacations, won't ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 19 hours ago** *Kenny mistakenly hits "reply all" and the CBSA mistakenly hits the record button* *Contributor: YYC* *Say "Tory" like you mean it ... **(lyrics)** * Jason Kenney’s foul-mouthed email reveals discord ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Beyond Reacting, Remembering to Pause"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "Remembering to pause and take a breath before we react can shift the energy of the outcome. We have all had the experience of r...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*They are back in the USraeli fold, folks.* "Egypt candidates file appeals, charge vote fraud; Could stoke more tension after vote" by Aya Batrawy | Associated Press, May 28, 2012 CAIRO - Overall, the ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 20 hours agoConsortium News Ann Wright Coleen Rowley For decades, Amnesty International has been a respected name in the cause of human rights, but its recent hiring of Suzanne Nossel, a longtime U.S. “humanitarian i...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 21 hours agoThe fruit trees in the chicken moat have been painted white up to about "hopping" height. Bugs climbing up the trunk face stiffer opposition from the hens against the white background. Also, I think, the...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours agoOne thing the GOPers apparently learned from the bruising presidential primaries is, don't do unscripted appearances, unless they're on really friendly ground like Fox. And especially try to avoid debate...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours agoSpencer v. Riesberry, 2012 ONCA 418 is a lengthy decision dealing with trusts and family law. In the decision the Court made a useful comment about the beneficiary's lack of property interest in the trust ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 22 hours ago*Guest post by Doug French, contributing writer at **Money Morning Australia ** * U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke continues to stand on a stack of Lord Keynes’ *General Theory* and proclaim th...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoTHE NEW YORKER has a fine article for you to ponder: Jonah Lehrer posted "Why Smart People Are Stupid" in the Frontal Cortex blog, in which it is noted that research shows that the smarter people are, the mo...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 22 hours agoWhen Memphis City Schools announced it would accept $90 million from Gates to "improve teacher quality," Supt. Kriner Cash blubbered, “This is huge, this is huge, this puts Memphis City Schools in very eli...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 22 hours agoHear the one about BP getting its business advice from Bain Capital? It's a hoot! And you may remember that I've long said from deadly serious evidence that they are not smart, just clever and vicious. And...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours agoCharlie reminded me that Voyager reached the end of our solar system and is about to venture into deep space. It was long trip. It started from Earth in 1977. I suppose Charlie and I aren't the only o...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAccording to news from Kyodo News on June 18th, after high school students from Ishikawa Prefecture who had recently participated in a school trip to China experienced diarrhea, fever, and other symptoms ...
- Joe Barton And Bernie Sanders Are Both Members Of Congress But They're As Different As Night And Day
posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoDo you remember when a Texas congressman apologized to BP over the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf that did so much damage to the economies of the Gulf states? It was Joe Barton, who's been representin... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoSteve Pinker is an evolutionary psychologist, a great thinker, a popular author, an impressive speaker (I remember one of his talks about the evolutionary explanation of the religion: it was cool), and als...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Fukushima Near Center Of 150 MPH Super Typhoon Forecast Track" * By Evan Duffey, Meteorologist, Accuweather ․ "Guchol, a tropical cyclone in the western Pacific, rapidly strengthened Saturday afternoon...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Ideas on the US Empire"* by Bill Bonner "We went to a delightful garden party in Washington. Everybody had an idea. Some smart. Some stupid. These were bright, well-educated people. Many had gone to...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"One on One with Karl Denninger"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Forget about the outcome of the Greek elections. The only thing that matters, according to Karl Denninger of Market-ticker.org, is ma...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Fed: But Ponzis NEVER Run Out Of Suckers!"* by Karl Denninger "I need a new keyboard; my current one just succumbed to spat coffee... "The U.S. recovery is hobbled by an economic divide that separate...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Great Correction Continues Correcting"* by Bill Bonner "Overpaid b**tards! You gotta love this Great Correction. It’s gotten so much bad press. And so many people trying to stop it. But it just ...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoThe MV Alead. The ship supposedly filled with “attack helicopters”. This ship originated in Kaliningrad, Russia was purported to have been reportedly stopped dead in it’s tracks, unable to provide Syria ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Anthony Hargrove's statement on NFL's evidence against Saints players*
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoWhile Ecuador decides whether to grant Assange asylum, he is under the protection of Ecuador Update Wednesday: London police say Assange will be arrested if he leaves Ecuadorian Embassy: http://www.theglobe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 70.6 km (43.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:26:44 UTC Tuesday 19th June 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) Northwest of Kota Ternate, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWikileaks founder Julian Assange has sought political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according to the South American nation's foreign minister. Mr Assange has been fighting extradition from t...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Mark Schleifstein to remain at The Sometimes Picayune * Folks, This morning, I delivered my signed job offer/application to the management of the new Nola Media Group. The decision to stay was difficult fo...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoAny public school with such a record of abuse, corruption, and anti-social malfeasance would have been shut years ago. From the Oakland Tribune: The head of an Oakland charter school organization that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRescuers said 58 people were still missing two days after a wooden boat sank off eastern Indonesia -- revising sharply upwards the number of people on board the vessel. "The latest update we have so far ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJakarta – Three people were killed and 10 missing on Tuesday after they were buried in a landslide caused by heavy rain in eastern Indonesia, a rescue official said. “Heavy rains in Ambon city, Maluku pr...
- posted by Vikash Yadav at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago[*Spoiler Alert*: Obviously, you shouldn't read this post if you want to see the movie unfiltered.] Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" (2012) is a film about creation, abortion, and redemptive self-sacrifice. A...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*All holding hands in a circle?* "Women protesters in Egypt are assaulted; Attackers invade rally against sex harassment" by Aya Batrawy | Associated Press, June 09, 2012 CAIRO - A *mob of hundreds of m...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoA guest post from my friend, Jules Calagui, collated from one of his recent facebook status updates. Photos below, I just added. *Health and Personal Responsibility* by Jules Calagui I don’t eat McDona...
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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Mouthpiece lost one of their closest allies. * *What do you mean he's not dead yet?* "Hosni Mubarak: from war hero to prisoner; Once ‘father of the nation,’ now a reviled criminal" by Robert H. Reid | ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Arab Spring of revolution has given rise to a new summer of concern in North Africa. While Moammar Gadhafi is gone, the weapons used by the rebels who overthrew him are now a threat to the whole regi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJerusalem (CNN) -- A Palestinian mosque in the village of Jabaa was vandalized and partially set on fire early Tuesday morning, Israeli and Palestinian officials said, with both sides suspecting Israeli s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMexico City (CNN) -- A new barter market in Mexico City is helping residents trade their trash for food in an effort to reduce the mountain of waste produced by the mega city. Mexico City's huge, infamou...
- posted by Josh Busby at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago*This was the tone of an op-ed I pitched regarding the Rio+20 environmental summit. Below the fold, I offer a slightly more nuanced argument ...* Rio+20, the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agowmode="transparent" height="374" width="416"> (CNN) -- The head of the failing U.N. observer mission to Syria is planning to brief the Security Council on Tuesday as diplomats intensify their efforts to e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- At the Group of 20 summit in Mexico, President Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin had their first face-to-face meeting since Putin resumed the Russian presidency in May. The joint statement they iss...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Cash isn't just king. For some money managers, it has become jack, queen and ace, too. With the Greek election failing to eliminate fears about the euro zone's stability and the Chinese and U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron has refused to accept a letter about the Falkland Islands from Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the G20 summit in Mexico. More follows...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Though it didn't win last weekend's election, Greece's fast-rising radical leftist leader says his party has won the argument against the austerity measures keeping Greece in the eurozone and ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Egyptians claim bias at US group" by Brett J. Blackledge | Associated Press, June 04, 2012 WASHINGTON - About two months before Egyptian police stormed the offices of US-backed democracy organizations ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLONDON, June 19 (UPI) -- A ship reportedly carrying refurbished Russian attack helicopters to Syria has turned back to Russia, Britain's foreign secretary said Tuesday. "I am pleased that the ship that wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussian and Syrian officials dismissed as provocation on Tuesday Iranian media reports that Iran, Russia, China and Syria are to conduct joint military exercises in Syria next month. Iran's semi-official ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoI'll get to more of the narrative later, but I want to separately mark the anniversary of the greatest spin ever: Ron Ziegler's line that the Watergate break-in was a "third-rate burglary attempt." It's p...
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- Our Government (and mainstream media) is controlled by enemies of the 99%, both foreign and domestic
posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day ago(above chart on right: the U.S. spends more on BOMBING than all other countries in the world combined, and half the U.S. budget is BOMBING vs health care, education, and all public domestic spending com... - posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government will carry out the nation’s first civil training against potential nationwide blackouts on Thursday at 2 p.m. for 20 minutes, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Knowledge Economy and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith the U.S. and Iran again sitting down at the negotiating table in Moscow this week, this is the perfect moment for Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett to lay out just how the Obama administration...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEW DELHI, June 19 (Reuters) - India's Bharat Petroleum Corp has made its first payment for Iranian oil in rupees, two industry sources said on Tuesday, becoming the first refiner to use a payment channel...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI used to be one of *those *moms. You know, the mother who treasured childhood and wanted her child to have sugar, sweets and everything nice. Fruit snacks? Check. Pop-Tarts? Breakfast of champions. Oreos?...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoIndian women take on the sex-selective abortion issue. Mumbai (AsiaNews/Agencies) - About 225 women, members of the first all-female village council (gram sabha) of Haryana, have decided to set up vigilan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran and world powers blamed each other today for the lack of progress in talks on Tehran's nuclear programme. The stalemate has dimmed hopes of a breakthrough which it was hoped would avert the threat o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - World leaders tried on Tuesday to convince financial markets that Europe can move fast enough toward a major overhaul of its banking systems that could help fix its debt crisis and restore conf...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoChandra Muzaffar - Nile Bowie GRTV - NileBowie.blogspot.com June 20, 2012
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Turns out I was wrong**, readers: * "Ohio still pivotal turf in presidential race; 4 years later, economy rules" by Brian MacQuarrie | Globe staff, June 19, 2012 TOLEDO, Ohio - As grateful as autoworke...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA British space company has announced details of a plan to take people to the moon for the first time since 1972. Excalibur Almaz is offering members of the public a passport to orbit the moon - but bud...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoToday at 11am (PT), Digby will be leading a live-blogging session at Crooks and Liars with Darcy Burner, Blue America's favorite Washingtonian-- the gorgeous state up north, not the cesspool back East. So...
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