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By The Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry
A recent eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune chronicled how more than half of Louisiana’s 40,000 inmates are housed in prisons run by sheriffs or private companies as part of a broader financial incentive scheme. The detention business goes beyond just criminal prisoners.
As a Huffington Post investigation pointed out last month, nearly half of all immigrant detainees are now held in privately run detention facilities. Just this week, the New York Times delved into lax oversight at industrial-sized but privately run halfway houses in New Jersey.Two-Thirds of America Doesn't Really Know What Fracking Is
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CONFIRMED: US CIA Arming Terrorists in Syria
- by Tony Cartalucci - 2012-06-22
The West, led by the US and its Gulf State proxies, have been arming terrorists, while berating the Syrian government for "violating" a UN mandated ceasefire and for "failing to protect" its population.
America Could Have Dropped Big Oil Decades Ago -- What Happened?
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck NEVADA at a depth of 11.2 km (7 miles), the quake hit at 03:51:56 UTC Saturday 23rd June 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) NNW from Incline Village-Crystal Bay, N... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy killed his carer by stabbing her ten times in a frenzied attack after he was grounded and banned from playing on his Xbox. The teenager, who cannot be named, was originally accused of mu... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 minutes ago
*THREE SNIPPETS OF REVENGE (EACH PERFORMED THREE TIMES)* *(1)* Hell's revenge seethes in my heart! Death and despair burn all around me. *(2)* Ha Ha! Ha, what a moment! I will have my revenge! Your fa... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the BANDA SEA at a depth of 51.1 km (31.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:29:36 UTC Saturday 23rd June 2012 The epicenter was 224 km (139 miles) ESE from Ambon, Moluccas, ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
Former US college football coach Jerry Sandusky has been found guilty of 45 out of 48 counts of child sex abuse. Sandusky, 68, denied 48 counts of abusing 10 boys over 15 years. He is expected to appeal ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes ago
Paraguay's Congress has removed President Fernando Lugo from office after a rapid impeachment trial - which he said was tantamount to a coup but pledged to accept. Mr Lugo was found guilty of mishandling... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes ago
Human rights campaigners claim the Indian government is not doing nearly enough to stamp out child slavery despite a number of raids by the authorities in recent months. They say too many youngsters are ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck UTAH at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 02:26:03 UTC Saturday 23rd June 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) SSE of Washington, Utah No Reports of Dama... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:18:58 UTC Saturday 23rd June 2012 The epicenter was 1196 km (743 miles) Southwest... - posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 46 minutes ago
I have had several inquiries as to why I call the illegal and criminal US/Israeli war on Syria the "Syrian Detour"... It is actually quite simple: The war on Syria by these two criminal entities is a mome... - posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 hour ago
A hectic work schedule has meant putting off many things I'd like to get done, one of them being some much needed pruning of the backyard tree. It looks amazing when it blooms but had slowly accumulated a ... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Who knows what could be in that burger you are eating....* "FDA seeks limits to antibiotics in animal feed; Plan would ask for cooperation from drug firms" by Dina ElBoghdady | Washington Post, April ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour agoI put up an article in this blog a few days ago that gave a very shocking revelation about how the Japanese government was provided with radiation data from the United States within days of the initial dis...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoAlternative voices from Rio+20 Aljazeera While world leaders negotiate in the Rio+20 meeting halls, thousands of activists have launched 'The People's Summit'. Preethi Nallu ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoThe big news this week? Roger Clemens, not going to jail. A few points: * As long as there's a shortage of prosecutor time and courtroom time -- in other words, always -- decisions about who to indict are...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour ago*ALEC Is a Campaign Issue* *Hallelujah!* I wish I could find a bundle of these to show you - but the search parameters are kinda tough. I will share them as I find them usually in groups. A little snip f...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour agoI have been harping for the longest time in all of my articles about how bad things are in the United States, especially when it comes to its own government being nothing more than traitors to the American...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, w...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"100 Years of Solitude"* By Hal Crowther "A US study (published in January 2010) found that eight to 18 year-olds log an average daily exposure of just under 11 hours of electronic media. An increase...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Bonuses at GSA draw fire in Capitol" by Lisa Rein and Timothy R. Smith | Washington Post, June 06, 2012 WASHINGTON - The General Services Administration has come under fire from congressional critics w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoTrevor Jones, “The Last Of The Mohicans” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqoFrNhrmoY&feature=watch_response
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*I like to have a smoke** after dinner**, so.... * "Deportation officer accused of smuggling marijuana" October 20, 2011|Associated Press PHOENIX - A *deportation officer with US Immigration and Customs E...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*by Ken* In the current (June 25) issue of *The New Yorker*, Ezra Klein has a really interesting piece that's misleadingly titled "Unpopular Mandate: Why do politicians reverse their positions?." Oh, it ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 hours agoFrom Egypt to Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood does the West's bidding - now joined by overt State Department fronts. *by Tony Cartalucci ** * *June 23, 2012* - Were anyone to still believe the rhetoric of t...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours agoI've crossed the 59th Street bridge many times in my life. If memory serves, there was always a few squeeqee guys lurking at the traffic light at the end. And there was a whole long block full of motorcyle...
- posted by Laura Sjoberg at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours agoAnne-Marie Slaughter's recent *Atlantic *article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," has stirred up a fair amount of controversy in the last couple of days. Dozens of my Facebook friends have posted and ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*I hear the kids** like it*: "US school districts refusing to order beef with ‘pink slime’" by Candice Choi | Associated Press, June 06, 2012 NEW YORK - The *nation’s school districts* are *turning up t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago“Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact dwarf g...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours agoColombian Embassy serves up coffee to journalists outside Ecuador Embassy in London Friday, where Wikileaks Julian Assange has sought refuge. Twitter photo borrowed from RT London Bureau. By Brenda Norrel...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"Extensive Water In Mars' Interior,* * Vast Reservoirs Of Water Underground"* By Alton Parrish "Until now, Earth was the only planet known to have vast reservoirs of water in its interior. Scientists a...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoThere were 1,738 Justices for the whole of England in 1580. Chosen by the Lord Chancellor they did much the same work as they do today -- except they also did most criminal and family law trials. General...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Angels and Devils, Part 2"* by Chet Raymo "Ah, yes, I ended on a self-congratulatory note yesterday, my better angels in ascendancy. Then no sooner did I pat myself on the back than I read something...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 5 hours agoMormons are Christians. While many other sects of Christians dispute this fact, people are allowed to define themselves. Mormons insist that they are Christians; therefore, they are. It is true that Mor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoComo, Lombardia, Italy. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"How To Behave Like A Fool"* by Paulo Coelho "Mullah Nasrudin (the central figure in almost all tales of the Sufi tradition) had already become a sort of attraction at the main market in the town. W...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 5 hours agoHere is the *NY Times* obituary of the great monetary economist.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it. Because...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*Just test-marketing the post. * * *"Man held in deaths of twins, baby sitter SELMA - An Alabama man was held Saturday on charges of fatally shooting 9-year-old twins and their 73-year-old baby sitter. Pr...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Japanese climbers caught in avalanche TALKEETNA - Four members of a Japanese climbing team are presumed dead after an avalanche swept them off a hill on Mount McKinley. National Park Service officials sa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Let's put the Wall Street bank robbers in the cells!* "1962 Alcatraz escape remains a mystery" June 10, 2012 NEW YORK -- Alcatraz, an aging, 12-acre prison whose crumbling concrete and deteriorated plum...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 6 hours agoEd Miliband, the son of Holyhoax 'survivors' - surprise surprise - has given a speech condemning Immigration. As leader of the Labour Party, his condemnation of immigration is somewhat rich, considering ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Annie Oakley gained fame in the 1880s and 1890s for her shooting skills as a performer in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. She died in 1926 at 66 but has remained a pop culture icon."
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoIt's almost time in the Watergate blogging to get to the smoking gun tape; I did an item about it over at PP today. And at Greg's place, I posted about the Montana Republican Senate candidate who is runni...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*I'll let you do it, readers*: ‘Antiques Roadshow’ draws fans in Boston" *Related*: Brimfield is best known for its sprawling antique show
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Must have been a glitch in the voting machine*: "GOP focuses on Obama in bid for Giffords' seat" by Kevin Freking and Walter Berry Associated Press / June 10, 2012 PHOENIX—Republicans are focusing on Pr...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 6 hours agoHelp Us Transmit This Story Add to Your Blogger Account Put it On Facebook Tweet this post Print it from your printer Email and a collection of other outlets Try even more services
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours agoScottish Duke of Atholl visits with Patrick, celebrating 250th anniversary of town of Athol *Related*: Scots investigate Legionnaires’ outbreak *Also see: Adding Insult to Injury* *Globe In the Valley: ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThree Palestinians were reported injured following an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip late Friday night. The IAF conducted a second strike on Beit Lahiya. No injuries were reported there. According t...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSaudi officials are preparing to pay the salaries of the Free Syria Army as a means of encouraging mass defections from the military and increasing pressure on the Assad regime, the Guardian has learned. ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago*Say No To The Murderous Syrian Opposition. Say No To Sharia Law. Say No To The CIA. Photo: Al-Akhbar.* "The pattern of Washington working in unison with multinational, cross-border armed extremists ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours agoPolitico suspended one its reporters for telling the truth about Mitt Romney. The big honchos justified the suspension by claiming he made "numerous disparaging and vulgar comments" about the Romneybot but...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*It's the final letter of the alphabet (smile).* "Australia deemed world’s happiest nation" Bloomberg News, May 24, 2012 SYDNEY - Australia is the *world’s happiest nation* based on criteria including inc...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoIn her new-- first, in fact-- television ad, Rep. Tammy Baldwin, a fair trade (as opposed to "free" trade) advocate has been reported to have gone after China. But that isn't really the point of her ad. ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoAh, I see that Nerdfight has flared up again (be sure to look at comments on the first of those). I'll just mention that I think Nate Silver really overstates his case about the failures of the objective i...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*It's the Gandhi way.* "Bahrain orders retrial for hunger striker, others" by Reem Khalifa Associated Press / April 30, 2012 MANAMA, Bahrain—A Bahrain court Monday ordered retrials for a prominent *hunger...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago*NFLPA asks NFL to re-start Saints investigation from scratch.*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 7 hours agoRay Bradbury was a particularly favored writer by my set in high school and college. We loved it when his stories were featured on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and his own show The Martian Chr...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoDennis Overbye of the New York Times wrote one of the articles about the possible announcement of the discovery of the God particle at ICHEP 2012 in Melbourne between July 4th and July 11th: New Data on...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"America’s Long Slope Down"* By David Cay Johnston "A broad swath of official economic data shows that America and its people are in much worse shape than when we paid higher taxes, higher interest r...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours agoApparently it was "take your dog to work day." I'm such a pushover for this pup just have to post the photo. [Original photo] [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:10:37 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 244 km (151 miles) ESE of Chi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*They went wild and destroyed the world economy with this behavior*: "AIG files lawsuit seeking $10b from Bank of America; Cites losses due to bad mortgages" August 09, 2011|By Peter Svensson, Associated ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 8 hours agoThere will be a good international forum/seminar on "Promoting Markets in Healthcare" this coming September. A good friend, the Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"America’s Hyper-Patriots"* by Walter Brasch "It’s midway between Flag Day and Independence Day. That means several million copies of full-page flags printed on cheap newsprint, June 14, have been burn...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"The Vietnam War and the Struggle For Truth"* by John Grant "Vietnam, a story of virtually unmitigated disasters that we have inflicted on ourselves and even more on others." – Bernard Brodie, 1973 ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoIf you want to see how hard it can be to get an opponent of Israel to admit the truth, then take a look at my tweet conversation with @aarondellaria today. He called me a liar over this blogpost but couldn...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoU.S. intelligence agencies are closely watching Israel’s military for signs it will conduct strikes on Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons, amid concerns the deadly nerve agents could fall under the co...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoPublished on Friday, June 22, 2012 by Common Dreams *What About Some Corporate Patriotism!* by Ralph Nader SNIPS What would happen if we asked the executives of the giant U.S. corporations, whose produ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoPublished on Friday, June 22, 2012 by The New York Times *Prisons,Privatization, Patronage* *by Paul Krugman * SNIPS So what’s really behind the drive to privatize prisons, and just about everything els...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTurkey has lost a warplane over the Mediterranean, but its prime minister says he cannot confirm reports that Syria shot it down. Turkey's military earlier announced it had lost contact with the F4 jet w...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJefferson County Public Health has confirmed that a squirrel from the Idledale area has tested positive for bubonic plague. Plague is a highly infectious bacterial disease carried by various types of wild...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago Military blocks Indigenous Peoples march delivering Kari-Oca Declaration to Rio+20 on June 21. A small delegation delivered the declaration upholding the rights of nature and opposing carbon markets scam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLegislation enacted by the Diet on June 20 to establish a new nuclear regulatory panel in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns contains an appendix revising the Atomic Energy Basic Law to read that ...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 10 hours agoThere have been two recent stories about strippers and discrimination in the news lately. Sarah Tressler is a journalist who worked her way through journalism school stripping. Her newspaper employer fire...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHere's what it takes to make a deadly virus transmissible through the air: as few as five genetic mutations, according to a new study. This research, published in the journal Science, is the second of tw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBaghdad (CNN) -- A roadside bomb exploded in a busy outdoor market in northeastern Baghdad Friday morning leaving six people dead and 52 others wounded, police said. The incident occurred in the al-Hussei...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- Rescuers have saved 110 people from a ship that capsized in the waters between Australia and Indonesia and are searching for the many missing, an Australian official said Friday. The boat, that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAthens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece's incoming finance minister, Vassilis Rapanos, was admitted to a hospital Friday for tests, a day after he was appointed to the key government role, hospital officials confi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLuxembourg (Financial Times) -- The International Monetary Fund on Thursday challenged Berlin's game plan for pulling the eurozone out of its crisis by advocating a series of short-term fixes that the Ger...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*I didn't attend**, but Globe promoting it even though *they rarely, if ever, make profit. "Massachusetts life sciences initiative brings fewer jobs than expected; Patrick says effort curtailed by downtur...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours ago*Weekend of secrecy for big GOP donors * (CBS News) It's going to be a big weekend in the world of big conservative money: Both Mitt Romney and billionaire industrialist brothers David and Charles Koc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCairo (CNN) -- Egypt's military rulers said they won't reverse their widely deplored constitutional and judicial changes and warned politicians to keep a lid on election-related unrest on Friday. The Supr...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAi Weiwei's official probation period may have ended, but the internationally-renowned artist and political dissident is pessimistic about his pending tax evasion case and the rule of law in China. "I f...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - As evidence mounts of Islamic militant forces among the Syrian opposition, senior U.S. and European officials are increasingly alarmed by the prospect of sophisticated weapons falling into the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Elite Afghan police backed by NATO forces ended a 12-hour siege on Friday at a popular lakeside hotel outside Kabul, leaving at least 20 dead after Taliban gunmen stormed the lakeside building...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTurkey's government has called an emergency security meeting amid reports that one of its fighter jets was shot down by Syrian security forces. The Turkish military earlier said it had lost contact with a...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours agoWe are told that Ed Miliband has admitted that his party "got it wrong" on immigration when in government. Apparently he has said that Gordon Brown and Tony Blair should not have allowed uncontrolled immig...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoThe DCCC had hardly finished celebrating their win in Arizona-- holding Gabby Gifford's old seat with her ConservaDem former staffer Ron Barber-- when Barber was sworn in and was one of only 16 Democrats ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA Wilmington judge Friday denied the release of a 15-year-old boy charged with first-degree murder in the death of a food delivery driver. Chief District Court Judge J.H. Corpening ordered that Mustafaa ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoStatement of Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL) RIO + 20 Shell Oil and the Arctic http://indigenous4motherearthrioplus20.org/greenpeace-redoil-presser-on-shell-arctic-cam...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*UPDATE:* *The Russian Times, speaking with local correspondents as witnesses, reports that 2 Turkish warplanes approached Syrian territory, of which one was shot down, with the pilots taken into Syrian c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTurkey prime minister Tayyip Erdogan says Syria has apologised over a Turkish fighter jet amid reports it was shot down. Turkey's military earlier announced it had lost contact with the plane while it wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA huge North Korean flag disappeared behind a tower of flames and thick black smoke as South Korean fighter jets and U.S. attack helicopters fired rockets in the allies' biggest joint live-fire drills sin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoJapan’s recent amendment to its atomic energy law is rekindling fears about its formidable nuclear and missile technologies that experts say could quickly turn it into an atomic weapons power. Its parli...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours agoOne of the most important things you can do with your child, is help them develop their fine motor skills. Fine motor movement requires use of the small muscles in the fingers and wrists and fine ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPOCHEON, South Korea (AP) - The United States and South Korea are holding massive live-fire drills meant as a warning against North Korean aggression. Friday's one-day drills south of the heavily armed Ko...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours agoFind actual (complete) press release here. See two news coverages below. ------------------------------ PRESS RELEASE May 22, 2012, 5:45 p.m. EDT ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck TARAPACA, CHILE at a depth of 115 km (71.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:03:50 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (69.4 miles) Southeast of Iquique, Chil...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMore people evacuated by the most destructive fire in Colorado history are set to return home today. It's the second wave of evacuees allowed back in two days as firefighters ramp up their attack on the ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoGay activists from Philadelphia reportedly posed for pictures while giving the middle finger to a portrait of former President Ronald Reagan during a recent trip to the White House, according to Philadelp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe leaders of the eurozone's four top economies have agreed the European Union should boost growth by adopting a series of measures worth about 130bn euro. Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, German Ch...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agohttp://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/06/the-unforgettable-fire/all/1/
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- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoWestmount (City) v. Rossy, 2012 SCC 30 was just released. It holds that it is enough that an accident leading to injuries take place where someone is inside a motor vehicle (even if the accident is not dir...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoA reader named Cristian has sent me a link to the following 1-minute video produced by the European Commission, a sort of a federal government of Europe (thanks!): They even created a special domain for...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoNavajo Grassroots push council to take final step to oppose the water settlement Council will soon make a decision on the Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Agreement By Ron Milf...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 12 hours agoWhen the WikiLeaks cables first burst upon the scene in November 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned and deplored their publication until she was blue in the face. But now that she's had a c...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012* *Did flying in Ensler make sense:* For whatever reason, Candidate Romney seems to be on the move in Michigan. For news on the polling, click here. Michigan no longer looks like a l...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoFrom *Mother Jones*, of all places. Gayle Falkenthal comments.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours agoOh, my - - - - - - - They just can’t keep their mouths shut and they honestly think that people are just going to take ALEC’s word for everything. Not so much anymore – now that we know they have a tende...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours ago*dashTHIRTYdash Sets Groundwork for Distributing Donations*
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours agoThe answer is apparently 'no' but it sure looks like it does!
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 13 hours agoThis might not be a popular post. I don't want to come off all Marxist here and privilege economic oppression as the worst and most important form of oppression. I think what I want to do is warn people th...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 13 hours ago*Capital New York * *Reid Pillifant* *Hakeem Jeffries and Charles Barron.**The fear that Charles Barron might actually win next week's primary for a Brooklyn-Queens congressional seat has triggered a floo...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012* *Part 4—Off to the Hamptons:* Do we the people ever know squat? About squadoodle, that is? Repeatedly, no—we do not. The mainstream press takes a loose approach to matters of subs...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 13 hours agoBoo-hoo-hoo. An anti-abortion group in Ohio is facing a significant shortfall in the number of signatures needed to ask voters in the presidential battleground this fall whether the state constitution sho...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: This class 2 brine disposal well in western Louisiana, near the Texas border, is among the 680,000 waste and injection wells across the U.S. Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have in...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 13 hours agoWar Is a Crime Stephen Lendman Homs MassacreOn June 21, The New York Times headlined "CIA Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition," saying: Operating covertly from southern Turkey, CIA operative...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours agoContact: Janet Lathrop, 413-545-0444 21 June 2012 AMHERST, Massachusetts – First analyses of the longest sediment core ever collected on land in the terrestrial Arctic, published this week in *Science ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoYesterday I wrote that people should have to put their right wing credentials up front and in your face when publishing anything and today I have to state that again. (Oh, by the way - I am a liberal - s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*I'll give you one gue$$ who is taking a bath in the harbor, taxpayers: * "State Street latest to win tax break on the waterfront" by Casey Ross | Globe Staff, June 11, 2012 Boston officials plan to giv...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 14 hours agoWashington Times *Jon Norwood* *DALLAS,* June 21st, 2012 — Heydar Moslehi, the Iranian Intelligence Minister, claimed on Thursday that a planned cyber-attack against their nuclear facilities was detected...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 14 hours agoWriting in the FT earlier this week, economist John Kay discussed absolute and relative definitions of poverty. On the absolute: People who struggle to find enough food to eat are poor. The World Bank’s...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago*A public petition is circulating asking the authorities not to restart Nuke plant 2. Here is one of the graphics.* Chen Shui-bian won the case in a lawsuit over the Longtan Land sale. According to the p...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: An electric barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal southwest of Chicago in Romeoville, Illinois, is in place to keep Asian carp from swimming upstream and into Lake Michigan. The barrier ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoAlmost 7 years later, a federal judge rules. From Campbell Robertson for the NYTimes: NEW ORLEANS — As much as some may wish otherwise, there is no starting from scratch when rebuilding a city, or a sch...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 14 hours ago------------------------------ *One on One with Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ 11 June 2012 Dr. Paul Craig Roberts *By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com* There has been plenty of...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: A man wades out on a submerged pier as tropical storm Mawar hits near suburban Navotas City northwest of Manila, Philippines on 2 June 2012. AP] By NEAL PEIRCE, Times-Dispatch 17 June 2012 HO...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*“Prophet of Katrina” stays put ~Curtis Brainard, Columbia Journalism Review * *Piling troubles, erosion worry levee authority officials ~Mark Schleifstein ** * *Video: Dr. Ivor van Heerden - The inside st...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Food insecurity in West Africa, June 2012. One-and-a-half-million children are in imminent danger of starvation in West Africa, according to The United Nations Children's Fund, despite recent ple...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 14 hours agoZengardner Here’s the latest installment of an escalating disinformation campaign to “acclimate” the populace to the aerial spraying program under way for years in many parts of the world. An increasing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoRBS Group has told Sky News that the technical glitch affecting NatWest and RBS accounts will not be resolved until Monday at the earliest. As a result, the banks plan on opening branches for an extended...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Donald Faison, 38. Some good stuff: 1. Excellent news: with the top spot at Commerce once again vacant, Matt Yglesias has revived his always-fun history of Secretaries of Commerce. Only...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 15 hours agoBusiness Insider Michael Kelley A worker for the international Red Cross was killed by a bomb dropped from the sky on Tuesday while undertaking humanitarian work in the Abyan province of Yemen, BBC repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 12:30:19 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 254 km (157 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 14.6 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:12:49 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 190 km (118 miles)...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoPerhaps you know of deranged right-wing extremist and self-loathing anti-Semite David Yerushalmi, who "has suggested that Caucasians are inherently more receptive to republican forms of government than bl...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoThis must be a huge *Skip It!* for most readers, but I write this blog for myself as much as anyone else, and I must have a record of all my travels. And so... This trip had a dual purpose - friends and b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoHe cost Germany's social services department thousands after making them believe he had lived rough in a forest for five years. But now 20-year-old Robin van Helsum aka 'Forest Boy' may have to pay back ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA man who dressed up as a clown and entertained at children's parties was arrested after child porn was found on his home computer, police said. Thomas Harold Morgan, or 'Sondance the Clown', was taken fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSevere flooding continued in Minnesota's south on Thursday while flood-ravaged Duluth started the slow clean up after two of the area's wettest days in history. Hundreds of residents who were evacuated f...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*Gue$$ who i$ the lantern, taxpayers: * "Mass. Senate OK’s $49m MBTA bailout; Plan would avert bigger hikes, cuts" by Eric Moskowitz | Globe Staff, June 20, 2012 The state Senate agreed Tuesday to *tap ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA ranger plunged more than 3,000 feet to his death yesterday as he helped rescue four injured climbers who had fallen down a crevasse. Mount Rainier ranger Nick Hall was helping to prepare the climbers to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe desperate search continues for the wealthy Brazilian-born, Jewish philanthropist who has been missing since Wednesday after his motorboat washed ashore in Fort Lauderdale, as it has been revealed that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTwo parents were jailed after pleading guilty to abusing and neglecting their five children, leaving their youngest son starved to the brink of death. Andy and Jessie Meeks, both 25, were each sentenced ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA woman who tried to sell her baby outside a Walmart store is going to prison for four years after she asked a judge to lock her up. Samantha Tomasini, of Salinas, said that she would probably violate her...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHIV infections are on the rise among heterosexual, African-American women with rates of the disease higher in areas of poverty. The cases of HIV have dramatically grown in Washington, DC with rates doubl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoJerry Sandusky's own adopted son has dramatically accused him of abuse as a jury deliberates over scores of sex abuse charges against the former Penn State coach. A lawyer for Matt Sandusky said the man ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSouth Korean jets and U.S. attack helicopters set the skies alight today as the two nations conducted spectacular live fire drills which were the biggest since the Korean War. The 'war games' and huge ex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMore Democratic superdelegates are boycotting their party’s convention in North Carolina amid fears that any association with President Barack Obama will doom them to defeat in November. Representatives ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago*From HuffPo yesterday* *Nancy Pelosi Says Contempt Vote Against Eric Holder Is Really About Voter Suppression* Posted: 06/21/2012 4:54 pm Updated: 06/21/2012 6:15 pm WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDisgraced former police officer Michael Pena has pleaded guilty to raping a teacher at gunpoint - three months after a hung-jury in New York failed to convict him. Wearing an orange prison shirt and pant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA 400-pound woman was arrested after stripping completely naked at a bus stop. Portly Patricia McCollum was charged with exposure of sexual organs in public and held on a $100 bond following her arrest i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA man who killed his daughter by attacking her with a baseball bat as she was sleeping pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday. Robert Kelly went into the bedroom of his 20-year-old daughter M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWombats might have a reputation as comical, clumsy creatures - but you would not be laughing if you came across an oversized, 2.8-tonne version. Australian scientists unveiled the biggest-ever graveyard o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIce may lie scattered across up to a quarter of the surface of a crater on the moon. NASA spotted bright illuminations in images returned from the Shackleton crater, which is located on the moon's South ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA supermarket worker who was also the leader of an international paedophile ring raped children as young as five before trading videos of the horrific abuse online, a court heard today. Darren Leggett, 3...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA woman, her boyfriend and their friend who battered another woman and forced her to clean up her own blood in an hour-long ordeal have been jailed. Paula Donaghy and boyfriend Mark Green, along with acc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 3.8 earthquake has rattled central western New South Wales this evening. Geoscience Australia says the epicentre was 20 kilometres north of Boorowa and 40 kilometres north-east of Young. It ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours agoThe trailer for the film '40 Shades of Grey' from Irish film maker Nicky Larkin. Here's Nicky Larkin's op-ed piece from the Irish Independent re the background to his film: 'I used to hate Israel. I us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDays after the stomach-churning video of a grown man getting spanked for sleeping with another man's daughter became a YouTube sensation, the identities of them men in the clip have been revealed. The vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAs a surfer and lifesaving instructor, Martin Kane was all too aware of the dangers lurking beneath the waves. But he still wasn't prepared for a three metre shark attacking his surf ski and taking a hug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA self-styled psychic who persuaded women to strip to enhance their chances of contacting the dead told a client to perform ‘like a porn star’, a court has heard. Karl Lang is said to have ‘brainwashed’ ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice are investigating the suspicious death of a man on the NSW north coast. The 54-year-old man's body was found in River St, Broadwater, on Thursday afternoon. Police would not confirm News Ltd repo...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoLabour's Shadow Schools Minister Kevin Brennan makes a ridiculous mistake in the House of Commons - stating that 3 out of 10 is 60% as he tries to ridicule a Conservative's mathematical ability. This vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAdverse findings have been recommended against three senior state school and hostel officials over a suspected child sex abuse cover-up in Western Australia. The findings follow a special inquiry into sex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Victorian Government has released details of where it will cut more than 3,500 public sector jobs. The job cuts were first flagged in December last year and confirmed in the May budget. The highest ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe State Emergency Service (SES) is expecting floodwaters to recede slowly south-east of Melbourne this evening, but homes still remain at risk of isolation. More residents in Koo Wee Rup and nearby com...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSouth Australian police have hit back at statements by Liberal Senator Mary Jo Fisher that the police prosecution service was dogged and deliberate in its attempts to lengthen her trial. Senator Fisher w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHomeowners and businesses faced the threat of higher borrowing costs last night after Britain’s biggest banks suffered humiliating downgrades to their credit ratings. Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoJust as the Zombie threat appears to finally be lifting it seems America could be at the mercy of an even deadlier menace. A mob of vicious Leprechauns are carrying out punishment beatings in and around t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBritain is being sued by the European Commission in a long-running legal stink over an unpaid garlic bill for £15million. The EU launched court action last night after an ultimatum to Britain to settle t...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours ago*Source: La Nacion (Chile) Date: 20 June 2012-06-22* *CHILE: Aeronautical Administration Launches UFO Website* The Dirección General de Aeronautica Civil (DGAC – General Office of Civil Aeron...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA heart doctor who secretly filmed female colleagues naked in the shower has been struck off the medical register. Cardiologist Vivek Baliga was convicted of three charges of voyeurism after he admitted ...
- RBS-NatWest banking meltdown stretches into second day leaving Millions Unable to Access their Money
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe computer meltdown at NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland that meant millions could not access their salaries has stretched to a second day, despite assurances from the banks. The systems disaster mean... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoActa faces defeat … Lawmakers from the leftist Palikot's Movement cover their faces with masks as they protest against Acta in Warsaw, Poland. Photograph: Alik Keplicz/AP Vote may herald the first time t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPOCHEON, South Korea (AP) — A huge North Korean flag disappeared behind a tower of flames and thick black smoke Friday as South Korean fighter jets and U.S. attack helicopters fired rockets in the allies'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Slovakia's parliament approved on Friday the euro zone's permanent bailout scheme, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a tool in the bloc's fight against the debt crisis. Slovakia joined P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFlooding and heavy rain have caused chaos at the Isle of Wight festival, leaving many people sleeping in their cars overnight. Mud caused by the rain led to parking and access problems at Seaclose Park, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:16:04 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) North of Boorowa, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA bird flu pandemic may be close to being a real threat after scientists discovered the virus is already just "three mutations" away from evolving into a strain which would be able to pass from human to hu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGermany's highest court asked the country's president on Thursday to delay ratification of the permanent euro bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, and the fiscal pact into law next week. If he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe defence team for mass killer Anders Behring Breivik have told his trial in Norway he should be considered sane and that he should be acquitted. Breivik's main lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said his client ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoLabour leader Ed Miliband has promised to deter firms from exclusively employing workers from overseas, admitting his party "got it wrong" on immigration when in government. He said Gordon Brown and Tony...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 19.1 km (11.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:58:42 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles) East o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.22.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Moody’s dropped a bomb on global banks this week. It handed out credit rating cuts to 15 of the biggest banks in the western world. JP Mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:50:17 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) SSE from Old ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA former teacher at an exclusive Sydney school who possessed thousands of child pornography images has been jailed for at least two years and eight months. Sentencing Gregory John Coupland in the Downing...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours agoOfficials think bear swam to Cape Cod Black bear spotted ambling through Cape towns Wandering Cape Cod bear makes trek to Orleans, travels east Traveling black bear is close to Cape’s end Bear’s foray on...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago"Sandwich shop to open on the Common" May 31, 2012 Construction has begun on a project to transform a *long-vacant restroom*on Boston Common into a *sandwich shop*. Fencing and scaffolding surrounded the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoUrsula and Sabina Eriksson, born 1967, are a pair of Swedish twins who came to national attention in the United Kingdom in 2008 after an apparent episode of folie à deux which resulted in unique footage ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA mother has slammed her son's school for a 'sick' and 'insensitive' creative writing assignment that left her fearing he had taken his own life. Wesley Walker, of Stoke-On-Trent, England, gave his mother...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoYou can stop the search; we've found him – the world’s worst father. Day care is expensive, as are baby seats, but is this really the best way to transport a child? This photo, taken by a pedestrian in S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAustralian shares fell more than one per cent at noon after steep falls on Wall Street and European markets as well as tumbling resources stocks locally. At 1200 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThere are ongoing problems at a major Latrobe Valley power station, with more flooding hampering efforts to restore the normal power output. Floodwaters swamped the Yallourn open cut coal mine a fortnight...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA woman has been charged over the alleged sexual abuse of a student while she worked as a high school teacher on Sydney's northern beaches. Police arrested the 50-year-old at a unit in Dee Why this morning...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWhether Brent Crawford has captured the world's largest alligator gar will never be known -- his scale bottomed out emphatically at 300 pounds (136kg) and he filleted the prehistoric-looking fish after att...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPrime Minister Julia Gillard says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has not sought face-to-face contact from Australian consular officials while his legal case has gone on. Assange, who is now holed up in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDozens of people have been evacuated from their homes as floodwaters rise at Koo Wee Rup, south-east of Melbourne. Emergency workers and Red Cross volunteers have told people in six streets near the Bun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe leaders of Germany, France, Spain and Italy are meeting in Rome at a mini-summit that could expose major differences over how to deal with the single currency crisis. German chancellor Angela Merkel w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Taliban assault on a hotel on the outskirts of Kabul is over, almost 12 hours after it began. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said all four militants are dead. Three hotel guards and ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agoMirror's Edge, brought to market by DICE (EA_Sweden), was a flawed but wonderful non-fps game combining Police State couriers and parkour, why did EA never sanction a sequel? Well, they did, for severa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck UTAH at a depth of 0.3 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 05:37:15 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (20 miles) ENE from Boulder, Utah No Reports of Damage...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck VANUATU at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:22:40 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) West of Port-Vila, Vanuatu No Tsunam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA at a depth of 30.6 km (19 miles), the quake hit at 05:14:46 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 456 km (283 miles) WSW ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:02:07 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 173 km (107 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 166.6 km (103.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:25:37 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles) WNW of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami War...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the MACQUARIE ISLAND REGION, AUSTRALIA at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:31:17 UTC Friday 22nd June 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) Northw...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 21 hours agoYikes! Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper: It’s always dangerous when Conservatives decide to counter threats to national unity. Below. W.L. Mackenzie King. Be afraid! Be very afraid! Why should you be afra...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe awesome emergence of giantism in the windmill business is continuing and is plausibly approaching real physical limits. I just never thought that a thousand foot diameter was ever in the cards...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoAchieving touch sensitivity was a critical question in terms of advancing robotic technology. That appears to now be done and vastly more useful devices will now emerge. We tend to underestimat...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoAs could be expected, the border situation has deteriorated as zealots see their opportunity to inflame and trigger a war that they believe Allah will win. In the meantime, the Egyptian army ha...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoEveryone is trying hard to drum up a story out of this but I am more inclined to think I an looking at a concrete structure fabricated during WWII and then lost overboard during attempts to put it...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoWebsite Almost every major bank and finance company on Wall Street spent the past ten years taking part in 'a scheme to skim billions of dollars from the coffers of cities and small towns across America....
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 21 hours agoSo, there you have it, Nigel Farage is on Fox News saying to the Americans, "You're not to blame for the problems in Europe, it's all a Barroso/Rumpoy-led Euro-Socialist Experiment gone wrong." But, "He...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoHaldeman's Diary: -- The bugging deal at the Democratic headquarters is still the main issue of the day. The P is somewhat concerned about it. -- "Somewhat concerned"? Yeah, a little. This is a small ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago*These used to be the moments that suffocated LeBron James. End of a game, the world watching, everybody expecting greatness.* A TV camera would catch James sitting on the bench, gnawing on his fingernail...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago*Technical:* Because js-kit.com serving the old Echo comments started to randomly get stuck, preventing the TRF pages from being fully loaded (sometimes DISQUS didn't show up as a result: Echo may be del...
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- posted by Brian C Rathbun at The Duck of Minerva - 23 hours agoPolitical scientists love summer break. They do not sail, as they have no money for a boat. They do not sun bathe, as they would burn outdoors. Spending time with children is not high on the priority list,...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours agoColonel Richard Meinertzhagen was a British spy who worked for the Zionists. *Richard's father, Daniel, was head of a German merchant-banking dynasty, 'second in importance to the Rothschilds.'* * * *Ri...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoby Duane Shank June 21 http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/06/21/shadow-wars/#disqus_thread [Excerpted] A series of recent news stories, largely based on anonymous sources, reveals an emerging new U.S. military s...
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- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoInjection Wells: The Poison Beneath US Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, June 21, 2012, Propublica http://www.propublica.org/article/injection-wells-the-poison-beneath-us [Excerpted] "Over the past several d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe crisis in Europe has reached a ‘critical stage’ and threatens to tear the single currency apart, the International Monetary Fund warned last night. Its bleak assessment came as Jean-Claude Juncker, pr...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoFeel like a radiated sitting duck? Things you can do to mitigate the problem. http://farmwars.info/?p=6062 Hat Tip Sam Stone at Enenews Feel like a radiated sitting duck? Things you can do to mitigate the...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 23 hours agoLike many others, I was shocked by the story of Karen Klein, a 68-year-old bus monitor who endured a 10-minute harangue by a group of what I can only describe as feral children, which was recorded and post...
- Neil Iron 'spiked chocolate puddings with Ecstasy' which were eaten by two toddlers for Sunday lunch
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo toddlers were taken to hospital after eating a chocolate pudding spiked with Ecstasy by a chef who once served the Queen, a court was told. Neil Iron, 32, is accused of lacing desserts with the party ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThis is the leader of a child exploitation ring which befriended vulnerable teenage girls, plied them with alcohol and raped them. Shabir Ahmed, 59, was jailed last month but can only now be identified, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWorkers who become ill during their holidays can have more time off to make up for it, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Those who fall sick during their annual leave will now be able to claw back ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron was in full retreat over his condemnation of celebrity tax avoiders last night, following warnings that his attack on Jimmy Carr could open a Pandora’s Box. The Prime Minister refused to cr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The powerful Flame computer virus is not only capable of espionage but it can also sabotage computer systems and likely was used to attack Iran in April, according to a leading security compan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Asian shares fell on Friday and the safe-haven dollar hovered near its highest in a week-and-a-half after weak manufacturing data from the United States, Europe and China heightened fears over...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJune 21 - Striking police officers took over a La Paz police station, as protests over officers' pay and pensions plans shut down several police headquarters across Bolivia
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Ask me not what I have, but what I am.” - Heinrich Heine
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Thousands of protesters filled Cairo's Tahrir Square overnight as Egypt's rival presidential candidates, an Islamist and former general, accused each of trying to steal an election whose resul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Afghan security forces have freed 18 civilians and killed two militants after a Taliban attack on a popular lakeside hotel on the outskirts of the capital Kabul, but a siege was still ongoing ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoBlue America has only endorsed ONE senator running for reelection-- ONE. And here's an example of why: Wednesday Bernie Sanders stood up on the floor of the Senate (video above) and called on Jim Inhofe ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Two service outages within the course of several hours rocked microblogging platform Twitter on Thursday, as users worldwide reported significant down-time and slow service across both Twitter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's downgraded 15 of the world's biggest banks on Thursday, lowering credit ratings by one to three notches to reflect the risk of losses they face from volatile capital mar...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoKIRBYCAIRO'S blog posting is one of the best overviews of the problem facing the Liberals that I have had the pleasure of reading. Gets to the hard-core center of the Liberal problem. See what the man has t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Mother To Son"* by Langston Hughes "Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Stocks posted the worst day in three weeks on Thursday on mounting evidence that slowing manufacturing growth worldwide threatened corporate profits. Shares of energy and materials companies ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMADRID—Spain said its crisis-hit banks will need as much as €62 billion ($78.75 billion) in new capital to absorb losses from a real-estate meltdown, as the International Monetary Fund warned that the eur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLianne Smith faces up to 34 years in a Spanish prison after she was last night found guilty of murdering her two children. The British mother stared blankly at the floor as the unanimous verdict rang out...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRescuers are continuing to search for dozens of people believed to be missing after a boat sank north of Christmas Island. Ships have so far picked 110 survivors from the sea, but officials believe about...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRescuers Friday resumed searching burned-out houses struck by an Indonesian air force plane that crashed into the military housing complex and ignited a huge fireball in the capital, killing 11 people. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSweden has raised the security level at its nuclear power plants after explosives were found on a truck at the south-western Ringhals atomic power station. The government forensic agency said the "explos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKARGA LAKE, Afghanistan — As families ate a late dinner at a popular lakeside resort hotel here on a warm summer night, at least three Taliban shot their way into the compound, entered the dining room and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyria’s government was jolted Thursday by the first defection from its elite air force in the 16-month-old uprising, when a colonel commandeered a Soviet-era MIG warplane and flew to neighboring Jordan, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWikileaks founder Julian Assange says he has sought refuge in the Ecuador's London embassy because his native Australia abandoned him. Mr Assange is seeking diplomatic asylum to prevent him being sent to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoROME, June 22 (Reuters) - The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain will try to find common ground in Rome on Friday to restore confidence in the euro zone ahead of a full EU summit next week, with G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe man who shot dead an unarmed black teenager has re-enacted their fight, claiming the 17-year-old said "you're going to die" and reached for his gun. In a police video, neighbourhood watch volunteer G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHome owners and businesses face the prospect of higher interest rates after Britain's biggest banks had their status downgraded. The credit ratings agency Moody's has slashed its assessments of 15 major ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoAlan Parsons Project, "Ammonia Avenue" Lyrics: "Is there no sign of light as we stand in the darkness, Watching the sun arise? Is there no sign of life as we gaze at the waters, Into the strangers eyes? ...
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