Grimsel Pass (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Handegg as seen from a part of the old Grimselpass road, Guttannen BE, Switzerland (@1530 m AMSL) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Grimsel, Switzerland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Räterichsbodensee (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 minutes ago[image: Summer in March 2012. The colors show the difference from average temperatures from 13-19 March 2012 in degrees C. The dark red areas were 15° C (27°F) above average for this period. NASA] By De...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 minutes ago[image: A common loon feeding a chick. Mercury that billows into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants has settled back down thickly in the Adirondacks, causing trouble for commo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 26 minutes ago[image: Landslide blocking a road at the Grimsel Pass near the village of Guttannen, Switzerland, after heavy rains in August 2005. The rains caused the Rotlaui river (seen at upper left) to become great...
- Physics World offers us a 20-minute audio interview with Peter Higgs: Peter Higgs in the spotlight Among other things, he sensibly says that others may deserve to appear in the name for the Higgs mechan...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 38 minutes ago[image: Radiation dose measurements from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 Reactor Building Torus Room, 26 June 2012. The maximum reading was 10,300 millisieverts/hour before the dosimet...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 40 minutes ago
*An old rail line for shipping ore down to the processing facility in Jinguashi. It's a crying shame that this facility is simply rotting in the sun.* *GONDORFF: He's gonna hit ya with 20 grand, Eddie. ... - Two workers Suffered exposure to high doses of radioactive tritium at Rawatbhata nuclear plan, Indiaposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes ago
Two workers at the Rawatbhata Atomic Power Station in Rajasthan have suffered exposure to high doses of radioactive tritium and are under observation. The incident took place on June 23 at Unit 5 of the p... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes ago
BEIJING — A tanker truck filled with gasoline collided with a truck in southern China on Friday, setting off an explosion and a massive fire that left 20 people dead and 14 others hurt, including at least ... - posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 47 minutes ago*R. v. Talbot*, 2012 ONCA 460 is a Court of Appeal endorsement that has a useful aside about abuse of process. Basically, it suggests when someone chooses not to participate in a matter they cannot be he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE CHIAPAS, MEXICO at a depth of 74.8 km (46.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:00:26 UTC Friday 29th June 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) SSW from Mapastepec... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes ago
TSURUGA, Japan, June 20 Kyodo An alarm went off Tuesday night at the No. 3 reactor of the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, indicating a minor problem, the plant operator and the government said ... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 51 minutes agoHappy Birthday to Matthew Weiner, 47. Wesleyan Class of 1987. Gotta get to the good stuff: 1. There's so much out there to read about the ACA decision, but I'll mainly link to the excellent commentary at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes ago
One of Wisconsin's three nuclear reactors stopped operating Wednesday night after a problem developed with the plant's turbine. The problem with the Point Beach reactor occurred shortly before 9 p.m., acc... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes agoFifty four victims of food poisoning in Gatakawa village in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State have survived food poisoning. The Chief Nursing Officer of the Kankara General Hospital, Mr Joshu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes agoSHIMLA: Unusually hot and dry conditions this summer have turned the green hills of Himachal Pradesh into a tinderbox - literally. Forest wealth estimated at well over Rs 2 crore (over $400,000) spread ove...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Russia’s military says one of its fighter jets has crashed, but its crew of two bailed out safely. The Defense Ministry said a Su-27 fighter jet went down Thursday during a regular training mission. It f... - posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour agoBypassing the UN to "end violence" of its own creation, West plumbs new depths of own depravity. *by Tony Cartalucci * *June 29, 2012* - Ned Dobos of Australia's University of New South Wales, Canberra h...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
I'm not a religious guy, but I want to start by quoting three prophets. Actually Jesus was even a step beyond a mere prophet if Christian traditions are to be taken at face value and he's famous for havin... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and other authorities have launched a full-scale investigation into the international hacker group Anonymous' alleged cyberattacks on Japanese political parties and...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 hour agoRobert Reich called it right -- although he was one vote short. The day before the Supreme Court found the Affordable Care Act constitutional, he predicted that John Roberts would be the justice who wou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA former Queensland state cricketer, convicted of more than 20 child sex offences, has been sentenced to 12 years jail in the ACT Supreme Court. Ian Harold King, 68, was convicted of the charges against f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoJapanese nuclear officials have apologised to Fukushima residents for withholding maps showing dangerous radiation areas after last year's meltdowns. The US maps were compiled from aerial surveys and giv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(CNN) -- Much of the central and eastern United States will bake under intense heat Friday, prompting warnings about air quality and fears about the health of those unable to find refuge in cooler confin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoLondon (CNN) -- Two members of the Basque separatist movement ETA, one of whom has been convicted of more than 20 murders, were arrested in London Friday over alleged terror offenses, the Spanish Interior...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoChinese police arrested six suspects for trying to hijack an airplane in the northwestern region of Xinjiang today, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing local authorities. The suspects were o...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 hour agoI sometimes comment that Florida is the center of weirdness in the universe, and that point is hard to refute when we house face-eating zombies and giant anacondas. However, Arizona keeps trying to give us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoGAUHATI, India – Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains have inundated more than 2,000 villages in northeast India, sweeping away homes and leaving hundreds of thousands of people marooned Friday. At le...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - South Korea postponed on Friday the signing with Japan of an agreement to share sensitive military information in the face of anger over a pact with a former colonial ruler that critics say wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoJune 28 - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is found in contempt of Congress for withholding documents related to a failed gun-running probe. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoJune 29 - Authorities are searching for police officers in connection with a deadly shooting at the airport. Julie Noce reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 28 - A wildfire that forced the evacuation of 35,000 people from the edge of Colorado's second-largest city has killed at least one person and incinerated 346 homes, making i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - Egypt's army will continue to be the guardian and ultimate arbiter of the state after moving to secure real power before the victory of Mohammed Mursi, the Islamist president who triumphed in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - The FBI said on Friday it had arrested Peter Madoff, the younger brother of swindler Bernard Madoff, who is serving a 150-year prison sentence for his multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme. The arr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - Iran expects to equip its ships in the Strait of Hormuz soon with shorter-range missiles, a Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying, in the latest apparent warning to the West not t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - Euro zone leaders agreed on Friday to bend their aid rules to shore up banks and bring down the borrowing costs of stricken members like Italy and Spain, in a sign the bloc is adopting a more ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe New York City Police Department is looking for a man they believe brutally beat his ex-girlfriend to death in their Astoria home. Danielle Thomas, 27, was found dead in the Queens apartment she shared...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSpace Station astronauts captured images of rare 'night shining' clouds as the craft passed over the Tibetan Plateau - high-altitude clouds which appear as delicate, shining threads against the darkness o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA former U.S. Marine is accused of attempted murder and conspiracy after he allegedly beat his pregnant wife. Brian Corder, 26, from Northridge, California, is accused of conspiring to kill his wife who ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoFrom almost a year ago. Brought to our attention again this morning from a tweet feed. Well worth 3 minutes of your time to read. *ALEC Is The Enemy Of Democracy* Some snips: Essentially, ALEC's purpos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA would-be-thief didn't have his head totally in the game - because it was too busy being pinned under a stubborn garage door for nine hours after he bungled his planned heist. The alleged burglar, Manue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoMore than two-thirds of Americans reckon Barack Obama would deal with an extra-terrestrial invasion better than his Republican Party rival Mitt Romney. The study for the National Geographic Channel found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoOne of America's most-wanted paedophiles can walk the streets of Britain a free man after the High Court ruled that extraditing him to the US would breach his human rights. Convicted paedophile Shawn Sul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAfter a little bit more digging, the force realised that the threats had come from a house on the same street. This time, apparently recognising they had gone a little over-the-top on the first raid, th...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoOccupy Corporatism Susanne Posel Valdimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Liberal Party leader wants US President Barack Obama stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize (NPP). In 2009, Obama was given the prestigious awar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoDisgraced former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky may be able to hang on to his tax-payer funded pension, despite his conviction on dozens of child sex charges. Sandusky reportedly rakes in about...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe notorious 'Teardrop Rapist' has been linked to yet another sex assault, just a day after a huge financial reward was offered by the city in return for information. The serial sex attacker, named afte...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoThe Economist *Despite several years of peace and a rise in prosperity, frustration is bubbling up* FIVE years after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, dismissed an elected government run by the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA six-year-old boy lost three-quarters of his thigh in a bloody shark attack at a Florida beach on Tuesday. Nickolaus Bieber, from Palm Beach Gardens, was swimming near the Juno Beach Pier in Jupiter at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA teenager who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting dead both his parents regretted his actions immediately after and said he 'didn't even mean to hurt them'. Alex Crain, now 15, from Naples, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe body of a four-year-old boy who went missing last week was found buried under the porch of the family home today. Carnel Chamberlain was discovered under the wooden deck at the house on the Saginaw C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoStung by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, Republicans have vowed to repeal it – seizing on the chief justice’s rationale and rebranding the ref...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSome of America's top banks are set to be dragged into a major criminal investigation of a global interest rate-fixing scandal about to engulf some of Wall Street's biggest institutions. The worldwide pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe City grandee who led a review of corporate governance at Britain’s banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis is being touted to oversee a probe of the ‘wild west’ culture at Barclays’ investment ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoGlobal Research Finian Cunningham *UN's* Ban pushes Annan *Syria* plan at Arab *summit* The NATO-backed covert aggression against Syria could be reaching a tipping point for all-out war involving state fo...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours ago*Jerusalem Post* Yaakov Lappin * * *Tariq Rauf says threats, use of force would not guarantee success, could become driver for proliferation.* BERLIN – A senior International Atomic Energy Agency official ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe showpiece genocide and war crimes trial of the 'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic was dramatically halted in The Hague today after an extraordinary and embarrassing blunder by prosecutors. Presiding ju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoScandal-plagued welfare-to-work provider, A4E has managed to get just 3.5 per cent of its jobseekers into long-term roles. Fewer than four out of 100 unemployed people who have gone through the firm have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA mother was arrested in front of her young children and spent the night in jail – all for not returning a Twilight book and DVD. Lori Teel was arrested and handcuffed at her Portales, New Mexico home in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS at a depth of 164.1 km (102 miles), the quake hit at 10:01:43 UTC Friday 29th June 2012 The epicenter was 387 km (240 miles) North of Raoul I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the NIAS REGION, INDONESIA at a depth of 37.5 km (23.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:20:52 UTC Friday 29th June 2012 The epicenter was 181 km (112 miles) SSE of Sinaban...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck TAJIKISTAN at a depth of 52.3 km (32.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:13:18 UTC Friday 29th June 2012 The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles) Northeast No Reports of Damage or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe boss of Barclays says he won't resign despite the bank receiving a £290m fine for rigging the key lending rate between banks. Bob Diamond announced his decision whilst speaking at a meeting at US bank...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours agoWebster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV & Tarpley.net June 29, 2012 (originally posted March 28, 2012) Editor's Note: Turkey's seeking of a "buffer zone" echos verbatim US corporate-financier funded think-tank...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours ago*By David Henry and Dave Clarke* *NEW YORK/WASHINGTON | Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:29am EDT* (Reuters) - Five of the biggest banks in the United States are putting finishing touches on plans for going out o...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agoI haven't posted videos from this Brazilian source before although I have watched a number of videos over the months. This video is interesting for the massive Star Gate that is forming on the surface ...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 4 hours ago*Ultimate Shepherds Pie!* Until I moved to London I had never really thought of making Shepherds Pie, but once I made the ultimate British discovery, I realized it is actually very limited eater friendly ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 hours ago------------------------------ Original here *American Autumn: An Occudoc (Watch Free Full-Length Feature Film)* Excellent new documentary on the Occupy movement from my friend / key organizer / ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoMy last post concentrated on the way the Palestinians are teaching their children to hate Jews, that Jews should be killed and that Israel should not exist. This blogpost spreads the net a little wider... ...
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 5 hours agoBy Manifesto Joe Oh, I'm not buying drinks for the house just yet. This was Round 2. There will be many more rounds to go. But the 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court to uphold almost all of "Obamacare" was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn Army wife has been found guilty of setting fire to her Fort Campbell home in a blaze that killed two of her three children which prosecutors alleged was meant for her husband. A federal jury in Paduca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSYDNEY, June 29 AAP- A Sydney man has been jailed for up to 11 years for repeatedly raping an 18-year-old woman as she slept at an inner-city railway station and filming it on his phone. Avineshwar Nand ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEleven people face adverse findings after an inquiry into a child sex abuse cover-up in Western Australian state-run hostels. Counsel assisting the inquiry Philip Urquhart has recommended 24 adverse findi...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 6 hours agoWarns Syria about defending its own borders - brazen act of war, crime against world peace ignored by feckless United Nations. *by Tony Cartalucci * *June 29, 2012 *- After losing a fighter jet earlier th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA horrified court room looked on today as a man who had just been convicted of burning down his $3.5 million mansion collapsed and died in front of them. Michael Marin, 53, was found guilty of arson by a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo hundred US marines are back in Darwin after a tour of South-East Asia to train with the Malaysian, Thai and Indonesian military. Members of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, took part in maritime exercises,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNorthern Territory Police are still searching for a man suspected of the murder and decapitation of another man in New South Wales last week. The search for 46-year-old Jonathan Andrew Stenberg is in its ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIndependent Senator Nick Xenophon wants longer bans imposed on misbehaving casino gamblers. His reaction follows an incident this week when a woman left her son in a car when she went into the Adelaide C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHuge pumps are struggling to keep up with the continuing inflows of water from the Morwell River into the crippled Yallourn coal mine in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. Floodwaters collapsed an embankment thr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe killing of an Australian soldier by an Afghan soldier last year has been described as "a cowardly act of murder" by the defence force. Lance Corporal Andrew Jones was shot dead at a patrol base in May...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA study has found the two most popular colas in the world contain traces of alcohol – but don't worry, you can still have a coke and drive home. The study by the France based National Institute of Consump...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoUnions say up to 3,000 Queensland public servants could be going to work for the last time today, as the Newman Government slashes jobs in the sector. With the financial year ending tomorrow, many tempor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 48.7 km (30.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:55 UTC Friday 29th June 2012 The epicenter was 178 km (111 miles) South from T.-Telukbetung,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoRussia takes center stage Saturday when the U.S. and other major powers gather in Geneva to try to map out a strategy to end the bloodshed in Syria, where activists say 14,000 people have died since the u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEurozone leaders have a struck a deal opening the door for its rescue funds to help bring down borrowing costs of nations in trouble and directly recapitalise banks. EU President Herman Van Rompuy said t...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours agoFree Downloads Of Some Visionary Books - Part 2 *I have read 9 of the 10 books in the Ringing Cedars of Russia series and highly recommend them to anyone with a longing for a more pleasant view of the f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCommuters are facing widespread disruption in parts of the UK after fierce storms and downpours caused flash floods, hitting major transport routes. Train services between Scotland and England have been a...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoThis is an oddity and provides excellent insight into the culture of the late fifth century. Of course we do have ample Roman sources to help understand the milieu. Again it is noteworthy that th...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoEvery once in a while, one wonders if we really seeing what we think we are seeing. One yearns for surety in a single fact out there. That blue arc is associated with the apparent super cluster...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoWhat is forming is a global consensus around thorium reactor development. I think that this is a milestone in terms of general credibility and ultimate introduction of the developing technology. ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoThis appears to do it. The protocol been contemplated can also be used to vaccinate children to block nicotine addiction. What happens is that the capacity is inserted into the appropriate liv...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago*Enrique Prado, 'mafia hitman and CIA spy'.* In a new book, *How to Get Away with Murder in America*, journalist Evan Wright writes about the Mafia hitman who worked as a top spy for the CIA. Top CIA Spy...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 7 hours agoif I hadn't been watching it, last night, I probably wouldn't have believed this morning's news. Who's that guy? Indeed. That guy is *unknown* 26 years old Czech 100-seed Lukas Rosol who, last night, tota...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 7 hours agoCock of the walk: Everybody wanted to talk to Ted Morton on June 26, 2011. His message to then-premier Ed Stelmach: Balance the budget or else. (Calgary Herald photo.) Below: Alison Redford, Rob Anderson. ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 8 hours ago*Departures at The Times-Picayune~Kevin Allman, Gambit*
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoRemember Hunt's White House safe? Hunt had retained it after he no longer worked regularly at the White House, and that's where he put various Plumbers and Watergate evidence immediately after the June 17 ...
- posted by rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 8 hours agoThree Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi: What is the Link? on Vimeo CCTV's Margaret Harrington hosts Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. Arnie and Maggie discuss their rece...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWreckage found on an Alaskan glacier is the remains of a missing Air Force plane that crashed in the 1950s, killing all 52 people on board. Authorities revealed today the site has been identified after it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThis is the shocking moment two soldiers battered a pair of Royal Marine Commandos - leaving one of them blinded in one eye. Alexander Thompson and William Press kicked and punched marines Martin Jones a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTax officials were forced to write off more than £5billion they were owed last year. An annual report of HM Revenue & Customs accounts by the National Audit Office also revealed it overpaid £2.5billion i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThey were fainting in the heat at Wimbledon yesterday. But in the Midlands enough ice fell to keep the whole of London cool. In a dramatic demonstration of our mad weather, large swathes of northern and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHeld: Suspected British paedophile Michael Hunter, pictured, has been arrested in America after allegedly posing as a teenager and staying with a 15-year-old boy and his mother A suspected British paedop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Kentucky father has been arrested after leaving his two-year-old son in the back of his scorching hot car while he was at work. Kenneth Robinson, 31, told police he forgot to drop his toddler, Brady, at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMost of those jailed for their part in last summer’s riots have already been released. More than 700 people imprisoned for burglary, violent disorder, theft and other offences committed during the five-d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWhen this bright red double-decker London bus pulled up alongside dozens of suspected Romanian illegal gamblers on Westminster Bridge it barely raised an eyebrow. Operating in the shadow of Parliament, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe world is addicted to Coca-Cola. Each day, 1.6 billion cans and bottles of the sickly brown liquid are gulped down, making it the globe’s most recognised brand. But ever since it was first concocted a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA notorious paedophile won his appeal against extradition to the US yesterday. Shawn Sullivan was reprieved by the same court that ruled Asperger’s sufferer Gary McKinnon should be sent to America despit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJune 28 - Chilean students clash with police in protests demanding an overhaul of the education system.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours agoBe it the rampant nepotsim, his bribes from Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Mortgages, his outrageous relationship with armaments manufacturers in general and the drone industry in particular or any number o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - United Technologies Corp on Thursday admitted selling China software that helped Beijing develop its first modern military attack helicopter, one of hundreds of export control violations over ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - A fierce Colorado wildfire that has forced the evacuation of some 35,000 people while raging for six days at the edge of the state's second-most populous city has destroyed 346 homes, Mayor St...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*Kafka's ghost wrote the screenplay for NATO's war against Syria.* NATO's war against Syria has been long in the making. In September 2003, *the Guardian newspaper wrote* about a secret CIA-MI6 plan fr...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago*Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation makes an announcement about the plans to divide the $60bn media massive into two companies*. Book publisher HarperCollins would join newspaper titles such as the Sun. M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJapan and South Korea have agreed to share intelligence in their first joint military pact since World War II. Japan's Cabinet approved the pact Friday. It will allow sharing intelligence in such areas as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRussia heads to tomorrow’s Geneva meeting on UN envoy Kofi Annan’s plan for a handover of power in Syria amid conflicting accounts about its willingness to cut ties to President Bashar al-Assad. Foreign ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA gas extraction method which triggered two earth tremors near Blackpool last year should not cause earthquakes or contaminate water but rules governing it will need tightening, experts say. "Fracking" i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man has died, roads and rail lines have been blocked and thousands left without power as torrential rain flooded parts of the UK. Two storms, which began in Wales, grew stronger with one heading across ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA NEW Zealand High Court ruling that the armed police raid on piracy accused Kim Dotcom's Auckland mansion was illegal is a major blow to US authorities trying to extradite him, his United States lawyer s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGunmen attacked a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 25, officials said. The bus, carrying about 40 passengers, was attacked with a bom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - European leaders agreed on Friday to create a single supervisory body for euro zone banks and to allow them to be recapitalised directly by the currency area's rescue fund without adding to go...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHundreds of homes are burned to ashes as wildfires in Colorado rage on - and Nasa releases satellite footage of the destruction. A raging Colorado wildfire has destroyed an estimated 346 homes this week, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck TAJIKISTAN at a depth of 15.7 km (9.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:06:58 UTC Friday 29th June 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6 miles) WNW of Vose', Tajikistan No Reports...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Syrian president dismisses the idea of outside intervention and vows to "eliminate terrorists" in a rare interview. Syria's president has said in a rare TV interview that his government had a duty to ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours agoTaylor Made v. AtlificInc., 2012 ONCA 459 is a helpful source for the well-established principle that: In circumstances of joint and several liability under a contract, judgment against one party does no...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours ago* * * * *Thursday, June 28, 2012* *Operation Omega Phoenix* *Posted by Cobra at 2012 Portal* I have contacted my sources and this is what they said: The infiltration of the Positive Military group h...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoThis appeared at Rumor Mill News today. The classified ad in the Washington Post is here. PUBLIC NOTICE $700,000,000,000.00, (SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION) BOND PUBLIC NOTICE A $700,000,00...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoIt's almost painful to hear the ruling fools brag about the righteousness of their ideas to the easily led peons. Almost. And they're making serious preparations to grab the reins of government once again....
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 11 hours agoIn case you weren’t already aware, with the decision overnight by the US Supreme Court to *not* strike down ObamaCare as unconstitutional—despite even its own own advocates being unable to show how it co...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 12 hours ago** *Isn't there a fund for that? * *Contributor: YYC* *1. Injustice* Photo Report: Victorian mugshots reveal nineteenth century interest in criminal anthropology* Prisoners as young as 12 were sent to Ne...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoIn a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton: http://m.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/rim-to-chop-5000-jobs-delays-launch...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoEveryone around the world knows by now that the world economic situation is very bad. In fact, there is more and more evidence coming out now that we are shortly going to see a massive Global Depression t...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 12 hours agoI was on the social nets all afternoon and for a while this evening. Forget the million lists claiming to have the funniest tweets of the SCOTUS reaction. This one clearly wins the internets. [Ironica...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWhile spending on the food stamp program has increased 100 percent under President Barack Obama, the government continues to push more Americans to enroll in the welfare program. The United States Depart...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“Long before Stonehenge was built, well before the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, ancient artists painted life-sized figures on canyon walls in Utah, USA- but why? Nobody is sure. The entire panel of figu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"All Will Come Again" * by Rainer Maria Rilke "All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed, the trees towering and the walls built low. And in the valleys, peopl...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoAhee' hee' to everyone for the prayers and support!- Klee www.indigenousaction.org TAKE ACTION NOW: www.ProtectThePeaks.org Klee locked down/Photo Ethan Sing Klee Benally Sentenced To 'Community Service'...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*This morning's Supreme Court majority* *by Ken* Thankfully, Howie already dealt this morning with the meat of today's big announcement from the Supreme Court regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I j...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"Pigeons"* by Chet Raymo "That old curmudgeon H. L. Mencken wrote: "The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." Admitt...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.” - Carla Gordon “The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.” -...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"Let It Roll Off Our Back: Dodging and Deflecting"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "When we are criticized or attacked it is important to not take it into our heart space. One of the most difficult ch...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoBurbank, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoAlan Parsons Project, “Lucifer” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjTQJz6yBhk
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSoon, superheroes such as Thor won’t be the only ones who are able to use lightning to destroy their target. U.S. Army personnel at Picatinny Arsenal are developing a military weapon that is able to shoo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 13 hours agoSayer Ji, *Contributor* *Activist Post* According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "Immunity to a disease is achieved through the presence of antibodies to that disease in a per...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours agoNTI v. Canada (Attorney General), 2012 NUCJ 11 was released today. It is a very important decision granting partial summary judgment against the Crown in favour of the Inuit of Nunavut as Represented By N...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at iss...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"No Consent Required: * *How the State Exploits Ignorance and Complacency"* by Joel Bowman “Libertarianism: The radical notion that other people are not your property.”We don’t know who first said th...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago*Obama to the American people: Health Insurance companies own you. Now take this poison and pretend it's good for you, bitch.*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Gaye Levy, *Contributor* *Activist Post* For many of us, summer is a time when we fill up the book bag and head to the mountains or the beach for...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*How to fix an NFL team: The 2006 Saints* ~Editilla just felt like bawling my eyes out s'all. ~Hat Tweet *BlackandGold.com* @*blackandgold*
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours agoFor me growing up Fulton J. Sheen was the archetype of a Bishop. Story here VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday (June 28) recognized Archbishop Fulton Sheen's "heroic virtues," moving the popul...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoI'm not sure whether anyone has pointed this out yet, but CNN has more to apologize for than just getting the decision wrong this morning. That was bad -- but it was also very understandable. Ask whichever...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Romney Blasts Supreme Court, Calling Healthcare Act 'Worst Idea I Ever Had'"* *Vows to Repeal Own Law* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – "Just minutes after the Supreme Court uph...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago*Why fight it? Let’s embrace textbooks Loch, stock and barrel ~Mark Moseley, The Lens*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"Who Destroyed The Middle Class? – Part 3"* by James Quinn "This is the 3rd and final chapter of my series about the destruction of the middle class. In Part 1 of this series I addressed where and how...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 16 hours agoWhat I am about to tell you will not only outrage, infuriate, cause your blood to boil it will also call in to doubts Christy Clarks mental ability, either she is totally unfit to govern or perhaps the re...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours agoRead - *"Syria: Plans of 1957 As Implemented In 2011/12."*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"A Valley in Peaks…* *and the Biggest Fraud in Economics"* by Bill Bonner "Forget ‘peak oil.’ Or so they say. It has fracked its way to energy self-sufficiency. Porter Stansberry: "… there are roughl...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAccording to two Merck scientists who filed a False Claims Act complaint in 2010 -- a complaint which has just now been unsealed -- vaccine manufacturer Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test da...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 16 hours agoIndividual Mandate Survives a 5-4 Vote with Roberts Writing Majority Opinion The result upended speculation after hostile-seeming oral arguments in March that the justices would overturn the law. And at le...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 16 hours agoI'm not going to say much about the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare. There are lots of people smarter than me doing analysis. I'm sure you can find it on your own. All I'll say is I am surprised it was Robert...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 16 hours agoHere is an infographic detailing 15 Alternatives to Google AdSense. Click on image to enlarge or alternatively go to Text version: 15 alternatives to Google AdSense [image: Infographic - 15 alternatives ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours agoCareer criminal Darrell Issa was appointed chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform by John Boehner for one reason-- to somehow bag a high ranking Democrat doing something "wrong." ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFootage showing the results of an alleged massacre in the Syrian city of Hama in April has been obtained by RT. In the video, family members claim opposition rebels committed the atrocity.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck the CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION at a depth of 21 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:58 UTC Wednesday 27th June 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56.3 miles) Southwest...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours agoAnd now they are not fine again(1:32). I can't edit this, and now I'm up top again. Pfft. All I can do is space bar to paragraph. Update: I meant this comment to be at the end. See what I mean? And now ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Related: Game Over in Rhode Island * *Here are a few extra innings*: "38 Studios points finger at R.I.; State broke its pact, official says" by Todd Wallack | Globe Staff, June 16, 2012 Former Red Sox...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours agoSo did blogger because I'm unable to edit this after their pos program f***ed up the spacing and oll the other lovely s*** that hap[pens every f***ing time I come in here now. I haven't complained, figured...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 18 hours agoBecause yours truly seriously doesn't need a week to fill up the top 10 spots. The Supreme Court, as I'm sure most of us are aware, upheld almost all of the Affordable Care Act save for the stick the fed...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeArYr0v6v0&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=5&feature=plcp thank you Sickputer
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 18 hours agoTurkey Deploys Antiaircraft Units Along Syrian Border That was the headline the NYT's initially had up. Now it's changed. Was it giving to much away? Interesting paragraph in the article: "Rebels initiall...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours agoDave Weigel tweets: Fun fact: InTrade put "mandate will be overturned" at 73% yesterday. Another fun fact: InTrade is useless. Disagree! InTrade isn't useless; it's just that you have to use it for what ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNearly 40 people were still missing by this noon after a heavy downpour triggered a landslide that buried shelters for workers who were building a hydropower station in Ningnan County, Sichuan Province. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGUWAHATI, India (AFP) - At least 27 people have died and 900,000 others have been forced to leave their homes as monsoon rains swamp wide areas of the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, officials said o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe scene is set for a Clinton-Lavrov meeting that could still ring the death knell for the Assad regime. Months of futile diplomatic tussling, UN deadlock, and angry finger-pointing over Syria have now b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - Demonized in Europe's media as a red-eyed Terminator robot, a flabby centerfold pinup and a fleshy Roman god eating Greeks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the subject of a new wave...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*Friedrich Von Steuben, the gay German, chosen by Ben Franklin to be 'Father Of The U.S. Military'.* Friedrich von Steuben was schooled by Jesuits and, by the age of 16, was an officer in the Prussian mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- JPMorgan's stock price tumbled Thursday following a report that its trading losses from a London unit could reach $9 billion. JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) dipped more than 3% a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN GREECE at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:34:28 UTC Thursday 28th June 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42.7 miles) Northwest of Kolimvári, Gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA at a depth of 181 km (112.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:57:22 UTC Thursday 28th June 2012 The epicenter was 314 km (194.6 miles) Northeast ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRead entire story and see the tweets here. Enjoy your police-state IRS-enforced health care, America.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 19 hours agoPlease read Fukushima Diary's post today about a 5.6 earthquake hitting Fukushima, resulting in a large radiation spike registering at 42 microsieverts an hour. Also view the video available of the subseq...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoSo my initial reaction to the Supremes on ACA is up at Plum Line. Short version: reform lives to fight another day, but there's still plenty of fights ahead. Meanwhile, the Plain Blog offices are still in...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 20 hours agoDan Drezner asks "Dear realists: please explain Russia": I raise all of this because a few days ago Charles Clover in the *Financial Times* wrote an interesting story about Russia's foreign policy in Syri...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 20 hours ago*THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012* *And what Maddow didn’t:* Like Kevin Drum and others, we recommend Katherine Eban’s detailed report in Fortune concerning the Fast and Furious fury. For Drum’s take, just click t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLondon (CNN) -- Two men were arrested in London on Thursday on suspicion of terror offenses, police said. The men, ages 18 and 32, were detained at separate addresses in east London on suspicion of the co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSince the embers in the latest round of Colorado wildfires exploded into a blaze on Tuesday, the flames have destroyed more than 18,500 acres and sent 36,000 fleeing from their homes. The true nature of...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours agoOp-Ed Contributor The New York Times A Weapon We Can’t Control By MISHA GLENNY Published: June 24, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/opinion/stuxnet-will-come-back-to-haunt-us.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadl...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoAidan Randle-Conde of the U.S. LHC blogs argues Why we shouldn’t combine Higgs searches across experiments. On July 4th, the CMS and ATLAS will present their current state of the Higgs searches. There is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA young woman has been killed in the street just days before she was due to give birth. Eystna Blunnie, 20, was found suffering from severe head and face injuries in the early hours of Wednesday morning, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPM arrives in Brussels, where EU leaders will discuss greater fiscal co-ordination, with pledge to 'safeguard' UK interests David Cameron has indicated that he is prepared to wield Britain's EU veto again...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSome £3.7bn has been wiped off the value of Barclays bank in the wake of its massive £290m fine for the rate rigging scandal. Its share price opened on Thursday at 196p and initially rose 1% on the FTSE ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 20 hours agoThe story unfolding in Memphis around the consolidation of Memphis and Shelby County Schools gets more and more interesting. Today one of the Gates front men, Gary Shorb, published a plea in the Commercia...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours agohttp://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/12077-gm-grass-linked-to-mass-cattle-deaths [Excerpt] A mysterious mass death of a herd of cattle has prompted a federal investigation in Central Texas....
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 21 hours agoYep, there is. If you want to avoid all the talking heads exploding, and the Democratic email fund-raising frenzies and the Republican bitch-fests in the wake of the Survival of Obamacare, watch this full...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoDespite Fox's and CNN's-- and Virginia Foxx's-- idiotic reports that the Supreme Court struck down the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, the Court upheld it as a power of Congress to levy tax...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 21 hours agoThere's a new facebook group called "Anti-Epal", it's about *Reclaiming public property from the clutches of traditional politicians. This page is a venue for the public to share photos of PUBLIC SERVANTS ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 21 hours agoThe ability of humans to deny the obvious seems infinite and immutable. a tweet In the wake of the humongous and unmitigated fail at Rio+20, the inscrutable editors at Climate Progress, in keeping with its ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago*THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012* *Doesn’t mind stop-and-frisk:* Do you understand Arizona’s famous state law, SB 1070? More specifically, do you understand Monday’s ruling by the Supreme Court? The Obama Admi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: This map shows the odds of floods at least as high as historic once-a-century levels, occurring by 2030, based on Climate Central research. The two bars extending from each study point contrast o...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 21 hours agoNo, this isn't the Elections Canada stumble-bums picking their noses while Canadians groan under the oppression of an unelected majority government. This has to do with the Military Police Complaints Commi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoEx G.G. Michaelle Jean agreed to prorogue Parliament in December, 2008 apparently because she was intimidated by our thug prime minister, Stephen Harper, and feared that the Tory slime machine would subver...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck VANUATU at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:51:59 UTC Thursday 28th June 2012 The epicenter was 236 km (146 miles) NNW from Santo (Luganville), Vanuat...
- posted by Marc McDonald at BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com - 22 hours ago*By MARC MCDONALD* I must admit, I've quite stunned by the Supreme Court's upholding of "Obamacare." I've never really been a fan of Obamacare, as I would prefer a European style single-payer system. But...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 22 hours agoIt appears the Fathers of the Catholic Church feel that their image needs a little public relations adjustment gilding. And they've found a guy who can help them with that! The Vatican has hired an Ameri...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 22 hours agoObservation from Liberty Fight by Martin Hill President Obama appeared on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos in September, insisting that the penalty for those who don't buy health insurance *is n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the AEGEAN SEA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:11:31 UTC Thursday 28th June 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5.6 miles) Northeast of Istiaía, Evvoia, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:20:04 UTC Thursday 28th June 2012 The epicenter was 184 km (126.4 miles) South of Kencong...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoRobert drove a great deal of traffic to the Duck with his provocative posts on retrenchment and US alliances. His efforts to "grade" allies by strategic importance has led to some interesting results and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 12:10:05 UTC Thursday 28th June 2012 The epicenter was 144 km (89 miles) SSE of Krajan Tambak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck LA RIOJA, ARGENTINA at a depth of 132 km (82 miles), the quake hit at 11:49:13 UTC Thursday 28th June 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) Southwest of Chepes, Arge...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 22 hours agoBelarus President Alexander Lukashenko (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images) Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Member nations of the European Union have agreed to create a fund for “pro-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe US Supreme Court has upheld US President Barack Obama's key health care reform that requires that most Americans get insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty. The heart of the president's signature overhaul...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 22 hours agoreflection of life... the flower accepts its fate... all that is will end.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe FSA is set to reveal evidence that small businesses have been victims of inappropriate selling of interest rate swap products. Barclays will tomorrow be drawn into another huge City mis-selling scandal...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTurkey deployed anti-aircraft guns and other weapons alongside its border with Syria, state television reported on Thursday, days after the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syrian forces heightened th...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSaudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has ordered the country’s security forces to go on a state of high alert due to what he calls a 'turbulent situation' in the region. King Abdullah iss...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul. The decision means the huge overhaul, still only partly in...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours agoIn most jurisdictions in Canada there are statutory and common law protections for employees who have been terminated without cause. Basically, a statute provides for a minimum notice period before term...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours agoMaybe Roberts looked into the abyss and noted it was critically eyeing him, especially in the wake of *Citizen's United* and the execrable *Arizona v the United States* ruling from three days ago. And Rob...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 23 hours agoWell, the Supreme Court said today that the health care mandate is ok. I am no constitutional scholar, but from what I can tell from the news reports, the Court's logic is similar to mine in this old blog...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoAnd so, ACA survives for now. I'll be writing about this later today, but figured I might as well leave an open thread for comments for now, if anyone is interested. The decision is here. Have at it -- I'l...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 23 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Valdimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Liberal Party leader wants US President Barack Obama stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize (NPP). In 2009, Obama was given the prest...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 23 hours agoWhat a great week I've had traveling in Jiji in Nantou, Jingguashi and Jiufen, and Wanhua in Taipei this week with Michella and the FTV crew shooting a travel show. The usual pics and commentary will be ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours agoThe claim that all the Palestinian Authority wants is for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders is a lie. The latest threats issued by the Palestinian Revolutionary Council (the joint PA/Hamas body) ar...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoUSAToday David Jackson The Supreme Court upheld the health care law today in a splintered, complex opinion that appears to give President Obama a major victory. Basically. the justices said that the indiv...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 23 hours agoCheck the SCOTUSblog on Blogroll to your right for live updates and the link to the opinion. Chief Justice Roberts apparently cares about his legacy and the well-being of the private insurance cabal and ha...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago*R. v. Mayuran*, 2012 SCC 31 was just released. It deals with when a defence ought to be put to a jury. Broadly speaking, a proposed defence to a criminal charge must at least have an evidential fou...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoYa know – this morning brought about an interesting find. This was posted on a webpage named the Conservative Patriot. YESTERDAY This web posting from yesterday falls almost three months after the launch ...
- 1,400 Principals and 1,100 Scholars in New York Alone Press State to End High Stakes Testing Madnessposted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago*HT to Stan Karp*: *The movement against the misuse and overuse of standardized testing continues to grow. Yesterday in NY, 1100 scholars joined 1400 principals in urging the state to replace high stakes ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day agoReader Supported News Mike Elk For the last two years, I have covered union busting efforts by Honeywell, their close connections to President Obama and how federal agencies have assisted Honeywell in thr...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoExxonMobil CEO Ralph Tillerson has a comforting message on climate change - don't worry, be happy - we'll adapt. *Tillerson acknowledged that burning of **fossil fuels** is warming the planet, but said so...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoRupert Murdoch is restructuring his media empire. There'll be two divisions, publishing and entertainment. The publishing arm will control Murdoch's book and newspaper holdings - the information stuff....
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to John Cusack, 46. Counting...wow. I think I've seen 17 movies he's been in, plus parts of three others. That sure seems like a lot. I bet there's ten I like more than Say Anything, and I l...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago* Postash companies with strong Saskatchewan connection are back in a US court:* ** *"Potash buyers sued in 2008, claiming violations of the U.S. Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, which can extend ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago[image: Ciudad de Ronda en Andalucía, Málaga, España]
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- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoOur corporate overlords lament has been the same for a hundred years. [original graphic] [Complimentary soundtrack] [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoMy third post on this - maybe the last, maybe not! As it would be with any post that you put out onto the internet – there are going to be those who have a different opinion about how you see the world. ...
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