Emperor Goose, Tundra Swan, Trumpeter Swan (Photo credit: Travis S.)- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 minutes agoWhen it comes to America's looming war in the Pacific, Canada's in. That much became plain with the announcement that Harper DefMin, "Airshow" MacKay, is seeking to establish a Canadian military post in ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 33 minutes ago[image: In a warming region of the Arctic, tundra shrubs are turning into small trees, with big implications. B.C. Forbes] By ANDREW C. REVKIN 3 June 2012 Even as insect infestations and other factors a...
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Our days babysitting Afghanistan's unresolved civil war are drawing to a close. The big question is "what next"? What will come of Afghanistan after Western forces leave? According to Gwynne Dyer, ... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 34 minutes ago*Survey said**....* *That was our number one answer. * "‘Family Feud’ host Richard Dawson dies at 79" Associated Press, June 03, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertain...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 42 minutes agoWhen far right extremist Mike Coffman picked up the mantle of racism and bigotry from longtime congressman Tom Tancredo and took over his seat in Congress, the 6th district was pretty rural and filled wi...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 51 minutes agoCharles Pierce in Esquire speaks for all intelligent observers. All .00001% of us. As a trial, it has been a profound waste of time and money, the political equivalent of the federal government's endlessly...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 53 minutes ago*"Don't Worry About Your Kids' Economic Future,* * Worry about Yours" * By Gary North "I read that Americans who have spoken to poll-takers express the fear that their children will not live as well a...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoLast year, Honeywell was identified as one of the biggest recipients of special tax deals from the government. The company actually spends more on lobbying than it pays in corporate taxes. This preferenti...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoJapan to make more plutonium despite big stockpile. Japan Today. By Eric Talmadge [Except] “Nuclear industry officials say they hope to start producing a half-ton of plutonium within months, in addition ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 48.9 km (30.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:11:24 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles) SSW of Antofagas... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Rare journey will help scientists learn more about planets far beyond our solar system. A small black dot will grace the face of the sun as it rises (over Europe) on Wednesday, when Venus makes a rare an... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoProtest by campaign group ahead of Queen's Diamond Jubilee river pageant. Anti-monarchy protesters today staged a demonstration on the banks of the Thames ahead of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee river pageant...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoThe article is addressing the question of what constitutes a lethal response in Yemen given escalating drone attacks by the US in that country: *U.S. drone targets in Yemen raise questions. Greg Miller. W...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoRobert M. La Follette spent the better part of two decades campaigning to add the recall power to the constitution, and he did so for a reason. “The recall enables the people to dismiss from public servi...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoAnd here's one that I have asked before, but it's been long enough that I'm interested again: After almost four years of Barack Obama...have you changed at all what you think of Bill Clinton's presidency? ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 2 hours ago
There is a section in RA 9502 or the Cheaper Medicines Law (2008) that allows for the creation of the DOH Advisory Council for Price Regulation. I have written about the Council and the discussions there a... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoHere's one I've never asked: what do you think of Richard Nixon? As I read it, the party line on Nixon has been all over the place since 1974: sometimes he's an almost pure victim of the liberal establishm...
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 7.2 km (4.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:31:36 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) North from Morgan Hill, Ca... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Irish sea coast along western Wales: site of an Iron Age fort. C. Michael Hogan via eoearth.org] By Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent 2 June 2012 THE IRISH Sea’s level will rise by almost half...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 4 hours agoI’ve been reading about land occupations and protests in the Honduran papers since April 18, when several thousand campesinos and supporters moved onto private lands and claimed them. Like almost everyth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 162.5 km (101 miles), the quake hit at 17:06:05 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) WNW of Aomori, Honshu,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe porn star suspected of killing and eating parts of a former lover could be a serial killer, police have said. Luka Magnotta, 29, is on the run as has been spotted 'out drinking' in trendy bars and sta...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA plane struck a two-story building in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos on Sunday, resulting in an unknown number of casualties, officials said. The head of the Civil Aviation Authority told AFP that the p...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Oklahoma consecutive days with high temperatures >= 100F, through 31 July 2011. Mesonet via blogs.agu.org] 1 June 2012, TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) – Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about whic...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoThe failure to provide any description of the shooter is suggestive; either the police are unsure as to who the shooter was or, perhaps, they have an idea but are holding it back for public safety concerns...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: 'It's blue skies, sunny days, Wyangala [Dam] is full and everyone's happy'. Sue and Pat Kennedy are smiling now, but they were facing disaster after eight years of drought in New South Wales, Aus...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoDoucette v. McInnes, 2012 BCCA 235 deals with the issue of substantial success and costs in the Court of Appeal. While arising in British Columbia and so governed by that Province's own rules, the decision...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe parents accused of murdering their six children in a house fire have begged prison bosses to be allowed to attend their funerals. Mick and Mairead Philpott are currently in custody and have put in an ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*Eduard Zilberkant:* *The Young Concert Artists' Evenings of Piano Concerti veteran conducted two of the four EPC IV concerts and was the unquestioned star.* *by Ken* We're still talking about New York C...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours agoBy Hari Sreenivasan 1 June 2012 MARGARET WARNER: Now: Coping With Climate Change. In this edition of our series, Hari Sreenivasan reports from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, where rising seawater is clai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoKANO, Nigeria — A suicide bomber who tried to drive an explosives-packed car into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday killed at least 15 people, including himself, and injured 40, officials said. Spee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Pope Benedict got no rest on Sunday from a leaks scandal when an Italian newspaper published documents showing that his butler was not the only person in possession of confidential corresponde...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - When Jean-Claude Trichet called last June for the creation of a European finance ministry with power over national budgets, the idea seemed fanciful, a distant dream that would take years or e...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours agoFOREIGN POLICY has a fascinating display, worthy of your attention, of just what a raw deal women are given in various parts of the world, in an article by Valerie Hudson, "The Worst Places to Be a Woman: Ma...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoAch, I didn't get around to running this on Friday. I had a new piece out over at Salon as part of the candidate web site series, this one looking at foreign policy -- but it turned out to be about Afghani...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 5 hours agoOK, Let me start by saying that these days I am pretty pissed off by what I see happening around us, and nobody is stepping forward and doing anything to stop the maniacs responsible for creating the mess ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Reclaiming West Virginia's mountains. This was once a useless old mountain, now reclaimed for positive economic impact by coal companies and their friends in the legislature, featuring WAL MART, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 530.5 km (329.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:51:23 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 433 km (269 miles) WSW From NUKU'ALOFA, Tong...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*I can't tell you how many years it has been that I have had to smile and laugh at jokes I've found offensive my whole life. * *I was bullied, folks, and no one gave a shit. * "Obama apologizes for Polish...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours agoBlogging has been light because I've been struggling with this back problem for a week now. I'm such a wimp when it come to pain, it's hard to focus. Adding to the turmoil, my stepbrother died suddenly a c...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Arafat’s moneyman targeted in corruption probe" Associated Press, May 17, 2012 RAMALLAH, West Bank - The late Yasser Arafat’s powerful moneyman is the target of the highest-profile Palestinian corruption...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 592.6 km (368.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:51:47 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) Southwest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPresident Bashar al-Assad of Syria denied that his regime had anything to do with the recent Houla massacre, saying that "not even monsters" would carry out such an "ugly crime". In his first speech to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoViolent clashes have broken out in Germany between the supporters and opponents of the neo-Nazi movement. Hamburg police have detained over 700 people after the demonstrators started throwing projectiles...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 7 hours agoReuters published an article on its interview with the President.... Asked about blind activist Chen Guangcheng, whom China recently allowed to travel to the United States to study after a diplomatic row b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Large Hadron Collider is to be switched off at the end of the year to undergo a major upgrade, but scientists hope to have achieved one of the machine's major goals by the time it does – proving the e...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 7 hours agoThis is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a very long time. The German police took off their helmets and marched with the protest clearing the way for them. . . . . German police officers es...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10.5 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:54:31 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 438 km (272 miles) Northwest of Esmeraldas, Ecu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*I told you I would be back and I always like to begin where I left off*: "HIGH NOTES -- A group of musicians from various countries set a record last month for highest performance at the summit of 21,825-...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours ago[image: JuneCentury__30] *Totally retro Dashan, Taiwan* The Woodrow Wilson Center put out a long review of Taiwan's energy situation. The well-written introduction notes of the first author: ....Chang ex...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agoIt's true. I'm being DREAM BLOCKED - by someone or something or someagency on or off world. How do I know this? It's easy, when I first started to CONTROL CERTAIN ASPECTS OF MY DREAMS I could feel the dr...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 8 hours ago*"Save the Picayune" protest tomorrow!* *Somehow New Orleans Saints running back Darren Sproles aims on topping last year** * *Bobby Jindal as Mitt Romney's VP? Don't bet on it: James Gill** * * * *Fiscal...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 8 hours agoRecently Mayor Karl Dean and the corporate fat cats who made him mayor shoved through a $16,000,000 giveaway to renovate the Nashville KIPP test prep factory. We can only wonder now if that decision will ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours agoOn Friday night Republican ex-state Sen. Loren Bennett, who last served in 2002 (when he ran an unsuccessful campaign to be Lt Governor), announced he would run as a write-in candidate against election fr...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours ago http://500px.com/photo/4717202 *There are often times of great distress and uncertainty within your world of Man.* *Man has yet to learn his part in both Natures plan and that of the Divine.* *Mankind re...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 9 hours agoOn Friday, Gerald Caplan reminded *Globe and Mail* readers of the deeply rooted hypocrisy at the core of the Harper government. -- hypocrisy which has been on display since newly elected David Emerson c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 92.6 km (57.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:39:23 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (97 miles) Northeast from Calama, Chile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southern Qinghai, China at a depth of 16.6 km (10.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:49:42 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 196 km (122 miles) WSW from Xining, Qi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, witnesses said. Security forces at a road block nearby said the bomber ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice are still searching for the suspect who opened fire in a mall in Toronto killing at least one person. Julie Noce reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - Abdulwahhab Karti rummages in the living room that doubles as his bedroom and presents two diplomas. One shows the soft-spoken 27-year-old has a degree in applied mathematics. The other qualifi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday accused the United States and its allies of lying about the threat of a nuclear Iran to cover up their own economic problems, state telev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - Egyptians demonstrated throughout the night in Cairo's central Tahrir Square and other cities, enraged that a court had spared deposed leader Hosni Mubarak his life over the killing of protest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJerusalem (CNN) -- A Palestinian militant died Sunday after he was injured in an Israeli airstrike, security and medical sources in Gaza said. The man was one of four members of the militant group the Pop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- Leon Panetta visited a former U.S. Navy base in Cam Rahn Bay, Vietnam, on Sunday, marking the first trip there by an American defense secretary since the war ended. The Cam Ranh Bay naval base w...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago[image: Pro-Mubarak supporter] Photo by Joel Carillet.* Under Mubarak, less than 2% of Egyptians lived below the poverty line. (41.6% in India.)* (Egypt Inc. -- a look at the numbers) Robert H Reid, of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addressed his country and the newly-elected People's Assembly on Sunday, decrying what he called the "terrorists" and "conspiracy" against Syria. "At this time, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIt avoided toxic derivatives and helped to rescue Britain's lenders. But the Spanish banking sector was so laden with property debt that the eurozone's fourth largest economy is near collapse. A team of I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Supreme Leader says any Israeli attack would be answered by a "lightning" strike by the Islamic Republic. The remarks by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei come as Iran engages in intense ta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHundreds of Egyptian protesters are occupying Cairo's Tahrir Square in a effort to capitalise on popular anger following the trial of Hosni Mubarak. There were mass protests on Saturday and overnight agai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSyria's President Bashar al-Assad has denied his government's forces had any role in the Houla massacre. More than 100 people, many of them children, were killed in the attack overnight between 25 and 26...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago'In 1997 Gordon Brown decided to consider disposing of part of this nation's Gold reserves. With Gold in a prolonged bear phase, happily the treasury consulted the advice of key figures in the financial ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours agoEuro Weekly News reports that: 'SPAIN’S Navy is considering mothballing the Principe de Asturias aircraft carrier as well as six Santa Maria-class frigates. The ships would remain on “restricted duties” a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoScientists have been left baffled after nearly 1,000 rare antelope were found dead in Kazakhstan - marking the species' third mass death in just two years. At least 12,000 of the country's critically enda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Santiago del Estero, Argentina at a depth of 574.7 km (357.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:21:49 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) NNE from S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEgypt descended into chaos last night despite President Hosni Mubarak's life sentence, after he and his sons were cleared of corruption charges, setting off huge protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square - the bi...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 12 hours ago. Here in old Blighty the Queen's ' Diamond Jubilee' celebrations are just beginning. Four days of media drivel. The presumption being that we all want to participate in the glorious pageant. Well, h...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 12 hours agoPublished: Thursday, 31 May 2012 | 2:42 PM ET Text Size By: Jeff Cox CNBC.com Senior Writer US and European regulators are essentially forcing banks to buy up their own government's debt—a move that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Florida father has been charged with kidnapping and killing his one-month-old son who was found dead in the trunk of a stolen car. According to law enforcement officials, Janus Saintil, aged 24, of Dee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFive bodies burned beyond recognition have been found inside the shell of a charred sport utility vehicle in the Arizona desert. Authorities say the dead bodies and vehicle found on Saturday in the Vekol ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA wall of smoke advances across a vast swath of rugged country in southwestern New Mexico where the nation's wilderness movement was born nearly a century ago. From the air, the smoke stretches as far as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA 41-year-old convicted murderer has been charged with killing his brother and his brother's wife in their own home as their children listened. Police reported that Mishawaka, Indiana, resident Steven Cli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoCanadian authorities have revealed on Saturday that a porn actor accused of killing and dismembering his former lover has threatened Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The suspect, 29-year-old Luka Rocco Mag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA South Carolina grandmother has become the fifth victim of the flesh-eating bacteria that has sparked terror across Georgia. Louise Thompson underwent emergency surgery to remove infected flesh from her...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 13 hours agoA third of all globally-donated clothes end up in sub-Saharan Africa via wholesale rag houses, where they end up lining the streets or small boutiques such as this market at Katangua in Nigeria. Photo cour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Phoenix woman has been arrested for child abuse after her one-month-old baby fell off the roof of her car after she drove away forgetting she had put the child there. Only realising that her baby wasn'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe U.S. Department of Justice says at least some materials sealed as part of the court case against seven men involved in the 1972 Watergate burglary should be released. The agency responded Friday to a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoLevi Nwankwo is a law-abiding, peaceful man, but as he walks briskly through Donetsk, the Ukrainian city in which he lives, he is in a state of high alert. That is during the day. At night, he will trave...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoGoogle has been given one month to change its advertising rules otherwise it will face court action in the EU. The giant Internet search-engine firm has been ordered by EU competition regulators to make ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThis video captures the moment a garbage truck driver saved a baby from serious injury when his mother let go of his stroller and it rolled down a hill into a road. Jeff Blackburn was driving a CleanScape...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 13 hours agoMaasai Treads team members with one of their products. Photo courtesy: © Fresh Cargo. Looking for a new pair of flip-flops for summer? Fresh Cargo's latest fair-trade line, "Maasai Treads," combines local...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA whistleblower who claims staff cut corners while vetting security staff for the London Olympics was escorted from her place of work. Data input clerk Sarah Hubble was interviewed by bosses, then told no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that in 2011, at least 943 women were murdered, nine had their noses cut off, 98 were tortured, 47 set on fire and 38 attacked with acid. Pictured left to right...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA US woman was arrested and charged with one count of felony burglary after she allegedly broke into a home, cleaned and left a bill for her unsolicited services, police said. Susan M. Warren, 53, of Ely...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago*By Dr Václav Klaus, published in Hospodářské noviny (a Czech WSJ), June 1st, 2012* During the recent regular lunch together with 27 ambassadors of the EU countries, one Western European ambassador asked ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:47:28 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) East of Christchurch...
- Alexander Monson Murder: Three Kenyan police officers named in report into death of aristocrat's son
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThree Kenyan police officers linked to a deadly assault on British aristocrat’s son Alexander Monson have been removed from their duties and transferred. It is alleged that the officers in the coastal to... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoOne of the largest-ever security operations will be mounted on the Thames today – with 6,000 police and 7,000 stewards on call to protect the Royal Family. At its heart will be the barge carrying the Que...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA BBC bodyguard has confessed to burning the body of a baby on a funeral pyre made of rubbish after the 2004 tsunami – because he considered it a threat to the health of his reporting team. Craig Summers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAt least nine people have been killed and more than 20 hurt in the Lebanese port of Tripoli, in clashes linked to unrest across the border in Syria. Supporters and opponents of the uprising against Syria...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA cargo plane has crash landed in Ghana's capital Accra, hitting a bus full of passengers, officials say. Ten passengers on board the bus were reported to have been killed while all four crew members sur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPESHAWAR, Pakistan — US drone strikes targeting a militant compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area killed at least five insurgents on Sunday, security officials said, the second attack in 24 hours...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoFRANKFURT — The European Central Bank may cut interest rates again soon as the eurozone debt crisis deepens, but it will continue to insist that it is up to governments to find a lasting solution, analyst...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDAMASCUS: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad will deliver a speech to the strife-torn country's new parliament on Sunday, state television reported.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPolice have launched an investigation into the unexplained death of a 15-year-old girl in Liverpool. Emergency workers were called to the teenager's home in the West Derby area of the city during the ear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.4 km (25.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:07:08 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) Southea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:30 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) ENE of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga No Tsunami Warnin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Saint-Martin Region, Leeuward Islands at a depth of 106.3 km (66.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:33:04 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA gunman fired shots into a crowd of people in a busy shopping centre in Toronto killing at least one man and injuring seven others, police have said. A police spokesman said the gunman is still at larg...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 15 hours agoI find it absolutely astonishing how media in Canada fails to report big stories, important stories, how even quality internet news sites quiver and shake over fear of the gavel, fear of being sued for sp...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours agoBetween June 20th and 22nd, i.e. 20 years after a notorious conference that helped to energize the climate hysteria, Rio de Janeiro will organize the Rio+20 conference on the so-called "sustainable develop...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 16 hours agoThe image comes from a photo essay in The Atlantic and is of an Afghan soldier's boot after two months' wear. This army is the one Canada is training, and the one meant to carry on the Afghan civil war with ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours agoThis is a somewhat technical talk that Bobby Acharya gave in Stony Brook 5-6 weeks ago. Talk via Flash player, MP4 file direct link (75 minutes) The talk is about his generic string/M models with Gordy ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago*Drones: The Coward's Weapon.* "The media now knows that "militant" is a term of official propaganda, yet still use it for America's drone victims." - Glenn Greenwald, *"Deliberate media propaganda,"*...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 17 hours agoMainstream reaction to Brian Tamaki’s church continues to amuse me. *Stuff*reportsBrian Tamaki’s latest “revelation”: Bishop Brian Tamaki has raised the stakes with his Destiny Church followers, exhortin...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours agoFirst a little bit about the author of the piece I am about to trash: About George Landrith George Landrith is the president of the Frontiers of Freedom – a public policy think tank devoted to promoting a ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 17 hours agoLatest fabrications includes defected "air force officer" with "super human" hearing and sight, and miraculous satellite imaging. *by Tony Cartalucci * *June 2, 2012* - The Guardian claims in their repo...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 17 hours agoI truly am floored that a Jewish controlled mainstream media outlet, like the New York Times (www.nytimes.com), would come out with the recent reports stating that the US and Israel developed the Stuxnet v...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours agoThe first time I heard Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons their music reminded me vaguely of The BoDeans, a band I used to work with at Reprise. I was about 110 miles off-- just under two hours, mostly u...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoIt's the 200th anniversary of The War of 1812, and the government would like us to remember that. Here's something you might not find in the official story: not everyone was so keen to fight. My friend Jo...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 18 hours agoI have not touched into the uproar over the last few days concerning the new revelations about the Stuxnet virus, and the facts coming out now that Israel, and their puppets in America, purposely developed...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agoA murder occurs when, among other circumstances, a person means to cause the death of a human being or cause him bodily harm that he knows is likely to cause his death, and by accident or mistake causes de...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 18 hours agoBefore I begin a series of political posts, here's a personal-consumer post. I highly recommend the Toronto store Secrets From Your Sister to anyone in the GTA in need of bras or lingerie. When you move...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 19 hours agoSouthern Man left twelve-year-old daughter with her grandmother yesterday as he had a rather busy day today, starting with a few hours at the office to prep for the kickoff of the summer semester on Monday...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 19 hours agoTwelve-year-old daughter spent her allowance on a mermaid swimsuit.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 19 hours agoI found this one cruising through some old extreme right wing materials. I hadn't read or heard this one before so I thought I would share. It may explain a lot about why the Repugs want to privatize Soci...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago*No, it's not exactly fine dining, but the 3 Star Coffee Shop adds more to the neighborhood than the Citibank branch planned to take its place later this year here at the corner of Columbus Avenue and 86th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago“Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper's bowl until you get to the handle's last bright star. Then, just slide your telescope a little south and west and you might find this stunning pa...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoRobert M. La Follette spent the better part of two decades campaigning to add the recall power to the constitution, and he did so for a reason. “The recall enables the people to dismiss from public service...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"Crack-up"* by Chet Raymo "Here is a sight near my path I haven't shared before. Every time I see it I stop involuntarily in my tracks and stare, as if I were a schoolboy standing beside his desk, fix...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 21 hours ago[image: JuneCentury__25] *Great ride yesterday. Bagged century (100 miles) with my friend Charles Tsai. 164 kilometers along the coast from Taichung to Jhunan and back. Wind was brutal going north -- took ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours agoDeland, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours agoRobert M. La Follette spent the better part of two decades campaigning to add the recall power to the constitution, and he did so for a reason. “The recall enables the people to dismiss from public service...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"The Task"* "It is a simple garment, this slipped-on world. We wake into it daily - open eyes, braid hair - a robe unfurled in rose-silk flowering, then laid bare. And yes, it is a simple enough task...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours agoSeriously. Words fail. Has to be seen to be believed. And even then, it boggles the mind. [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoHeinrich von Kleist: *The military is "a living monument to tyranny."*
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours agoSyria Finds 800-Man Death Squad Guilty of Houla Massacre; Putin Warns of Extreme Danger While Hollande Drifts Towards Warmonger Camp. Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV - Tarpley.net June 3, 2012 .....
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Fukushima: * *Pacific Ocean Will Not Dilute Dumped Radioactive Water"* by Washington's Blog "The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoColumbus firefighters are on the scene of a fire at a troubled Columbus oil refinery. Firefighters were dispatched to Heartland Petroleum on the 4000 block of East 5th Avenue in Columbus at 6:43 a.m on a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoBEIJING—More than 800 villagers have been evacuated after land sank in southern China's Guangxi province, which is known for its karst topography. The official Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday that th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe city was cleaning up this morning after a tornado swept through downtown Hampton on Friday evening and knocked out power to more than 5,000, damaged tents for the weekend's Blackbeard Pirate Festival...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMANILA — Philippine emergency workers Saturday rescued 30 fishermen whose boat was left drifting in rough seas amid the country's first tropical storm of the year, which also left hundreds of travellers s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA cargo plane has crashed at the international airport in Ghana's capital and then hit a bus, killing at least 10 people, an aviation official has said. Witnesses said the jet smashed through the airport'...
- Link: http://youtu.be/9l6VPpDublg If you knew what I was thinking? Well, go get me a cool glass of Rioja wine and stop thinking of me! Enjoy a fine weekend! Don't miss these enlightening 35 minutes with Q...
- Link: If you knew what I was thinking? Well, then go get me a cool glass of Rioja wine and stop thinking of me! Enjoy a fine weekend! John
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Conservative Courage And Other Myths"* by Cliff Schecter “Courage is a word we often hear bandied about in our modern age, but it is as much in vogue as a mullet or Mel Gibson. It can be defined in a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"DHS Informant:* * 'We are Preparing for Massive Civil War'” * by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul "In a riveting interview on TruNews Radio private investigator Doug Hagmann said high-level, reliab...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand r...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoBelow is an email I received from a former NJ DOE employee whose moral fatigue forced her from a good paying job with the State. Read it and then you will know why the Eli Broad calls his kind of philant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoACCRA, Ghana — A cargo plane attempting to take off from Ghana’s capital crashed Saturday night, slamming into a bus loaded with passengers on a nearby street, witnesses said. Police would not confirm if ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHuge crowds have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to protest against the verdicts on Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak and his co-defendants. Although Mubarak got life in prison for complicity in the ki...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThe DCCC goes after small fry. In 2010 Republicans took down senior House Democrats like Jim Oberstar, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (first elected in 1974), Solomon O...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Biocentrism: Theory of Every-Living-Thing”* by Cosmic Log on MSNBC.com "The quest to unify all of physics into one big framework called “the theory of everything” has inspired a host of way-out ideas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVictoria Grant 12 Year Old and Smarter than Anyone in the European Parliament except for Nigel Farage
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday acquitted four men who had been charged with helping a Pakistani-American man carry out a failed attempt to detonate a truck bomb in New ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago** *All of the major right-wing goals are promoted by these false flag "Zombie" events. * *UPDATE: *Sun Jun 03: In desperation for anything concrete about Luka Magnotta I finally went looking for the so-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia's President Vladimir Putin has resisted diplomatic pressure from Western nations to support tougher action against Syria's government. Mr Putin, an ally of Syria, called for more time to be given t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIRUT (AP) — Washington reached out to Syria's most important ally and protector Saturday, urging Russia to join a coordinated effort to resolve the deadly conflict as the violence spilled across the bord...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35.8 km (22.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:16:58 UTC Saturday 2nd June 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (83 miles) ENE of Tanah...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoAmong the highlights of the (former CJ) Corona impeachment trial were the "cover thy ears" photos of Atty. Aguirre while Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago was speaking. Miriam is cute. Meanwhile, more fun ab...
- posted by Vikash Yadav at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoStarbucks in the Ibn Battuta MallGreetings Ducklings! Just sending y'all a little post-card from the United Arab Emirates where I am spending a couple of weeks in Dubai and the neighboring emirates tryin...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoHere's the last word (or it would be if only North Carolina weren't under the rule of Koch-funded Republican plants at all levels) on John Edwards' innocence of the violation of federal campaign regulation...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoIf one ever had to ponder the sanity of the European people, then the result of the Irish referendum on European fiscal policy, must surely cause such pondering. In the referendum, 60% of those who voted...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoWell, there are probably weeks that don't start with the Euromess, but not too many of them. And on top of that, quite a bit of bad news in the US economy. The DOMA decision this week sure seems another s...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoComparisons are being made between Vince Li and Luka Magnotta. Since Mr. Li was found not criminally responsible could Mr. Magnotta be also so found? Readers may recall Mr. Li was found not criminally resp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMiami police have released the emergency call recordings of several people who rang to report a disturbing cannibal attack in which a homeless man had most of his face bitten off. Ronald Poppo was set u...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago*Feeble U.S. Job Growth Stokes Fears of Global Slowdown. The New York Times. * http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/business/economy/us-added-69000-jobs-in-may-jobless-rate-at-8-2.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoFlorida isn't someplace progressives normally turn for good political news. Just the other day People For the American Way was wondering aloud if Gov. Rick Scott's ALEC disenfranchisement schemes would re...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoI don't think this is any surprise. Stuxnet was work of U.S. and Israeli experts, officials say http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/stuxnet-was-work-of-us-and-israeli-experts-officials-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe boy was admitted to hospital a week ago with convulsions after arriving from the southern Chinese city of Guangdong. The Centre for Health Protection said he had tested positive for the AH5 strain of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least seven people have been killed and many injured in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, in clashes linked to unrest across the border in Syria. Supporters and opponents of the uprising against Pres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has called for the eurozone to have a "centralised control" authority, which would be in charge of the budgets of all the nation states. Mr Rajoy has become the ...( Eating away nations' freedoms one step at a time. We have enough problems with federalism running away with the budgets of local and provincial government. )
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