"How Right-Wingers Took Over Wikipedia"
I found that merely typing in the word "Plame" triggered a text robot that blocked any posts from mentioning Plame on that article ( Plame/Wilson being the CIA agent blown by Cheney's man Scooter Libby - he did time for it - while she was head of the Middle East nuclear threat desk, destroying the Brewster Jennings network to preserve the yellowcake fable and WMD pretext...by a signer of a treaty _- Iraq then, Iran now - that guarantees there is no chance a nation can respond to nuclear aggression in kind. )
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday called on the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to make the organization a fortress of regional security and ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes ago
ISTANBUL – The United States and its allies in Europe, Turkey and the Arab world have agreed to work on a political transition plan for Syria, hoping to persuade President Bashar Assad's powerful ally Rus... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
There is a mini-war being fought on Spanish doorsteps, between members of the public who can no longer afford to pay their mortgages and the banks who are threatening to evict them. Last year there were ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
The family of Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident who escaped house arrest, has told Sky News how they have been beaten and tortured by government officials seeking retribution. Chen Guangcheng ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoDavid Cameron is flying to Berlin for a meeting with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the continuing eurozone crisis. As well as private talks the two leaders will also hold a joint political even...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 minutes ago*BP has got to win the prize for sleaze. [Tepco wins it for genocide]* *The Guardian Wrote the Story in Response to an Editorial Written by 2 Academics:* BP accused of attack on academic freedoms after s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:06:18 UTC Thursday 7th June 2012 The epicenter was 255 km (158.1 miles) Southeast ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 minutes agoWhen workers drilling tunnels at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, began to die, Union Carbide had an answer. It hadn’t been taking adequate precautions against the inhalation of silica dust, a known danger to...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 minutes ago
*-by Noah* Here in New York City on Sunday, we had some mighty strange weather. It was one of those muggy afternoons where we got thundershowers, even when the sun was out. Now, those mental defectives w... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 24 minutes ago
There was a bit of a scandal last week when it was reported that a TED Talk on income equality had been censored. That turned out to be not quite the entire story. Nick Hanauer, a venture capitalist with ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
LUSAKA, Zambia -- The teenagers started arriving at the Arcades outdoor shopping center here just as the sun began to set. They took over the parking lot first, then the sidewalks. Within half an hour, th... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
Airline passengers in the U.S. collectively paid $3.36 billion in fees for carry-on and checked bags last year. The figure actually represents a decrease from 2010, when we dropped $3.4 billion on baggage... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes agoPummeled by relentless budget cuts, a record number of California school districts are facing bankruptcy, state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced Monday. The Inglewood Unified School Di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
There are many popular images of Tokyo, but extreme poverty generally isn’t one of them. In the east of the capital, however, in an area once known as Sanya, that’s exactly what you see. Photographs from ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
In the heyday of the Soviet era, Communist leaders were described by the dissident Yugoslav theorist Milovan Djilas as the "New Class", whose power lay not in ownership of wealth, but in control of it: al... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
A Big Mac burger is healthier than 75 percent of NHS hospital meals, a recent study conducted in the UK has revealed. The study examined twenty five different meals provided by an NHS food supply chain t... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 34 minutes agohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-grossman/nuclear-regulatory-commission_b_1565916.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications Karl Grossman Inviting Atomic Catastro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes ago
The popularity of South Korean culture is so high in North Korea that dramas aired on one day in the South are being made into DVDs in northeastern China the next and, by the third day, are cropping up on ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoRecently I tried to persuade a friend, a professional woman in her 40s, to create a Facebook account. Like many people, I’m a regular user, usually to post photos and updates of my daughter’s sports and a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoNearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes or could already be diabetic, representing a sharp increase in the disease’s prevalence among children ages 12 to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoNormally I don’t like to write about European prospects in the midst of a very rough patch in the market because in that case there isn’t much I can say that isn’t already being said. I find it more usefu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoIn March 2010 Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability at the Bank of England, estimated that the financial crisis that began in 2008 will ultimately cost the world economy between $60 tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes agoThere are plenty of books about the entitlement disaster in our future, but few come with the backing of an academic press. The Clash of Generations is an exception. Written by economist Larry Kotlikoff...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes agoCoal imports by China almost doubled in April from a year earlier, according to the China Coal Transport and Distribution Association. The nation’s purchases of the power-station and steelmaking fuel incl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes agoOne of the most common expressions reflecting the bafflement that gripped western societies during the testing period was, ‘why do they hate us?’ This is when a succession of authors and academics rose ang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes agoOn the face of it, next week’s NATO Summit in Chicago is a big deal. Leaders of 60 nations will congregate in the Windy City to map strategy on the big issues of the day — Afghanistan, modernizing NATO’s ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 57 minutes agoRunning Into Or Out Of Oil? The myth of oil scarcity is one of the foundations that have allowed four giant oil corporations along with a handful of Wall Street banks to control the world’s largest and mo...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour agoI have long been a fan of Lasha Darkmoon's articles (www.darkmoon.me), and recently even took the time to read some of her poetry. It is definitely worth it to visit her site at www.darkmoon.me, and see h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 52.4 km (32.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:10:30 UTC Thursday 7th June 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) Northwest of Ternate, Molu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the TONGA REGION at a depth of 30.8 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:02:31 UTC Thursday 7th June 2012 The epicenter was 194 km (120 miles) SSE of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"We spend too much time living in the ‘what if’ and need to learn to live in the ‘what is.’" - Rev. Leroy Allison
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoFormer Texas Observer editor Ronnie Dugger with President Lyndon Johnson. Photo by Yoichi Yokamoto / Courtesy LBJ Library / Texas Observer. LBJ, The Texas Observer & Me None of us knew it yet, but we Amer...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour agoAfter seeing this and playing with the Swedish-developed Spotify for a while (very, very good) I’m inclined to believe then about Stockholm: Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author f...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago*In the end, we all stand alone. * "In the main, Obama relates to his Cabinet the way he relates to the rest of the world. “He’s a total introvert,” the former adviser told me. “He doesn’t need people....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*In what I view as the ultimate rig job. I saw John King on CNN last night with his color-coded map and he said Democrats undershowed, Republicans overshowed. Democrats undershowed, huh? Walker won by a bi...
- posted by The White Hat Reporters at The White Hats Report - 2 hours ago*Frustrated and Desperate - Cabal Tries to Kill The Messenger, and FAILS THREE TIMES!!!* The Ed Falcone affair is akin to a Hollywood movie, only much more bizarre. It’s bizarre because the players invol...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*That sure is the impression the Boston Globe has left me with. * "Warren’s new statement came after the Globe asked her campaign about documents it obtained Wednesday from Harvard’s library.... --more--"...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoNorth Korea‘s air force has sharply increased sorties since mid-May, with some fighter jets flying close to South Korea’s airspace, in what appears to be part of routine exercises, a military source said ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours agoLast week I wrote a little blurb about ALEC member Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) because of a scathing report done by the National Labor College that was recently release. While doing that res...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours agoThe Moral Landscape: Science and human values Harris is on to something very important here: that careful observation of what actually works has a great deal to tell us about what is good and valuable. By ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*If former Sen. John Lehman's narrow advantage holds in yesterday's Wisconsin 21st Senate District recall vote, Democrats will regain control of the State Senate.* "Exit polling showed the same electorate...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*It's one reason they make the agenda-pushing papers. * "WikiLeaks reveals intelligence firm’s e-mails; Accuses US-based think tank Stratfor of shady dealings" by Cassandra Vinograd | Associated Press, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"A setting full moon rarely looks like this. Monday morning just before a fully lit Strawberry Moon dropped behind the Absaroka Mountain Range near Cody, Wyoming, USA, the shadow of the Earth got in the w...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Some kids are so smart! * "Young activists in Yemen now contend revolt has been co-opted" February 29, 2012|By Sudarsan Raghavan * * *The US GOVT BEHIND DEAL AND NEW GOVT!* SANA, Yemen — The youth activ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agoJune 5, 2012 9 Ahau, 13 Pax, 8 Manik Selamat Balik! We return! A great deal is happening! What now remains to be done is some internal paperwork resulting from several important legal issues ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agoSaLuSa, June 6, 2012 The new you is emerging out of the shadows of the old paradigm, a new shining you that lights up everything and everyone around you. Your Light is reaching out to others w...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agoMany of you have been experiencing stirred-up issues for the last couple of weeks 06/06/2012 by John Smallman The enormously powerful energies presently enveloping and surrounding Planet Earth ar...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours agoGraphic by Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog. The Marx Brothers are reforming public education Hilarious, but as Groucho himself might have observed, the joke’s on us! By Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog / June 6...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoI want to begin my posts from Marxism 2012 with the Quebec Student Strike, because it's currently the most important progressive development unfolding in Canada. By now it should be obvious that the Qu...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoToronto city council has voted to ban plastic bags as of the beginning of next year. The 24-20 vote came after a push by Mayor Rob Ford to overturn the five-cent fee on plastic shopping bags. During th...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago*A look at a disappearing daily ritual for many ~The Lens*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago* "At The End Of The Day..."* “At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how we’re made. So, you can waste your live...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours agoJeffrey Tucker ably crystallises both the error of Keynesian “rescues” of the economy and the economic implications of the zombie apocalypse. “Rescues” first, zombies later: Apocalyptic themes are ever...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoRenton, Washington, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Hope"* "Hope is with you when you believe The earth is not a dream but living flesh, That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie, That all things you have ever seen here Are like a garden looked at from...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Credo"* by Chet Raymo “*A.* Science is the most reliable way of knowing that humankind has yet devised. It relies as much as possible on the experimental method, quantitative data, peer review, repr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*“At The End”* by m1nute "If at the end of your life you arrive fully spent, then you have lived well. If you are whipped by the wind, burnt by the sun, lashed by the rain or otherwise well marked by th...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours agoIndiana Senator Albert Beveridge articulated what was to become the new ideology of American empire. Image from the Library of Congress. The ideological dimension: U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere ...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 6 hours agoYou've all heard by now that Scott Walker survived his recall election, thanks in part to the scads of money poured into his war chest from out of state. You've no doubt also heard that he outspent his ch...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours agoNo, I can’t get excited about Paula Bennett’s latest announcement to “get tough” on someone. Or at least to look like she is. Her announcement this week informs us she intends to “’consider’ giving cou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Collapse At Hand"* by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts “Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and quantitative easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero int...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 7 hours agoI just love this Web of Debt blog. What do you think? (It's Ellen Brown's baby!) Out of the Mouths of Babes: Twelve-Year-Old Money Reformer Tops a Million Views May 29, 2012 Ellen Brown The youtube video...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago*Watch: Theresa Andersson's "Street Parade" video at The Music Box ~Gambit *
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Oops... too late!* Minnick, defeated in 2010 in the Great Blue Dog Apocalypse, promptly started a Big Business-oriented lobbying firm on K Street, the Majority Group. He says he has to be able to look hi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoMountains of Bolivia, traditional feast with President Evo Morales April 2010. Photos by Brenda Norrell Rio+20 in June to carry forward Cochabamba's Rights of Nature By Brenda Norrell Censored News http:/...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDozens of civilians died in a bloody day across Afghanistan as a twin suicide bombing ripped through a crowded makeshift bazaar and a NATO air strike hit a home, officials said. Two NATO soldiers were al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA major public health crisis is emerging, in the form of a sexually-transmitted disease that doesn't respond to antibiotics, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. Gonorrhea is one of the mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- The FBI has launched an investigation into apparent leaks of classified information involving a cyberwarfare program against Iran, a U.S. official said Wednesday. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson had ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoAs far as I know, exactly 100% of all political junkies -- plus, I suppose, the Barack Obama campaign -- were rooting for birther queen Orly Taitz to advance to the November election against Dianne Feinste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- Russia and China on Wednesday voiced their strong opposition to international intervention or efforts to change the regime in Syria, as Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Beijing. "Both sid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJune 6 - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warns Syria of widespread economic sanctions, possible use of force. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - The festering economic crisis in Europe could help determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, but don't expect President Barack Obama or his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, to spe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIf EU summit in Brussels fails to show markets euro will be defended at all costs, Spain says currency could be doomed. Spain is warning that Europe's single currency will unravel unless its leaders decid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoInvestors who lost their money during the Facebook IPO launch because of a "technical glitch" have been told how they will get their money back. The Nasdaq exchange has made an initial offer of $40m (£25...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN IRAN at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:10:40 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.4 miles) East of Bandar-e gonaveh, Ira...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours agoThis news has just come out the past hour or so- Here and Here Mr. Annan will float his proposal during a special session of the 15-nation council on Syria on Thursday, diplomats said on condition of ano...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN IRAN at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:55:16 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15.5 miles) East of Bandar-e gonaveh, Iran...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the NIAS REGION, INDONESIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:27:54 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79.3 miles) Southwest of G...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Closer To War Than You Realize"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Much of the news in the past few weeks centers around the European debt crisis, but even bigger problems are coming to a boil in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:57 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 581 km (360.2 miles) Northwe...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWe need you to subscribe to our magazine (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your financial help, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researching, reporting ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoI've really been slammed by the energies on 6/5/12. I have 3 different health issues hit me at once, was running a 102 fever this morning. Purging the junk I guess....will be glad when this is over......
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Never Mind the Debt"* by Bill Bonner "Monday was a disappointment. Tuesday too. The Dow rose 26 points yesterday. After last week, we were hoping for more. A hard rain…a cleansing wash…a flood that ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago*While Adam Smith is turning in his grave* A vast majority of the staunch advocates of the climate panic are left-wing people and left-wing institutions. But I was just amazed by a fresh Forbes article ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoTo Jamelle Bouie, who's been very good lately, for pointing that that an otherwise quite good Ross Douthat post about Wisconsin was topped off by Douthat repeating the current false Republican talking poin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 7.9 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:55:57 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) Northwest of Ternate, Moluc...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago*Forget iPods. America's biggest product is iSkulls.* "I ask this sincerely: what kind of country targets rescuers, funeral attendees, and people gathered to mourn? If a Hollywood film featured a vil...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoI have a matter out of town in a couple of weeks. There is about 75,000 pages of disclosure. Seriously 75,000 pages. I was dreading carrying the file and thought, "can I take only part"? I didn't like ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 8 hours agoGoogle is amazing. I'm sure that comes as no shocker, but really, they are. As if a great search engine, YouTube, Google Docs and Gmail weren't enough, Google continues to amaze. This past week, Google ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 9 hours agoThough I'm not a fan of the NYT's Maureen Dowd, her succinct overview of a theological dispute between Sister Margaret Farley and the dogmatic Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (aka the Catholic Shari...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours agoIn 1948 the Olympic Games were held in London. To produce an athletics venue, cinder was spread onto the greyhound track at Wembley. Athletes were housed in military barracks, school dormitories and pr...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours agoOTTAWA– Liberal Justice and Human Rights critic Irwin Cotler is calling on all parties to adopt a Liberal motion in the House of Commons to request that a moment of silence be held at the 2012 Olympic G...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours ago*R. v. McDonald*, 2012 ONCA 379 points out that consent can be a defence to assault bodily harm. Specifically, consent is a defence and is vitiated only when the accused intended to cause serious bodil...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoDestruction of San Francisco Peaks/Photo John Running/ Indienous Action Media Flagstaff community members begin Hunger Strike for Protection of the San Francisco Peaks Also: Resistance Trial for Klee Bena...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoDefMin Pete MacKay is gung-ho for Canada to join America's "pivot" to the Far East, a.k.a. the contaiment of China mission or, as I like to call it, Cold War II. Part of that requires the foreign basing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoConditions are improving after a rare snowstorm crippled travel in and around the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, leaving thousands without power. Various reports along with data accessed by Accuweath...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours agoOpen Letter to Obama: When will you meet with the tribal governments along the Colorado River? "Many Native Americans felt that your tenure would be different, that things could really change for Indian...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSomething terribly fishy is going on at the fishing port of Ohara (pronounced Oh-hara) in Isumi City of Chiba Prefecture, and it has nothing to do with espionage or political corruption. There are tons an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFirefighters hope to continue an air attack on a 1,500-acre wildfire burning in the Medicine Bow National Forest in southeast Wyoming if the weather allows. Hot, windy conditions are expected Wednesday. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLANZHOU, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- An avalanche buried a campsite in the northwestern region of China on late Tuesday evening, killing at least three people and leaving seven others missing, local authorities sa...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012* *Science scores rise on the NAEP:* If USA Today doesn’t watch its step, it might get banned from the press corps! Last year, the colorful newspaper scooped the rest of the press,...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoColville members rally to discuss the $193 million settlement By Yvonne Swan yvonneswan1@gmail.comConnie McCraigie, Omak, Wash. Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/06/colville-ral...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours agoWalker spent 88% of the money to get 53% of the vote The real winner in Wisconsin on Tuesday was not Gov. Scott Walker, but Big Money. And the real loser was not Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, but democracy. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoIt didn't go well for progressives last night. So we pick ourselves up and we keep on fighting. We lost in Wisconsin. Corporate spending outweighed grassroots organizing. Scott Walker, who outspent Tom ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoCALGARY - At least two tornadoes touched down in southern Alberta fields Tuesday night, damaging trees and some out-buildings as a string of severe thunderstorms powered through southern parts of the prov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoKatsina — Twenty six persons were rushed to the hospital at the weekend for food poisoning in Dan-Sharu village in Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State. The affected persons were admitted for dia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA Canadian oil company is in trouble with the Taranaki Regional Council after crude oil spilled from its Copper-Moki wellsite into the Ngaere Stream. The council is considering taking legal action agains...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 11 hours ago*Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 08:46:51 -0700 From: americankabuki@yahoo.com Subject: Truth about 311 Quake To: Benjamin Fulford * * I'm about to publish this video on my blog, do you have any thoughts to add...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoST. LOUIS (AP) — A man and his two adult sons died when a tornado obliterated a mobile home in southeast Missouri, officials said Tuesday. The twister was part of a storm that struck Missouri, Illinois an...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012* *Not if the swells can avoid it:* Yesterday, the GOP filibustered the Paycheck Fairness Act. Unless you read the New York Times, where Jennifer Steinhauer went to heroic length...
- link: http://youtu.be/AWy618wrFn8 It may sound weird at first. But according to my own experiences it works...! Put your bare feet in the grass, or on the street, ground your bed and you might feel better...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:38:33 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 216 km (133.9 miles) No...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe death of Muammar Gaddafi continues to reverberate across Africa – this time in the form of desert locusts. The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations warned on Tuesday that cropland...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 12 hours ago** *... but do Zombies go all nervous and weepy on airplanes?* *Contributor: "YYC"* It's not enough for the media to report that a man was killed, dismembered, and parts of his body mailed to politicians ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoI came across some interesting news just the other day from Kenny's Sideshow Blog, at www.kennysideshow.blogspot.com, that I want to share with everyone here... It does appear that Greg Bacon's great websi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* Russia proposed broad meeting on Syria to include Iran * Clinton heading to Istanbul meeting on Syria (Adds quotes, background, details) BAKU, June 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoI know this headline seems absurd. Few people are concerned about cockroaches. What is even more strange is I am concerned about *missing *cockroaches. I should be simply happy they are gone. But, I'm no...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago*Shauna Thompson v. Dr. Yogi Sehgal*, 2012 ONSC 3258 is a very recent summary judgment decision that *may* be a source for the proposition that a cause of action is not discovered, for limitations purpo...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012* *Part 3—Prepared to be dumb and dishonest:* Did Allen and VandeHei have a point about some of the Romney coverage? In our view, they pretty much did, especially if you restrict ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNEW DELHI — Pentagon chief Leon Panetta said Wednesday that the US would continue to launch drone attacks against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan despite complaints from Islamabad that the strikes violate its sovere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThey call them the ‘Terror Tuesday’ meetings. Held in the Situation Room in the bowels of the White House, they are chaired by President Barack Obama and include up to two dozen intelligence and counter-t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Russian hacker has stolen more than six million passwords from work-oriented social network LinkedIn. Security experts have urged users to change passwords immediately. The information could be used to...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoOver at Post Partisan, I argue that Wisconsin -- assuming the state senate result holds up and Democrats have gained a majority there -- is a mixed result. That's not what you're going to get from the cov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA mother-of-two has been charged with domestic violence after starving her newborn baby to the brink of death and neglecting her two-year-old daughter, police said. Katherine Amanda Mattern, 23, is accus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Afghan government claim the Taliban were responsible for poisoning students at a girls' school and confirmed that 15 arrests have now been made . Intelligence service spokesman Latifullah Mashal revea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThis is the dramatic moment a Chinese toddler came terrifyingly close to a deadly plunge - after getting his head stuck on a balcony handrail while his parents were out. The young boy had wandered toward...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 13 hours agoWe "sheet mulch" with cardboard (tape and plastic removed) in the fall and hide it with straw. Come spring, what's left of it (worms love the stuff) is mushy enough to plant seedlings right through it, the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThis is the dramatic moment a Chinese toddler came terrifyingly close to a deadly plunge - after getting his head stuck on a balcony handrail while his parents were out. The young boy had wandered toward...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*At least for right now. * "Trump heirs’ hunting trip is questioned" Associated Press, March 24, 2012 HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean conservationists said Friday they are investigating the legality of a hu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAstronomers have found a black hole several million times the size of our sun hurtling through space - and there could be many more of these deadly intergalactic missiles. It requires almost unimaginable...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBarclays bank is embroiled in yet more controversy after three of its employees were ordered to stand trial for alleged tax fraud. They were among 20 people charged with fraud at Italian bank UniCredit, ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoHere's a great way to handle Canada's F-35 dilemma. Let's wait until the aircraft's operational testing and evaluation is completed, see what it is that's actually on offer, and then decide whether it's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA mother has defended her decision to give her three-year-old daughter regular spray tans. Lauren Jackson, 26, from Michigan, first took her toddler to a beauty salon at the age of two in a bid to boost ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAn Indian untouchable who tried to use hand pump during a heatwave was brutally beaten to death for breaking strict caste rules. Mohan Paswan, in his late 40s, was lynched in Parhuti village in Bihar st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA judge has described CCTV footage of a man's vicious attack on a woman as among the 'most harrowing' he has ever seen. Billy Joe Craven, 19, punched his victim 30 times in 20 minutes, raining blows on h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA two-year-old boy sat up in his coffin and asked for water before laying back down again lifeless, according to a Brazilian news website. In a case that seems almost too incredible to be true, ORM claime...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*I'm no longer taking the bait, sorry. * * *"Judge orders George Zimmerman back to jail; Rules suspect lied at bond hearing; Has until Sunday to turn himself in" by Kyle Hightower and Mike Schneider | A...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*Part I: Zionists on Rampage in Palestine* *And so it goes for over 60 years now:* "Palestinians march in annual mourning ritual" Associated Press, May 16, 2012 RAMALLAH, West Bank - *Palestinians marked...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours agoA White House that has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined is itself going to be the subject of a leak investigation -- or so some Congressional chest-thumpers are thr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA foolish criminal was convicted of assault after bragging to friends on Facebook that he would get away with it - shortly before the jury was sent out to consider its verdict. Michael Ruse, 21, was on t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPlans to make forced marriage a criminal offence are expected to be announced by Home Secretary Theresa May this week. The Government is already committed to criminalising breaches of civil Forced Marria...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThere have been 21 confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease and 19 suspected cases in Scotland, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said. Ms Sturgeon announced the figures during a news conference organi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA at a depth of 14.7 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:04:17 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) East from Ky...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Yemeni civilians are trapped by fighting during a U.S.-backed army offensive on Islamist militants in the south of the country and urgently need help, the International Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - Congolese soldiers and rebels clashed at an army base in eastern Congo, the government and a rebel said on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people in the latest outbreak of violence that has for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoJune 6 - Mexican authorities find the dismembered bodies of seven people stuffed into garbage bags and dumped on a road in the drug-ravaged city of Culiacan. Travis Brecher reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - A bomb targeted the U.S. embassy offices in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi late on Tuesday, an embassy official said. He said the improvised explosive device hit outside the gate of the o...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 13 hours agoThere is a chill in the air this morning. When Scott Walker kept his job last night, it became more difficult for unionized workers -- public and private -- to keep theirs. There are two sets of number...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 14 hours ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *"Tomorrow is the day after the election. And tomorrow, we are no longer opponents. Tomorrow, we are one as Wisconsinites." * - Scott Walk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the FIJI REGION at a depth of 528.6 km (328.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:40:03 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) Northeast of Ndoi Island...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday made his second public speech, signaling a departure in leadership style from his late father. Speaking to tens of thousands of children in Pyongyang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- Google has started warning users when it thinks they may be targets of government-sponsored hackers, the Internet giant announced. Users whose accounts are compromised get a message at the top of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTripoli, Libya (CNN) -- The United States diplomatic office in the Libyan city of Benghazi was attacked Tuesday night, the embassy in the capital Tripoli said Wednesday. "Fortunately no one was injured"...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 14 hours agoWell, Jim Shepard definitely has a monumental challenge on his hands.... In a first for Canadian politics, a unique election strategy emerges, in a Sarah Palinesque move that can only be described as d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The European Union announced a plan Wednesday for a continent-wide banking union that would deal with future banking crises rather than leave them in the hands of already struggling...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has tasked an official with "the formation of a new government," state-run media reported Wednesday -- though it was not clear whether the move would bring about ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoGoogle will warn users if it believes their email account is the target of state-sponsored spying, in a move designed to protect activists, journalists and political figures online. Users of the web gian...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours agohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/bernardhenri-levy/after-the-drama-of-villeurbanne_b_1569454.html?ref=tw
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPrime Minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama have agreed on the need for "an immediate plan" to resolve the eurozone crisis, Downing Street has said. It came in a phone conversation between...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*With all due **respect**, readers, I'm just not up for it today. * "Ultra-Orthodox use Holocaust imagery; Israelis widely condemn protest" by Aron Heller | Associated Press, January 02, 2012 JERUSALEM ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Danny Strong, 38. To the good stuff: 1. More on that Charles Lane column; here's John Sides summing up the arguments. 2. Scott Lemieux on the bully pulpit and Obama. I agree with his a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 15 hours agoSo, somebody in the PMO leaked to the Globe yesterday. The Prime Minister’s Office is putting heavy pressure on members of the Conservative caucus to vote down a Tory MP’s effort to trigger a legislative...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoAlthough the biggest news out of Massachusetts this week was about how Scott Brown worked to weaken Wall Street reform while taking Wall Street cash, there was an important Romney story we shouldn't let d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA at a depth of 573.9 km (356.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:35:34 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60 miles) ENE of S...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours agoYou gotta love that name?! "Good news club"! Good news club = teaching it is ok to kill Like collateral damage. R2P. "intervention". Regime change. All the ways war, genocide, killing, imperialism, state sp...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago*Gideon Rachman* -Website for this image On 5 June 2012 Gideon Rachman, a member of Bilderberg, writes: *Yes, Obama really could lose* http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2012/06/yes-obama-really-could-lose/#i...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago"Goin' Down the Road" (1970) is one of Canada's best films. It shows how poorly educated folks from Cape Breton struggle and fail in Toronto where the good jobs require education and connections. At the ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago*The lion should sleep tonight ~American Zombie* *The Sometimes Picayune ~Harry Shearer, Columbia Journalism Review* *More with Morstead: Saints Punter Recaps Day 1 of Mini-Camp* *Scott Fujita hasn't los...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe New Zealand government has sparked anger among some MPs and rights activists with a suggestion convicted child killers be ordered not to have children. The government is drafting a discussion paper on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDefence Minister Stephen Smith has told a high-powered gathering in China the Asian nation's increasing military strength obliges it to be more open and transparent. Mr Smith, speaking in Beijing, defend...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 16 hours agoToronto News: Protester sues ‘This ain’t Canada’ cop after York police board refuses to charge him - thestar.com: "Paul Figueiras" 'via Blog this' Nice work, York police board. You been taking lessons or ...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 16 hours ago*Saffron Fried Rice!* When I lived in Boston, Fried Rice was always me and my dad's go-to meal. As long as you have some left-over rice on hand you can make this easy dish. In order to make it healthy I c...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 17 hours agoPhoto courtesy: © Wei Zheng A new study has found that wastewater from large dairy farms contains notable concentrations of estrogenic hormones that, instead of breaking down, can persist for years. The u...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 17 hours agoCan you imagine a greater waste of your time than watching such a thing as that?? It's one of the top stories on the CBC News website, and there's an image of Mansbridge looking serious as harper gesticula...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours agoUS Attempts to Mass-Murder Its Way to Victory in Syria. *by Tony Cartalucci * - US planned Syrian sectarian violence since at least 2007. - US willfully arming sectarian extremists to perpetuate vio...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Srinath TV/CC BY 2.0 An experiment in Sweden shows eating canned food clearly and drastically raises levels of bisphenol-A (BPA), though not higher than currently recommended safe levels. ...
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