The Khunjerab Pass at the Karakoram Range viewed from Pakistan side. The border fence can be seen at the left. (stitched photo) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
View of the moon over Karakoram Range in Pakistan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA - MARCH 02: Women sell vegetables on a roadside on March 02, 2010 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Kashmir is known for its charming beauty. It is surrounded by three mountain ranges of the Himalayas- Karakoram, Zanaskar and Pir Panjal, running from northwest to northeast. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA - MARCH 02: Kashmiris rowing their boats are silhouetted against the setting sun in Dal Lake on March 02, 2010 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Kashmir is known for its charming beauty. It is surrounded by three mountain ranges of the Himalayas- Karakoram, Zanaskar and Pir Panjal, running from northwest to northeast. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)11:30 pm MDST- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 36 seconds agoChuck Wild, “Liquid Mind: Dream Ten” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ7eSn_9uT0&feature=related
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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*Is that a good example to set for the kids and staff -- especially when the staff is having to give back benefits?* "Superintendents circumvent state pension law" by Deirdre Fernandes | Globe Staff, Ju...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*Narcisse the narcissist?* "A hard lesson: change can come too fast; Hired as a savior, the young, new principal upended everything at English High but this: the pattern of failure" by Andrea Estes and Ja...
- Link: http://youtu.be/GBaHPND2QJg A formidable PR-campaign from the Banco Sabadell. This ingenious movie goes about the following. "On the 130th anniversary of the founding of *Banco Sabadell* we wanted ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFire crews investigating the cause of a suspected chemical leak at a council office that left nine people needing medical treatment have found no trace of any chemicals that could have caused the problem....
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoContinuing on my reaction to yesterday's discussion of whether a result in this year's election could mean that political scientists have been wrong about presidential elections. In this part: what it mig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHistoric wildfires continue to ravage Idaho, California, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and other western states. BOISE, Idaho — Wind-fanned wildfires in southern Idaho are proving stubborn, but across the West ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt took less than an hour, but an afternoon thunderstorm on Monday knocked out power to nearly 17,000 customers, shut down traffic lights and caused several minor crashes that tied up traffic through rush...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours agoAn American hero, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and an old and loyal friend through thick and thin, I don't think Raúl Grijalva needs much of an introduction. As always, he has ple...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/pfgbest-brokerage-customer-funds-suicide-wasendorf_n_1660673.html Reuters Posted: 07/09/2012 8:33 pm Updated: 07/10/2012 1:09 pm By Tom Polansek and David She...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe noises have inspired folktales and created both fear and awe in wilderness wanderers. But for the first time, the strange crackling noises and muffled bangs of the Northern Lights have been explained...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 85 km (52.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:06:10 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (72.5 miles) South of Paga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA teenager who was savaged by an alligator is on the road to recovery and even joking about his ordeal with friends and family - despite having his right arm ripped off. Kaleb Langdale had been swimming ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSeveral of Britain's largest banks have been fixing the Libor rate in the own favour for decades, a whistleblower said today. The rigging of the key interest rate has been a 'well-kept' secret at the hea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA woman set fire to her boyfriend as he lay on a bed following a drunken row, a court heard. Helen Green, 43, is accused of pouring white spirits on his clothes to start the blaze that killed Robert McAl...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoIt was close - 77 to 71 - but it was enough for the Dutch parliament to cancel their planned purchase of 80 F-35 stealth light attack bombers. Lockheed is trying to put the best face on the setback, saying...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWorkers at a chemical fiber plant in the United States who died of the same bile duct cancer that has claimed the lives of employees of an Osaka printing firm also handled the same organic solvent as their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThree workers at printing firms in Tokyo, Ishikawa and Shizuoka prefectures developed bile duct cancer and two of them died, according to emergency survey results released by the Health, Labor and Welfare ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThousands of endangered leatherback turtle hatchlings were killed over the weekend in an erosion-control project on a Trinidad beach, according to reports from the Caribbean island. The work was done by ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- Wikipedia once again is diving into Internet politics. The free encyclopedia on Tuesday temporarily shut down access to most of its Russian-language site in protest of proposed legal action in Ru...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA naked man went on a rampage Saturday, biting a chunk out of a man’s stomach after leaping from a roof onto a truck on Palmetto Avenue, according to the St. Augustine Police Department. After it took se...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA naked man went on a rampage Saturday, biting a chunk out of a man’s stomach after leaping from a roof onto a truck on Palmetto Avenue, according to the St. Augustine Police Department. After it took se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(CNN) -- International envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday he sees Iran as a factor in diplomatic efforts to forge peace in Syria, a stance not shared by the United States. "I think Iran can play a positive ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoRomania's deep political rivalries have broken out into a turf war that has caused alarm in Brussels and that the opposition has compared to a coup. President Basescu left the Cotroceni Presidential Palac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPARIS — An official says a man who took hostages at a school complex just south of Paris used a “fake firearm.” All hostages were released unharmed and a suspect detained after the Tuesday morning inciden...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoA few months ago, I blogged about our Roku streaming device. Shorter wmtc: I love it. We now only use streaming or DVDs - no more cable - and it's been *great*. And Roku is now available in Canada. If you...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoThe fightback over the Interim Federal Health Program (health coverage for refugees) is being noticed. So is the typical pattern of propaganda staged by the Harper GovernmentTM when it wants to kill anothe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral A Florida teenager has lost his arm in an alligator attack after "offering" the limb in a bid to save his own life. Kaleb Langdale, 17, was attacked by an 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - A Bahrain court has dissolved a Shi'ite Islamist political party which has played a role in the Gulf Arab state's wave of unrest, on the grounds that it answers to a religious authority who ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoRussia today dispatched six warships to its naval base in Syria in a move that is likely to spark concern in the West. A flotilla led by an anti-submarine destroyer have sailed from the Arctic port of Se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLOS ANGELES — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's nuclear program already has the world's attention but the young dictator has now defied the owner of one of America's most famous exports -- Mickey Mouse. ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 12 hours agoIn case you were wondering how our corporate overlords make all that money, this would be a clue: In a survey of 500 senior executives in the United States and the UK, 26 percent of respondents said they...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 12 hours agoDrudge dutifully picked up this ZOMG survey as "reported" by Tucker Carlson's vanity project, claiming a non-partisan group discovered doctors want to quit rather than practice under Obamacare. (No, don't ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours ago*The robust little restaurant: A fable ~Kevin Allman, Gambit** * *~"Great news! In order to serve you better, we're not going to have dinner service seven days a week. We're just going to serve dinner on t...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoJohn Sides and Noam Scheiber got in a bit of a twitter fight yesterday about election prediction models, political science, and the 2012 election. John wrote a good piece summarizing his position here; I r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHans Kristian Rausing, one of Britain's richest men is being questioned by police after the body of his wife Eva was found at their home in Cadogan Place, Chelsea. Mrs Rausing, 48, was reportedly found de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the West's influence was waning as its economy declines but warned Russian diplomats to be on their guard against a backlash from Moscow's former Cold W...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 12 hours ago*Argentina: VISION OVNI Investigates a Horse Mutilation* *By Andrea Pérez Simondini* Once again we are bewildered by news of a strange animal death. In this particular instance, the case invo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoOne of Britain's richest women, Eva Rausing, has been found dead at her London home, according to Sky sources. A 49-year-old man has been arrested in connection with her death and is in custody at a sout...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 13 hours agoJean-Francois (Photo by John Carroll--July 10, 2012) On the way to clinic this morning I spotted this man sitting on a porch. I stopped and examined this man. He is 26 years old and told me that this mas...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoWell I can see something of Russia anyway. I can see smoke from Russian wildfires creating a haze over local mountains. At first I thought it was just water vapour from our recent warm spell but, no, i...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours ago"Trust Us." That's the theme behind Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline PR campaign. The company is desperate to get the public convinced they're trustworthy. They're pros, they know what they're do...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago*Greater Essex County District School Board v. United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada, Local 552*, 2012 ONCA 482 has a nic...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 13 hours agoThe poultry moat here is so called because it contains ducks and a goose as well as chickens. Peaceful rural sceneEveryone gets along better than some would have us believe, but the arrangement is not per...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago*Wall Street Ethics*: In a survey, 500 banksters honestly admit just how dishonest they are. (read the full report here.)Winners always cheat, and cheaters always win. If they're caught, their regulating p...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 hours agoVanity Fair's investigative piece on Romney's money it the gift that keeps on giving. Bless them for reopening the call for the Romneybot's tax returns. Truth Team is on the case. They have a decent summar...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours ago*Source: La Cuarta (newspaper, Chile) http://www.lacuarta.cl/noticias/cronica/2012/07/63-140502-9-ovnimeteorito-ilumino-la-noche-en-norte-grande.shtml * *Chile: "UFO-Meteorite" Lights the Sky in N...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 13 hours agoWhy I’m an Actorvist now… (or, to hell and back.) « The Life of an Actor: "Being arrested and charged is NOT the end of the world – they just want you to feel like it is. So much of police and court proces...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012* *Francine Prose on Anne Frank:* We got very lucky last Sunday night. Around 2 AM, C-Span re-aired the hour-long book event in which Francine Prose discusses Anne Frank. We were l...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012* *David Brooks leaves out one group:* Intellectually, our culture is broken. In this morning’s New York Times, David Brooks discusses the problems confronting low-income kids as in...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 14 hours agoObviously I don't know what's going to happen. But I'd just like to clear up the stupid things that these whining, hypocritical, self-righteous harpercon cry-babies are attempting: "This was an Elections...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 14 hours agoYes, say Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoMusic by Chuck Wild, "Liquid Mind VII: Reflection- In The Stillness". Photos, animations courtesy of ESA, NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahc16ZFXrTo&feature=context-...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: The Fijian city of Nadi was hit by strong floods, 26 January 2012. AP / Fiji Times] By Amy Goodman 8 July 2012 Evidence supporting the existence of climate change is pummeling the United State...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Wildfire burns near Fort Collins Colorado, 12 June 2012. Brian O'Connor] CANBERRA, Australia, 5 July 2012 (AP) – Increasingly common experiences with extreme climate-related events such as the C...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: NOAA's U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI) for January - June shows that 2012 has had the most extreme first six months of the year on record, with 44% of the contiguous U.S. experiencing top-10% e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Hurricane Emilia raged into to a Category 4 storm Tuesday, hurling 140 mph winds as it spun across the Pacific Ocean. As of Tuesday morning, Emilia was about 680 miles (1,095 kilometers) south-s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSecurity experts warn of sexual predators on cruise ships, but the cruise industry denies it. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- It has been more than 1,000 days since a Christian pastor was thrown into an Iranian jail for leaving Islam and sentenced to death for, as the U.S. State Department put it, "simply following his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Russia will not deliver new weapons to Syria so long as the situation in that country is unstable, an official at the body in charge of monitoring Russia's arms trade said Monday, state media rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Even as the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast cool a bit, the U.S. Southwest is practically boiling. The National Weather Service has issued excessive heat warnings for parts of Arizona, Californi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoHavana, Cuba (CNN) -- In the nineties a certain joke became very popular in the streets and homes of Cuba. It began with Pepito -- the mischievous boy of our national humor -- and told how his teacher, br...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoSometimes it can feel like Stephen Harper is a giant dead body that's fallen on top of Canada. He's not really dead but you can look at him a good long time and not spot any signs of life either. And tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry said on Monday Texas will not implement an expansion of the Medicaid program or create a health insurance exchange, placing the state with the highest percentage of people w...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 15 hours agoHow's this for irony: although the almighty deficit is running lower this year through a combination of government austerity and modest increases in tax revenue, the gains are being offset by a one percent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoJul 10 - Brazilian officials destroy tens of thousands of firearms, saying they are stepping up their fight against violence.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Japan's prime minister appears to be trying to dampen tensions with China with a proposal to buy islands at the center of a row with Beijing, instead of letting the nationalist governor of Tok...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Tough Western sanctions are forcing Iran to take drastic action and shut off wells at its vast oilfields, reducing production to levels last seen more than two decades ago and costing Tehran b...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: A woman washes utensils on a partly submerged road near the remains of a bridge which was washed away in the floods in Bhikubori village in northeastern Assam state, India, Sunday, July 8, 2012. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Less than nine months after MF Global's collapse sent shockwaves through U.S. futures brokerages, news that more than half the customer funds at Iowa-based PFGBest are missing is threatening to...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012* *Part 1—Where do huge tax hikes come from:* A strange conversation occurred on the Fox News Channel last night. It was a *very* strange conversation. It was *extremely *strange. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Euro zone ministers struggled to reassure financial markets on Tuesday that an aid package for Spain they outlined overnight will help stabilize the currency bloc - a task made all the harder ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has suggested ending Syria's conflict on a step-by-step basis, starting with districts that have seen the worst violence, international mediator Kofi Annan tol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLONDON (Reuters)- Unemployment in advanced economies will remain high until at least the end of 2013, with young people and the low-skilled bearing the brunt of what is by far the weakest economic recover...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have known as early as August 2007 that the setting of global benchmark interest rates was flawed. Following an inquiry with British banking group Barc...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 15 hours agoNewsWorldWide zandocomm Today is the day that will bring us one step closer to the death of the cloud. That crucial new part of the internet that is gaining popularity due to the likes of Hulu, Netflix, M...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 15 hours agoGlobal Research Paul Craig Roberts In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washington in its pursuit of world he...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours agoThe test for contempt is well-known. The three essential requirements for a finding of contempt are set out in *Prescott-Russell v. G. (N.)*(2006), 29 RFL (6th) 92. The test requires: (i) Th...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 15 hours ago*Tucson’s Historic Freedom Summer & The Popol Vuh* By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez On the way to Tucson’s Freedom Summer, I’m driving with a few friends. We speak of several topics and at one point, some...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the TAIWAN REGION at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:42:58 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21.7 miles) East of Suao, Taiwan No Tsu...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours agoHappy Birthday to Sue Lyon, who is, believe it or not, 66. Lolita is the one I usually think of as my favorite Kubrick movie, and I pretty much like every Kubrick movie, even the failures. But enough of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck VANUATU at a depth of 41.3 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:46:39 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) SSW of Lakatoro, Vanuatu No Tsunami...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 15.6 km (9.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:43:51 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (37 miles) SSE of Br...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA at a depth of 31.7 km (19.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:27:00 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe very name, sleeping sickness, may give the impression that it is an uncomplicated ailment, which passes after a while, much like a mild fever. The very name, sleeping sickness, may give the impression...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice hunting for a man suspected of killing an off-duty officer have found his body in a churchyard. A major search operation was launched to track down suspected gunman Peter Reeve after PC Ian Dibell...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 16 hours ago*a film by Louis Lefebvre* *Based in the beautiful Laurentian mountains just north of Montreal, Canada, Heliofant is a nascent independent computer animation studio focused on creating experimental and ch...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoThe disgusting display of conspicuous consumption and sociopathic entitlement from some of society's most repulsive and dangerous parasites on Sunday at the mansions of Romney supporters toilet paper man...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours agoAnonymous and related hacktivists have claimed that they provided the 2.5 million emails to WikiLeaks. Anonymous and WikiLeaks have cooperated before. *Calling out the spooks* Just after WikiLeaks be...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 16 hours agoThe one thing that is certain is that the current way in which we manage copyright is going to have to change. Will it this be for the better or worse is hard to say as many vested interests lobby and co...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago"It" can be defined a number of ways -- intelligence, the common touch, gravitas. The main knock against Justin Trudeau is that he doesn't have what "it" takes to be Liberal leader. But Lawrence Martin ...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago[image: IMG_3464] *Since I started using this spray, no invisible cutthroats have attacked me. * Too tired to blog today, but you can enjoy this pic..... But read this excellent analysis of the decline in ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 17 hours agoI think that we already agree that the Sasquatch is a hominid at least. As evidence and sighting reports accumulate, the picture is converging on a life way at least equivalent to the aborigina...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 17 hours agoNew York's UFT members have been invited to join the AFT crowd in Detroit, at least the ones who will sign a statement pledging to not get in the way of the misleaders' steamrolling of the resolution to to...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 18 hours agoWhilst driving around this morning I kept hearing the BBC headline that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had been found guilty of corruption charges. It's odd how any news detrimental to Israel is...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours agoThe BBC report that: 'Three men from Birmingham have been charged with terrorism offences. It follows raids last week by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit. Jewel Uddin, 26, Omar Mohammed Khan, 27,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA woman detained for life for killing her son because she believed he was possessed by evil spirits has been released under supervision, the South Australian Supreme Court has been told. It previously he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAirport security in the United Arab Emirates have spotted a five-month-old baby in luggage during an x-ray scan. Airline authorities are investigating the parents who tried to sneak their baby into the G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMichael Chamberlain has called for an apology from the Northern Territory Government for its handling of the death of his daughter Azaria. A fourth coronial inquest ruled a dingo or dingoes were responsib...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the FIJI REGION at a depth of 572.4 km (355.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:05:18 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 410 km (254 miles) West from NUKU'ALOFA, T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA newstation captured a burst of violence inside a Florida courthouse when the victims' family and the suspect's family broke out in an all out brawl earlier today. The hearing for Jason Clair, who is a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe longtime boyfriend of Tenika Revell, 40, says the cancer-stricken mother brutally beat her seven-year-old son to death in their Brooklyn apartment because she didn't want anyone else to raise her child...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCanadian celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak has died at the age of 29. His sudden death came as a shock to his family who released a statement on Monday saying he had collapsed on Friday from an undiagnosed me...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn 18-year-old father has pleaded not guilty to charges of neglect after allegedly leaving his 4-month old daughter inside a hot car where she baked to death. Chloe Stryzinski died on Saturday afternoon ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDetroit police officials have released the name of the off duty officer who was hosting a fish fry at his home when he was hugged from behind by one of the guests which prompted his gun to go off, shootin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe sweltering heatwave of the last few weeks helped make this year the hottest on record so far, officials revealed today. The last 12 months also have been the warmest in the continental United States ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn armed man broke into a kindergarten in a Paris suburb on Tuesday and took at least one hostage. The gunman, who is in his 30s, holed up inside a classroom as tactical police began to surround the Charl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPeter Reeve, the gunman suspected of shooting dead off-duty policeman Ian Dibell, is believed to be dead after police said the threat to the public was over. Armed officers surrounded a home in the vill...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBob Diamond, the former Barclays chief executive, has reached agreement with the bank over a payoff that directors will argue is the minimum possible. I have learned that Barclays will announce this morn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe International Criminal Court has sentenced Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga to 14 years in prison for using child soldiers in his rebel army. In the tribunal's first sentencing since it was created, J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoArmed police hunting for a man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer have surrounded a house in Writtle near Chelmsford. Sky sources say that the risk to the public is now over...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck OFF EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 05:13:21 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 234 km (145 miles) Southeast of Pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:49:54 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42.7 miles) Southwest of K...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoPhoto courtesy: foam/CC BY-SA 2.0 Pollution from traditional cookstoves in developing nations, both indoor air pollution and black carbon soot's climate pollution, is equally a serious health issue and a ...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 21 hours ago(Allegedly not an actual likeness.)It's the 10th anniversary of skippy the bush kangaroo contributing to blogtopia (and yes, he coined that phrase). Head over to give your regards. When thinking of skippy,...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoBy AuroRa Le. July 8, 2012. POSTED ON JULY 8, 2012 BY THE ANGEL DIARIES There is no guidance more trustworthy than that which comes from within. This is the voice which speaks to you from the heart. ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoThanks to 100 degree temperatures, the tarmac in Washington, DC became soft enough to entrap an airplane. Photo courtesy: Philip Dugaw Global warming will have many expected; and, sometimes hilarious resul...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 21 hours ago*The discovery of a bacterium that could substitute arsenic for phosphorus to stay alive is refuted by new study. Six elements such as oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur are conside...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 22 hours agothe team that designed and maintain the Solar World GT electric car consists of 30 students from the University of Applied Sciences Bochum, Germany. The Solar World GT uses solar batteries mounted in remo...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours ago*Michael channeled by Ron Head* *July 8, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages* We wish to bring you information today regarding a new connection which is available to you now should you wish to act...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours agohttp://click.lovelldsouza.com/ *Joy arrives* *Joy dances and swirls * *Joy given freely to those whom will accept this gift* *The joy of living ones' life within the realm of freedom * *A childs' joy unt...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoIf the Ouija board in fact taps our subconscious, then it is the obvious tool to use to query that same subconscious. Here using just that premise, an experiment was designed and a non random r...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoThe only thing from the great depression that we avoided was the willy nilly rock bottom liquidation of the housing market. We certainly have thrown 10,000,000 folks out of work and have done noth...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoThis is a reminder that nature can recover swiftly if we step up to the plate and simply stop the damage. It takes pretty active processes to destroy the riverine biome. I go further and desire p...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 23 hours agoSent to the Los Angeles Daily News, July 9, 2012 Because of severe budget cuts, LAUSD is cutting summer school offerings. The situation, we are told, could be worse next year, with no funding for summer ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoBobby's blog, Optimal Prediction, examines the Mystery of the Extra Xenon - 133 not accounted for by the known reactor meltdowns at Fukshima Daiichi. http://optimalprediction.com/wp/ The study being exa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA mother who became known as 'Vodka mom' after passing out drunk and rolling onto her three-day-old son, suffocating him, has burned herself to death after weeks of condemnation. Toni Annette Medrano, 29...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA woman got the shock of her life when she woke up to find a stranger in her bedroom, yelling at her to wake up because her grass was too long. Erica Masters was asleep when Columbia County Code Complianc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*“A Humanist Code of Ethics"* *․ * "Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother. Being is more important than having. Never promote yourself at another's expense. Hold life sacred; treat it with reveren...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 23 hours agoA youngish Charles Tupper at his desk. “I knew Charles Tupper and Alison Redford is no Charles Tupper” – and a good thing for her, too! Below: Sir Charles as prime minister; Frank McKenna; Robert Stanfield...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours agoA South African real estate developer, Stephen Birch, claims he may have found the gravesite of Madeleine McCann. Birch claims to have ground radar scans showing a burial site on the property where Robe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA boat once used by Germany’s Luftwaffe for navigation training ran aground during a race around the Isle of Wight. The 41ft classic yacht Sea Scamp became stranded on a receding tide on a ledge at about...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe middle of the empty, blazing hot Arizona desert might not seem the most attractive location to build a new town. But when that town is specifically designed as a bombing target by the U.S. Air Force,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThis video captures the shocking moment two dads pummelled each other to the ground in a ferocious brawl at a Little League baseball game on Saturday. The fight broke out between Iram King, 36, and Charle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man who found a kitten encased in concrete at his home fears it was sent as a threat from a polygamist Mormon sect. The tiny cat was discovered alive but audibly in pain, inside a tube in the back yard...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA youth offending team boss honoured by the Queen with an OBE has been jailed for five and a half years after stealing almost £300,000 from one of Britain’s poorest councils to fund his lavish family holi...
- posted by Josh Busby at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoI just finished reading Peter Piot's lively memoir *No Time to Lose *of his time as an epidemiologist helping identify the Ebola virus in the 1970s through to his service as the first director of UNAIDS. I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA hotel receptionist knifed a colleague to death before dumping his body on a bed and hiding inside the divan for two days, a court heard today. Attila Ban, 32, stabbed 20-year-old Tibor Vass before murde...
- posted by The White Hat Reporters at The White Hats Report - 1 day ago*Do you have your ticket yet?* When the White Hats started on this little excursion with Report #1, it was to support the Global Settlements. At that time, we really didn’t know everything we should have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice are trying to arrest as many suspected terrorists as possible to 'clear the decks' before the Olympics, one of Britain's top QCs said today. David Anderson, the UK's independent reviewer of terror...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHook-handed cleric Abu Hamza last night secured yet another hugely expensive delay to his extradition to the US by appealing to European judges. The fanatic, who has already cost the UK taxpayer more tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJust looking on the bright side, crime levels in the Fred Wigg Tower aren’t likely to be a problem for a while. There would be armed police outside the 17-storey building, soldiers going up and down the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA £1,000-a-night call girl was jailed for tax evasion yesterday after making £300,000 in just two years selling herself to wealthy businessmen. Donna Asutaitis, 29, said she turned to prostitution when sh...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 day agoIt doesn't get any better than this when it comes to explaining how the sheer IDIOCY plaguing Microsoft is now also crippling an entire generation of schoolchildren, intellectually, emotionally and psychol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mother accused of murdering her westernised daughter yesterday dramatically changed her story to accuse her husband of attacking the teenager. Farzana Ahmed had denied claims that she and husband Iftik...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeople living in a town that was hit by torrential rain two weeks ago have again been warned to stay indoors as parts of the area were flooded. Last week, the Prince of Wales visited the area to witness t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA girl Goth who was battered by two drunken thugs in an attack echoing the chilling 'hate' murder of college student Sophie Lancaster watched her tomentors get a total of almost nine years in jail today. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeter Praet, chief economist at the European Central Bank has issued a stark warning to European finance ministers ahead of today's meeting in Brussels The crisis in the eurozone is more dangerous than t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron will today come under pressure to immediately start demanding the repatriation of powers from Brussels as he holds his first No 10 summit with French president Francois Hollande. A group of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck CENTRAL ALASKA at a depth of 100.1 km (62.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:06:54 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) West from Cantwell, Alaska ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour members of a family have been found guilty of murdering a 21-year-old pregnant woman they thought was possessed by evil spirits. Following a 12-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court, Naila Mumtaz’s h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man who killed a student in a random attack has told a court he likes prison because he gets to watch Coronation Street. Kiaran Stapleton admits gunning down Indian student Anuj Bidve on the grounds of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:48:57 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13.6 miles) West of Iiyama, Honshu,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA REGION at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:29:08 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 688 km (426.5 miles) Northea...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoA couple weeks ago David Frum was in Naples and tweeting away how it was what we all have been taught to believe are the "industrious" Northerners who robbed the southern Italians of their glorious past a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRomania's top court on Monday cleared the way for a national referendum on whether to remove the country's president from office, despite criticism from European and U.S. officials fearful that democratic ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan are playing a dangerous economic version of Russian roulette that threatens the success of both countries, the top U.S. official for the region said on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban struck multiple targets across Afghanistan on Monday, killing five police officers with a roadside bomb in a relatively peaceful province but failing to inflict heavy casu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"Rushed" European Commission proposals in response to the financial crisis could be "hugely damaging" to the City of London, a House of Lords committee has warned. Crucial elements of the Markets in Fina...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoLiquid Mind, "Moment of Grace, Part 1" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61vm_nLNYg&feature=related
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe visit comes on the heels of talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad. It is unclear whether the trip signals a role for Iran in resolving Syria's crisis. TEHRAN — United Nations special envoy Kofi Ann...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEurozone finance ministers have agreed to offer Spain 30bn euros (£24bn; $37bn) to help its troubled banks. After nine hours of emergency talks in Brussels, the ministers said the money would be availabl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCAIRO -- Egypt's highest court insisted Monday that its ruling that led to the dissolution of the Islamist-dominated parliament was final and binding, setting up a showdown with the country's newly electe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMormons give an insight into their normally secretive religion as one of their members battles to become US president. A senior figure in the Mormon church has dismissed claims the religion is a 'cult' an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResidents in the southern Krymsk region of Russia have told Sky News they were not warned about the floods that killed at least 171 people. Emergency ministry chief, Vladimir Puchkov, said a warning syste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree men have been charged with terrorism offences after police found firearms in a car they stopped on the M1. Jewel Uddin 26, Omar Mohammed Khan, 27, and Mohammed Hasseen, 23, will appear at Westminste...
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