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I have an addiction. It's called barbecue sauce. I love it and look for opportunities to put it on anything and everything. I also love Mexican food, so marrying the two seemed a perfect match (even if i... - posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 minutes agoLatest ad from the DNC is pretty good. I would have skipped one of the newsroom clips and found a Romney one myself, but then again I don't know how to make these videos, so I suppose I shouldn't criticize...
- Alan Milburn has apparently warned that there is 'not a 'snowball's chance in hell' UK will eradicate child poverty by 2020' That sounds terrible, any reasonable person would ask 'why can't we meet the ta...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 37 minutes 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 - 37 minutes 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...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 39 minutes agoLink: 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes agoCOPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Danish authorities say an intravenous drug user who injected heroin and died has tested positive for anthrax. The Health Ministry suspects the drug was contaminated with the bacillu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes 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 - 54 minutes 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...
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Historic 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 - 57 minutes 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...
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An 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 - 1 hour ago
Reuters Posted: 07/09/2012 8:33 pm Updated: 07/10/2012 1:09 pm By Tom Polansek and David Sheppard CHICAGO/NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) -* More than $200 million in customer funds appears to be missi... - posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 hour agoIn the last couple of days I have been asked about my opinion on the latest Roswell revelation. It seems that a fellow named Chase Brandon (a name that is difficult to believe) has claimed that when he wor...
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The 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... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS at a depth of 535.1 km (332.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:43 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 326 km (202 miles) SSW of Ndoi ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A 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 - 1 hour ago
A 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 ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A 46-year-old has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man whose torso was found wrapped in a bin liner on a beach by a group of horrified students. David Hilder, from Southsea in Portsmouth - w... - posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 hour ago— Stevie's Turkey: the F-35 — BOEING HAS ANNOUNCED a whole series of up-grades and improvements to the Super Hornet, according to MILITARY.COM's article, "Super Hornets Could Launch Their Own UAVs". The ob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA thug walked free from court today - despite admitting punching a female cashier in the face at a bookies after losing a bet worth just £1.30. John Eamer, 29, flew across the counter at terrified Leanne ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA father killed himself and his seven-year-old daughter in a pre-planned house fire intended to wipe out his entire family, an inquest heard today. Philip Braithwaite had been suffering from mental health...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoBusinessman Paul Ward was on the crest of a wave when he picked up the luxurious yacht he had paid £269,000 for at the Southampton Boat Show. The sleek Meridian 341, a four-berth motor yacht with two stat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAlarmed residents have lost their High Court battle to prevent surface-to-air missiles being stationed on the roof of a 17-storey residential tower block during the Olympics. A judge ruled today resident...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 hours agoYes, say Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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! - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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! - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours agoLiquid Mind, "Moment of Grace, Part 1" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61vm_nLNYg&feature=related
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice are continuing to hunt for a man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a "brave and respected" police officer. PC Ian Dibell was killed after attending an incident in Clacton, Essex in w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice are continuing to hunt for a man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a "brave and respected" police officer. PC Ian Dibell was killed after attending an incident in Clacton, Essex in w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS at a depth of 18.1 km (11.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:28:12 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 451 km (280 miles) SSW of `Ohonua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 43.6 km (27.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:32:28 UTC Tuesday 10th July 2012 The epicenter was 193 km (119 miles) ESE of Hac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA at a depth of 163.1 km (101.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:01:33 UTC Monday 9th July 2012 The epicenter was 245 km (152 miles) ENE of D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:44:04 UTC Monday 9th July 2012 The epicenter was 496 km (307.5 miles) Northeast of Nemuro, Kuri...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago“What did you do over your winter vacation? If you were the Opportunity rover on Mars, you spent four months of it stationary and perched on the northern slope of Greeley Haven- and tilted so that your so...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“Things Celtic”* by Paulo Coelho *"A Celtic Prayer"* "May God give you… For every storm, a rainbow, For every tear, a smile, For every care, a promise, And a blessing in each trial. For every problem ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago“The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog"* "I never intended to have this life, believe me - It just happened. You know how dogs turn up at a farm, and they wag but can't explain. It's good if ...
- posted by Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 17 hours agoProps to Twitter for allowing me to witness interesting conversations. Andrew Coyne and Dan Gardner were debating the merits of New York's Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban on large soda sizes in New York resta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“Shank's Mare”* by Chet Raymo "What do you do now, Chet, that you are retired?" "I saunter." "Saunter? You mean walk? Amble? Gad about?" "Yes, but more. I amble- and I muse." In his essay on Walking,...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 18 hours agoWow. If you can write a dissertation on the politics of shark attacks as an IR specialist, I think you can do pretty much anything. From the Ted website: Chris Neff is a third year PhD candidate in Govern...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 18 hours ago*Contributor: YYC* *Fake Al Qaeda* Maybe it's the steamy weather, but I can't really get with anything I see in the news right now. It's all pretty much just gossip or deliberately bad news, and the death...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours agoSaw this on the front page of Think Progress UPS Pulls Ads From Rush Limbaugh’s Radio Show | UPS has pulled its ads from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, becoming the latest company to boycott the show since h...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours agoIn the second part of this show, Max Keiser interviews Kevin Sara of the TuNur solar export project of Tunisia about solar exports from the Middle East and toxic derivatives exports from the City of Londo...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSummer 2009. Unemployment is soaring. Across America, millions of terrified people are facing foreclosure and getting kicked to the curb. Meanwhile in sunny California, the hotel-heiress Paris Hilton is i...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*You may or may not want to read about "Smart Alec," or "How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo," but the August Vanity Fair also contains the above e-referenced poke into Willard Romney's finances, based on the lim...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 19 hours agoNow with two formal complaints to the IRS to revoke ALEC’s 501c3 status, it seemed fitting to take a look at a couple of things. First, a couple of definitions of the word lobbyist. I love this definition...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Assoc...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 20 hours agoWell, Roy McMurtry was a good judge after a long career in politics -- so why not Vic Toews? He's a hard nose in politics but that's not necessarily of reflection on what type of judge he would be... htt...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours ago*This is from South Africa's Mail and Guardian Newspaper. Thanks again to "African Kabuki" for bringing this to my attention!* http://mg.co.za/article/2012-07-06-modern-bankings-fatal-flaw *Modern...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 21 hours agoApologies for the ads that pop-up when you put your cursor over high-lighted text. This is the second time I've been attacked by this unwanted advertising. I have to contact google blogger to get it remo...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 21 hours ago*Times-Picayune Citizens' Group formally asks Newhouse family to sell the paper* *Times-Picayune Reporter is Mad as Hell and She's Not Going to Take This Anymore ~The Atlantic* *Breaking: Foie gras makes...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTwo-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority. A new poll for The Hill found 56 p...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAccording to Wikipedia, the Nankai Trough is the near-surface extension of a zone of active seismicity that dips beneath South West Japan. It is located in waters off the Tokai region in central Japan to ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoI had a new column up at Salon over the weekend about why Republicans were Romney-bashing last week. Short answer: it's win-win for them. Today at PP, I talked Veepstakes, and why Romney should be patient ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours agoHere's the most unintentionally hilarious story of the day. Apparently responding to widespread complaints that he isn't being aggressive enough, Team Romney is preparing a "counterattack" to Team Obama's...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*After kicking you kids around a while, they will now take credit for giving you a hand. * "Congressional negotiators close to student loan deal" June 24, 2012 WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators appea...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 22 hours agoErotizing and fetishizing the dehumanization of women is a necessary instrument required by any form of social conditioning that reinforces a man's *right* to an erection - and his *right* to breed. Mark...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours agohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/los-zetas-laundered-money-bank-america_n_1658943.html?utm_hp_ref=tw The Huffington Post | By Alexander Eichler Posted: 07/09/2012 11:03 am Updated: 07/09/2012 2...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours agoYork, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 22 hours ago*Pillar of Sand*, by Sandra Postel, is spellbinding book about everyone’s favorite subject, irrigation. It discusses the history of irrigation, the numerous serious problems, and the theoretical solutions...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take you...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago* "U.S./Iran War Gaming Scenarios*: *Washington Prepares Plans for Aggression"* by Danny Schecter "When we hear that the United States government is announcing a new policy, it is usually the result...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoAlex White Plume Lakota Treaty Leadership Urging United Nations to take Concrete Action on International Enforcement of Treaties 3rd United Nations Seminar on Treaties, Geneva, 16-17 July 2012 July 9, 2012 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo workers were hospitalized and at least 120 people were evacuated from a factory fish- processing ship that leaked up to 5,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia in port at Dutch Harbor Saturday afternoon. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (WTVR) Severe wind gusts impacted Spotsylvania Sunday. The winds were so strong, some people thought it was a tornado (but that has not been confirmed by the National Weather Service). T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 46-year-old has been charged with the murder of a man whose torso was found wrapped in a bin liner on a popular tourist beach. David Hilder, of Richmond Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, was charged by Hamps...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoI'm thoroughly enjoying Stephen Goldstein's new book, Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! and I sit around trying to identify the inspiration he must have used for the characters in the novel (which is se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Afghan suicide bombers killed two children and wounded six others Monday, when their explosive vests detonated prematurely as they went to attack police, an official said. The thr...
- *El Hierro, the western most* volcanic island of the Canary Island in the Atlantic, just west from Morocco, is in the news again. After having suffered from a volcanic episode from last July to about Febr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoPolice tonight named the man they are hunting over a double shooting which left a police officer dead and another man injured. Essex Police named the alleged gunman as Peter Reeve, described as white, ag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck MYANMAR at a depth of 33 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:13:08 UTC Monday 9th July 2012 The epicenter was 104 km (64.4 miles) West of Myitkyina, Burma No Reports ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN at a depth of 49.5 km (30.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:25:08 UTC Monday 9th July 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) NNE of Naze, Japan...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*I wonder what grade the kids would give him. ** * *"Romney promises to usher private lenders back into the federal student loan market....* *cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars over a decade withou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago“Quantitative Easing Explained, 2010” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PTUY16CkS-k#! • "Quantitative Easing Revisited, 2012" - http://www.youtube.com/
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoVarious programs: Maryland Masonichip Masonichip International Masonichip Ontario *Thoughts: At the CC, we don't usually delve into institutional issues such as these, but this is pretty darn strange. Is...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 23 hours agoWriting in the NY Times, Thomas Edsall has an essay exploring whether technological innovation is leading us to a permanent era of declining employment possibilities: The issue of the disappearing middl...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoQuick follow-up to the previous item: Hey, pollsters! Especially you, PPP, since we all know you love this kind of stuff. I'd love to get a reading on how old people think Mitt Romney is. I'm guessing it w...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 23 hours agoThe video in last Saturday's post "From Ohio" seems to have generated some more interest than usual in dying trees, perhaps because so many have been falling lately, not just in the big storm, but smaller ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoNext month, my translation of Brian Greene's third major popular book, *The Hidden Reality*, should be released in the Czech Republic. It's a good book and I still consider Brian to be a top physics wri...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Channeling Kurt Richebacher…"* by Bill Bonner "A report in the Telegraph tells us that 172 leading economists have signed an open letter saying that ‘Angela Merkel is wrong.’ Which reminds us of the...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoWhile we here at DJ! are not scientists, we try to track down and expose BAD (biased, agenda-driven) Science, especially in the area of reproductive rights. Today, great news! Real scientists are organiz...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome 81 percent of 1,000 thousand Koreans questioned in a global poll said they are not satisfied with their life. According to the online survey conducted by global research company Ipsos of 19,000 adul...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*At least he has one (for now).* "New jobs report looms over Obama bus trip" by Ben Feller | Associated Press, July 06, 2012 SANDUSKY, Ohio — President *Obama cast his reelection bid as a bet on the Am...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice were called to Manchester Ship Canal in Salford where a body, later confirmed to be Chris Brahney, was discovered. A Stone Roses fan who went missing after one of their concerts in Manchester has ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoSo I order a phone from Bell for Nunavut. Not a problem, I'll have it in a few days... . Let's just say, after a couple of weeks, a few telephone calls etc I learn they didn't finalize and didn't trouble ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*He seeks their blessing*: "Israel trip designed to boost Romney’s foreign expertise WASHINGTON – Mitt *Romney* is planning a *trip to Israel* this summer to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoDan Drezner and Dan Larison have been going back and forth and back about Mitt Romney's announced plan to take a prestige-building foreign trip this summer. Both of them agree on a few things: Romney has b...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"New voter ID laws carry a political agenda" July 09, 2012 Mike Turzai, the Pennsylvania House majority leader, is honest if nothing else. His exact statement to a crowd of state Republicans — that the *s...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agohttp://www.keshefoundation.org/en/media-a-papers/keshe-news/316-the-world-peace-invitation-and-release-of-technology The text below is the copy of the official invitation to the leaders of your gove...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago[BREAKING NEWS: Three Ways the Rich and Powerful Have Cheated the Young Out of Their Futures Rick Perry Announces Texas Won’t Implement the Affordable Care Act, Leaving Millions of Texans Uninsured] Someti...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*R. v. Rawn*, 2012 ONCA 487 is a useful sentencing case for dangerous driving matters: [33] General deterrence and denunciation are the most important factors in the determination of a sentence in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArmed police are looking for a gunman who killed an off-duty police sergeant and injured another man in a shooting in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex. The incident happened in Fairlop Close, just after 3.30pm. O...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoMudpies and Cigarettes for Sale (Photo by John Carroll--July 9, 2012) I am staying with my driver and his family on the outskirts of Cite Soleil. They are lovely people and do all in their power to keep a ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoMaeve Reston at LAT had a different view at Romney's day in the Hamptonsthan my previous post. She unearths more quotes illuminating the innermost thoughts that darken the beautiful minds of our national w...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agojust watched 4thought, an opinion segment aired every evening after the Channel 4 News, and thought, "I should do that, get on the show, share my feelings about a Free Planet." Before I do so, here are th...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*The soul of Salon's "arts" division:* Good god, but our emerging tribe is truly pathetic. Today, Salon posts a report from its ARTS subdivision. These are the headlines it bears: SALON (7/9/12) *Who a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe appeal 24 hours before the deadline expired now further delays the case. It means the London-based cleric, who is 54 and in extradition custody, cannot be removed until a panel decides if the court's...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoWaf Jeremie (Photo by John Carroll--July 8, 2012)See this article by Augusta Dwyer.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNato troops were prepared to join a manhunt for the Taliban fighters who publicly executed a young woman for adultery in an incident that has drawn worldwide condemnation. Footage of the execution of 22-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCAIRO—Egypt's constitutional court affirmed Monday that an earlier decision that led to the dismissal of Parliament was final, rejecting a challenge by the new president and moving the country another ste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTom Cruise and Katie Holmes have reached an agreement to settle their divorce, representatives of both film stars have confirmed. "The case has been settled and the agreement has been signed," Holmes' la...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoSo claim the authors of a new book A new book claims Israel's spy agency dispatched assassins into Iran, as part of a campaign to sabotage the country's disputed nuclear program. Israeli operatives have ki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe mother of murdered teenager Shafilea Ahmed now claims she witnessed her husband attacking her daughter. In what the judge has described as a "significant development in the case" Farzana Ahmed has ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice urge people to stay indoors as they hunt a gunman who shot one man dead and injured another in Clacton-on-Sea. Armed police are looking for a gunman who killed one man and injured another in a shoo...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoWharf Jeremie (Photo by John Carroll--July 8, 2012)See this article about Haiti's tent cities.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Embattled banker drops out of Romney fund-raiser" Globe Staff July 03, 2012 WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney’s campaign says that Bob Diamond, the embattled former chief executive of Barclays bank, will no lon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe sun is a tempestuous mistress - and her outbursts are becoming more and more violent as the weeks go on. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted the summer's first 'X' solar flare on Friday - a huge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith 13 dead and 99 sick, a recent outbreak of tuberculosis in Jacksonville, Florida, was the worst in decades - but nobody knew. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control tried to warn lawmakers of ...
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