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Anna Politkovskaya on TV, Tokyo, Japan (Photo credit: nofrills)
Ukrainian diaspora: Ukrainians in Russia. (Ukr. Українці в Росії.) Ukrainians on photo: Olexandr Bezborodko, Dmitry Bortniansky, Mikhail Tereshchenko, Vladimir Korolenko, Dmitry, Levitzky - Nikolay Davydenko, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Vladimir Vernadsky, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Klavdiya Shulzhenko - Anna Akhmatova, Fedor Emelianenko, Valentina Matviyenko, Mykola Gogol, Kyrylo Razumovsky - Ivan Paskevich, Feofan Prokopovich, Pyotr (Tchaika) Tchaikovsky, Yuri Onufriyenko, Anna (Mazepa) Politkovskaya. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Spontaneous citizens' tribute at entrance to slain journalist Anna Politkova's Moscow apartment (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Могила Анны Политковской на Троекуровском кладбище в Москве (Photo credit: Wikipedia)10:22 pm MDST- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
The number of people living in England and Wales rose by a record 3.7million over the past decade. The results of last year’s census indicate that the population is swelling at its fastest rate for 100 y... - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKfTUH4wWxw
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Russian investigators have charged a former policeman with helping to organise the killing of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya almost six years ago. The case, which has come to symbolise the suppression... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
PESHAWAR: Despite serious attempts made by the international donors, Pakistani authorities have failed to help more than 240,000 kids in the tribal agencies of North Waziristan and South Waziristan and re... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 minutes agoThousands of people in southern Japan remain cut off by floods and mudslides triggered by torrential rains that have killed at least 26 people. Evacuation orders issued a day earlier for a quarter of a mi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 minutes agoIt's been over a year since we've written anything about Jay Brannan. Over a year and a half! Too long. Wednesday Jay is kicking off a national tour, starting in Boston. Here's the schedule for the summe...
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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un has named Hyon Yong Chol as his new military chief, the state news agency has said. Mr Hyon replaces Vice Marshall Ri Yong Hon who was dismissed from several powerful pos... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
A fifth fatal shark attack off Australia's West coast has re-opened the debate about culling great whites. On average there are 15 shark attacks on humans each year in Australia with one fatality. But i... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
Nasa scientists have given more details about their Mars mission which is searching for life beyond Earth. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), a wheeled rover nicknamed Curiosity, is due to arrive on the ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
The drought gripping the United States has been confirmed as the worst in more than 50 years. Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say 55% of the continental US was suffering ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
US security agents are to be based at Heathrow and some other UK airports for the duration of the Olympic Games, according to Sky sources. The Department for Transport has reached an agreement with the ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 52 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck TARAPACA, CHILE at a depth of 94.1 km (58.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:35:34 UTC Tuesday 17th July 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) East of Iquique, Chile No ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the MYANMAR-INDIA BORDER REGION at a depth of 55.2 km (34.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:16:23 UTC Monday 16th July 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) ESE of Tuen... - posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 55 minutes ago“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." This is what the President of the United States appears to think. Which prompted Don Watkins to recall a passage in *A...
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE HONDURAS at a depth of 17.6 km (10.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:49:09 UTC Monday 16th July 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) North of Savannah Bight, H... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 57 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE at a depth of 92.7 km (57.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:18:10 UTC Monday 16th July 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) WSW of San Pedro de Ataca... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 59 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck GUATEMALA at a depth of 123.2 km (76.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:03:10 UTC Monday 16th July 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) Northeast of Pueblo Nuevo Vinas, ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217, pictured above, was captured in spec...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Will Durant
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July 14, 2012 Examiner.com By: Deborah Dupre [image: Nine prisoners starving for human rights] Nine prisoners starving for human rights * Georgian prisoners starving to death for human rights* Nine prisoner... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoMedwyn Goodall, “Invocation” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6srtF_8cGI
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"What Is There Beyond Knowing?"* * * "What is there beyond knowing that keeps calling to me? I can't turn in any direction but it's there. I don't mean the leaves' grip and shine or even the thr...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 hour agoThis article on how ordinary decent Americans are quietly revolting against the behemoth State has been making lots of appearances on blogs Southern Man follows. It's worth reading the whole thing, but her...
- posted by What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 1 hour agoWhat would it be like to wake up every day in a sane, healthy, life of wildness and freedom? Imagine stepping outside at dawn, and observing a landscape that remained as the creator made it, undefiled by ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"A Fishy Tale"* by Chet Raymo "I had an e-mail request from M. for a column I wrote four or five years ago for the Boston Globe, about goldfish memory. Herewith a much abbreviated version: As dumb a...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe drought in southern Iran is part of a "soft war" launched against the Islamic republic by the West, the Fars news agency quoted an Iranian vice president as saying on Monday. "I am suspicious about t...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago*Actor’s tweets misrepresent gesture of remembrance and respect by Kabuki Hats ~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes*
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe mystery woman who has appeared three times with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in public since July 7 is likely to be his wife, experts and government officials here believe. North Korean state TV o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 2 hours ago[image: Photo from pussy-riot.livejournal.com] Imagine living in a country where the government leader flouts the democratic traditions and exploits the system to stay in power, with the assistance of rig...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Crops wilt in a field in Canada, 15 July 2012. A lack of rain and extremely hot temperatures badly affecting crops mean that Canadian consumers will likely be paying more for their produce. CBC] ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 3 hours ago*Contributor: YYC* I reviewed the video documentary Anarchism in America yesterday, and that got me thinking about Ayn Rand's philosophy of rational self-interest, so I was up late last night re-reading "...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Corn withers on the stalk because of the drought in the U.S. midwest in July 2012. Associated Press via cbc.ca] By Elizabeth Kolbert 16 July 2012 (23 July 2012 issue of *The New Yorker*) […] It...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 3 hours ago*Mike Quinsey - SaLuSa, July 16, 2012* * SaLuSa, July 16, 2012* Our allies are being bold and you are seeing more evidence of their work to bring out the truth, and to put in action the long ove...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*by Ken* And darn it, I think he should get an apology. The reasoning is a little shaky, I admit, but as best I can tell it goes something like this: How dare that Obama attack the work I've done when he...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 3 hours agoWas the petrol price rigged too? Motorists may have been paying too much for their petrol because banks and other traders are likely to have tried to manipulate oil prices in the same way they rigged...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe risk of a new depression — a sustained, severe recession — has struck fear into the heart of markets and driven monetary policy in developed economies since the current financial crisis began. “We’re...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago*Tyler Kent* was an American diplomat working at the U.S. embassy in London during the early stages of WWII before America entered the war. He was against American participation in the war. He wanted Ge...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agohttp://2012portal.blogspot.ca/2012/07/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4_16.html Monday, July 16, 2012 Keeping the Balance I would like to bring to your attention the following astrological configu...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agohttp://www.sophialove.org/1/post/2012/07/i-am-a-light-worker-part-8-how-to-light-the-way.html *I am a light worker ~ Part 8 ~ How to light the way* *07/16/20120* We are in the “end times”. Busines...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agohttp://2012portal.blogspot.ca/ *Sunday, July 15, 2012* *Layers of Conspiracy* At the core of the physical Cabal there is a group of 13 Archons that keep controlling our planet for the last 26,000 ye...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agoSubject: Control, Finally Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:35:51 -0400 *Do You Want To Know A Secret lyrics* *Songwriters: Paul Mccartney, John Lennon* * * You'll never know How much I really love...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA creative proposal to find homes for needy dogs is facing some strong opposition from an unlikely source, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Beginning in August, the city is set to offer panh...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 4 hours agoENVIRONMENT:*A TASTE OF SHELL GAMES TO COME IN THE ARTIC:* Shell Loses Control Of Arctic Drilling Rig In Alaskan Harbor By Climate Guest Blogger on Jul 16, 2012 at 12:23 pm Photo: Teresa Derrick-Laxfoss *by...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 4 hours agoVW Outpost New data from a core drilled into a Russian lake provide the longest continuous record of Arctic conditions and show that the pole had periods of unexpectedly high temperatures and rainfall, m...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours agoQuenemo, Kansas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Doing Our Best: Personal Satisfaction"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "Your best is always good enough, because it comes from you, and you are always good enough. We often come into contact with th...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 5 hours agoThe Wall Street Journal July 16, 2012 By J. Eaglesham, R. Albergotti, & M. Corkery p. C1, C2. [Excepted] "Prosecutors in New York and Connecticut are investigating whether their states incurred losses as...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago“Of course I believe in free enterprise, but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the m...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago“Hallelujah, the country is talking about property rights!” That’s been my reaction to the discussion that’s taken over the country in recent days. Sadly however there’s been much more heat than light—m...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 5 hours ago"HSBC Nears Pact in Launder Inquiry" The Wall Street Journal July 16, 2012, C1 by E. Perez "The Justice Department and HSBC Holdings PLC are accelerating settlement talks to resolve a criminal probe into...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoRobert Wenzel interviews Bill Bergman, who worked at the Chicago Federal Reserve for over thirteen years. To get more information about this interview read *this*.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 5 hours agoThere's been much merry-making on the intertubes over former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie's hilarious claim on *Face the Nation* yesterday that Mitt Romney "retroactively" retired from Bain Capital three year...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"How the Feds Feed the Rich"* by Bill Bonner "The Daily Reckoning…proved right again! We’ve been sticking our necks out. We had a strong hunch that the rich had gotten a whole lot richer not because ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago*CBS Writer Thinks Vilma Has Played His Last Down As A Saint ~Saints Tailgait *
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago*Millions spent on upkeep of empty Federally flooded lots ~Cain Burdeau, AP* *A year after floods, shippers face low Mississippi River ~MSNBC * *Mississippi River Flooding: One Year Later, Shippers Run Agr...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 6 hours agoThis is NOT an actual image of the bounty hunter! http://www.businessinsider.com/iceland-has-hired-an-ex-cop-bounty-hunter-to-go-after-the-bankers-that-wrecked-its-economy-2012-7 *Rob Wile * *Jul. 1...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"American officials are trying to convince a man who claims to be a wanted US Air Force deserter to turn himself in after 28 years on the run, his Swedish lawyer said Friday.... --more--"
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Bomb threat by.... you know! * "Ex-Bosnian Serb leader cleared on 1 genocide count" by Mike Corder | Associated Press, June 29, 2012 THE HAGUE — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal *acquitted* former Bosn...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 7 hours agoCourtesy Gavin Macguire (@RtrsAgAnalyst) 2012 not as bad as 1988, but heading that way.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoMany national progressives were so consumed by Ilya Sheyman's primary against a corporate shill in the suburbs north of Chicago that they plumb forgot the primary battle against a similar corporate hack ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoAt Greg's place today, I returned to the idea of lazy mendacity, in particular the latest ripped-out-of-context conservative talking point. It also works, however, as an excuse for a reference to the class...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoGermany's mighty constitutional court let it be known on Monday that it will not decide until September 12 whether to give a green light to the European Stability Mechanism - the eurozone's €500bn permane...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*If he had any honor.... * "Romania’s ruling coalition is seeking to take the first step toward impeaching and suspending President Traian Basescu amid deepening political turmoil in the Balkan country......
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSpeaking to reporters in Jerusalem, top US diplomat says Tehran 'still has chance to make the right decision,' but adds US will 'use all elements of its power' to prevent Iran from obtaining nukes. The U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - One person was killed and three others injured on Monday when a U.S. Navy ship fired at an approaching fishing boat off the United Arab Emirates, but officials did not immediately blame terror...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 8 hours ago
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 8 hours agoFrom @sciencegoddess via @jfleck. You have to admit, it's got a point!
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoOrange County before the corporate buildings, McMansions and Condos I spent the weekend with my younger brother in Orange County. The weather in Orange County was just gorgeous, 75F and 50% humidity. ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours agoThank you Randy Blakeley for sharing your photos with Censored News! By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Monday, July 16, 2012 PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Tributary runners honoring ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*"Nearly every fare dollar goes to pay off debt**" ** * *No wonder it's such a s***ty system.**** * *Related*: The Big Pit * * *That's how deep it was.* * *"Add interest, and Big Dig cost expected to top...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 8 hours ago*UPDATE: Video of my talk appears below (my talk begins at minute 9:15). * I gave the keynote lecture earlier today at the CUAHSI 3rd Biennial Colloquium on Hydrologic Science and Engineering. I promised...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe U.S. Energy Department has begun moving highly radioactive sludge away from the Columbia River in Richland, Wash., the agency announced. At the Hanford Site, a former nuclear production facility, work...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*What is fake?* The mainstream media is in trouble. *1.* Citibank has downgraded CBS, Disney, Discovery, Murdoch's News Corp and Scripps from "Buy" to "Neutral" First Newspapers, Now TV – the Internet R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSINGAPORE: Eleven people were injured and sent to hospital after a fire broke out at East Village Hotel in Marine Parade on Monday morning. Some 80 Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers with about...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAt least 337 families were affected by flash floods that hit Tulunan town in North Cotabato Saturday afternoon, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Sunday. In a report posted ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAbout 100 homes are being evacuated in Huonville, south of Hobart, as a dam threatens to burst. Police have confirmed one of the dam’s walls is leaking and could break, spilling up to 10 megalitres of w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBEIJING, July 16 (Xinhuanet) – Heavy rain has swept across central and southern China, killing dozens and forcing thousands to evacuate. Rain-triggered floods have killed 10 people and affected over 2 mill...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFires raging on the coastline of the Italian island of Sardinia have resulted in around 500 people including tourists being evacuated. The wind whipped up the fires along the islands most popular stretche...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*At this stage it's unfair to the former fascists to make the comparison.* "FDA spied on e-mail of staff involved in safety dispute; Surveillance also of journalists and aides in Congress" by Eric Lichtbla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 33-year-old woman who went on the run after shooting her ex-boyfriend and his fiancée after an apparent love triangle took a violent turn has been arrested in Alabama. Aimee Darlene Streeter made an un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo young boys and their mother have been shot dead by a man believed to be the woman's former partner. A man who was also found shot in the same house in Louisville, Kentucky, has been hospitalised in a...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago*MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012* *Kornacki’s claim seems untrue:* Tomorrow, we’ll be looking at the recent wave of feigned confusion regarding Romney’s tenure at Bain. However you judge it, the story just isn't a...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoDemocrats, while George W. Bush was president, took great delight in complaining that Bush refused to admit he had ever been wrong about anything. I thought that was a silly complaint then, and I think it'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAn American Navy boat has killed one person and injured three after firing at a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates today. Early reports suggest the boat could have been mistaken as a threat ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 10 hours agoAt first glance I thought this image was a drawing in the style of M.C. Escher. It took a minute to recognize that real roots have merged into the pattern of the pavers. Trees possess an almost magical ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*I'm going to write in Nader.* "Green Party selects Jill Stein for presidential run" by Lisa Kocian and Evan Allen | Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent, July 15, 2012 A third-party candidate for governor...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoFurther to this blogpost, I have received a reply from MD Alam Not very helpful is it? I have responded: 'Au contraire Mr Alam, I did read your first email. In fact I read it very very carefully. As I sa...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoThe Mittster is madly trying to keep the focus of the Bain media mania on whether or not he *really* left management of the corporation in February 1999. But that's not the real issue. Bain business practi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA French city which produced 14 English kings is demanding the Crown Jewels as compensation from the Queen for the murder of its last pretender to the throne. Angers, which is in the Loire Valley west of...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours agoWhat is up with the msm? Acknowledging Tremseh is not massacre? Why? In a remark to Felix, July 14/2012, I asked: *"Felix: do you get the impression the spin is working in another direction with this lat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWestern Australia has called on the federal government to lift a ban on hunting great white sharks after the fifth death in its waters within a year. Fisheries Minister Norman Moore said the spate of att...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoMitt Rmoney isn't the only one with something to hide. It's his whole damn party. A cloture vote on the DISCLOSE ACT is scheduled in the Senate this afternoon. McConnell pledged to kill the bill, just l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice hunting a missing father and his three children have discovered four dead bodies in a woodland beauty spot. Ceri Fuller, 35, left his home in Milkwall, Gloucestershire, with Sam, 12, Becka, 10, an...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoLiving on coastal B.C. we get used to seeing a lot of marine life. But this video, recorded in Hyacinthe Bay on Quadra Island, is breathtaking. Watch a pod of transient orcas hunt a large school of whi...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 11 hours agoMore of my WWII reading: *North Atlantic Run* by Marc Milner. Highly detailed account of how hard it was for Canada to produce a respectable navy out of almost nothing in 1939. *Operation Husky *by Mark Z...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:33:09 UTC Monday 16th July 2012 The epicenter was 286 km (178 miles) NN...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 11 hours agoEarlier this week, Glenn Greenwald reported that, on Tuesday, *The Huffington Post* published a post by Hossein Abedini, who was identified in the byline as a “Member of Parliament in exile of Iranian ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoLast Friday we explained a Facebook ad campaign Blue America embarked on to remind 18-26 year olds in 8 congressional districts that their congressmembers voted to kick them off their parents' health insu...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn elderly Fair Oaks woman murdered in her own home Sunday evening has been identified. The Sacramento County Coroner’s webpage identified her as 79-year-old Jane Carole Sturgis. The suspect in her dea...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoAlmost everyone knows the sphere. However, the fame of a close cousin of the spherical geometry, the hyperbolic geometry, is much more limited. How many people know what is the Poincaré disk, for example...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 11 hours agoOne of the regular readers of this blog is Mr. Micky Fernandez, http://mickyandrani.blogspot.in/, an American expat in India. After reading my brief debate with Marc Abela last week, Pol. Ideology 33: Anar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTokyo (CNN) -- Extraordinarily heavy rains have left hundreds of people cut off and at least 28 dead on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, local authorities said Monday, and more storms could be on ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAbout 600 people remain stranded by a mudslide that hit the Fairmont Hot Springs resort in southeastern B.C. on Sunday, as crews work to restore access to the area and clear the debris from the resort. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- A worldwide Jewish rights organization is pushing Hungarian authorities to prosecute a man it claims is a Nazi war criminal, recently discovered in Budapest, Hungary, who allegedly sent more than ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago* "The Truth About Lying: * *It's The Hands That Betray You, Not The Eyes" * by Adam Sherwin "It is often claimed that even the most stone-faced liar will be betrayed by an unwitting eye movement. But...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 11 hours agoWe live in a world where doctors are sometimes too quick to cure their patients of what ails them with prescriptions for Antibiotics. I have always wondered myself about the side effects to the human body...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago8.2%?! According to John williams of ShadowStats the true figure is 22.3 %. Of course the government would never lie to us, would they? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL, oh no, never... - CP
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 11 hours agoLate last month I addressed a "Teach-In on Iran," co-sponsored by the *Peace & Justice Task Force of All Souls* and the *Granny Peace Brigade* and held at the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - A magnetic bomb blew up the car of a district governor in Afghanistan's northerly city of Kunduz on Monday in the third attack on senior government officials in as many days. The governor of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJuly 16 - Tens of thousands march in Tokyo against nuclear power following the restart of Japan's first reactor since the Fukushima crisis. Sarah Charlton reports.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 12 hours agoAnyone else think we'd be getting to the bottom of the Goldman pile by now? No? Want to Know How Goldman Sachs Works? Goldman Sachs has a distinctive business philosophy: the client comes first - after Go...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJuly 16 - ECB declines to comment on a report that it wanted to impose losses on holders of bonds issued by some of Spain's most indebted banks
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago* "Stacking Fraud Like Cordwood”* by Joseph W. Martin, Jr. "The scandals and disasters within the financial sectors are starting to stack up like cordwood and the so-called regulators continue turn a b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - China discriminates against foreign bank card suppliers by maintaining state-owned China UnionPay as the monopoly supplier for clearing certain transactions, a World Trade Organization dispute...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Monday cut its global growth forecast and warned that the outlook could dim further if policymakers in Europe do not act with enough force and speed to quell...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago* "Libor Lie– A Black Swan?"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The Libor interest rate rigging scandal is being called the biggest financial fraud in history. Libor is a key interest rate that is us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMOSCOW — Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused “Western colleagues” on Monday of trying to blackmail Russia into supporting a United Nations resolution on Syria that, he contended, would open the door to...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago*"What Every American Should Know About the National Debt"* by Lew Rockwell "The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoThis post is based on my notes on a talk by David Heap, supplemented by graphics from David's presentation, about his experience as part of the Canadian Boat to Gaza. To see David's presentation in its e...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoAs I mentioned, I recently had the opportunity to hear my friend and comrade David Heap speak about his experience attempting to bring supplies to the people of Gaza, as part of the Canadian Boat to Gaza. ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoCheers for Bashir Mohamed! He interrupted a speech by Jason Kenney, trying to ask questions about refugee health care, was removed and arrested, and now he's challenging the illustrious Minister to a debat...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoBegins with ending arms, cash, and support for terrorist front. *by Tony Cartalucci * *July 16, 2012* - At 20 million, if even half of Syria's population rose up against the government of President Bashar...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoYeah, Drew Westen had another piece in the NYT Sunday paper yesterday. Yeah, it was the usual nonsense. This time, it's Westen arguing two things: that nothing is worth doing unless campaign finance refor...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 12 hours agoMichael Snyder, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Why is the heartland of the United States experiencing such a horrific drought right now? At the moment, approximately 61 percentof the entire nation is ex...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 12 hours ago*CANADIAN LABOUR:* *WILDCAT STRIKERS DEFY UNION AND COMPANY IN NEWFOUNDLAND:* Up to 1,000 workers have gathered near the road to Vale's Long Harbour construction site in eastern Newfoundland this morning...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012* *Defending the Nutcracker in July/Do these people care:* Yesterday’s “Sunday Review” in the New York Times came to us straight from Bougietown. For the second straight week, the d...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours agoBassma Kodmani warmonger and Bilderberg 2012 attendee Susanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The Syrian opposition is doing a fine job as directed by the CIA. The connection between these “rebels” a...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours agoTony Cartalucci, *Contributor* *Activist Post* AVAAS is a website that offers up petitions that suspiciously support the aims and aspirations of Western corporate-financier interests, couched in "progres...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* In the effort of the global Elite to rewire human DNA and alter the very structure of our genome, vaccines designed to alter our brain functions have emerg...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours agoTony Cartalucci, *Contributor* *Activist Post* An empire seeking to covertly overrun a targeted nation would ideally do so with an opposition movement featuring the complete obfuscation of all ties to i...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours agoimage source Jennifer Lynch *EFF* We just received new information today about drone flights in the United States, including extensive details about the specific drone models some entities are flying, ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*"Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, who is under investigation by Elections Canada over allegations of a donation reimbursement scheme in his 2008 campaign expenses and who agreed on July 6 to meet with El...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours ago*YouTube* Citizen Doug Miller, being assaulted with a billy club and arrested at Occupy Bohemian Grove by Sergeant Williams with Sonoma County Sheriff. *RELATED ACTIVIST POST ARTICLE:* *Occupy Bohemian...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours ago*Youtube* Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most.
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours agoErik Altieri *NORML* The Oregon secretary of state’s office completed the legalization trifecta this afternoon when they announced the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act of 2012 (OCTA) officially qualified for th...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012* *PART 1—THE SAYINGS OF TUT:* Here at THE HOWLER, we got in somewhere near the ground floor. Starting in January, we repeatedly begged for more reporting about Mitt Romney’s condu...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 14 hours agoGlobal Research NHK *[Japanese Public Television]* has learned that a government panel of experts will say it has been unable to specify exactly how the radioactive release occurred at a reactor of the c...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours agoStephen Lendman, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Netanyahu's government is its most extremist ever. Fundamental freedoms are threatened. Repressive Knesset bills target speech, assembly, association, and...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoSome Say That The End Is Near *Some say that the end is near.* *The end of what?* *Is not eternity never ending?* *Perhaps one might say that the end of false rule and false rulers is near.* *The end o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAt least nine people have been killed in a bus accident in Nepal, police say, just one day after another deadly crash killed dozens. Monday's accident happened as the bus swerved off the road into a river...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to be reaching the limits of German patience on the euro zone crisis, with the Constitutional Court and members of her own coalition seeking deeper scrutiny of ...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 14 hours ago*Source: Diario Popular Date: 15 July 2012* *Argentina: Mysterious Events in Western Buenos Aires* *By Edición Impresa* Lights streaking swiftly across the sky, strange flying objects that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA PASSENGER plane bound for the UK had to divert to Canada while halfway across the Atlantic after passengers reported that the aircraft "dipped like a ferry". Cabin crew "ran down the aisles" as the Unit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA Syrian army defector said that the rebels controlled 60 per cent of the country and that all they needed was limited military intervention from NATO to help them topple President Bashar Assad, a pan-Ara...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours ago*Activist Post* Very often when we in the alternative media cover events, we speak in the abstract of the horrors against "humanity." It is more rare, however, that we are able to focus on individual hum...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours ago*Activist Post* Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and oil may be one of the most well-documented horrors to disgrace the planet. Despite only being practiced for roughly a decade, the evidence is pili...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMOSCOW — Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov made clear on Monday that the Kremlin has no intention of supporting a British proposal to enact United Nations sanctions as a solution to the Syrian crisis. Mr...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours agoEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson © AFP/Getty Images/File Brendan Smialowski *AFP* WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government unveiled plans Thursday to set national standards f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe banks under investigation in the Libor rate-fixing scandal face combined losses of up to $42bn (£27bn), far more than previous estimates, according to one of the City’s leading equity research houses....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe head of Libya's Olympic committee has been kidnapped by armed men in Tripoli. Nabil al Taher al Alam was snatched from his car by gunmen on Sunday near the Libyan Olympic Committee offices and taken ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe identification of a body as that of a teenager murdered a decade ago has led police to investigate possible links with two other missing women. The human remains of Rachel Wilson were found at Newham ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours agoWiki image Mike Barrett *Activist Post* Fracking has been known to be cause environmental and health damage. Doctors have begun warning the United States government along with gas and oil producers of ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 14 hours ago*Daily Bell* *Citibank Says It's 'Flummoxed' By Ratings Collapse In Cable TV ... Citibank entertainment media analyst Jason B. Bazinet and his team wrote in a note to investors today that they are baffled ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPolice forces where Olympic Games venues are located have been asked to provide extra security, after G4S failed to provide enough staff. Sky News understands that nine out of 12 police forces have been d...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours agoSource Anthony Gucciardi *Activist Post* Doctors are warning United States government officials and gas producers about the dangers of hydraulic fracking, the controversial act of pumping water and chem...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA TRIPLE murder investigation is underway after the bodies of three young siblings were discovered near Shrewsbury. Officers found the bodies of Sam Fuller, aged 12 and sisters Becka, 10, and Charlotte, s...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Dave Goelz, 66. And quickly to the good stuff: 1. Mann and Ornstein, on "five delusions." Via MC. 2. Matthew Dickinson reads *The Obamas*. 3. And Cara Ong has been blogging about King ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoSaturday, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Woody Guthrie, we wished the French people the best on their *Fête Nationale*, what we call Bastille Day, the 223rd anniversary of the French people beginni...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours agoNatural gas fracking: source Michael McCarty, *Contributing Writer* *Activist Post* Last week my wife and I attended a meeting regarding one energy company’s plans for natural gas drilling in our commun...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoThe ICRC has stated that the violence in Syria constitutes an non-international armed conflict. This is significant because it means the organization tasked with guarding and promoting the Geneva Conventio...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago*An Activist Post Special Report, please share.* Rady Ananda *Activist Post* Thyroid cancer cases have more than doubled since 1997 in the United States, while deadly industrial practices that contaminat...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoThe *Globe and Mail* reports this morning that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's proposal to overhaul Canada's banking dispute settlement system "looks suspiciously like a gift to the country's big banks....
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago*Youtube* Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most.
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours agoDees Illustration Brandon Turbeville *Activist Post* If 500 hundred deaths and countless abuses at the hands of taser-friendly police is not enough to garner any concern by the average American, then ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours agoDees Illustration Nicholas West *Activist Post* Non-lethal weapons are being distributed by the West into protest zones throughout the world, as well as being utilized in crowd suppression within the bo...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours agoSayer Ji, *Contributing Writer* *Activist Post* Were it not for the stoic immovability of the protestors in this picture, the image would resemble *even more stunningly* an exterminator dispassionately ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours agoHeather Callaghan *Activist Post* This week, the US military proudly presented (publicly) for the first time, their newest non-lethal weapon to get rid of this pesky protester problem the military keep...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoKhan Resources Inc. v. Atomredmetzoloto JSC, 2012 ONSC 1522 deals with the interesting legal issue of whether, when dealing with a Contracting State under the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial a...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 17 hours ago*Sara Robinson at AlterNet offers a sobering assessment of our new reality under corporate domination and why public education is intentionally being destroyed along with academic freedom and critical thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFormer Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan, who was in office during the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns, has told the ABC he believes the plant's operator has been hiding key evidence. For months TEPCO has re...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 17 hours agoThis global financial fraud and its gatekeepers The media's 'bad apple' thesis no longer works. We're seeing systemic corruption in banking – and systemic collusion ----------------------------...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoShares in G4S slumped by 9% on Monday morning in the wake of the furore over the company's admission that it cannot provide enough security guards for the Olympics. Investors in the security company saw ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Western attempts to get Moscow to discuss sanctions against Syria contain "elements of blackmail". Mr Lavrov said the West had threatened to end a UN observ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTraffic crawled into London today as the opening of the first Olympic Games lane coincided with an accident on the M4 to create the 'perfect storm' of travel chaos leading to 32 mile queues. Traffic craw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA bridegroom died during his honeymoon in Portugal after falling 60ft from a cliff following a romantic meal with his new wife. Brian Orton, 45, was returning to his Albufeira hotel in the dark with brid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSix weeks after a teen mother vanished without trace, her brother has been arrested over unspecified abuse claims. Derek Wood, 21, was charged with abuse on Friday, according to the Baldwin County Sherif...
- 'Dozens' of cats killed by rescue centre because of computer glitch as families came to collect them
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoDozens of rescue cats have been mistakenly killed because of a computer glitch, activists say. The so-called death-row database at the New York City Animal Care and Control shelter is failing felines, t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThree teenagers have been charged with murder after a 62-year-old father-of-twelve was beaten to death and video footage of his killing then posted on Facebook. Delfino Mora was found unconscious in an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA gang of about a dozen armed people stormed into a church youth camp-out near Mexico City and went on an hours-long rampage of beatings, robberies and rape, authorities said Saturday. Seven girls were r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPakistani police have arrested a man accused of burying his newborn daughter alive because she was physically deformed. Mohammed Anwar, a police officer in the city of Khanewal in the eastern Punjab prov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA racist has been jailed for spraying ammonia into a man's eyes and threatening him with a dagger he had concealed in a walking stick. Sadar Ahmad feared he would be blinded after Simon Southern approache...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA huge blaze has gutted one of the boarding houses at an exclusive public school. Despite years of planning from the fire service to prevent damage, the aging building at the £25k-a-year Felsted school, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFacebook has been accused of turning youngsters into gambling addicts with an explosion of Las Vegas-style casino games on the social networking site. Children are using ‘virtual coins’ to simulate the th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe number of suicides and prevalence of suicidal tendencies is rising faster among older men than any other age group, according to research released this week. Campaigners warn that the recession may be...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 18 hours agoImmunization of children of some preventable infectious/communicable diseases, well those diseases that tend to victimize the young and which there are existing vaccines already, whether patented or off-pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSeventy-six Eurocrats spent part of a top-level meeting deciding what to name a corridor - but failed to reach a decision and referred the matter to a committee. The news comes as Brussels chiefs have be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Home Office wasted nearly half a million pounds on rubber bullets that police are not allowed to use. It spent £427,00 on the plastic baton rounds bought from overseas, even though they did not pass ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours agoLoreena McKennitt, “Courtyard Lullaby” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jevyO9OhKGI
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHow concerned should the world be about President Bashar al-Assad’s possession of chemical and biological weapons? As the civil war between the regime and rebel groups inside Syria intensifies, the quest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Barack Obama addressed supporters in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday afternoon and took a shot at the business community. President Obama dismissed any credit business owners give themselves for th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoNow, here's some real Obama outsourcing. This morning, Kazakhstan time, the next mission to the International Space Station successfully blasted off carrying the usual trio -- a Russian commander, an ast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJuly 16 - Protesters prepare to sleep on the streets of Madrid, demonstrating against a new set of austerity measures. Sarah Charlton reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - In August 2010, almost two years before the San Bernardino city council abruptly voted to seek bankruptcy protection, city manager Charles McNeely gave a presentation to the council that becam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - Armored vehicles headed towards southern districts of Damascus after rebels battled government forces into the early hours of Monday, in what residents said was the heaviest fighting in the ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - It wasn't supposed to be like this. After the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression almost took the global economy over a cliff, tough new regulations and stronger internal contro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMexico City (CNN) -- Mexican authorities Sunday arrested a suspect connected with the killing of three federal police officers in a shootout last month at the Mexico City airport. A tip led police to Bog...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDoha, Qatar (CNN) -- The most senior Syrian diplomat to defect and publicly embrace his country's uprising is calling for a foreign military intervention to topple President Bashar al-Assad. He also accuse...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoStunning photos show how a solar storm had a remarkably beautiful effect on the northern lights this weekend. A solar storm that arrived Saturday morning and lasted through Sunday slammed into Earth's ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPolice are searching for a man they say shot his girlfriend and another man at a nail salon where she worked. Tuan Minh Pham, 35, of Beltsville, Maryland, is accused of shooting his estranged girlfriend ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWealthy tourists from the Persian Gulf are paying to marry under-age Egyptian girls just for the summer, according to a report. These temporary marriages are not legally binding and end when the men retu...
- Cindy Clifton Jailed for Just 3 Years for 'victimizing 11 of her students, including statutory rape'
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 42-year-old teacher has been jailed for three years after pleading guilty to having sex with seven of her students. Cindy Clifton had faced more charges than any other teacher involved in sex crimes ag... - posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 19 hours agoIn my last few rants, I mentioned the important piece of legislation that the US Government will be passing on July 27th, 2012 into law... That is the UN treaty on gun control. With the passage of this l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBANNU, Pakistan — Gunmen attacked an office of the security force’s intelligence agency in northwest Pakistan Monday, taking several hostages and reportedly killing at least one officer, police said. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA County Tyrone councillor has said locals are 'absolutely appalled' at the publication of pictures of the hotel room where Michaela McAreavey was killed, including images of her body. SDLP councillor, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSeventeen people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries after lightning struck a dining tent at a food festival in Ontario, Canada. Whitby Ribfest event chair Colin O'Regan said that the lightnin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA drop in file-sharing following a court ordered block of the Pirate Bay was short-lived, data seen by the BBC suggests. A major UK internet service provider (ISP) said peer-to-peer (P2P) activity on its ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours agoCitizen self-reliance -- non-dependence from the government, politicians and legislators, other people -- is important. It requires mature, self-confident and responsible citizenry. But self-reliance does ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPolice are continuing to look for two missing girls in the US after a search by hundreds of volunteers failed to turn up any clues. Lyric Cook, 10, and her eight-year-old cousin Elizabeth Collins were las...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck ORURO, BOLIVIA at a depth of 266 km (164.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:06:19 UTC Sunday 15th July 2012 The epicenter was 156km (96.7 miles) Northwest of Uyuni, Bolivia...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 19 hours agoFuzzy math, language of political spin, messaging, what`s in word, a statement, with BC Liberals the meaning is hidden, speaking in code, what I`m talking about is BC Liberal language of fuzzy meaning and ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours agoThe Telegraph report that: 'The BBC's investigation into how an off-the-record conversation it had inadvertently filmed between Craig Oliver, David Cameron's communications chief, and Norman Smith, its re...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoA fascinating article in The Telegraph yesterday: 'Tony Blair and his former cabinet secretary face new questions over the “cash-for-honours” affair after fresh evidence emerged of a secret computer at 10...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 20 hours ago*Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes* http://uk.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=UKBRE86E09V20120715 *Sun, Jul 15 2012* *By Arshad Mohammed and Marwa Awad* CAIRO (Reuters) - Protes...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours agoWhen an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre pos...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 20 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* *Baltimore, Big Banks and a Criminal Conspiracy* Bill Black: The L...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is called plucking the low hanging fruit. Battery tech has now reached the point in which these types of fixes can be implemented. This was a problem that was recognized in the late nineteent...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis new book Zoobiquity makes the pitch for far greater collaboration between human and animal medicine. The most compelling argument though is that there are many prospective animal models to wo...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis items puts some numbers behind the stunning and continuing growth of aquaculture worldwide. Because it is widely distributed, the growth has been somewhat hidden away out of sight although th...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe first reality that we all need to come to grips with is that an Islamic society is Islamic. It is not naturally Islamist just as Germany was not naturally Nazi. After all that we need to r...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 21 hours ago*Scientists have found a new method to get images through scattering materials such as ice-covered glass or even skin, or still see around corners.* A lot of investigate in recent years has focused on co...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoJuly 15, 2012 *The below article is related to the above video and its' source was Mercola.Com.* Surprising Links: How Big Banks Manipulate and Influence Your Health * By D**r. Mercola* Ellen Brown is ...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoCommunist physician Norman Bethune, left, and a comrade from the Red Chinese Army speak with Canadian Treasury Board President Tony Clement, right, in a vignette as imagined by Sun News Network. Below: Dr....
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours agoOn 15 July 2012, we read : *Jalil and the Sunday Express debunked* This contains John Ashton's reaction to the latest Scottish Sunday Express article on Lockerbie. The Express recycles some old comments...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPolice have begun an intense search for a suspect wanted in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her sister in southeast Michigan who is believed to be armed and dangerous. Cops said 24-year-old ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 23 hours agoThe type of harvest all home gardeners aspire to. Photo courtesy: goodearthliveherbs.com No I'm not saying that this next trick will give you results like this; but, it will speed up your harvest time and...
- Britny Haarup and Ashley Key's Bodies Found two days after they vanished leaving behind two children
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo sisters were apparently found dead on Sunday, just two days after they vanished leaving two small children unattended. Britny Haarup, 19, and her 22-year-old sister Ashley Key left behind their shoes... - posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 23 hours agoJuly 15, 2012 Italy Calling The Italian High Court confirmed on Friday 13th July the sentences for the 10 activists on trial for crimes of “devastation and looting” during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoTwitter Photo: 'Mexico: Anonymous is here' While the mainstream media is on life support, tweets break news in real time By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Updated Monday, Jul...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 23 hours agoJuly 15, 2012 Puget Sound Anarchists On Friday, July 13, about 120 people came together for the second demonstration in solidarity with Decolonize/Occupy Seattle organizers whose home was raided by police...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoThis one is strange http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Z4Mm7FVPw&feature=youtu.be
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 23 hours agoDiego Rivera was a famous Mexican artist known for his murals. Born in 1886, he painted throughout the early and mid-1900's until he passed away in 1957. Rivera's murals are found in many cities including...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo men were killed on Sunday after a tree they were sheltering under got struck by a bolt of lightning. The men, whose identities have not been released, were seeking cover from the rain during a soccer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA woman who is accused of dousing her ex-husband with boiling water because she thought he was seeing another woman will stand trial for murder, torture and mayhem. Jesusa Tatad, 39, was sharing a tiny 6...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 23 hours agoFrom: "NYC Anarchist Black Cross" Date: Sun, July 15, 2012 From NYC ABC Folks from NYC Anarchist Black Cross have heard from Daniel McGowan regarding the every-other-week collection of updates and announc...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 23 hours agoJuly 13, 2012 Libcom.org The Punjabi state government renege on promises made to striking Doctors and then launch a brutal wave of reprisals in order to break the strike. Hundreds of young Doctors are curr...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 23 hours agoAbout 2880 candles are seen lit during a World AIDS Day event in Jakarta December 1, 2009. Photo courtesy: REUTERS/Dadang Tri At an ill-fated press conference in 1984, U.S. Health and Human Services Secre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe investigation into the LIBOR interest rate-rigging scandal is widening as the U.S. Justice Department is expected to file criminal charges against individual employees and at least one bank later this...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 23 hours agoJuly 15, 2012 Samidoun Akram al-Rikhawi has now been on hunger strike for 95 days. He is the longest serving hunger striker anywhere in the world. He is suffering from numerous medical conditions, inclu...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 23 hours agoJuly 12, 2012 Huffington Post Over the years, individuals and groups have emerged and faded in efforts to persuade the U.S. justice system to parole or grant amnesty to Leonard Peltier, convicted of the d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIt’s a scientific prediction that will get dollar signs pinging in Steven Spielberg’s eyes: We could make contact with aliens in less than 100 years. But according to one of our leading physicists, it is ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 23 hours agoOne of the reasons I have always loved blogging is other bloggers. Through blogging, I have "met" so many wonderful people in many areas of the world. Last week I had my first opportunity to meet other loc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA woman was left helpless in the hands of a mob of men who launched a terrifying attack on her as she left a bar in India. The late night incident in the city of Guwahati in the north of the country has ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA woman slipped and fell to her death while walking with her husband at Beachy Head. It is believed strong winds may have led the 49-year-old to lose her footing and plunge off the cliff on Saturday afte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAs the question of what led Rudy Eugene to savagely attack Ronald Poppo remains answered it has been revealed that the Miami cannibal had met his victim before. Eugene’s childhood friend Fredric Christia...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Some 40 million light-years distant, edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4216 is nearly 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way. Found in the dense Virgo Galaxy Cluster, NGC 4216 is centere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPressure was growing on Theresa May last night after it emerged the Home Office was warned about security problems at the Olympics ten months ago. A report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed ten to a room at a huge temporary compound. The campsite in East London, hidden from public view, has 25 people sharing each toilet and 75 to each shower. T...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Whatever What Is Is”* by Chet Raymo “I watched “The Last Picture Show” again the other evening, for the first time since it was in the theaters in the early 1970s. Talk about reliving one's past! Hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck CENTRAL PERU at a depth of 43.6 km (27.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:33:43 UTC Sunday 15th July 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) West from Cuzco, Peru No Report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 400 sex offenders who have been set free in the past three years have gone on to commit rape. The shocking figures expose the staggering extent of reoffending by sexual predators across the cou...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Sean Spicer takes one on the snout from Brad Woodhouse* -by Juan Adams I recently attended a Politico Pro Technology breakfast where one of the guest panelists was RNC Communications Director, Sean Spice...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day agoWelcome to Meet & Greet Monday! Banner by Art Ist Grab our banner for your site: Do you have an Eco-friendly blog or site? Do you occasionally write about the environme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJOHANNESBURG — At least three people were found dead Sunday and thousands were evacuated as rains and snow battered South Africa's southeast, officials and media reports said. A 69-year-old man and a 44-...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*President Barack Obama: Damn the truth. I'll tell a good story and all will be well in the magic universe*. "Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men." - Aris...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoWaukegan, Illinois, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*President Barack Obama: Damn the truth, let me tell a good story and all will be well in the magic land*. "Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men." - Aristo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration's secret monitoring of its staff raised hackles in Congress on Sunday after lawmakers learned their own offices were apparently targeted by the surveillance op...
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