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The Boston Globe (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 seconds ago*I'm just sick of agenda-pushing s***, sorry.* "Mayor Menino, David Ortiz launch summer jobs program"by Adam Sege | Globe Correspondent, June 26, 2012 Kicking off a program that will put 650 young Bosto...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 minute agoStevie Boy Harper is dead keen on exporting Athabasca bitumen to China, just as much and as fast as he can. But why is Steve suddenly so fond of China, except perhaps for the way it might let Canada game...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes ago*(Reuters) - Social media companies, once hailed by their Silicon Valley boosters as world-changing businesses with limitless potential, are instead proving a sobering reminder of how investors can be sed...
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 150 km (93 miles), the quake hit at 16:51:48 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 430 km (266.6 miles) Northeast of Nemuro, Kuri... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 52 minutes agoA team of Australian and Danish researchers has shown that CO2 was more instrumental in ending the last ice age than previously believed. The scientists examined ancient air trapped in Antarctic ice. *'...
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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 77.3 km (48 miles), the quake hit at 14:40:04 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 0 km (0 miles) Southeast ... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 56 minutes ago*How much does this cost? * "State Senate OK’s price scanner bill; Items would not" by Michael Norton and Andy Metzger | State House News Service, June 26, 2012 With *just two senators present*, the sta...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 58 minutes ago*Wikipedia: * "*Gitta Sereny*, CBE (13 March 1921 – 14 June 2012) was an Austrian-born biographer, historian and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of controvers...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoNew research confirms the nutjob factor is alive and well among those who refuse to accept the reality of global warming. *People who endorsed conspiracy theories such as "9/11 was an inside job" and "the...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*It's called invisible ink because I never saw it in print*. "Nearly half in Congress are millionaires, study finds; Widening wealth gap separates voters, legislators" by Eric Lichtblau | New York Tim...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoVia email: One thing I've been wondering about: it seems like building a massive amount of manpower for a campaign is (one of?) the most effective way to deploy campaign resources for voter persuasion. Bu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Fukushima- * *Local Children Radioactive Guinea Pigs"* by John C.K. Daly “Seventeen months after the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Tokyo Electric Power Company's six-reactor complex at ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour agohttp://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-27/cnn-president-jim-walton-stepping-down-from-cable-news-channel *Bloomberg News* *CNN President Jim Walton Resigns* *By Edmund Lee on July 27, 2012 * CNN ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012* *And Blake is out of his head:* At its upper end, our political press corps is simply astounding. If you’ve ever doubted that fact, just examine this new blog post by the Washingt...
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by Amin Fasei on Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 1:58am For more than 2 years, we have keenly followed our Gulf hero's stories documenting the oil slicks in the Gulf following the BP Macondo blowout and oil sp... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour agoIt has taken a while but finally the Right Thing ® may be about to happen. A 2009 piece of scientific bullshit journal article by one of DJ!'s fave BAD scientists, Priscilla Coleman, has been so thoroughly...
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Company says that it still retains "a small portion" of personal user data that it had agreed to scrub. Right hand meet left hand? The company was supposed to scrub all the personal user data its Street ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*GUWAHATI, India — Indian authorities on Friday raced to provide help to hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in makeshift camps in the country's northeast after deadly ethnic unrest.* The chief mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*In the tumult of last week as rebels advanced on Damascus and Aleppo, the hoisting of the Kurdish flag in a handful of towns and cities in northern Syria was scarcely noticed.* Only Turkey, grappling wi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoClimate change is a fact and, according to the powerful U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, it's a material fact that companies must disclose to their investors in SEC filings. Agribusiness has obvio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian Army helicopters fired on neighborhoods in the embattled city of Aleppo on Friday morning, activists said, killing at least a dozen people amid increased international alarm abou...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour agoAmaral v. Kennedy, 2012 ONCA 517 is a useful decision holding there is no appeal to the Court of Appeal under the Municipal Conflicts of Interest Act: [2] The issue of whether a right of appeal to...
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- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours agoReports of Libyan chemical weapons brought in through Turkey, caches discovered in Damascus point to possible false flag. *by Tony Cartalucci* *July 27, 2012* - For a Western media so fond of reporting "ac...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 2 hours agoTwenty-Five Rules of Disinformation Note: The first rule and last five (or six, depending on situation) rules are generally not directly within the ability of the traditional disinfo artist to app...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 2 hours ago
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoAn anonymous commenter asks: If you could propose one constitutional amendment knowing that it would seriously considered and had a good chance of passing, what would it be and why? I'd like to see somet...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 2 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 Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoWashington's Blog Yet Another Government Report Finds that Fluoride Lowers IQ in Kids The Harvard School for Public Health reports: For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours agoThe world's most visited climate blog, *Watts Up With That*, just interrupted the publishing of new posts for two days. An inner circle of the Earth's 11 climate skeptics including your humble correspond...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours agoWednesday we mentioned the GOP's attempt to disable to American federal regulatory system and how the whole dysfunctional effort got bogged down in some crazy typo. Yesterday they were back again and, pre...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoThis could get interesting. Chris Roussakis says he was supposed to be in London as the official photographer for Canada's Olympic team, but he was told in June the job was no longer his. The photograph...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRussia hopes to establish its first naval base abroad since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and is looking at Cuba, Vietnam and the Seychelles as possible locations, state-run RIA news agency quoted...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The UN International Arms Trade Treaty Conference (ATT) is wrapping up in New York, and their final draft is completed. In 2009, Hillary Clinton, US Secreta...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 3 hours agoEight young stars take a shot at the answer.
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 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 The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoJonathan Greenert says he supports the F-35 light strike bomber but the man does have reservations. *Admiral Greenert has whipped up a storm by saying that advantages from America’s prized stealth techno...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 3 hours agoBy Howie Carr Mumbles chickened out. This whole Chick-fil-A fiasco turned into, as he would say, an Alcatraz around his neck. Amazing, this guy who goes to Mass every Sunday — does he know he’s supportin’,...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours agoHelp Us Transmit This Story Add to Your Blogger Account Put it On Facebook Tweet this post Print it from your printer Email and a collection of other outlets Try even more s...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours agoAnthony Gucciardi *Activist Post* If the scientific link between fluoride exposure and a noted decreased in IQ is a conspiracy theory, then perhaps the Harvard researchers who just confirmed such a li...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago------------------------------ * rsn** (Reader Supported News) Subscribe to free newsletter* Senator Bernie Sanders is interviewed by a Reute...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours agoIn the midst of an ongoing battle between Mitt Romney and the IRS over the custody of his fortune (I'll give you a guess who's winning that one and it ain't Uncle Sam), Willard decided to visit his money ...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 3 hours agoMitt Romney's three-country international tour started off on an incredibly sour note when he criticized the Olympic host city's readiness in an interview with the father of *Girls* actress Allison William...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012* *The Times is a sad sick elite:* In its political reporting, the New York Times is well beyond an embarrassment. What is their principal topic today? The number of strip clubs in T...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 3 hours ago[image: Photo by Brandalism via Flickr Creative Commons] *The Olympic banned list: campaigners highlight the stranglehold of corporate sponsors. Photo by Brandalism* (Cross-posted from the *Bureau of Inve...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoAt least eight Kansas legislators, including two who are not seeking re-election, registered through Kansas Legislative Administrative Services to go to the Salt Lake City meeting. Those registered to a...
- posted by Rodger A. Payne at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours agoHave you wasted any time viewing Bear cam? This Wired story explains: Media company Explore has teamed up with Alaska's Katmai National Park to install webcams that will deliver live video feeds of brown b...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 4 hours ago*The PKK will find safe-haven in northern Syria now, which could prompt an attack from Turkey, a NATO member* AntiWar John Glaser Syrian President Bashar Assad, amid growing unrest, has granted control of...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoAbout a month ago – Breitbart.com threatened that they were going to do an expose on NCSL and ALEC. Before their dimwits could get their project off the ground – their faulty assumptions regarding ALEC ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012* *Part 4—Chris Hayes seems to deep-six the press:* A funny thing happened last night on the repurposed cable show, Hardball. As Chris Matthews teased his final segment, he talked a...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours agoMajia here: There is a new report out on the amount of capital in tax havens. The report, produced by James Henry former chief economist at consultancy McKinsey, is titled The Price of Offshore Revisite...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 4 hours agoChildren Playing Cowboys with Guns Henri Cartier-Bresson - Rome, Italy
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoThree questions about Veepstakes. TN asks: All the discussion over VP candidates focuses entirely on their effect on the election, but I wonder: What do you think is the ideal type of person to do the act...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 4 hours ago*Global Research* *Thierr Meyssan* * * *Western and Gulf powers have launched the largest secret war operation since the Contra war in Nicaragua. The Battle of Damascus is not intended to topple President ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoThank you, Bruce! In a long feature story in *The New Yorker*, Bruce Springsteen reveals he has been in psychotherapy for 30 years, and has at times been depressed to the point of suicidal. I believe tha...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoAssuming I am not the last person on earth to find this site, you might share my enjoyment of Humans of New York, a photo project by Brandon Stanton, documenting a "photographic census of New York City"....
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoI'm in the middle of reading Ralph Ellison's *Invisible Man*, now removed from the Famous Books I Haven't Read Yet list. The novel is an exploration of African-American identity in the days of the Jim Crow...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 hours agoVoula Papachristou is the hottest among the top Greek athletes who defended her 2009 European gold a year ago (July 2011) in Ostrava, Czechia. She also has a Twitter account where she showed that she isn...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 4 hours agoWho said citizens in small towns aren't aware of or not willing to organize against the plans that large companies have for their growth? Local organization is the secret to maintaining healthy environment...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 hours agoHappy Opening Day of the Olympics, everybody, and here's hoping for more pre-game infotainment from Mr. Gaffe-o-Matic Mitt. There is much to be disconcerted about today, so let's get right down to it. ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 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 - 4 hours agoMadison Ruppert, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The Federal Protective Service a child agency of the behemoth Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is tasked with protecting property owned, occu...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours agoEric Blair *Activist Post* For the last three decades several leaks have come out indicating that the CIA is directly involved in illegal drug trafficking. From planes registered to the CIA caught with...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoI hope this helps you to better understand the rights argument for fossil fuels. PLEASE read it – Hopefully you will gain a better understanding of the right-wing thinking. From Heartland.org – a 2000 re...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours agoDees Illustration Eric Blair *Activist Post* For all the evidence of how the War on Drugs has failed society, there's equally as much evidence of how it is a great success to those who continue to supp...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago"You have made our killing of the Jews an act of worship" "With Allah's Teachings "We Harvest the Skulls of...Jews" "The (Jews) are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians - and the Is...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours agoDees Illustration JG Vibes *Activist Post* Since the market crashes and bailouts that took place in 2008 it has been no secret that the world economy is on shaky ground. For years, those of us who were ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Drought-damaged corn is seen near Brownville, Neb., 26 July 2012. The widest drought to grip the United States in decades is getting worse with no signs of abating. The drought covering two-third...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoDaniel D. asks: What is the case for the electoral college? I'm familiar with the pragmatic arguments (a national recount would be a nightmare, voting fraud in one municipality could have a massive effect...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 5 hours ago- The fighting in Khorog is very serious. As Eurasianet notes, "The fighting in Gorno-Badakhshan province (GBAO) is being described as the worst in Tajikistan since the 1990s civil war and raise...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours agoSpent this week hanging out in Keelung. Had two good days of sun, one of which I wasn't carrying a camera with me. Missed a lot of good photos that day, but did walk around in the evening and at night on ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago*US fails to sell militants in Syria as "freedom fighters," tells truth for pretext to liquidate monsters of their own creation. * Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The Wall Street Journal (...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours agoMBC Along with tuition, students swallowing or snorting Adderall, Ritalin, and other amphetamines available by prescription (or, more likely, available via connections with prescriptions) stands as one...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 144 km (89.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:25:29 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 77 km (47.7 miles) Northwest Buki...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours agoJuly 27, 2012 There's a glimmer of hope for whistleblower Julian Assange as Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he's currently taking refuge, says Swedish authorities are welcome to come over to questio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*Facebook's share price has taken a massive tumble after it announced a net loss of $157m (£100m) in its first earnings report since becoming a public company.* Facebook shares fell 16.5% when the Nasdaq...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 6 hours ago*Keelung evening.* Media Q and A with DPP Chair Su Tseng-chang on the Department of China Affairs July 25, 2012 Q: You mention that creating the Department of China Affairs is a first step, but creating...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 6 hours agoOmar Khadr's case is a polarizing one, to say the least. Some people think that he's an evil, psychopathic, Islamofascist terrorist monster, while other people say that he was a victim of circumstances, a ...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 6 hours ago*Hitting the seafood restaurants near the red light district in Keelung* Huge news as pro-China tycoon Robert Tsai of the WantWant Group seems set to dominate Taiwan's media markets: The KMT news organ: ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoIt's Plain Blog's birthday -- three years of doing this, now. I'm celebrating by declaring it Question Day. Haven't had one of these for a while...you ask, I'll try to answer. Whatever you have -- the elec...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours agoThis is what your ALEC legislator is hearing - if they are in Salt Lake City for the annual meeting of the fossil-fuel friendly, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).. "Gas, oil and coal are more...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago*The Character Assassination of Dr. Bob Bea Sandy Rosenthal, Huff Post* *~Attorneys for the United States continue to spend taxpayer dollars in their efforts to defend the Army Corps of Engineers from liabi...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours ago*Fifty states* *Fifty different currencies* *OR* *He who holds the gold – holds the gold.* *Another way to screw the common citizen…..* Separate states, separate state currencies is the topic at the Ameri...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 6 hours agoDr Cintli: Arizona and the role of the intellectual: When history beckoned, what did you do?
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours agoFacebook Facebook Inc. shares fell more than 10 per cent in premarket trading on Friday after the company’s lack of a financial forecast reinforced concerns about its mobile strategy. The social network ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago*The Daily Show* Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook People complain that the presidential debate isn't issue-oriented enough and that Obama and ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 7 hours agoYves Engler writes this morning that the Conservative government is preparing to go to war: By setting up overseas bases and increasing the military’s size, the Conservatives are preparing for future w...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago*Read Saints Tailgate for the play-by-play on Jonathan Vilma's TRO trial*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*Nasa is making final preparations for the dramatic landing on Mars of its most sophisticated-ever planetary explorer.* The car-sized Curiosity rover is on course to land within a 12-mile target zone in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*Hours after it was confirmed that unemployment in Spain had reached a new record high, it was claimed the country had raised the prospect of it securing a 300bn euro (£235bn) bailout.* The news agency R...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoHappy Birthday to Alex Rodriguez, 37. Well, he's at 644 HRs and holding, for now. He surely won't get to Mays this year, but surely will in 2013 barring catastrophe. But then? Well, he needs 70 for Ruth, 1...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours agoInstead of posting a video, I thought I would present a short book plug/review: I actually don't read that much science fiction or fantasy, but I could not resist once I heard the concept of Redshirts b...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 7 hours agoYou think you have a great case against your employer. You’ve done your research and have found an attorney you think is just right for you. You reach out to the lawyer and they say they aren’t interested....
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 7 hours agoDrugged up massacre suspect can’t remember ‘Batman’ shooting *Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com Friday, July 27, 2012 The parallels between alleged Colorado shooter James Holmes and Sirhan Sirhan are sta...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago*Hubig's Pies factory destroyed by massive fire ~WWL*~ Hat Tweet @* TraversMackel*~NOFD Chief Charles Parent: "this business fed our 1st responders after Katrina, our guys put this out with their tears." #*...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*The Netherlands has suspended an aid budget worth $6.15m (£3.9m) to Rwanda over its alleged backing of rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.* This comes days after the US announced it was cutting ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoISTANBUL - Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday Turkey would not allow what he called "terrorist" groups like the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) or al Qaeda to establish a presence in Syria near ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 108.8 km (67.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:15:53 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) ESE of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*The University of Aberdeen and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists returned to the Ferrigno Ice Stream, a region of the frozen continent only visited once before in 1961, and found a one-mile (1.6km...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Madonna was booed and called a "slut" by disgruntled fans after a gig in Paris last night (July 26).* The intimate show at the city's 2,700-seat Olympia Theatre was a last-minute addition to the singer'...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 8 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*A killer who labelled himself "Psycho" after murdering Indian student Anuj Bidve has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years.* Kiaran Stapleton walked up to stranger Anuj Bidve, 23, in the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHistoric floods in China and Russia, scorching heat waves and drought in the United States may be among the early stages of climate change, scientists say. Despite this, many cities remain unprepared for e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*(Reuters) - Spanish unemployment hit its highest level in the second quarter since the country's return to democracy in the mid-1970s, as firms shed more staff, driven by fears of prolonged recession and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJuly 26 - European risk assets go on a tear after ECB president Mario Draghi says the euro will be saved, but an Italian bill auction tomorrow will test whether the boost to sentiment is any more than a bl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*(Reuters) - EU competition regulators temporarily cleared 18 billion euros ($22 billion) in state aid for four of Greece's largest banks -- National, Alpha, EFG Eurobank, Piraeus -- and said they would a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJuly 27 - Barclays apologises for the Libor scandal as H1 profits beat forecasts. Plus London gets ready for the Olympics.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoJuly 27 - Wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been indicted on murder charges. Julie Noce reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoJuly 27 - Chinese officials announce 77 dead from floods. Julie Noce reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoJuly 27 - Power outages and grounded flights hamper parts of the northeast US. Julie Noce reports.
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoUS fails to sell militants in Syria as "freedom fighters," tells truth for pretext to liquidate monsters of their own creation. *by Tony Cartalucci * *July 27, 2012* - The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in its...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - In his first year in office, U.S. President Barack Obama sent a letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seeking a new start to a long-strained relationship. * In his third year, Obama dema...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(CNN) -- The man accused of infecting patients with hepatitis C at a New Hampshire hospital was fired from a job in Arizona two years ago after testing positive for cocaine and marijuana, a public relation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*TAMURA, Fukushima -- Full-scale decontamination work under state jurisdiction began July 27 in the Miyakoji district in this Fukushima prefectural city of Tamura while an Environment Ministry plan to bui...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Hundreds of fish have gone belly-up in the Swan River and others are slowly dying as the latest toxic algal bloom to hit the river takes it toll. * The Swan River Trust is responding to sightings of the d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Disaster officials and state media in Vietnam say landslides and flash floods triggered by Typhoon Vicente have killed seven people, including three in a single family, and left three...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*MARGAO: Lifeguard services provided by the department of tourism were called upon to carry out a multiple rescue operation on Thursday at Benaulim after a fishing boat with 12 crew members ventured out t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*BENTONG: Residents in Kampung Sg Dua near here are worried after finding dozens of fish in Sungai Bentong dead.* Village chief Wong Fan Chong said they believed it was due to pollution and hazardous was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Sixteen people are reported dead in Uganda from a mystery illness.* The Uganda publication UG Pulse reports that a strange illness, cause unknown, is spreading in the Kibaale district in western Uganda. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Blackleg has reportedly killed over 50 cattle in the last three weeks and there are two suspected cases of anthrax, a veterinary official from Ward 27 in Buhera South has confirmed.* Blackleg normally ki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(CNN) -- Storms ripped through the Northeast, killing at least two people as they unleashed strong winds and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers.* Severe thunderstorm watches were in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*A father who killed his baby son, inflicting injuries on him that are normally seen in car crash victims, has been jailed for just five years.* Wayne Acott, 22, of, Maidstone, Kent, killed four-month-old...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*A ‘dangerous’ former Olympic hopeful has been jailed for 12 years after kidnapping and torturing a man for money.* Disgraced Julian Hughes-John, 31, who represented Great Britain in its Bobsleigh team t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*The cousin of England footballer Jermain Defoe has been electrocuted in a freak holiday accident on a Caribbean island.* Hannah Defoe, 20, died after she dived into a hotel swimming pool in St Lucia. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*Police are refusing to prosecute a Polish immigrant caught on camera stealing scrap metal, because he didn't realise he was committing a crime. * Businessman George Pasparakis caught the culprit red-hande...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*At first glance, it could be a dramatic scene from a science-fiction movie.* But this giant hole of fire in the heart of the Karakum Desert is not the aftermath of an attack on Earth, launched from oute...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*A prehistoric reptile, half snake and half lizard, which lived 70 million years ago, has been unveiled by scientists.* The two foot-long creature, known as Coniophis, was a ‘transitional snake’ with a s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*Two French policemen needed hospital treatment after being attacked by an eight-year-old boy armed with a hammer and a tear gas bomb.* One officer suffered a broken finger, and both were left bruised and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*Officials say four people have suffered puncture wounds from needles found at New York City beaches in the last three weeks.* In the latest incident a lifeguard was stuck at Rockaway Beach in Queens on ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 7.27.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Once again, Syria is at the top of the News Wrap-Up. Russia is sending a large contingent of marines to Syria. They will park off the co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*America's infrastructure just can't take the heat.* So far this year, the concrete, steel, and engineering that holds the country together has been tested by extreme weather of all kinds - and it has ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Barack Obama has said that ‘AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers’, even though the rifle, most associated with terrorism and communism, is not issued to the US military or any of its Western allies. * ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*A dog has been discovered dumped in the street with white graffiti scrawled all over her body. * The animal, believed to be two or three years old, had a rope tied around her neck when she was discovered ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Recovering: The premature baby was found in a bin, with placenta and umbilical cord still attached, in Anshan city in northeast China* An abandoned newborn baby is recovering in hospital after having her...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*More familiar to the desert of Saharan Africa, the first massive dust cloud of the year has engulfed the city of Phoenix cutting off power to 9,000 homes and closing the international airport for 20 minu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*A teacher accused of soliciting an underage girl for sex has claimed he was carrying out research for a novel.* Brian Gerald Shriner told detectives he needed to do research on the sin of ‘lust.’ The 46...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*James Britpod Infowars.com June 7, 2012* A 2010 Rockefeller Foundation document entitled “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” outlines a scenario which results in the d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*It’s getting hard, sorting James Holmes reports into the “crazy” or “pretending to be crazy” columns. Now, the accused Aurora shooter is playing the amnesia card, asking jail workers why he is in prison....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*The boss of Barclays has apologised for the rate-fixing scandal, as the bank announces a plunge of 71% in statutory profits for the first half of the year.* The bank said the statutory profit before tax...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*A woman posing as a doctor has been arrested and charged with killing another woman by performing bogus buttocks-enhancement surgery.* Authorities say Shatarka Nuby's body was pumped with unknown toxic ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck SALTA, ARGENTINA at a depth of 162.5 km (101 miles), the quake hit at 06:10:50 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) West of San Antonio de los ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoAs readers of this blog know, I have championed two separate and plausibly near simultaneous coastal penetrations of the Americas as early even as twenty thousand years ago. We have scant support ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours ago* * *Maybe the US government can get this one right.* Wi*thout question marijuana has significant medical application. The problem has been the issue of impairment which no one has ever been able t...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis is obviously extremely important and will become a major part of out technology. Many protocols are worked with to deal with the problem of purification but none approaches the efficiency ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoStrings 2012, the annual conference which has been taking place at the LM University in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, is ending today. To get the access to all the talks, see Speakers, titles, talks. All of th...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 13 hours agoAUPE’s powerful viral video on the unappetizing 21-day menu. Below: Former Alberta Health Services CEO Stephen Duckett, Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne. One of the least successful experiments of the sh...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“Framing a bright emission region this telescopic view looks out along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the nebula rich constellation Cygnus the Swan. Popularly called the Tulip Nebula the glowing...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"ICBW IDTS"* by Chet Raymo "Which means, according to text messagers, "It could be worse (but) I don't think so." It seems a Finn has published a 332-page novel written entirely in text messaging abbre...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoBad Camberg, Hessen, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Jamie DeWolf, the great-grandson of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, has come out with new explosive claims against the church, claiming it is nothing more than a 'well-funded psychotic beast' that 'd...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*“Dealing with Disappointment: A Bridge to Acceptance”* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM “The gift of disappointment is to bring us into reality so we don’t get stuck in the realm of how things might hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Skype is co-operating more closely with police to help them spy on users.* The online phone service, used by friends and families to keep in touch but also favoured by political dissidents and criminals,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*A man who arrived at Heathrow with a teenage boy was sent back to the US following concerns that he planned to sexually exploit the youngster to tourists during the Olympic Games. * Jason Daniel Gandy, 3...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*A 60-year-old man was taken into police custody after co-workers found photographs of Colorado Batman massacre suspect James Holmes 'all over his desk' and computer worktop.* Officers from the New York P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoJuly 26 - Firefighters are hurt while battling a massive fire at a Brooklyn apartment building. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"Worldwide Debt Default is the Only Solution” * by Jason Hamlin “Sovereign nations, state governments, Californian cities, small businesses, homeowners, middle-class families, recent graduates and all...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours ago*Equal.* Inequality wrecks countries. And inequality is increasing in many countries, including the USA and even Denmark. OECD inequality report: how do different countries compare? | News ... Inequa...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 14 hours ago*Majia here: This is a very sad story for three reasons. * First, it illustrates how difficult it is to successfully decontaminate an area polluted by radiation. Second, it illustrates that the probl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*(CNN) -- Islamic radicals linked to al Qaeda have seized the northern half of Mali, one of Africa's largest nations, and there are widespread concerns that the region could soon become a terrorist haven*....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* Anadan, Syria (CNN) -- A distant machine gun rattled away in vain as a military helicopter flew long, slow circles, arcing from the contested Syrian city of Aleppo over to the rebel-controlled town of A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* (CNN) -- Three adults and two juveniles were arrested Wednesday for allegedly terrorizing a Jewish camp in Pennsylvania.* Authorities say Tyler Cole Spencer, 18, Mark Trail, 21, Cassandra Robertson, 18,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoSince I was 14, maybe 15, this was my favourite band. 40-years later it still is. This was probably this band at it's peak - 1978. Magic.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe son of a man accused of killing his wife gets into a fight with a witness for the prosecution outside the courtroom.
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*(CNN) -- Hundreds of thousands lost power due to a potent storm system that extended eastward from the Plains toward the Northeast on Thursday, bringing with it high winds and destructive lightning.* Se...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 15 hours agoAlt-Market Brandon Smith The subject of revolution is a touchy one. It’s not a word that should be thrown around lightly, and when it is uttered at all, it elicits a chaotic jumble of opinions and debate...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours ago*Fukushima probes leave questions: **Two blame tsunami for meltdowns but one still points to quake factor *By *KAZUAKI NAGATA. The Japan Times Friday, July 27, 2012* http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 15 hours agoGM and Ford built nearly 90% of the armored 3-ton half-trucks and 70% of the Nazi medium and heavy-duty trucks used in WWII. Greame K. Howard, Vice President of General Motors, wrote and published “Ameri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA at a depth of 14.8 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:58:14 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) ESE from Kyzyl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*The United States has a rather bizarre history of blasting rock music into the ears of presumed enemies, so it seemed plausible when a prominent security expert reported Monday that a new cyberattack on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*Three dissident republican groups have announced their intention to merge and continue an armed campaign.* The Real IRA, Londonderry vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) and a loose gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 15 hours agoHuffington Post Mark Gongloff Timothy Geithner claimed on Wednesday that the government had no choice during the financial crisis but to lend to banks and AIG using an interest rate, Libor, that everybod...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoLondon's Lord Mayor Boris Johnson is a Conservative but he's no fan of Mitt Romney's. In fact, in England, *everyone* now understands why McCain picked Palin over Romney. Not sure how the Anglo Saxon Mor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the MARIANA ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 302.9 km (188.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:37:56 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 389 km (242 miles) SSE from Iwo...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Rescue workers have been searching for a missing man who jumped into the sea to save two children.* The 33-year-old man entered the water, with another man, to help a three-year-old and a 17-year-old wh...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Facebook has announced a net loss of $157m (£100m) in its first earnings report since becoming a public company.* Facebook shares were down nearly 10% at one point in after-hours trading on the Nasdaq - ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Syrian government troops are reportedly massing around the city of Aleppo, with the US claiming they could be "lining up" for a massacre.* Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad are said to be ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO at a depth of 26.6 km (16.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:23:33 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11.8 miles) South of Santiago ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck GUATEMALA at a depth of 232.8 km (144.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:06:58 UTC Friday 27th July 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) ENE of Mixco, Guatemala No Tsuna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 172.9 km (107.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:58:37 UTC Thursday 26th July 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 mile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck LUZON, PHILIPPINES at a depth of 44.5 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:03:43 UTC Thursday 26th July 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4.3 miles) West of Santa Praxedes,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck TARAPACA, CHILE at a depth of 112 km (69.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:41:10 UTC Thursday 26th July 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (75.6 miles) Southeast of Iquique, Ta...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 16 hours agoThe following article was originally posted on the Al Jazeera English Opinion page. ***** Racism and ignorance know no nationality Nima Shirazi | 26 Jul 2012 Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago*"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace." - Tacitus (AD 56 – AD 117).* There are predictions that the Mossad and Briti...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago* * *"A Letter from Mark Zuckerberg"* by Andy Borowitz MENLO PARK, Calif. (The Borowitz Report)— "After Facebook’s shares plummeted in after-hours trading today, Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg issued ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 17 hours ago*Feel our deep and abiding love for you.* *Michael channeled by Ron Head* *July 26, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages * You are moving through very heightened energy right now, and we are amazed and ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"How Ben Bernanke Can Prevent the End of Civilization"* by Bill Bonner "Ain’t we got fun? Ev’ry morning, ev’ry evening, Ain’t we got fun? Not much money, oh, but honey Ain’t we got fun? The rent’s unpa...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 17 hours agoI have been trying for years to get everyone to understand the dire importance of getting our bodies into a proper state of health. The old saying that a "Healthy body means a healthy mind" is absolutely ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoAs long time readers know, I collect links to livestream webcams. (A few of my favorites on way down on the sidebar.)I was thinking about my friends in the Northeast who are about to battered with storms t...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 18 hours agoComposite Photo courtesy http://the2012scenario.com/ 7/27/12 From a source requesting anonymity: First of all, I've been following your blog since the banking resignations and would like to extend...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agoAsking a judicial officer to recuse themselves is amazingly dangerous. If they say no you are stuck with an angry jurist. If they say yes you have to start trial again. That said, Sheila Block is a brillia...
- posted by Marc McDonald at BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com - 18 hours ago*MARC MCDONALD* Let's get real: the true reason the U.S. doesn't have sensible gun laws has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. Instead, it has everything to do with our broken political system and o...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*Plus: An Alexander Cockburn postscript* *from the Inwod Community Group's Facebook page* *"To lump all cops as killers is wrong."* *-- former cop John Garvey, on the same Facebook page* * "While police h...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 19 hours ago*Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission launches probe to determine how ‘high-risk radioactive nuclear substance’ was left in Slater Street meeting room for three weeks *
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 19 hours agocartoon from a Salt Lake City newspaper today. The American Legislative Exchange Council - the escort service for corporations in need of legislation. You just have to see this cartoon!!! CLICK >>>>>HE...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoPosted by Hamourapi in the comments of Portal 2012 July 10, 2012 5:40 AM This is a small story i've written for you. It's about a 6/7D entity and her incarnation on earth. I try to make it a little...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours ago*Saints to unveil Gleason ''Rebirth'' statue Friday ~WWL* *I’ll Fly Away ~Accidental Cajun*
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 20 hours agoThe 4th Media Thierry Meyssan *Though the Western press portrays the Free Syrian Army as an armed revolutionary group, for more than a year Thierry Meyssan has affirmed that it is on the contrary a coun...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 21 hours agoGaye Levy,* Contributor* *Activist Post* Recent storms in my own area reminded me that power outages resulting in a grid down can happen anytime, to anybody, anywhere. Some outages are planned, some ar...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago*Homer's Achilles: humans are the playthings of the gods*. "When their emotions have settled down, Achilles shares his philosophy of life: the belief that humans are the playthings of the gods, subject...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAlthough illegal aliens are an issue on our southern border, our neighbor to the north might have its own problem with aliens — from another world. Ufology Research reports that there were about three UFO...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA Russian spy ring busted in the U.S. two years ago planned to recruit members' children to become agents, and one had already agreed to his parents' request, according to current and former U.S. official...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 21 hours agoBy Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez *Special-length column* When historians examine Arizona’s early 21st century, including the anti-immigrant SB 1070 and the anti-Ethnic Studies HB 2281, the question they...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoI am not kidding you1!! A new report from CMD about a workshop at the annual meeting of the AMerican Legislative Exhange Council that encourages the use of smokeless tobacco. A snip Rodu's research sup...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoBreaking news - new report on the influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Utah politics As corporate lobbyists and state legislators from across the country meet in Salt Lake Ci...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 21 hours agoPressTV The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has revealed that al-Qaeda is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Syria, including the Houla massacre. The BND estimates that al-Qaeda has...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 21 hours agoLand Destroyer Tony Cartalucci For many months, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has depicted the militants creating havoc across his nation as "armed gangs," "foreign terrorists," and simply just, "terr...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoGoes to Alec MacGillis, for taking down The Fix's Aaron Blake. See, Blake wrote an item about that latest out-of-context quote that Mitt Romney's campaign is using in which not only did he assess it purely...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 21 hours ago*America's Descent Into Darkness* CounterPunch Morris Berman Strange things are happening in the United States these days, and every day seems to bring additional scary news. The similarity to the erosion...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 22 hours agoWorkshop in Guaramal IIThe 14 students of Escuela Anardo Napoleon Mata listen attentively as the woman at the front of the one-room school quizzes them about how they'll respond in an emergency. Will they ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoWhat do Islam, Israel, and America all have in common? They are all tyrannies. Also, their followers exhibit traits of cult members. Americans and Jews who worship their masters in government are the sam...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 22 hours agoTomorrow, Friday the 27th July 2012, the Olympic Games will be opened in London. In a time of great economic hardship for the ordinary people, with services slashed, and jobs destroyed, the cost of the O...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoUgh. Harper wants his Air Force One. But here's the thing: The United States has a fleet of presidential and executive aircraft specifically designed and equipped to fly their high ranking states-people arou...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours ago*Vilma testimony: Goodell ''hurt me...to my core''* *Saints Nation: What Will Be the Starting Unit at Linebacker for the Saints in 2012? ~Andrew Juge, WhodatWarriors* *New Orleans City Council to NOLA Med...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 22 hours agoBeing in the teeth of a great novel's first draft plus job hunting and running errands has made blogging today a virtual impossibility. But never let it be said I don't think of my readers so here's a dem...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 22 hours agoLa PrensaI've been following two sewage treatment debates this week, in Victoria, where I used to live, and San Pedro Sula, about three hours from our home in Copan Ruinas. There are unhappy people in both...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoObama the tyrant *says* guns are for hunting, not resisting tyranny. But the CIA-armed FSA in Syria disagrees with this hypocrite.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*Pregnant Australian women were used in world-first trials of the notorious morning sickness pill thalidomide before it was tested on animals, it's been reported.* Documents from thalidomide distributor ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*Facebook has announced a net loss of $157m (£100m) in its first earnings report since becoming a public company.* Facebook Inc said the net loss was equivalent to eight cents per share between April and...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWe need you to subscribe to our magazine (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your financial help, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researching, reporting ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoTuesday morning when I woke up I saw Senator John McCain was already tweeting away. The poor old fella was being targeted again by the dominant teabagger wing of the GOP, angry at him for denouncing psych...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agohttp://2012portal.blogspot.com/2012/07/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4_26.html?showComment=1343335639694#c42711866275154896 *Thursday, July 26, 2012* *Explosion of Light* We are slowly approachi...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours agoSpent the better part of the day posting at Balloon Juice and hanging out in the comments. As I said over there, being that I spend most of my time reading politics, when I woke up this morning, I did not ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours agoNATO-backed militants execute civilians as they await impending battle in Aleppo, Syria. *by Tony Cartalucci* *July 26, 2012* - For many months, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has depicted the militants...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 23 hours agoWell, by eck! CLEANSKIN (made by the UK Film Studio) has a lot of balls doing what it just did. This privately-funded little film “Cleanskin” starring Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling, James Fox and Michell...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*Crosbie v. Crosbie,* 2012 ONCA 516 is an interesting decision regarding discretion and old interest rates on old judgments: [9] We are concerned however about the application judge’s failure to exerci...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agohttp://rt.com/usa/news/house-ron-audit-bill-061/ A bill introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) to audit America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, passed the US House of Representatives overwhelmi...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 1 day agoI hope you're happy twitterers, you guys really upset Danny McBride. Not cool.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoA major part of Harper's perfidy lies in the way the Northern Gateway is structured with liability cut-outs to let the major players escape liability. IslandTides.com has an eye-opening feature on how co...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoHere is an excerpt from some of my work on the never ending financial crisis, caused by fraud and corruption... The fraud, corruption, and weaponization of financial instruments at the heart of the cris...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Iran's U.N. envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed. A suicide bomber b...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day agoimage source Paul Craig Roberts *Activist Post* One wonders what Syrians are thinking, as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya,...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoYOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Nomura CEO Kenichi Watanabe, right, announces his resignsation at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on July 26, 2012, as his succesor Koji Nagai,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*WASHINGTON -- The poor and middle classes have shouldered by far the heaviest burdens of the global political obsession with austerity policies over the past three years. In the United States, budget cut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*(Reuters) - Spain paid the second highest yield on short-term debt since the birth of the euro at an auction on Tuesday, and EU officials said Greece had little hope of meeting the terms of its bailout, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJuly 26 - Winds of up to 111 miles per hour leave a trail of destruction in Chile's southern city of Punta Arenas.
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day agoReuters U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 1 day agohttp://www.sophialove.org/1/post/2012/07/the-time-is-now.html 07/26/20120 These 2012 Olympic Games are ripe with speculation and prediction, headlines and focus. As a single statement, the voice ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day agoThe Telegraph Julian Ryall The Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey, released in April, included examinations of 38,114 children, of whom 35.3 percent - some 13,460 children - w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A convicted child rapist sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl after spiking her Fruit Shoot drink with vodka while on bail for another sex attack on a youngster.* Twisted Samuel Omar, 64, was given the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy known as 'The Maiden' was suffering from a bacterial infection when she died - and being able to 'diagnose' the disease could lead to new insights into diseases of the pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*EVIL: From left, Sipho Mbele, David Motaung and Patrick Petrus Radebe smiled in court as they admitted to their sick crimes. A 12-year-old boy was drowned in a bath of boiling water by robbers who raped h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Michael Jackson's son Prince has taken to Twitter accusing family members of refusing him access to his grandmother Katherine Jackson during the matriarch's days-long absence from their California home.*...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFrom Britain to Africa, America to China and Russia, India to Canada, no corner of the world seems immune to flash flooding. Is global warming the culprit? In most cases, probably. We done gone and br...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago...is provided by Dave Weigel, who notes that there's yet another video clipof Obama out there that uses edits to force his words out of context. Kevin Drum calls this kind of thing "creepy" in his headline...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoNuff Said Two more companies DUMP the American Legislative Exchange Council!!! Read about it >>>>>HERE<<<<<<< Nope not nuff said "Walgreens' and GM's recent announcements that they have cut ties with ALE...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Tom Benson offers to purchase Times-Picayune ~WWL* *Teammates, coach will attend hearing for Jonathan Vilma today ~WDSU* *After storm, flood, frustration and demolition, family finally gets a home ~The L...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoChris Hedges' latest column for *TruthDig* explores how western society has degenerated into myopic careerism in which facts and reality are impertinences. *David Lloyd George, who was the British prime m...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoUpdate on suspicious packages discovered at Anschutz Medical Campus AURORA, Colo. (July 25, 2012) – Officials at theUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus can confirm that the suspicious package...
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