U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, right, hosts a meeting to discuss bilateral defense issues with Danish Defense Minister Gitte Lillelund Bech, left foreground, at the Pentagon. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and U.S. Navy Vice Adm. William Gortney, director of the Joint Staff, joined Panetta. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
*The New Orleans Police Department has issued a warrant for actor Cuba Gooding Jr.'s arrest after allegations that he was involved in a fight in the city's French Quarter during the early hours of Tuesday... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 25 minutes ago*A bullet.* "Hug at Detroit birthday party proves deadly" Associated Press, July 10, 2012 DETROIT — The death of a *woman shot in the chest* after she *hugged an off-duty police officer* from behind *dur...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 27 minutes ago*Public relations propaganda to make the FBI look good. * "Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday" by Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press, July 06, 2012 WASHINGTON — Despite repeated alerts,...
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*U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta arrived in Israel last night for a brief visit that will focus on the American-Israeli dispute over whether to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. Prime Minister Benj... - posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 31 minutes agoPreventing the “summer slump” in reading: silent reading time AND support for libraries Posted at http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/07/31/using-summer-to-narrow-achievement-gap/ As the NY Times notes...
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*ISTANBUL: Twenty-two Kurdish militants were killed during clashes in eastern Turkey over the last three days, CNN Turk television said on its website on Tuesday, adding to Ankara’s concerns over gains by... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes ago
*SANAA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- At least 17 people were killed and dozens of others wounded in clashes between the security forces and gunmen belonging to a group of army defectors at the Yemeni interior mini... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
*DAMASCUS, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Syrian forces are carrying on Tuesday with their operation to eradicate insurgency in the conflict-battered Aleppo province and elsewhere in the country amid reports talking ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 42 minutes ago
*BANGKOK - Myanmar security forces killed, raped or carried out mass arrests of Rohingya Muslims after deadly sectarian riots in the northeast in June, a rights group said on Wednesday, adding the authori... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes ago* (Reuters) - Syrian combat aircraft and artillery pounded Aleppo late into the night as the army battled for control of the country's biggest city, where rebel fighters said troops loyal to President Bash...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 46 minutes ago*Forgot all about it.* Federal judge continues to block Mississippi abortion law Future of only abortion provider in Miss. still unclear *Mississippi Post Aborted* *No Mercy in Mississippi*
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 47 minutes ago*To the East Side.* "Sherman Hemsley dies at 74; actor was television’s George Jefferson" by Adam Bernstein | Washington Post, July 25, 2012 WASHINGTON — Sherman Hemsley — an actor best known for his o...
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*It was billed by First Minister Alex Salmond as Scotland’s London ‘embassy’, aimed at attracting foreign investment into the country.* But the exclusive Pall Mall club hired by the Scottish National Part... - posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 48 minutes ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 49 minutes ago
I would love to be able to report that when you look up "sociopath" in the dictionary, you find a photo of Paul Ryan. But you don't; instead you find a definition of him: A person with antisocial persona... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes ago
*BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Twin car bombs exploded in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people, and security forces fought off an attack inside a police station by two suicide bombers trying to fr... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes ago
*The electricity supply to India's capital, Delhi, has been largely restored after a two-day blackout across much of the country. * More than 600 million people across India were affected by the power cut ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes ago*(Reuters) - Rebels fighting to depose Syrian president Bashar al Assad have for the first time acquired a small supply of surface-to-air missiles, according to a news report that a Western official did n...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 54 minutes agoSan Francisco Peaks/Photo www.sacredland.org NNHRC learns of U.S. Department of Interior’s sacred sites listening sessions By Rachelle Todea NNHRC Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*Graphic new footage has emerged that it is claimed shows rebel soldiers in Syria lining up and shooting dead pro-government milita members.* The two-minute video seems to show members of the Shabiha, a m...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Two die, 20 fall ill at music festival; Drugs, alcohol are called widespread at Mansfield event" by Alejandra Matos and Zachary T. Sampson | Globe Correspondents, July 28, 2012 Two people died and abou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA at a depth of 37 km (23 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:36 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) West of Tomoh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE OREGON at a depth of 21.9 km (13.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:53:11 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) Southwest from Gold Beach...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck EASTERN TURKEY at a depth of 5.2 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:12:14 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) NNW from Van, Turkey No Report...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoBy AIM West http://www.aimwest.info Posted at Censored News AIM-WEST celebrates 18th year of United Nations proclamation, August 9th as “Internati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU at a depth of 33.2 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:34:42 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) Southwest o...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*How do you expect someone to feel when they have been robbed?* "Mexico vote result challenged" by Adriana Gomez Licon | Associated Press, July 08, 2012 MEXICO CITY — *Leftist* candidate Andres Manuel L...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour ago* * * July 31, 2012* * * *12 Manik, 5 Pop, 9 Ik* Dratzo! We return! Your transitioning world is moving from the old dark reality that is familiar to you, to a new one filled with Light, Love, and ...
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- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour agoStandard Bank Group CEO Jacko Maree *African Kabuki sent me this article. What's really comical is the South African public's response to it in the comments. Who do they think they are fooling??? ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago*"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." - Sun Tzu.* Following *unofficial reports* that Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia was assassinated on July 26, many analysts pointed to the government o...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours agoYes, Lil Luke deserves all the scathing snark TBogg can deliver. The whole grand tradition of journalism that seats according to bloodline should be regularly skewered. But damn, I do love dragonflies an...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*I normally do not read second section stories.* "New Bedford councilors OK their raises; Earmark on bill with little debate" by Matt Woolbright | Globe Correspondent, July 25, 2012 NEW BEDFORD — *City ...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 2 hours ago*Keelung Harbor by night* I'd use a modifier like "unbelievable" or "incredible" but really, it's more like "predictable" -- in the wake of bribery accusations against powerful KMT politician Lin Yi-shi...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours agoWith the world presently distracted by the hoopla of the London Olympics, there are few that are paying attention to the fact that not only is the world financial system in extreme turmoil, but all the ind...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours ago"The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy i...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours agoIn a moment of delicious symbolic significance, the Mittster's European Tour of Errors ended with a curse. As in Romney's press aide cursed out the press. Seems they had the audacity to shout out questions...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours agoPeople are always tweeting for AT&T to DumpALEC. Unless WE dump AT&T – they aren’t going to budge. WHY? AT&T has made a bundle of “bills” – off their membership in the American Legislative Exchange counci...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoRead: *Unofficial Reports: Al-Qaeda's Chief Financier Bandar Bush Is Dead.* The presumed party behind the bombing that took the life of Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia on July 26 is the government of Syria....
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 3 hours agoThis one, I’m afraid, is for the skeptics in the crowd. It deals with memory, how it is formed, how it is recalled, and what it means to those of us who conduct investigations of long-ago events. The probl...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"Romney's embrace of tea-party thinking is just ideological womanizing. (He won't call in the morning.)"* *-- Richard Cohen, in his latest WaPo column,* "The gap in the ‘you didn't build that' fight" *by...
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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Former N.H. hospital worker held in hepatitis outbreak" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, July 20, 2012 CONCORD, N.H. — Federal prosecutors Thursday charged a *medical technician *with *infecting at leas...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours ago"If you've got an Olympic medal, you didn't earn that. Somebody else made that happen." - Paraphrasing President Obama of the Socialist Republic of the United States. Phelps's 19th medal was the result of ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 6 hours agohttp://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/uk-italy-euribor-barclays-idUKBRE86U0BN20120731 * * *Italian police seize Barclays documents in rates probe* By Antonella Ciancio and Edward Taylor MILAN/FRANK...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago*The release of the government’s CGI-powered plan for the ruined centre of Christchurch has got many people talking excitedly about living in a CGI city, but (**apart from this story**, for which kudos t...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 hours agoHahaha. I'm slowly wading through pictures and thoughts about the RAMPS direct action, which I hope to finish for a post tomorrow - in the meanwhile, for humor, here's a wildly optimistic film which purp...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours agoWere going to peruse a gamut of topics- So were going long, but, there is much worth reading. *Of course, primary is Syria*. And, everything that surrounds that situation! *Be sure to have your preferred b...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 6 hours agoMedia Matters American television news outlets continue to devote sparse time to one of largest banking scandals in history. The controversy over whether major banks have been manipulating the LIBOR, a cr...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours agoAs I explained last night elsewhere,my sleep patterns are all screwed up. Didn't post a single thing yesterday besides that because there wasn't enough coffee in the world to jumpstart my brain. Overslept ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoWhat would the Americans give Canada for Alberta? Let's say everything east of the Rockies to the Saskatchewan border and everything from the north end of the Athabasca tar fields down to the U.S. borde...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A Spanish politician is facing a charge of vehicular homicide for the car crash that killed prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, Cuba's state press said Tuesday.* Angel Carromer...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJeroen Oerlemans, a Dutch photographer, was abducted on the Turkish-Syrian border last week. He says he was captured by a "jihadi group" consisting of about 100 fighters who said they were fighting a "holy...
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- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Caravaggio... way smarter than Steve Israel* Monday morning the DCCC was strutting around like a rooster bragging about the campaign to hold Republicans accountable, running an ad (below) called "The Mil...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*In so many ways*: "Roche closing longtime N.J. home" Associated Press, June 27, 2012 TRENTON, N.J. — Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG is *closing its former US headquarters*, a sprawling facility where...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoTo Jeffrey Toobin: But the responsibility for Obama’s failure to make a dramatic impact on the courts does not lie completely with the Senate. There are currently seventy-four vacancies on the circuit and...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoLast week Anaheim Police handcuffed a young Latino man, Manuel Diaz, and shot him through the back of the head for throwing a plastic water bottle at police. Shooting a man through the back of the hea...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Where was the driver?* "Bullied bus aide says she’s retiring" Associated Press, July 28, 2012 GREECE, N.Y. — A school bus monitor who was *shown in a video being relentlessly bullied* by a group of boys ...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 8 hours agoSo, summer is half done... and so is the woodpile. Chain saw, saw table (pallet plus wheelbarrow), Risa, glass of water, chair, hat, woodshed, oil, radio, finished wood, chopping block, woodpile. As you ...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 8 hours agoثمانية الصفات للفنان معلومات ديس1) لتفادي الاصطدام. انهم لم تناقش القضايا في الواقع وجها لوجه أو تقديم مساهمات بناءة، وتجنب عموما الاقتباس من المراجع أو وثائق التفويض. بدلا من ذلك، أنها تنطوي على مجرد هذ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Graphic new footage has emerged of what it is claimed is rebel soldiers in Syria executing pro-government milita members.* The two-minute video seems to show Shabiha fighters, who are an armed militia g...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Don't answer that!* "Police make arrests in alleged teen prostitution ring; Nationwide effort nets 14 inMass." by Matt Byrne | Globe Correspondent, June 27, 2012 Police in three Massachusetts communiti...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 8 hours agoI have long been a supporter of many others in what I call the REAL truth movement. One of them, is of course my friend Debra who hails from the Christian Zionist bible belt region of southwestern Tenness...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 8 hours ago*Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist* 1) Avoidance. They never actually discuss issues head-on or provide constructive input, generally avoiding citation of references or credentials. Rather, ...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 8 hours ago*Should we worry yet? Ebola and Avian Flu viruses are again active.* *We really don't know how epidemiologists sleep at night knowing full well how quickly these things mutate, Yet they have the sheer gal...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"26 arrested in Web credit card fraud" by Nelson D. Schwartz | New York Times, June 27, 2012 Authorities in the United States and overseas *arrested 26* people Tuesday in a crackdown on *Internet credit...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoIt's election day here in Texas. I voted, just as I did on primary day in May, in an empty polling place, although a few voters were wandering in as I was leaving. Today was the primary election run-off, ...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 9 hours agoPosted: 6/26/2012 *by Barbara Loe Fisher *On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was publ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 9 hours agoThe Plan to Gut Social SecurityBehind Obama’s Fake Recovery July 27-29, 2012 Edition Mike Whitney Last week’s dismal “data dump” has ended all talk of a strong recovery in the US. Retail sales, factory out...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 9 hours agoPosted: 5/14/2012 *Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! * *by Barbara Loe Fisher * * * * “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – *State Senator Kevin Mullin ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours agoDue to personal matters posting is and will be spotty for the next several days. Apologies for any inconvenience, and thanks for your patience and understanding. - CP
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 9 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The disinformation mafia at Time magazine says that the phrase “’Guns don’t actually kill people’ is sometimes a refrain from gun rights advocates when they r...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 9 hours agoPosted: 2/21/2012 * by Barbara Loe Fisher * Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – l...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 9 hours agoPosted 12/08/2011 *By Barbara Loe Fisher* During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that fai...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 9 hours agoRevolutionary thought of the day: Remember when, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, the Patriot Act was controversial, held up as the symbolic face of Bush/Cheney radicalism and widely lamented as a threat ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 9 hours ago*Global Research* Greg Muttitt and Ali Issa * * *In this interview, investigative journalist Greg Muttitt talks about efforts by US occupying forces, multinational oil giants and Iraq's newly-minted 'lea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:16:39 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.1 miles) East of Saryg-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(CNN) -- A new strain of avian flu that jumped from birds to mammals is responsible for the death of more than 160 seals off the New England coast last year, scientists announced Tuesday.* The virus cou...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours ago*Why the West is now under Nazi rule and why the elite are in denial* *Posted by Benjamin Fulford * July 31, 2012 A visit to Canada and long conversations with bankers, newspaper editors and others...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago*TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012* *We don’t recommend Rachel Maddow:* We’ll recommend the new piece by Salon’s Roxane Gay about the latest faux genius. Gay asks a lot of good questions about the genius Lehrer (no...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours agoMaddow demonstrates how frighteningly fast a fringe element can seize power and radically alter what was thought to be a settled matter. Watch. Link to video that Blogger ate. Visit NBCNews.com for ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoProf Matt Strassler who blogs at ProfMattStrassler.com made an excursion into our favorite topic which is an inferior scientific discipline at the same moment, namely to the climate change science: Huma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*(Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday flagged the Chinese army's growing role in shaping the country's foreign policy as a security risk, saying a sense of caution exists across East Asia about Beijing's apparent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Police in Canada are searching for a Briton believed to have been swept to his death over waterfalls in British Columbia in an incident in which two others died.* The 50-year-old man from Scotland, who ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoBarbarians, armed by the warmongering West and Arab Gulf monarchies, invade Syria and slaughter everything standing in their way, including women and children. An excerpt from Moon of Alabama's July 31 a...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 11 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 - 11 hours agoAl Qaeda fighter in Syria Brit Dee, *Contributor* *Activist Post* In their determination to destabilise Syria, oust Bashar al-Assad's government, and install a compliant regime - thus weakening Iran - W...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours ago*New Orleans Saints show no rust in first week of training camp ~WWL* *Camp Confidential: New Orleans Saints* *‘Spags' has defenders trying on new roles* *Saints rank #9 in new Pro-32 NFL Power Ranking* ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAll monthly subscribers should see the magazine in their email inbox. This issue has a complete redesign in the way we do our articles, and turned out great! We have a new sample up on the Magazine page as...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoAnother aspect of the municipal bond market is being examined for manipulation. I posted recently on how the auctions for municipal bonds were rigged and how the big banks gauged the municipalities wit...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 11 hours agoPer Dan's post below, I don't understand why Russia is our number-one enemy, either today or ten years from now. Neither, it seems, do Americans, who have only noticed Russia's phantom menace at one period...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 11 hours agoThe Reproductive Health (RH) bill or Responsible Parenthood bill was the most applauded topic when the President delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) a week ago. Which means majority of those i...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoBlue America is proud to be officially endorsing Sue Thorn today. Sue is a grassroots community activist whose ideas about the role of government hearken back to a time when West Virginians very much saw...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 11 hours ago*EFF* This week, the Senate will be voting on a slew of amendments to the newest version of the Senate’s cybersecurity bill. Senators John McCain and Kay Bailey Hutchison have proposed several amendmen...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoI sometimes have a quick and frustrated reaction for why victims of abuse, women in the latest case, might continue to endure it rather than rock the boat and assert themselves, even in numbers. But then I r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*I can exclusively reveal that the Treasury is preparing to wind down the National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS) - or "credit easing" as it was widely dubbed - less than six months after its launch.* Trea...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 12 hours agoimage source Brandon Turbeville *Activist Post* In a rare instance of real journalism, ABC news aired a report on the increasing number of foreign workers being contracted and imported into the United St...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA at a depth of 2.9 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:03:39 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) WNW of Prague, Oklahoma No Reports o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:43:40 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 136 km (84.3 miles) South of Ambulu, ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 12 hours agoimage source Michael Snyder, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system? August is likely to be a relatively slow month, as most of Euro...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoJapan Today: "16 dead, 8,670 hospitalized for heatstroke July 23-29" http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/16-dead-8670-hospitalized-for-heatstroke-july-23-29Majia Here: I posted on the oddly h...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoJapan Today: TEPCO gets Y1 tril in public funds, putting it under gov't control. July 31. http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tepco-gets-y1-tril-in-public-funds-putting-it-under-govt-contro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Police say they have spoken to two 10-year-old girls from Bridlington following a 999 call that sparked a frantic search in Leeds.* Police in West Yorkshire said they have spoken to two 10-year-old girls ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoJosh Kraushaar says: Tapping Elizabeth Warren to give a Wed primetime address before B Clinton is one heckuva gamble for the Obama campaign. His biggest mistake recently was emulating the rhetoric Warren ...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 12 hours agoBack from a weekend bus trip to Santa Rosa de Copan, a town about 105 kilometres away - or three-and-a-half hours. The roads aren't great, but that's not the reason for the long journey. The Casasalo Exp...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours ago[image: Flor de loto en los pantanos de Indonesia - Lotus flower]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours ago[image: Pueblo de Dassu en Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours agoPaisaje en Laskargass Karamber, Gilgit, Pakistan.
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDisquiet in Washington, Jerusalem and a row of Middle East capitals is gaining ground the longer the Saudi government stays silent on the reports of the assassination of the newly-appointed Saudi intellig...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours ago[image: Montaña estrella de plata en Washington, USA.]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours ago[image: Cielo estrellado en las montañas - Postales inolvidables]
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012* *Resurrecting Popkin’s poop:* They simply never abandon their stories! That said, we found it ironic when Nicholas Confessore passed on a timeless tale from Professor Popkin’s new...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours ago*Spain: Incident at the Tablada Aerodrome (Seville)* *Date: 29 September 1986 Time: 3:30 a.m. Duration: Approximately 15 seconds Report by: M. Filpo* The report was made by a police officer at the...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 13 hours agoScience Education: The Problem is Poverty, not Lack of High Standards Sent to Scientific American, July 31, 2012 Scientific American thinks that high science standards are the reason some states do bett...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"The Ignorance of 'Intelligence'”* By Danny Schechter "Some years ago, I meet a major in American intelligence, a member of the “Red Cell Unit.” As he explained it to me, his unit was actually charged...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*Governor Mary Fallin has declared a State of Emergency due to the drought conditions in Oklahoma. All 77 counties in the Sooner State are included in the State of Emergency.* KWTV Channel 9 News in Oklah...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoImage: A man is cared by after being bitten by a shark on Back Beach, near Streaky Bay. Picture: Jeff Schmucker Source: AdelaideNow JOHN Campion had surfed the West Coast waters for years, but yesterday h...
- posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 13 hours ago(continued; previously: part 12-2; part 1)~ translation by Microsoft. http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=ru&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fzakonvremeni.ru%2Fpublications%2F27-genocide%2F9397-metastazy-me...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoYou may have heard that Romney referred to Russia as America's "number-one geopolitical foe" and plans to double down on this rhetoric during his big speech in Poland. The speech on the "values of libert...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012* *Name withheld, meet Jonah Lehrer:* Maybe he got some bad ideas at a meritocratic high school! We have our latest Julien Sorel! In this instance, the climber in question is the ...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 13 hours agoA lot of decent progressives get really bent out of shape by aggressive atheism. So much that they tend to blurt out ridiculous things. For instance, I'm sure that some of them would have a knee-jerk react...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) Perhaps we would've been better off sending Don Rickles abroad- At least he's funnier. After Mitt Romney left Poland, Polish people starting tellin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Kolkata: Two children have died and over 400 hospitalised after eating food at an iftaar party in North 24 Parganas district, Minister of State for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya said today. * The conditio...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours agoImage source Brandon Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* I think it’s safe to say with some conviction that in the year of 2012 the concept of survival prepping is NOT an alien one to most Americans. Wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Rescuers carry out an on-site assistance after the mudslide occurred at an iron ore mine in the township of Araltobe in Xinyuan County, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, July 31, 2012....
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 14 hours agoWe are now in full Learn MPI mode so the morning was devoted to lecture on how to parallelize a large problem (by the dymanic and always entertaining HN) and the afternoon was spent actually doing it. Teen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*A twister that touched down in Colorado's high-country on Saturday is estimated to be the second-highest tornado ever recorded in the U.S. by the National Weather Service.* There were four different rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*PHOENIX - Aggressive bees swarmed a Phoenix neighborhood in the area of 69th Ave and Thomas Monday.* By the time firefighters got there, the bees had already stung a couple of dogs, and sadly one did no...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012* *Part 2—What would sophisticates think:* What would “sophisticated readers” think of the New York Times? We ask for a reason. On Sunday, Arthur Brisbane, the Times’ public editor,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*PHOENIX - Authorities say tularemia has been found among wild rabbits in the Dewey area of northern Arizona.* Commonly known as ``rabbit fever,'' tularemia is caused by a germ carried by animals- especi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoJuly 31 - Profit at several large European banks tumble, putting the troubled financial sector under even greater strain. Trade financials if you want, but don't invest in them, says CMC Market's Michael H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*(Reuters) - Two more people, including a child, are suspected to have died of the Ebola virus while 11 more have been put in isolation in western Uganda where the deadly haemorrhagic fever was first confi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*(Reuters) - Syrian rebels aim to push towards central Aleppo, capturing the country's biggest city within days despite being outgunned by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, a local rebel commander said....
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 14 hours agoI have been looking through the Obama administration's midsession review, which was released a few days ago. I found the comparison between the adminstration's economic forecast and the Blue Chip consensu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*A businessman accused of arranging the honeymoon murder of his new bride needs up to a year to recover from stress and depression before he will be fit to be extradited, a court has heard. * Shrien Dewan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck NEPAL at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:36 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (34.7 miles) Southeast of Jumla, Nepal No Reports ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPolice have launched an urgent appeal to trace a little girl who called the ambulance service to say her mum had fallen and was not moving at their home in Leeds. The girl, who gave her name as Ellie, s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Debate has been raging in the Twittersphere about whether Dorset police overreacted by arresting a 17-year-old in the early hours "on suspicion of malicious communications".* The police were responding ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 14 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* GOP dogma goes like this: government regulation is excessive, a drag on the economy, an impediment to growth. For the GOP that's a 'given', an article of faith! Re...
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- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago*I am happy to guest post my friend Dave Kang of the University of Southern California. I think Dave’s work on east Asia and IR theory is excellent; I would start with this or this if you’re interested. RE...
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- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 15 hours agoStuff recycled from around the web..... Report: Flag removal "hurt Taiwanese feelings" says Ma. *wince!* sounding like Beijing. Ma also directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to look into it. That will...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 15 hours agoThree hundred indigenous people, small farmers, fisherfolk, and local residents occupied the Belo Monte Dam project. (photo: Atossa Soltani/Amazon Watch) Occupy the Dam: Brazil's Indigenous Uprising John ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*Tens of thousands of angry citizens from all walks of life marched through Tokyo and surrounded the Diet building under scorching heat on July 29, demanding the government scrap its decision to reactivat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*NAGOYA -- Chubu Electric Power Co. announced July 30 that construction of tsunami defenses at its suspended Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant in Shizuoka Prefecture will be delayed by a year, pushing the compl...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago*South St. Louis County (KSDK) -* A police officer tased a 12-year-old girl inside a Victoria's Secret Wednesday afternoon at South County Center. Police say the officer came into the Victoria's Secret ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to J.K. Rowling, 47. Straight to the good stuff: 1. Larrry Bartels and Lynn Vavreck have a comprehensive look at the remaining undecided voters in the presidential race. 2. Scott Bland ha...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours agoThe man and the contradictions. The brilliant student. Recipient of NIH grant given to outstanding neuroscientists Or tormented psychiatric patient? Or, something else entirely? Thanks Marie! Don't miss th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*(Reuters) - Half of India's 1.2 billion people were without power on Tuesday as the grids covering a dozen states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days and an embarrassment for the govern...
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- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoHard to make a choice without information. When I go shopping, I'd like to avoid genetically modified food. Last month the Senate made it a lot harder for me to do that by giving AgriBusiness a big fat w...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago- Russia seeks to revive its power-projection capabilities by establishing overseas naval facilities. - Elisabeth Bumiller of the *New York Times* describes the experience of being a drone p...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMichelle Martin, the ex-wife and accomplice of the notorious Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux has been granted a conditional release from prison to serve the rest of her sentence in a convent. She ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*The U.S. Embassy in Norway was evacuated on Tuesday after its security staff found a suspicious object beneath a nearby automobile.* Norwegian police said the embassy and the surrounding area, including ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*(Reuters) - As if things weren't bad enough, one of Europe's banks took another knock on the chin on Tuesday from its role in Facebook's botched stock market flotation.* Banks are showing the scars from...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours agoAnne Gordon, RN, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Nanotechnology is measured in billionths of a meter, encompassing all aspects of life from food to medicine, clothing, to space. Imagine hundreds of micro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* Two high court judges have dismissed a fresh attempt by the radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada to be released from a maximum-security prison on bail pending his deportation back to Jordan.* Lawyers fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Mr Navalny. 36, was summoned to the Investigative Committee in Moscow today, where he was indicted for "organising misappropriation" of the sum from Kirovles.* The charge carries a potential 10-year pri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(Reuters) - Eight people were killed in fighting on Tuesday between Yemeni government forces and armed tribesmen loyal to former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh who were trying to storm the Interior Ministry i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Tuesday that Europe was starting to see light at the end of the tunnel of the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis, belying a welter of deteriorating e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(Reuters) - Two car bombs in central Baghdad killed at least 13 people and wounded 30 more near a busy main intersection, police and hospital sources said on Tuesday.* Two clouds of black smoke rose abov...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The titans of the Internet, including Google, eBay, Amazon and Facebook, are combining forces under the blanket of a newly formed lobby group that wants to ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours agoThe* Globe and Mail *reports that Mitt Romney's foreign policy has Canadian roots. Dan Senor, who has accompanied Romney on his tour of Israel, was born in New York but grew up in Toronto -- where his m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(Reuters) - Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) said it will slash 1,900 jobs in an effort to achieve cost savings of about 3 billion euros ($3.67 billion) as part of a broader strategic overhaul unveiled by the ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(Reuters) - Syrian helicopter gunships and artillery pounded two key areas of Aleppo on Tuesday, extending the army's campaign to control the country's biggest city, but rebel fighters said troops loyal ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* (CNN) -- A large, hanging and then collapsing chunk of ice is likely the reason why two American climbers died in Peru, an investigator said Monday.* The bodies of Ben Horne and Gil Weiss were found two...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours agoPhillip Smith *Stop The Drug War* A decade after the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis(CRC) filed its petition seeking to have marijuana moved from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the fe...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago*The first Milner fundamental physics prize for advances in delving into the deepest mysteries of physics and the universe* *One million dollars. Each winner has received three similar piles of paper tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*This is the shocking moment a raging woman had to be tasered by a police officer because she was so out of control. * The woman and her friends had got into a fight after being thrown out of a Florida ni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Colonel D Scott Brenton kills insurgents in Afghanistan from an office 7,000 miles away in suburban Syracuse, New York. * Contrary to popular belief, though, the US Air Force officer says piloting a remo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*Police are on the hunt for a group of grave robbers who broke into a mausoleum at a New Jersey cemetery and stole the body of a 98-year-old woman who was laid to rest there 14 years ago.* Workers at the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*Police in West Yorkshire have launched an urgent appeal to trace a little girl who dialled 999 to say her mother was not moving.* The girl, who gave her name as Ellie, called the ambulance service to say...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoSam Harris's view on free will is really nothing new. It is merely a secular restatement of the Calvinist concept of double predestination - we are saved or damned without any input from ourselves. It is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*His arm raised in an apparent Nazi salute, a Lithuanian basketball fan goads two black Olympic stewards.* The sight was also witnessed by two policemen at a game on Sunday night, but astonishingly they ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE at a depth of 87 km (53.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:53:47 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60.8 miles) South of Calama, Antofag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck UTAH at a depth of just 0.2 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 10:27:28 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13.6 miles) WNW from Emery, Utah No Reports of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*A man and a woman are being questioned by police after a teenage boy was left dying in the road following a hit-and-run. * The pair are helping police with their inquiries after the 14-year-old, who has ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Italian police have taken documents from a Barclays office in Milan as part of a probe into possible Euribor rate manipulation, according to Reuters.* It said the raid occurred as regulators investigate...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*The boss of HSBC today apologised for 'mistakes' at the bank which today saw it set aside £1.3billion to pay for its part in a string of financial scandals. * Chief executive Stuart Gulliver said executiv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Immigrants with more than one wife will qualify for extra benefits under reforms to Britain’s welfare system, after an attempt to crack down on the problem backfired.* Polygamous marriages, largely conf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*The man who plunged 100ft to his death at London’s Tate Modern gallery in front of horrified onlookers was a HSBC bank manager, it was revealed today. * Michael Foreman, 48, was reported missing the day ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Paul McCartney and other star performers at the Olympic Games opening ceremony were paid just one pound for their efforts, London 2012 confirmed Monday.* Beatles star McCartney -- who closed the showpie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*A couple left their two toddlers locked in a dangerously hot car as temperatures soared to 27C and went shopping.* Horrified police discovered the brothers, aged 20 months and two, 'sweating profusely' ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Romanian deported from Britain seven years ago was today jailed for four months after returning to London to steal money from cash machines. Claudiu Ojogel, 31, was kicked out of the UK in 2005 after he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*A former police detective jailed for life for murdering his partner in front of their two young children was found hanged in his cell today.* Peter Foster, 36, who was found guilty of murder last month w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*A massive power breakdown has hit India for a second day running, leaving more than half the country without power.* Officials said the northern and eastern grids had both collapsed. All Delhi metro ser...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*It was a bittersweet occasion when Danielle Howard married Chris Watson.* Everyone there knew the 22-year-old bride was battling advanced cervical cancer and had only a one-in-seven chance of surviving. ...
- Danny Keogh and Conor Baker seriously hurt when their fairground carriage flipped from spinning ride
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*These are the first pictures of the two teenage boys seriously injured after their carriage on a spinning fairground ride broke off and flipped over. * Danny Keogh and Conor Baker, both 16, were on the s... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*Finance ministers from the U.S. and Germany today stressed the need for 'ongoing international cooperation' as the world's superpower weighed in on the eurozone debt crisis.* U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*A son who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds of his late father's money to fund a luxury lifestyle abroad has been jailed. * Jobless Andrew White, 45, moved to the Mediterranean with his partner and h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*The Olympics has turned central London into a ‘ghost town’ that could be damaging to the economy, businesses warned last night.* Shops, hotels, museums and theatres said trade is down by up to 35 per cen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*When her one-year-old son was pulled limp and lifeless from an overfilled bath, drunken Danielle Reeves screamed with rage and blamed those around her. * She lied to paramedics and even said her other so...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*Angela Merkel was last night said to be ‘profoundly disturbed’ after a poll showed that a majority of Germans want to ditch the struggling euro.* Sources in Berlin said the German chancellor was shocked ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*Once upon a time, fizzy drinks were an occasional luxury treat.* Now, many of us think nothing of having at least one every day — maybe a lunchtime can of cola or a ‘natural’ lemonade from Pret. We use t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*Tube trains to the Olympic Park were suspended this morning. * Spectators travelling to Stratford on the Central line at around 7am were told all services were terminating at Liverpool Street due to an in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*NSW police investigators are preparing to give evidence to prosecutors about an alleged child sex abuse cover-up in the Catholic Church.* A strike force was formed in late 2010 to investigate whether pas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago* It's the U.S. space agency's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission yet and it begins with the arrival Sunday night of the smartest interplanetary rover ever built.* It won't be easy. The complicated...
- posted by Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 20 hours agoWhen I saw that James Carville and Stan Greenberg had just published *It's the Middle Class, Stupid!* (Blue Rider Press), I knew that I would want to read it. I had always liked Carville's *We're Right, Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*A massive power breakdown has hit northern and eastern India for a second day running, officials say.* Officials said there was a total blackout in Delhi. All Metro services had been halted and staff we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Sky News has uncovered evidence that suggests Olympic tickets meant for officials are being touted on the black market.* A man claiming to work for the ministry of Azerbaijan sold a "complimentary" 2012...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who left a teenage boy dying in the road after knocking him from his bike.* The 14-year-old, who has not yet been named, was riding along the A2 London Road...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*A 17-year-old has been arrested after malicious tweets were sent to Olympic diver Tom Daley.* Dorset Police, investigating the alleged abuse, said the teenager was held at a guesthouse in Weymouth hours ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 58.3 km (36.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:50:14 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) SSE from Beng...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago*Slide Show* *Book Review*
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- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago27 July 2012 Five months after students in Montreal, Quebec launched a strike against tuition increases, the movement stands at a crossroads. The strike's leaders are seeking to channel mass opposition ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Bandar in Pakistan.* The Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar has been assassinated: report Israel has long been wary of certain people in Saudi Arabia, including Prince Bandar. According to Debka file, a ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours agohttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2181288/Why-risk-dying-hospital-rise-6-cent-tomorrow.html Put that in your next extravaganza, Danny Boyle
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt is surprising how often doubling up of the gene content plays out in biology. The most important is polyploidy. This has driven much of our domesticated grains in particular. Since the most ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIn our various postings regarding what is called the European Bronze Age, a number of conclusions are reached regarding key dates. *2420 BC.* Great Pyramid built and Lake Superior mining of nat...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWe have had good news over the past couple of years in terms of tackling AIDS. This item reviews the prospects on the way forward in terms of finally beating this disease. It has become promisi...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe disease remains uncured, but it can be suppressed. Even with full investment, the curve reflecrting total infections will simply flatten out for some time until it begins a precipitous decli...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours agohttp://www.israellycool.com/2012/07/30/hey-bbc-what-size-are-all-these-countries/ What about Spain and Melilla & Ceuta?
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agohttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100173422/there-are-many-better-reasons-to-be-patriotic-than-the-accident-of-hosting-the-olympics/
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agohttp://twitter.com/QueenLareefer1/status/230034944829845504/photo/1
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoThe field experiment in solar geoengineering aims to ultimately create a technology to replicate the observed effects of volcanoes that spew sulphates into the stratosphere. Photo courtesy: Gallo Images/Ge...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoYour blogger in happier times with departing Alberta Party Leader Glenn Taylor. Below: Party luminaries Michael Walters and Sue Huff. Get ready for the Big Re-Think. Or the Long Goodbye. Or something… Albe...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoQueen Alexandra's birdwing butterflies are already on the endangered species list, and rapidly losing their rainforest habitat. Photo courtesy: Mark Stratton How large does a butterfly have to be before a...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 22 hours agoBlogging is not writing. It's just graffiti with punctuation.– Contagion A few days ago, this blog turned seven. It's been another year with little time to write and plenty of backlogged major-posts-in-the-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*This shocking video shows the moment two thugs broke into the home of a wheelchair-bound man, beat him up and robbed him.* Surveillance camera footage shows the pair entering the Upper Darby, Pennsylvan...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAs they stood outside the commandeered government building in the town of Mohassen, it was hard to distinguish Abu Khuder's men from any other brigade in the Syrian civil war, in their combat fatigues, T-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*A man was reading in his suburban St. Louis home on Monday when he heard a gunshot and discovered his wife and two children dead in what police suspect was a murder-suicide. * Officers arrived at a larg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*Watching the new ‘Mandarin Mermaid’ glide to another suspiciously easy victory yesterday - the prelude to what will doubtless be her second gold medal of these Games - my thoughts returned to the disturb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*(Reuters) - An Italian embassy security officer who was kidnapped in Yemen on Sunday was seized by tribesmen and is being detained in the oil-producing province of Maarib, Yemen's Interior Ministry said ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations." "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel." "We plan to eliminate the state...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJuly 30 - Nightly shelling has created a ghost town just north of Aleppo as the battle for control of Syria rages on. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*(CNN) -- A man who suffered lacerations to his legs while in the water at a Massachusetts beach Monday apparently was bitten by a shark, authorities said.* "It looked like a shark bite to me," Truro, Ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Northern Syria (CNN) -- Syrian rebel fighters fought to control a key road to the Turkish border and turned captured tanks against a government air base north of Syria's largest city on Monday.* The tank...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*(CNN) -- O.J. Murdock, who signed with the NFL's Tennessee Titans last year, killed himself Monday morning in front of the Tampa, Florida, high school where he was a track and football star, police said....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (CNN) – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney clarified his March remark that Russia is the nation's top foe, saying in an interview to air Monday on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*MANILA, Philippines — A typhoon dumped torrents of rain as it swept past the Philippines, killing at least seven people and displacing more than 20,000 others by Tuesday. Another storm lashed the capital ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A MALE student who is wanted by police in connection with a sex attack on a woman has returned to his homeland of India.* The attack in Pilrig Park, Edinburgh, on Sunday, July 22, left a 23-year-old woma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 47 people have been killed and 25 others injured by a fire on an express train in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Monday*. The i...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago[image: Dogón, Bali, África. Pueblos del mundo - Postales]Foto: Licancabur
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Chinese gold medallist swimmer Ye Shiwen, 16, has denied taking drugs to enhance her performance, saying there was "no problem with doping".* A US coach earlier said Ye's record-breaking performance in S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Two cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been reported in Uganda’s capital, as the country's president warned people to avoid physical contact. * The outbreak began three weeks ago in the Kibale district...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Seal flu could pose a new threat to human health, scientists have warned.* A new flu virus identified in American harbour seals has the potential to pass to other mammals, including humans, say experts. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThe DC memo being circulated about 16 votes Eric Cantor engineered calls them the "worst" votes in the current session. I'm not so sure this would be my own list-- not by a mile, but it is a way of lookin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Radical preacher Abu Qatada is launching a fresh bid for freedom at the High Court later.* He will ask two judges for permission to challenge his ongoing detention by Home Secretary Theresa May. The Sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A woman who snatched a newborn baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and raised the child as her own is jailed for 12 years.* Ann Pettway, who pleaded guilty to the abduction in February, took three-wee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:20:11 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) Northwest of Nuku`alofa, Tonga No Tsu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 121.6 km (75.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:07:31 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles) ESE of Pon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:35:49 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) Southeast of Severo-kuril...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck COLOMBIA at a depth of 53 km (32.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:26:39 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) Northeast of Obando, Colombia No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:30:44 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) West of Ust'-Ulag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck NEAR NORTH COAST OF NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 31.6 km (19.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:46:53 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:35:07 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) ESE from Meeker, Oklahoma No Reports...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*Bandar Bush is seen here sitting with George W. Bush, discussing various matters. * On Sunday, July 29, Voltaire Network *reported* that Prince Bandar bin Sultan is dead. He served as Saudi Arabia's a...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago[image: Nebulosa fantástica más allá de Andrómeda - Fantasy]
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoWelcome to Thiruvananthapuram, India. Photo courtesy: Bernard Oh/CC BY-ND 2.0 Fines for not recycling, and other punitive measures designed to encourage less wasteful behavior, have lead some people in th...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day agoArms Control Wonk had an excellent post last week on the US effort to get Taiwan to sign onto the non-proliferation treaty.... A few people in Washington are pumping up the forthcoming renewal of the U.S....
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoHeatstroke: Scrounging for banned authors in Tucson Tucson public schools missed out on banning some notorious local authors -- but at least they got Luis By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorre...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoWhatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Let's work together for a better tomorrow... M Gandhi
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *Escape From Economics* ------------------------------ By Paul Craig Roberts | July 29, 2012 | Original here Readers ask me from time to time to recommend a book from which...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 day agoThe Common Core Standards is a tsunami that will destroy all of us unless it is stopped. It is going to cost billions, bleeding money from where it is badly needed and it will soon impose what can only b...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*July 30, 1965: With former President Harry Truman looking on, President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare into law* *"After reading Atlas Shrugged, [Paul Ryan] said, 'Wow, I've got to check out this economics...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Never saw it in my printed paper*: Occupy members accused of violating city curfew* * *I saw these in my printed paper but the web site scrubbed 'em(?) from their version*: "Mass. coalition calls for c...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Enjoy, readers*: "States fight ‘tourists’ trafficking painkillers" Associated Press, July 09, 2012 LEBANON, Ohio — Authorities trying to *crack down* on *prescription painkiller abuse* at home say they...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Lawn chairs’ flight aborted in storm BEND — An Oregon gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer trying to fly from Oregon to Montana in tandem lawn chairs suspended from party balloons are back on land a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Pipeline’s southern leg gets OK to begin; Canadian section still under review" by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson | Washington Post, July 28, 2012 WASHINGTON — The permits dealt a blow to efforts by ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*NEXT DAY UPDATE: * *"A new boldness from the Haqqanis that aims at mass US casualties has reduced the room for ambiguity between the two countries. Inside the administration, it is a commonly held view t...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago_______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoI see complaints from the chattering classes that plans to sell TranzScenic or to partner with another company “would be privatisation by stealth.” Who are they kidding? The true value of KiwiFail has...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I wonder how much it cost**** the U.S. taxpayer*: "US restarts supply runs via Pakistan; Trucks enter Afghanistan after Clinton apology" by Salman Masood | New York Times, July 06, 2012 ISLAMABAD, Paki...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoAfter the release yesterday of the government’s CGI fantasy for Christchurch, comes the plan to acquire the land on which the governments’ slick CGI creations are planned. Because virtually all of that l...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Parental Fears: Breaking Family Ties that Bind"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "So often we come into this world carrying the fear of our parents as it is passed down to us and lived through us. Whe...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*She's simply irresistible. * "Fans kickstart Amanda Palmer’s album, tour" by James Reed | Globe Staff, July 26, 2012 NEW YORK — Amanda Palmer, the rock singer-songwriter from Lexington, who rose to s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I used to be one. I'm now officially unenrolled.* "Ron Paul delegates fight GOP on ouster" by Stephanie Ebbert | Globe Staff, July 30, 2012 Sixteen Republicans elected to represent Massachusetts at the...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoTelecom were once the country’s largest company. They’ve been nobbled several times by big government, but their slow slide has also been due to manifest incompetence. Take the way they’ve chosen to end...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith just 100 days left until the U.S. presidential election, investors are beginning to make bigger bets on which candidate will carry the day. One analysis concludes that last week's sharp three-day mar...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Newest BFF*: "One of the best-known businesses on the Internet is moving into a signature tower in the Financial District in a potential breakthrough deal for a commercial area that has been stagnant, as...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoSister Judith Ann Duvall Chairperson of OSF St. Francis Healthcare System (Photo by Peoria Journal Star) Kevin Schoeplein, CEO of OSF Healthcare System in Peoria, received a salary of 2.2 million dollar...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago"Our Constitution is not a nuisance. It is the foundation of our democracy." (2008 Democratic Platform) There's been a fair amount of attention today to reports that the Democrats will support marriage equ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFormer Liberal Environment Minister David Anderson has slammed both the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal and the would-be pipeline operator, Enbridge. Anderson says the pipeline is not in Canada's bes...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe Republicans are obviously stuck with the notion that it takes a business whiz to make a good president of the United States. That's how they wound up with Mitt the Twit Romney as their presidential n...
