- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck JUJUY, ARGENTINA at a depth of 264 km (163.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:00:55 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122.1 miles) West of Jujuy, Argen... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck SERAM, INDONESIA at a depth of 25.1 km (15.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:36 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) Southeast of Khonsa, I... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 minutes ago
If you're following the congressional races by paying attention to the drivel coming from the DCCC or if you get all of your info on House races from the lazy Beltway media types who act as stenographers ... - posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 43 minutes ago
(the ONLY thing EVER going for them was evidence-free folklore in the media) * * *Pennslyvania's top electon official, a Republican, in court:* * "I DON'T KNOW WHAT PHOTO ID LAW SAYS" * That's because you... - posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 1 hour agoBy Manifesto Joe I was born, but it wasn't yesterday. I had heard long ago that Chick-Fil-A was a right-wing fundamentalist company, worse than all those Republican-donating burger chains out there. I rec...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago2002, “Sunny Day” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqLFemZOOg
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“You don't have to be at Monument Valley to see the Milky Way arch across the sky like this -- but it helps. Only at Monument Valley USA would you see a picturesque foreground that includes these iconic r...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“Time And Constancy”* by Chet Raymo “I spent a lot of time in my grandmother's house when I was a little kid, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. A big house, on 9th Street (now Martin Luther King Bou...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour agoArne Duncan has a No Excuses approach to education, and to prove it once more, he has just signed off on a plan to give every American child living in a car, motel room, or urban hovel a chance to take ano...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoNiceville, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours agohttp://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/syrian-rebel-forces-execute-clan-leaders-loyal-to-assad-regime/article4457043/?service=mobile On Tuesday, over the strenuous objections of the Syrian National Coun...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Chick-fil-A Introduces New Hate Sauce"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)— "Customers across the nation who turned out for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day were in for a surprise, as the ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours agoI have said it for a very long time, and for those who are new to this blog I will say it again... America, that once great nation of hopes and dreams, is finished! The American Empire is crumbling right...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*“A Computer Infection That Can Never Be Cured”* by Tom Simonite "As the manufacturing of computers and other gadgets has migrated to China, an occasional paranoid voice has asked whether the country m...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"Every now and then, when I really want to know what the joke of a particular cartoon is, I just ask someone in the magazine's art department. That is the perk of being a cartoonist myself."* *-- New York... - posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 3 hours agoCave Painting in France dated to 15,000-17,000 BCE Posted on August 1, 2012 by Wes Annac -Channeled through Wes Annac- Our consciousness and the consciousness of the craft in which many of us ta...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
*President Obama, aka the Bat Man, is talking with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan about Syria. What did the Dark Knight tell Robin on the other side of the call? One can only guess. * T... - posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 3 hours ago
*Today was Conservative Party cabinet minister Bev Oda's last day as a Member of Parliament. Good riddance! Let's sincerely hope that the door doesn't hit her in the ass on her way out!! Bloody right wing... - posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 3 hours agoSoala is pounding us in central Taiwan. *UPDATED* Photo taken about 11:30 am Taiwan time. From WeatherUnderground. Cancellation information is in the post below this one! Twenty seconds of Soala in my ba...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoInfowars Nightly News: Let Them Eat Chemicals, Says White House Chef
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPresident Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said. Obam...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago*GUEST POST from Jeff Clark from the **Casey Daily Dispatch* *Deflationists and inflationists have been arguing since the crisis hit and stimulus began which outcome will prevail. Each side has data to ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 4 hours ago
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 5 hours ago*Global Research* * * * * *When Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip fatally shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, the assassination is seen a...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 5 hours ago*EneNews* *Dr. Michel Fernex* - Emeritus Professor, Basel Faculty of Medecine - Former Consultant, World Health Organization “What should WHO have done after Chernobyl ?” asked Dr Nabarro in 2002 wh...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago*Is It Even Possible To Keep Track Of All The Drew Brees Records? ~Saints Tailgate*
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBay Area Rapid Transit users have all experienced it; escalators that are down at their station. But what’s really behind the maintenance issues for the transit agency? Officials said one of the main iss...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWild bottlenose dolphins bond over their use of tools, with distinct cliques and classes forming over decades as a result of their skills, scientists have found. The communities, which have been compare...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours agoGo here to find the others. The book covers below were scanned from books on the blogger's shelf. ------------------------------ * the**REALnews ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 6 hours agoI found this fascinating picture here. It is located above a link to the Christian Science Monitor's daily photographic coverage of the Olympics. What do the elements of this striking graphic represent?
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 6 hours ago[image: Angry Birds (Juguetes de peluche para coleccionistas)]
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNo, not really. It's just my little joke, based on pretending to take people like the BBC's resident climate activists David Shukman, Richard Black and Roger Harrabin seriously. I'll tell you what doesn'...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBecause conservatives are scrooges, the good folks at Americans for Tax Reform have gone through the fine print to find out what our Olympians will have to cough up to the IRS should they be lucky enough ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 6 hours agoActually only half a day as they cut us loose at noon. Full days tomorrow and Friday and another half day on Saturday will wind it up. Today were presentations by the students and hosts on LittleFe and BC...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 6 hours ago[image: Ardillita curiosa en el bosque - Curious little squirrel]
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoYesterday, Blue America endorsed Sue Thorn, a populist Democrat from West Virginia, who's running for Congress in the first district (the northern third of the state). We didn't really get a chance to ta...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago*La. Tech: Mascot died from heat stroke, neglect ~WWL*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"The “War On Terror” Has Changed, * *and Not One In 1,000 Americans Has Noticed"* What You Should Know about this “Unthinkable” Development… by WashingtonsBlog "In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the c...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 7 hours agoRefreshing News From his computer console here in the Syracuse suburbs, Col. D. Scott Brenton remotely flies a Reaper drone that beams back hundreds of hours of live video of insurgents, his intended ta...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 7 hours ago*This is pretty good, its much the way I feel. I have had this certain detachment from drama since my NDE in 2009, I just find it hard to get into any dualistic human drama most of the time. **US ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 8 hours agoFrom Department of OmnishamblesMore good stuff where this came from (via Jairus Grove).
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Fixing The Fixers"* by Bill Bonner "News from London is that they are going to throw the book at the LIBOR rate fixers. The insiders are facing jail time. The Telegraph has the story: "Bankers foun...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWe need you to become a monthly subscriber to the Coming Crisis (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your support, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researc...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 8 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 services
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoabout the controversy & boycott, but were afraid to ask, can be found in this blogpost, written by a thoughtful US citizen. *It can seem ridiculous to get all worked up over fast-food chicken.* * Let’s al...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoOn the Twitter #M312 timeline there are a few new players, some yet to be blocked by the Woody Wankers. One such, Voice of Reason, tweeted at Stephen Woodworth himself: @WoodworthMP #M312 You do of c...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours ago*Coming to a town near you – soon.* Don't kid yourself that this is a Montana problem. Montana is the testing ground. This is all about the corporations trying to increase their revenues at the expense o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Soliloquy of the Somnambulist"* by Joel Bowman "Phew! That was close. We were skeptical, as you might recall. Truth be told, we thought it was all going to end in catastrophe. And yet… The situatio...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago------------------------------ Salon / *By* *Glenn Greenwald* * * Why People Cave in to Extremist Ideas That Were Once Unthinkable *What was once radical and taboo have arrived as fixtures in Amer...
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- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours agoPart of why Nevada Republican freak Sharron Angle lost in the 2010 Republican sweep was because she was so far to the right that even some mainstream conservatives couldn't bring themselves to vote for h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Samtse & Phuentsholing: The public health laboratory last week received 17 blood samples from Phuentsholing and Samtse to test them for Chikungunya, a viral disease that is spread by mosquitoes.* On Mon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*JERUSALEM, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Israel warned visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday that time was running out for a peaceful settlement to the nuclear dispute with Iran, saying sanctions...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*A 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering missing oil executive Carole Waugh, Scotland Yard said tonight.* The man was originally arrested last night at Luton Airport, where he was a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoMitt Romney is outraged that anyone would dare criticize the fairness of his across-the-board 20% tax cut proposal. The criticism is that this would benefit very, very rich people a very, very great dea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* (CNN) -- More than half of all U.S. counties have been designated disaster zones, the Department of Agriculture reported, blaming excessive heat and a devastating drought that's spread across the Corn Be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(CNN) -- Syria's president exhorted his country's armed forces Wednesday to restore stability to his nation, which is reeling from a growing grass-roots armed resistance and mounting deaths.* "The enemy ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours ago*Never before have so many of you had such an opportunity.* *Michael channeled by Ron Head* *July 31, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages * Good morning on this marvelous day. You are feeling a new ener...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoSenate majority leader Harry Reid says he's heard that Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes for 10-years. That, according to Reid, could well account for Romney's refusal to release his tax records. The Twit is ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoLooked at the title I picked for this a couple of days ago ALEC's Survival Requires An Ignorant Media and immediately thought about Breitbart.com BB - ignorant media, yep Where is their rep...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours ago*Something of enormous significance is shortly to come into view* *August 1, 2012 by John Smallman* Excitement mounts as the most pivotal moment in all of human history draws ever closer. Examples o...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours ago* * *Your awakening will allow you to interact fully with all of creation* *08/01/2012 by John Smallman* We are all one – there is no separation. Your human perception of individuality is caused by t...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoJournalist Pepe Escobar speculates on the death of Prince Bandar Bush in his article, *"Where is Prince Bandar?"* He writes: "There are also problems with a Syrian death squad being able to strike Riy...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 9 hours ago. Above is the letter that Tony Farrell, sacked Principle Intelligence Analyst for the South Yorkshire Police, has just sent to all Chief Constables and Principle Intelligence Analysts in the UK. Ton...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoBramble and his bumbling buddy didn't realize what a gift they were giving to me when this came out in the news last Friday: Utah Senators say it’s time for ALEC to be more open Secrecy is one of the hits ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours ago*SaLuSa, August 1, 2012* *Channeled by Mike Quinsey* Your response to the recent positive messages about the Olympics has been wonderful. A wave of great expectation has swept around the Earth, and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*(Reuters) - An Israeli who set himself on fire in protest at economic difficulties has died of his injuries, the hospital treating him said on Wednesday, the second such death in a few days. * Akiva Mafi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* A 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering missing oil executive Carole Waugh, Scotland Yard said tonight. * The 50 year old, originally from Durham, went missing earlier this year. Mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAug. 1 - Syrians waited in long lines for bread in Idlib while the country's 17-month insurgency prompted Turkey to deploy tanks to the border. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoThis is not a Ted Cruz bashing item. As far as we know from the record, Cruz is an intelligent man. This is a NYT-bashing item, for Erik Eckholm's profile of Cruz today: "Senate Candidate in Texas Is Know...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 10 hours ago*... is government itself. * *Contributor: YYC* There are so many crazy things happening in this world it's hard to pick one on which to comment. With a lot of them - believe it or not - I really don't k...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 10 hours agoThe politicization of climate science is so complete that the lead author of the IPCC's Working Group II on climate impacts feels comfortable presenting testimony to the US Congress that fundamentally mi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoThe twin cities of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, and Rawlapindi are facing the prospect of running out of water. Both cities rely on the Khanpur Dam as their main source of water. An extended heat wa...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck SERAM, INDONESIA at a depth of 53.1 km (33 miles), the quake hit at 16:41:23 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 249 km (155 miles) ENE from Ambon, Molucca...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 10 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 services
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours agoPaul Atwood's War and Empire The book details the nation’s progression from a bunch of European colonizers to an international syndicate stealing resources and labor and replacing them with U.S. corporate p...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours agoJuly 31, 2012, p. B1 WSJ by Rebecca Smith. [Excerpted] Chicago Bridge & Iron Co agreed to by rival Shaw Group Inc in a 3 billion deal that will create one of the world's biggest energy infrastructure com...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours ago2nd Day of Power Failures Cripples Wide Swath of India. The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/world/asia/power-outages-hit-600-million-in-india.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&adxnnl=1&emc=edit...
- posted by Eric Whitney at Reality Pimp - 11 hours agoGore Vidal was our greatest living American writer. He has died, leaving behind legions of grieving admirers, including me. I have a bookshelf full of his work; he gave me hours of pleasure with his inci...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoIAEA group inspects nuclear plant at Onagawa. Japan Today http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/iaea-group-inspects-tepcos-nuclear-plant-at-onagawa [Excerpted] Three reactors at the Onagawa p...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoIn Ridley Scott's *Gladiator*, the great Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus corrects a fellow senator who chides him for enjoying the vulgar entertainments of the Colosseum. In one of the best lines of the ...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 11 hours ago*Juicy Invigoration!* I love freshly squeezed juice! And for my birthday my lovely sister and brother-in-law gave me my ultimate dream, a juicer. Ever since I have been juicing away non-stop! After watchi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Torrential rains from an approaching typhoon battered eastern Taiwan on Wednesday after killing at least 14 people and displacing 154,000 in the Philippines.* At least one death in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Manufacturing in most of the world is in a slump, a raft of reports for July has suggested.* US manufacturing growth shrank for the second month in a row, said a survey by the Institute for Supply Manag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Human rights activists have condemned the public shooting in Syria of four apparent Assad loyalists by rebels in the battleground city of Aleppo.* A video appeared showing the men being put up against a w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Three youths have been arrested after a teenage boy was found stabbed to death.* Detectives have launched a murder inquiry after the boy was found with a stab wound to his chest in Lewisham, south east ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoYesterday (July 31) 2012 The Wall Street Journal reported that "Forgiveness of Debt Could Yield Savings" The article notes that Fannie and Freddie could "save about $3.6 billion more that current loss-mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*A cocaine addict mugged an eight-year-old girl for just £3.50 as she walked to the shop to buy sweets.* Naseer Laher, 31, was jailed for four years and three months after a court heard how he cornered C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck EASTERN NEW GUINEA REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 245.4 km (152.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:51:59 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours agoWashington's Blog * What You Should Know about this “Unthinkable” Development…* In George Orwell’s novel *1984* The government uses propaganda to convince people that, “We’ve always been at war with Eas...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoThe F-35 was a good idea that simply kept going downhill. Lockheed was going to build the F-22 stealth fighter and the F-35 stealth light attack bomber. But it was a sucker's bet on the longevity of st...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 11 hours agoI was looking my dogs, thinking about how each came into our lives. How one day a dog is living in a shelter, and that's its pack and its life, and then one day it is put in a car and taken somewhere else,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoAsbestos is one, that's a no-brainer. We should not be exporting a product we prohibit from use at home. There's no moral ambiguity there. Bitumen is another. With climate skeptic Professor Richard Mul...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoWhile hackers in various cybercriminal organizations are sophisticated enough to use some algebraic tricks to break into other institutions' computers, hackers hired by the New York Times seem much less ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 77 km (47.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:37:42 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34.1 miles) Southe...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 12 hours agoImage Source: Drum Lifters 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 ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoSome quick notes on Ted Cruz's big win in the Texas Senate primary. First, it's a big defeat for the old, old, Senate. David Dewhurst would have begun his Senate term at age 67; Ted Cruz will be 42. Everyt...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 12 hours agoOver the next week I will be putting the finishing touches on my syllabus for my fall graduate seminar. I am teaching a new class (new for me, that is) which is part of our Graduate Certificate Program i...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago*Canada v. Craig*, 2012 SCC 43 was just released. It holds that a lower court may not overrule a higher court but may point out why the higher court’s precedent is problematic. It then deals with a c...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012* *Interlude—Servicing readers’ delusions:* The New York Times often signals its readers. It tells them they’re smart. And moral! One such signal appears at the start of Mauree...
- posted by Rational Insurgent at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago*This is a guest post from Tanisha Fazal, a professor of political science at Columbia University, and Jessica Martini, a human rights and international trade attorney based in New York City.* To conduct ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Námo Mandos) at DAMMIT JANET! - 12 hours agoA brief break for the Limpix. We at DJ also celebrate the triumph of our demonic one-eyed overlords. *Big teletubbie is watching you.* Anyway, I wanted to share this awesome economically-weighted medal...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoThe conversion of UC Berkley climate skeptic, Professor Richard Muller, to global warming believer has rocked the denialist community. Muller's project took three years to prove the IPCC wrong and, instea...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 12 hours agoPosted at http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/07/31/using-summer-to-narrow-achievement-gap/ As the NY Times notes, children from lower-income families tend to fall behind in reading over the summer, a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*Those are the kinds of things you say when you are an ignorant idiot and puckering up** to a bunch of Jewish supremacists.* "Mitt Romney provokes Palestinian outrage; Leaders call his words on Israeli cu...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoStatue Outside the Guingtou Battle Museum (Photo: Dan Nexon)*Note: this is the second post stemming from my June trip to Taiwan. The first is available here.* Seven years ago Bill Petti wrote a piece at th...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours agoWelcome to Hump Day, and the so-called Dog Days of Summer, which actually started about a week ago. Seriously. The term has something to do with the rising of the Sirius dog star and its proximity to the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*The huge pile of cash handed to the European Union by the UK has soared to a whopping £53 million per day, it was revealed today.* Britain's annual contribution for being a member is now at a record £19....
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012* *The liberal world vouches for math: *Yesterday, we did a post about Andrew Hacker’s opinion piece about algebra. (See THE DAILY HOWLER, 7/31/12. Scroll to the end.) Drop-out...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoOn July 27, just before Friday prayers, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei summoned top Iranian military chiefs for what he called “their last war council.” “We’ll be at war within weeks,” he t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* When the confirmations finally came through, UBS and other market makers were left owning large amounts of unwanted Facebook stock, which led to losses as the stock plunged.* It also is unclear what rol...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours agoJewish French swimmer stuns Olympic Games with a silent tattoo http://t.co/4HSyJFX8 -- Thanks Fleagle (@TheFleagle)
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*As a young mother buys groceries at a petrol station, a leering pervert reaches his hand beneath the hem of her dress and takes a photograph up her skirt.* Oblivious to the violation, Fallon Fraker cont...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: A cow feeds in a drought-damaged pasture as temperatures climb near 100 degrees on 17 July 2012 near Princeton, Indiana. Scott Olson / Getty Images / AFP] By Bob Burgdorfer, with additional repo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 14 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAug. 1 - Huge blast rocks military intelligence headquarters in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi. Sarah Wali reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*CHINA has urged the US to rescind sanctions against a Chinese bank over its transactions with Iran, saying the move damaged China-US relations. * Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement on Wednesd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*ANKARA, TURKEY—Turkey launched a military drill Wednesday just across the border from a Syrian town it claims is controlled by Kurdish rebels — a show of muscle aimed at Kurdish separatists pushing for a...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012* *Strangest known person on earth:* Before our eyes, cable “news” keeps devolving into two tribal camps. Example: Last night, Fox viewers saw tape from Poland presented as a boo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: People waited on the roof of a house in Anju, one of the North Korean cities hardest hit by flooding, 30 July 2012. Kim Kwang Hyon / Associated press] ANJU, North Korea – More heavy rain pounded...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*I was going to read them, but.... * Maine governor apologizes for ‘Gestapo’ remark ** *Since when have Jews had sole exclusivity to that? No, really? It's not like they were the only ones the Gestapo wen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*(Reuters) - Bulgarian experts have constructed an image of the face of a suicide bomber who killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver on the Black Sea coast two weeks ago, the interior mini...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*NFL Deletes Sean Payton from the Record Books ~Canal Street Chronicles * *Brees lights it up despite offseason absence ~BlackandGold.com* *New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Shanle engages 49ers fans on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*JERUSALEM, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta hinted on Wednesday that the United States is prepared to implement "other options" if Iran continues to work toward attaining n...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Ten-year-old Jacob Kapke of Clatonia sits on the floor to spray his market swine with water to keep them cool on the first day of the Gage County Fair in Beatrice on Wednesday, 25 July 2012. Stat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*One of Somalia's most popular comedians, known for his parodies of Islamist militants, has been shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu. * Abdi Jeylani Marshale was reportedly killed shortly after leaving a l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*(Reuters) - The manufacturing sector shrank at its fastest rate in more than three years in July, a survey of purchasing managers showed on Wednesday, dealing a blow to hopes that the country was about t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Syria’s military has used fighter jets to strike at rebel strongholds in Aleppo as Bashar al-Assad tell Syrians that the battle for the city will determine the “destiny of our people”.* The use of MIG-21...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Eight badminton players have been expelled from the London 2012 Olympic Games after seemingly trying to lose on purpose. * The four pairs - two from South Korea, one from China and one from Indonesia - ha...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*Inspector general's criticism of S&WB sets off a firestorm ~WVUE* *Let’s talk more about Broussard’s grand jury leak “fishing expedition” ~Slabbed** * *Jean-Paul Villere: Fear of a Polite Planet ~Uptown ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago30 July 2012 (CSIRO) – The Southern Ocean is an important carbon sink in the world – around 40 per cent of the annual global CO2 emissions absorbed by the world’s oceans enter through this region. ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Chuck D., 52. Quickly to the good stuff: 1. Andrew Gelman responds again on the electoral college. Must-read if you've been following the discussion. 2. Steve Kornacki reviews recent D...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012* *Epilogue—We recommend caution:* Chris Hayes new book, Twilight of the Elites, ended up being hard to review. Its logic is *very* fuzzy. To this day, we can’t really describe t...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoAugust 1, 2012 Swedish authorities have declined Ecuador's invitation to question Julian Assange in its London embassy - without any meaningful explanation, according to Wikileaks' twitter feed. The wh...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*This Boston Globe story has got me churning! * "In Maine, a US first in tidal energy; Commercial project dedicated" by Erin Ailworth | Globe Staff, July 25, 2012 EASTPORT, Maine — The *nation’s first c...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 15 hours agoFor the lowdown on tomorrow's cancellations, see www.taiwanease.com/typhoon tomorrow morning. In Chinese the website is here. Early pics on the internet suggest Taipei is already taking a beating.... Stay...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoEarlier in the cycle, crazed right-wing extremist Richard Mourdock vanquished mainstream Republican veteran Richard Lugar, something that would have endangered the GOP's ability to win the Indiana Senate ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoGreyfriars Kirkyard (Photo: Dan Nexon) - Aleppo reportedly running low on food and water. - Australian media: "A US military report, to be formally released tomorrow, contains a recommendation...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoTim Harper warns in today's *Toronto Star* that -- if the betting is right, and Jean Charest calls an election today -- Ottawa could be radically transformed. If the Parti Quebecois wins that election, ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago*Some CERN and FNAL news:* The latest Higgs paper by ATLAS has the significance level of 5.9 sigma. I find it silly to write articles about every new increased number of this sort. The significance level...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 16 hours agoI would like to thank the reader who posted a comment regarding the veracity of the Protocols of Zion. This is indeed a very important question, and one which we side-step at our peril. The question the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck NORTH OF SVALBARD at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:45:34 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 397 km (247 miles) NNE from Nord, Greenlan...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 17 hours agoimage source Stephen Lendman, *Contributor* *Activist Post* On July 28, AP reported it. Anonymous sources were cited. The CIA's Tel Aviv station chief discovered "sensitive equipment he used (at home) to...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 17 hours agoSo you've got a blog. You post every day and try to understand your readers. But how do you take your blog to the next level? This is a question many bloggers face once they get past the early "this is fu...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 17 hours agoStephen Lendman, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Greece is a corpse. It's waiting for its obituary to be written. Spain is on life support. Portugal and Ireland are wheezing. Italy is breathing hard. Br...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 17 hours ago[image: beware of greeks bearing gifts]Editor's Note: Beware of those who come bearing gifts...Anonymous Susanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The 2012 International AIDS Conference (IAC) has att...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 17 hours agoCarl Herman, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The Telegraph’s 2-minute video below shows Mr. Romney claiming Iran’s leaders would “wipe Israel off the map.” Mr. Romney’s senior national security advisor stat...
- posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 17 hours agoWhen we first started investigation into the BP Gulf Oil Disaster (BPGOD), we dismissed most of all the so-call conspiracy theories and followed BP's official version that this disaster was primarily cause...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that Iran must either negotiate acceptable limits on its nuclear program or face the possibility of U.S. military action to stop...
- The Amazon’s Chernobyl: Ecuadorian Court Orders Chevron to Pay $19 Billion for Environmental Damages
posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 17 hours agoimage source Lisa Garber *Activist Post* An Ecuadorian court recently demanded Chevron to pay $19 billion in environmental damages. This includes $900 million for the Amazon Defense Front—a coalition of ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA at a depth of 39.9 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:52:21 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) Northwest from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* (CNN) -- Disgruntled by what they call "ineffective" leadership, members of a major Syrian dissident group has splintered off to start their own organization -- the latest sign of fracture in Syria's op...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck EAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 48.2 km (30 miles), the quake hit at 09:24:42 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 372 km (230.6 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJuly 31 - Workers begin to restore order after Typhoon Saola caused severe flooding and landslides in the Philippines.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*(Reuters) - Taiwan issued torrential rain and strong wind warnings for most of the island on Wednesday as slow-moving Typhoon Saola approached, while in China, Premier Wen Jiabao told authorities to be o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*(Reuters) - The failed gun-running probe known as "Fast and Furious" was marred by missteps and an "inherently reckless strategy" from the beginning, said a report released on Tuesday by congressional Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*(Reuters) - The United States raised pressure on euro zone leaders to take decisive action to solve the region's debt crisis, notably by lowering troubled members' borrowing costs, on the eve of a crucia...
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 18 hours agoI can't say that he was just always my huckleberry. But I thought ol' Gore said some funny things at times, and I would say that, rather unfortunately, he had a good handle on what was wrong with America i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*China has said it intends to land an exploratory craft on the Moon for the first time next year, with the eventual aim of putting a man on the lunar surface.* State television said China's third lunar p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*A dentist who funded a lavish globe-trotting lifestyle by conning the NHS out of £1.4million was behind bars last night.* In one of the most complex frauds of its kind, Joyce Trail filed more than 7,000...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*In a grimy underground car park, row upon row of camp beds are crammed together.* These are the spartan sleeping conditions facing many of the British heroes helping provide security at the Olympics. M...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours agoAlmost all classes in Metro Manila and surrounding provinces, from pre-school to university levels, have been suspended this afternoon. Many were also suspended this morning. But the bigger news was the hu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*The parents of a boy who was subjected to various forms of torture are now facing jail after being found guilty of attempt to murder.* The abuse started when Shaurya was three-years-old and getting justi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*By conjuring up images of London becoming overwhelmed with visitors and by constantly warning about potential traffic problems, Boris Johnson and his City Hall colleagues successfully convinced people to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* Overblown warnings of Olympics travel chaos are turning key sites into ‘ghost towns’ and threatening Britain’s economic recovery, say business leaders.* Messages to stay away from London and other key v...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours agoTwo well-known enough physicists were born on August 1st: Walter Gerlach in 1889 and Douglas Osheroff in 1945. *Osheroff* Douglas Osheroff – congratulations to Stanford – was born to an originally Jew...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 19 hours agoin November of 2010, I wrote the now-infamous COMGLOMERATE PRISON PLANET TOO BIG TO FAIL post; back then it was one of the most-read posts on Free Planet. But my 'message in a bottle' smashed on some roc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*Police admitted last night that they are being dragged into too many Twitter disputes as a row raged over the decision to arrest a youth who abused Olympic diving star Tom Daley.* Officers swooped on the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe explosives are usually detonated underwater allowing the fisherman to collect the dead fish as they float to the surface.
- posted by The Arthurian at The Rules of Exposition - 19 hours agoFrom the PDF at Cochrane's blog: Organize the paper in “triangular” or “newspaper” style, not in “joke” or “novel” style. Notice how newspapers start with the most important part, then fill in background...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*A Chinese restaurant owner in Philadelphia has been caught torturing six helpless kittens in a spine-chilling video filmed by CCTV cameras.* Local SPCA enforcement officers were called to the scene after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*France becomes the first country in the European Union to bring in a tax on financial transactions today.* It was first proposed by the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy who suggested a 0.1% levy ...
- posted by The Arthurian at The Rules of Exposition - 19 hours agoThese rules were originally in text above the posts. I'm moving them into a post, and starting a new set of rules. This set got too long. Thanks. 1. Tell the truth. 2. Don't just make notes. Write paragrap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*An unidentified bird smashed into a United Airlines Boeing 737 as it descended into Denver International Airport (DIA) Tuesday morning, leaving a giant gash in the nose of the aircraft.* Despite the mid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*The dash cam of a police patrol car captured the horrifying moment a driver climbed from his car, raised a gun and shot an officer in the head and chest after he was stopped because of a broken tail ligh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Almost 140 terrified movie-goers fled a Miami Beach theater's midnight showing of the 'Dark Knight Rises' after a man wearing black gloves screamed out 'this is it' from inside the cinema.* With terrify...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*The top-secret unmanned stealth plane that was mistaken for a genuine UFO as it was transported through Washington D.C. has been unveiled by the U.S. Navy. * The experimental X-47B caused a stir when the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*A Spanish tourist was brutally attacked by a hammer-wielding man in Manhattan's City Hall Park yesterday leaving him with a fractured skull and self-defense wounds. * Hugo Alejandre, 31, from Barcelona, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*A convicted pedophile who was allowed to watch child porn in jail due to a 'sickening' legal loop hole now wants to interview his victims and show them child porn footage.* Marc Gilbert, from Washington...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*A report prepared for the United States Department of Defense discusses the possibility of basing an American nuclear aircraft carrier fleet in Perth.* The report says a typical fleet includes a nuclear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago* They draw his portrait, scrawl him long gushing letters and wear his favourite clothes.* Yet the subject of their affections isn't a pop singer or Hollywood star - but a mass murderer accused of shoo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Illegal immigrants arrested and then released were responsible for 19 murders, three attempted murders and 142 sex crimes during the first three years of President Obama's administration.* The findings, ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago"The One who speaks down the centuries is always the Same. At all times it is God who reveals Himself to humanity. The forms through which He manifests are different, but He is One." ** *Peter Deunov*Peter ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*The controversy over Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen’s astonishing gold medal performance this week is no longer confined to just the suspicions of drug abuse, which she emphatically denies.* It has raised con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*A violent, overbearing boyfriend punched his girlfriend and smashed her computer after becoming jealous of a picture of Mitt Romney posted on her Facebook page.* Lowell Turpin, 40, of Anderson County, T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*The woman accused of stabbing a Vietnam vet on the subway says she only approached the man because she was defending her lesbian lover.* Starmeik Driggins, 19, claims Ralph Carnegary, 63, sparked the alt...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours agoWill the Arab Spring Turn into the Saudi Fall? Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV - Tarpley.net August 1, 2012
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours agoChoosing Hegemony: Turkey, NATO and the Path to War Eric Draitser StopImperialism.com August 1, 2012 As the destabilization of Syria has evolved over the course of the last year and a half, what has bec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago*A long-time St. Louis-area teacher has been charged with rape and statutory sodomy after turning himself in, apparently in the mistaken belief that the statute of limitations had expired, authorities sai...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhatever one thinks about the economics of solar energy, public policy has caused it to be fully built out to the extent that midday production provided half of Germany's energy needs. Do the sa...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoThe Saudi government remains silent on the reports of the assassination of Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Reportedly, the Saudis fear that foreign spooks have infiltrated "the highest and most closely guarde...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhat this continues to do is establish modernity back to 45,000 years ago. This is important because the conjecture that a first emergence of advanced technology on the continental shelf demands t...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWe pick up a bit more data here from these reports, so they are worth reviewing. The claim is made that the craft achieve remarkable speeds approaching 400 kps in the submerged state. That is ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt is certainly large but significance may be another matter. A mile deep is impressive, yet is only five thousand feet which describes every mountain range anyway. Besides the weight of ice h...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago*August 1, 2012* * * *Hello fellow travellers and readers who have found their way to my blog. Today will be the first blog entry of the Second Annual Inspirational August. I had the idea last year to s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*Getting close to midnight as I begin this post.... * * * "Details emerge as funerals begin for Colo. shooting victims" by Kristen Wyatt | Associated Press, July 26, 2012 DENVER — Citing unnamed law enfo...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 22 hours agoPress TV Help 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 m...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoYour blogger with David Swann: Remember, when the author of this blog appears in a picture with a politician, it does not necessarily imply an endorsement. (That’s enough photos with politicians for one we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*A pharmacology professor at the University of California, Irvine is accused of starting several fires at his son’s former high school and plotting to kill both students and administrators.* Rainer Klaus ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*University of Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson has been charged on Tuesday with raping a fellow student in February while watching a movie in her room, officials said. * Missoula County Assistant Chief...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*A passenger has found a needle buried in a catered sandwich on an Air Canada flight.* The caterers, who were not identified, were contacted immediately after what appeared to be a sewing needle was foun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*Investigators who originally viewed the deaths of a devout Catholic mother and her two young children in an affluent suburb of St. Louis as a murder-suicide said on Tuesday that it was too early to draw ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has done what his campaign has asked millions of voters to do for months: go online and donate to his re-election effort.* Obama donated $5,000 to his own campaign, sp...
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 22 hours agoBy Manifesto Joe Early returns are good enough for former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz to claim victory in the Republican runoff for U.S. Senate from Texas. He leads Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst with about...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoFrom the Trenches Jaret Glenn If you follow mainstream election coverage, you might think Mitt Romney has coasted to an honest, easy, well-deserved Republican nomination. Unfortunately for Republican vot...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoAlexander Higgins *NATO’s ‘loving, peaceful democracy activists’ in Aleppo on video collect people from their homes and savagely executing them.* These are Hillary Clinton’s “loving, peaceful democracy a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Where wouldn't you expect a Zuckerberg to land? Google is probably at the top of that list.* But Tuesday, Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) officially "friended" Facebook CEO Mark Zucker...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoOttawa, Alberta and the rest of Canada want to ram Enbridge down British Columbia's throat as operator of the environmental calamity they call the Northern Gateway pipeline but the Americans aren't so indi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's shares slid 6.2 percent to another record low on Tuesday, diving for the third straight day since lackluster results showed decelerating user growth and revived doubts about it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*A dead humpback whale has washed up in an ocean pool at Newport Beach, on Sydney's northern beaches.* There is a sign saying "beach closed due to whale carcass" warning locals not to swim, but some surf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*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 - 1 day agoWelcome 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! - 1 day agoI 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoSan Francisco Peaks/Photo www.sacredland.org US Interior issues short notice on Sacred Sites Listening Conferences The official notice will not be issued until Aug. 2, but here's the current US draft: http...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago*"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." - Sun Tzu.* Following *unofficial reports* by Voltaire Network that Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia was assassinated on July 26, analysts pointed to t...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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/FRANKF...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 head ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago[image: Flor de loto en los pantanos de Indonesia - Lotus flower]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago[image: Pueblo de Dassu en Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day agoPaisaje en Laskargass Karamber, Gilgit, Pakistan.
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago[image: Montaña estrella de plata en Washington, USA.]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago[image: Cielo estrellado en las montañas - Postales inolvidables]
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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