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- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 minutes agoI take back every mean thing I said about Harry Reid being a spineless, ineffective, hapless little sad sack. Well okay, maybe I don't take it back, because it was true then but I'm just wild about the new...
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*Stuart Hazell is being sought by the police after a body has been discovered in the house of Tia Sharp's Grandmother.* * * *The public are advised not to approach him but to call 999 if they see him. * - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 minutes ago
While the future of human civilization looks gloomy, mankind might actually make it through this century repositioned to face a wonderful future. It all depends on whether we can muster the courage to ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 30 minutes agoThere are at least three ways to think about Veepstakes. One is in terms of immediate electoral effect. I've written quite a bit about that...the short version is to avoid disaster by picking someone as v...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 42 minutes agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* In 2010, the US Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 was published; it explains how armed forces in the US and overseas will behave in the future. Specific ta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 47 minutes ago"That's what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 50 minutes ago*Congress complicit in establishing Dictatorship in America!* *YouTube - EndtheLie* http://EndtheLie.com/ -- Support us! http://EndtheLie.com/store ---- http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/08/house...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 58 minutes ago*Judge says she’ll rule for Vilma, if she can find a way to legally do it ~Mike Florio* *Judge ends Vilma hearing without ruling ~WWL*
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Drove by this construction project off of I-15 at the California border and the town of Primm Nevada. These towers are in California. They are huge! They're about 4 times the size of a high voltage po... - posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour ago
Beyond the Veil, beyond the confines of quarantine Earth, there is a totally different reality, a totally different universe. If you climb above the tachyonic membrane that exists 8.6 miles above the... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 8.10.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "There’s a new U.S. intelligence report that is raising urgency over Iran’s nuclear program. The White House has, once again this week, ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
Is China on the verge of war? War with whom? There are factors building that suggest China faces the sort of instability that could force war on China and some other country. For the past few decades,... - posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 hour ago
*Astounding hypocrisy, self-censorship, and complicity by the West regarding one of the most regressive regimes on Earth.* Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The Cooperation Council for the Ar... - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 hour ago
Sorry I've been unavailable at both here and my home away from home in the New Jersey pine barrens of Brilliant at Breakfast but it's been a hectic week. And Mrs. JP and I have to go in a few minutes to a... - posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
I am still shocked by the complete BS lies coming out of the mouths of the liars over the mainstream media over the last few weeks when it comes to the real truth about what is going on in Syria right now.... - posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 hour agoMaybe this will be Part I of an exciting series or maybe it'll be the latest thing that I started and then abandoned out of sheer disorganization and laziness. Who really knows? Only God knows and on...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoActivist/writer Naomi Wolf has about had it with her homeland's "*stasis of stupidity**" *blocking any meaningful action to respond to man-made climate change. *It is fairly well-known what has been behi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoAmerican guitarist, composer and songwriter, Ry Cooder, doesn't think much of Mitt Romney. He dislikes Romney so much, he's even written a song about the guy, the Mutt Romney Blues. *"Romney is as bad...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 1 hour agoThe Thing (2011) goes back and examines the action in the Scandinavian base that took place just before the action in the American base in one of my MOST FAVOURITE films of all time, John Carpenter's The ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: George Butler / The New York Times] By BERNIE KRAUSE 28 July 2012 Glen Ellen, California. YEARS ago, when selective logging was first introduced, a community near an old-growth forest in the Si...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 2 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Michael Bloomberg, Mayor for New York and Raymond Kelly, police commissioner, are collaborating with Microsoft to create pre-crime and counterterrorism tech...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoYesterday morning I noticed a very large, pronounced bluish-green glow at the base of the large crane visible on the Tepco webcam http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html Later in the day the ...
- posted by Joe Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 2 hours agoWater well contamination in Stamford, Conn., is raising the specter that there may be extensive contamination of wells throughout the state, according to this article. Private water well testing in the ci...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Better safe than sorry. Bloomberg editorial says not 'believing' in climate change has always been silly. Bloomberg] By the Editors 6 August 2012 A new analysis of worldwide temperatures over t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Cattle try to keep cool in the remains of a farm pond in a pasture heavily damaged by drought 3 August 2012, near Cuba, Illinois. Getty Images] WASHINGTON, 8 August 2012 (AP) – Barack Obama promi...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoPropublica's summary of the congressional report is very concise http://www.propublica.org/article/the-for-profit-higher-education-industry-by-the-numbers Here is one very apt comparison: $2,050: Av...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago*Police hunting for Tia Sharp have cordoned off her grandmother's house as they begin a full forensic search of the property.* Earlier, the missing girl's grandmother Christine Sharp, 46, left the house w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*“Trapwire: * *The Secret, Widespread Surveillance System”* by RT "Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition tech...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* Is this pink pigeon a punk, or just pretending to be a flamingo?* They may be seen as pests by some, but this bizarre-looking pigeon has been earning admirers since it was first spotted in Ealing, west L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* An entire city in China has literally shut up shop as nearly all of its stores close after it was falsely reported that officials were planning a clampdown on the sale of counterfeit products.* Official...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours agoBeing a true student of history, and especially trying to find the truths about the most volatile period of human history, the 20th century, I have always been fascinated by the circumstances behind someon...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 2 hours agoimage source Parker Higgins *EFF* LendInk, an innovative site dedicated to helping readers share their legally purchased ebooks with one another, has chosen to shut down in the face of legal intimidation...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 2 hours agoI am pretty sure this answers the mail, Charli: Shakespeare, Zombies, John Amos, Shelley Long, June Lockhart, and the dude from Clerks. Yeah, the the skinny one. Plus a Weekend at Bernie's reference. W...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoCan you hear me NOW???? Now maybe - later probably not. More ALEC de-regulation legislation!!! Currently in California. I have been waiting to post something on this until I found an article that was ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* A father was driven to suicide by rumours he was one of James Bulger's killers, his distraught mother has claimed.* Scott Bradley, 36, was accused of being child murderer Robert Thompson and suffered mo...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoIf you're in Toronto, you have a unique opportunity to hear the voices of war resisters as you have never heard them before. The Foundry Theatre Company has taken the transcripts of Jeremy Hinzman's hear...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoPlease watch this beautiful video from Pacific Wild, featuring former NHL goalie (and Hall-of-Famer) Mike Richter, and more importantly, featuring the Spirit Bear Coast. In less than four minutes, you wi...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoHappy Birthday to Rosanna Arquette, 53. She's been in a lot of excellent things, hasn't she? Very likeable. Also, she was in a James at 16, so there's that. The good stuff: 1. Daniel Larison, taking on ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoVirus Seeking Bank Data Is Tied to Attack on Iran By Nicole Perlroth http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/researchers-find-possible-state-sponsored-virus-in-mideast/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_201...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 2 hours agoThe climaterealists and notrickszone sites have posted on a new paper by Martin Hertzberg, on radiative transport between the Earth's surface, the atmosphere, and space, to which I responded at climaterea...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 2 hours agoBrandon Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"The American Ability to Tune Out"* by BadAttitudes.com "*Dr. Hibbert:* Now, a little death anxiety is normal. You can expect to go through five stages. The first is denial. *Homer:* No way! Becau...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours agoValerie Knowles writes this morning that, to date, the press has paid little attention to what federal budget cuts have done to government libraries: To date, the Immigration and Refugee Board, Transpo...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours agoLast week, I embedded with smart people thinking hard about ethics, armed conflict and emerging technologies. I learned that it's an open questionswhether governments can or should move toward fully autonom...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Two crooks who know their way around a tanning salon* If you're a typical crooked congressman from Anywhere, USA-- or even a one-man organized crime machine like Buck McKeon up in Santa Clarita-- chances...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours ago*Activist Post* Visiting a Denver medical marijuana dispensary Thursday, Libertarian vice presidential nominee and retired Superior Court Judge Jim Gray urged passage of Amendment 64, the statewide ini...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the SOLOMON ISLANDS at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:51 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) WSW from Kira Kira, Solo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* Police hunting for missing Tia Sharp have sealed off an area around her grandmother's house amid signs of a new development in the case. * In the last hour, the missing girl's grandmother Christine Sharp,...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours ago*Apparently bad leadership trickles down the chain of command...* *Youtube* Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*Vilma hoping for win in federal court, rejoin Saints* *New Orleans Examining News Outlets As Times-Picayune Cutbacks Approach ~ WWNO* *Sewerage, Water Board schedules public meetings over rate increase pl...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours ago*Editor's Note: Keep in mind that the call to "balance the budget" is about implementing budget cuts that usually have the greatest impact on the most vulnerable in our Society. Remember when Bill Clinto...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"When we sacrifice truth to some self-serving belief, we tend to believe it tenaciously, for it has come at such great sacrifice." - Robert Brault
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- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours ago*Documentary about government planned obsolescence in the name of environmentalism.* *Youtube* The Light Bulb Conspiracy on Facebook Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivere...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* Tia Sharp's grandmother has left her house with police as search dogs scour a wooded area near her home.* Earlier, Christine Sharp, 46, said she "just wants her baby back". She broke down in tears sayin...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours agoFrom *Her Majesty's Explorer*. - The Battle of Aleppo continues, but things are looking worse for the rebels. - Matt Fay at Hegemonic Obsessions ruminates on what we debaters used to call ...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 3 hours agoSuzanne Lucas, the not-at-all-evil Evil HR Lady at CBS Money Watch, wrote an interesting piece about being forced to resign, and I wanted to talk some more about this important issue here. I get this issue...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 3 hours agoBelow is the *Full 2012 letter to President Obama from "conservatives" urging him to attack Syria* (keep that AUSTERITY going against us here at home in the U.S., though!!! Right? Notice all the dual Is...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 3 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy * Commit this to memory:: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall n...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"DHS and US Military Make Final Preparations* * Before Announcing Martial Law"* by Susanne Posel "Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is rig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* French police are warning campsite owners and holidaymakers to be on their guard following the rape of an 11-year-old girl. * The girl was attacked on Wednesday as she slept in a tent on a campsite at Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the WEST CHILE RISE at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:40:03 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 852 km (530 miles) WSW from Puerto Montt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* Tia Sharp's grandmother says she "just wants her baby back" as police use dogs to search her home for clues about the 12-year-old's disappearance. * Two female detectives arrived at the house in southeast...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoRan into this page the other day while doing research. *Naples TEA Party Patriots* *TEA = Taxed Enough Already* I am getting sick and tired of the slash and burn the Republicans are doing to our federal, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"Oh Boy... BATFE Running Not Just Guns, But Drugs?"* by Karl Denninger "Oh my... "A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody is making startling allegations that the fai...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 4 hours agoSome good progress on international issues made these Olympic games by Taiwanese the world over. First, the stream of complaints led the London Olympic games committee to reverse its decision on represen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago* A man has been accused of raping a 15-month-old baby leaving her with severe injuries, authorities said. * Logan Andrew West, 18, was charged on Monday with the rape of a child under the age of ten. He...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*A brutal political ad by a Democratic group that was revealed to include numerous deceptions has drawn a harsh rebuke from Mitt Romney, who is now accusing President Obama of spreading lies about him. * ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"The Croquet Party"* by Bill Bonner "The sun rises slowly this time of year. And then, it disappears. That has happened almost every day since we’ve been here. It has been the summer that hasn’t b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago* A TV news helicopter aided in the rescue of a naked fisherman surrounded by hammerhead sharks when his boat capsized - after being sent to cover the story.* One hammerhead was circling him and was with...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* Exciting images from NASA's Curiosity rover show exactly what your eyes would see if you were standing on the surface of Mars on a late afternoon day.* The excellent panoramic image is the first colour ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* A staggering £25million has been awarded in bonuses to Bank of England staff despite it's failure to get a grip on the credit crunch.* Governor Sir Mervyn King and his staff failed to predict the financi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* A woman whose relatives died in Auschwitz says she was shocked to discover wine bottles featuring images of Hitler in an Italian supermarket.* Cindy Hirsch from Philadelphia, U.S. was holidaying with her...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAn area of floating pumice 250 nautical miles in length and 30 nautical miles wide was spotted in the South Pacific ocean yesterday by a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Orion.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* Large amounts of invisible “dark matter” may have been discovered near the sun. * The mysterious substance exerts a gravitational influence on thousands of dwarf stars in our galactic neighbourhood, a st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* CONVICTED serial killer Peter Tobin has been rushed to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack, according to reports. * It is believed Tobin, 65, began experiencing chest pains at Saughton Priso...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*(CNN) -- An unmanned moon lander under development crashed and blew up during an engine test Thursday afternoon at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the space agency reported.* There were no injuries in the f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago** * (CNN) -- The death toll from five days of heavy rains and floods in the Philippines jumped to 60 on Friday, disaster officials said, with the forecast calling for even more showers across the main is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* (CNN) -- Australia's national intelligence agency acknowledged Friday that its public website may have encountered problems after hackers said they had subjected it to a sustained campaign of cyber attac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A man in an Afghan military uniform killed three U.S. troops Friday in southern Afghanistan, a day after the United States condemned a suicide bomb attack that left four Ameri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* (Reuters) - A senior Yemeni security official has been killed by a car bomb in the south-eastern city of Mukalla, in a suspected al Qaeda attack, a local security official said. * Brigadier Omar Barashee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAug. 9 - Five people are killed when a firefighting helicopter crashes in south-west Turkey
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAug 10 - The Philippines begin a massive clean-up and awaits relief after severe flood swept across the the capital and nearby provinces.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* (Reuters) - Neither Goldman Sachs Group Inc nor its employees will face U.S. criminal charges related to trades they made during the financial crisis that were highlighted in a 2011 U.S. Senate report, t...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 6 hours ago. The news this morning yet again confirms the obvious. William Hague commits another £5 million to 'The Syrian Rebels'. This support "will not include any weapons" (ho, ho, ho. We wouldn't participate ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* (Reuters) - A New York state case against Standard Chartered Plc is more about whether the British bank carried out an old-fashioned cover-up using allegedly false records and less about the role the ban...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* (Reuters) - U.S. regulators directed five of the country's biggest banks, including Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to develop plans for staving off collapse if they faced serious probl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy said it is the subject of a U.S. government investigation over possible criminal antitrust violations related to the purchase and lease of oil and gas properties in Michigan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Senior Haaretz analyst Amir Oren says the main question that should be bother Israel's leaders is what would be the reaction of the Obama administration to an uncoordinated attack in Iran.* A foul wind ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck NEAR COAST OF NICARAGUA at a depth of 36.9 km (22.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:01:21 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) WSW from Chinand...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Police have found the bodies of 14 men stuffed into a pick-up truck in a northern Mexican city and hours later a shootout between soldiers and gunmen killed three people in the same city, authorities sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A HUGE cluster of floating volcanic rocks covering almost 26,000 square kilometres has been found drifting in the Pacific, the New Zealand navy said today.* The strange phenomenon, which witnesses said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* How the international community responds to human rights in times of conflict has always been an issue when judgments are made about differential levels of culpability for war crimes.* In Iraq, a confli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* The Government is increasing its work with the Syrian political opposition as part of efforts to create an alternative to President Bashar al Assad's regime.* Foreign Secretary William Hague said a Brit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* More than 40 police officers were drafted in after the pair, who were on a seaside day trip to Hornsea, East Yorkshire, and had spent all their cash on drink, said the girl had disappeared from the beach...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck CENTRAL CALIFORNIA at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:05:35 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) South from Bishop, Calif...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A bag containing a bomb was left inside a U.S. government building for weeks after it was found by a security guard who failed to check it and stashed it under a desk.* The bomb was in a canvas bag whic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* The man arrested for attempting to weapons into a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Ohio was not planning an attack but simply wanted to protect himself. * Scott A. Smith was taken into police custod...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoThe "aromatic" papers by Li, Maxin, Nanopoulos, and Walker have been discussed many times on this blog. They have a new preprint today, A \(125.5\GeV\) Higgs Boson in \({\mathcal F}\)-\(SU(5)\): Imminent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A 20-year-old woman took a baby to hospital with a fractured skull, a black eye, bruises and bite marks.* Aadriane Dixon, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was arrested after police decided the 13-month-old boy's i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A former police officer has been sentenced to 16 years-to-life behind bars for beating his wife to death with a hammer and then storing her dead body in their garage for six weeks.* Gary Stroud, 58, ple...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* David Moe, 45, worked as a teacher at the exclusive Paddington Station School in Denver for the past 18 years.* He was arrested on July 24 for possessing large amounts of child pornography, but has sinc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* When Boo got nearly five million likes on Facebook, most people thought that it was because he was the cutest dog in the world.* But now it turns out that there might be another explanation for his popu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* A man committed suicide after jumping 22 stories off a Manhattan hotel and landed on top of a parked SUV - with the driver still inside. * The man, identified as a 40-year-old from Coral Gables, Florida, ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*Engineers have produced a robot that mimics a worm's movements crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body.* The Pentagon's Darpa research unit supported the Mesh worm project, telling a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA at a depth of 14.8 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:57:24 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) West...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* It is now one week since the disappearance of 12-year-old Tia Sharp and police are expected to step up their questioning of the public in an attempt to jog memories. * Her grandmother's house in New Addi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Three US soldiers have been shot and killed by an Afghan in uniform in southern Helmand province, according to a Nato spokeswoman. * "All we know is that they were killed by an Afghan in a uniform of some...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 8 hours ago"Alara Blackwell" is probably not her name. She alleges to have a MILITARY INTERFACE, connected to her brain that allows her to remote view Super Soldiers and guide them through battlefilds. She speaks in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 72 km (44.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:56:36 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoAugust 9, 2012 *EPISODE TWENTY: “PROTECT THE ILLEGAL LAW BREAKING”* The prosecution decline the judge’s informal request to provide information about Menwith Hill and details about the designation of si...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoIf you happen to be skeptical of climate modeling, this makes it a rout. A powerful nonlinear effect is dynamically responsible for injecting 40 % of the oceanic CO2 into the deep. Ignoring this...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoAs I have already posted, it appears that we may have a population of giant sloths in North America. It is an extraordinary creature and it appears to be solitary for now, but on the basis of le...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is not ever going to come from the media that willy-nilly propelled Mr Obama into the White house as the most unexamined candidate in history. It finally turned out that he was a classic Marx...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, now closed. Ahmed Gomaa, AP Photo* * **1.* The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza is now closed. Security officials say that "army engineers are m...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours ago*We Are On A Journey Home To The One* * * *We are on this journey home to the one - home to the one* *Looking here and searching where all for the one - all for the one* *Many lives spent on this road ...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoDavid Swann in Alberta’s political root cellar, contemplating all those potatoes. Actual Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: The real David Swann, Alberta’s likely reaction to his...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*Ms Clinton’s schizophrenic discourse on Syria * *By Voltaire Network * *August 9, 2012* "On 7 August 2012, following a meeting with the Foreign Minister of South Africa, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Hillary C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* A pediatrician who is an eminent researcher in near-death experiences in children has been accused of 'waterboarding' his 11-year-old daughter as punishment while his wife stood by and watched.* Dr Melv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* A babysitter from suburban Illinois has been charged with killing a three-month-old baby girl who was in her care by slamming her head down on a wooden table after the child became fussy, according to po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* A five-month-old boy died in the scorching heat of a minivan after his mother forgot to drop him off at a daycare center. * Stephanie Gray made the heartbreaking discovery after she went to pick up her s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* A Florida prosecutor hoping to convict George Zimmerman of murder in the Trayvon Martin shooting made a humiliating blunder when her office released a photo of the teen's body. * The documents were relea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the NIAS REGION, INDONESIA at a depth of 12 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:41:41 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62.6 miles) Northwest of G...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoThe official story is that the 5 August 2012 mass shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin was the work of a lone gunman. Of course, the official story is wrong. Continued here: tidbits
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoI'm a big fan of Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert and try and listen to all their shows. Keiser Report (E324) Crooks, Crimes and Chaos at about 4:00 minutes in discusses a most bizarre phenomenon: Facebook ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA at a depth of 37.2 km (23.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:27:20 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 142 km (88 miles) SSW of Corin...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
- Neil Heywood was given cyanide by top politician's wife after '£13m blackmail' threat to playboy son
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* Old Harrovian Neil Heywood was murdered by one of the most powerful women in China after he made a threatening demand for £13million from her playboy son, a court heard yesterday.* Gu Kailai, who was sa... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoRobert Halfon - Political Director for Conservative Friends of Israel.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* A male prostitute and self-proclaimed vampire was gunned down in a suspected revenge killing for the vicious rape of a female client, it emerged today.* At the time of his murder in 2003, Shane Chartres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Footage has now emerged of the incredible morning raid on the New Zealand mansion of a man at the head of a suspected Internet piracy website.* Helicopters, police dogs and more than 70 specially traine...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* At 33lbs, he was a real heavyweight of the cat world*. But just two months after being adopted by a new family, Spongebob, the ginger tom who horrified and charmed New York, has died. The cat gained unl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* A former soldier has admitted tying a pig's head to the gates of a mosque and spraying racist graffiti.* Simon Parkes, 45, strapped the severed head to the front of Cheltenham Mosque, in Gloucestershire...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* Last week, 9-year-old Jack Ariola Erenberg went swimming in Lily Lake near his home in Minnesota, trying to escape the summer heat and blow off steam before the start of hockey camp. * Sometime, while h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* Levi Aron, the 'Butcher of Brooklyn', plead guilty today after admitting to the murder of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky, who was abducted last July as he walked home from day camp alone for the first time...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* French police were yesterday breaking up gipsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them.* Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement near Lille shortly after dawn to oversee t...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 12 hours agoHenry Clifford's advertisement at the Chappaqua Metro-North train station July 10, 2012.(Photo: Seth Harrison / The Journal News ) Hasbara outfit StandWithUs, as reported late last month, has placed its own ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* The last person known to have spoken to Tia Sharp wept yesterday as he denied wrongdoing, insisting: ‘Did I do anything to Tia? No, I bloody didn’t *.’ Stuart Hazell broke down as he told a TV interviewe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* The deepening crisis in the eurozone could see Britain quit the European Union for good, according to one of the world’s leading investment banks.* Japanese giant Nomura said the UK government could be f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* A massive blackout hit many parts of the Egyptian capital on Thursday, briefly halting traffic on much of its crowded subway and delaying the start of trading on the stock exchange. * Egypt has been bese...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoThe video above is from the YouTube account of TeaPartyOrg. It's one of many (endless) crazed propaganda videos just like it inserted into the zeitgeist by this organization and others just like it. Clea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago** * (CNN) -- Masked gunmen on motorbikes fired early Friday at a police station in North Sinai in the latest in a string of violent acts in the area, a police official who is not authorized to speak to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The White House Thursday declined to respond to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's comment that new US intelligence warns the Iranian nuclear threat has become much more "urgent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* TEHRAN, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Thursday that the peace plan for Syria put forward by Kofi Annan is still alive although he has resigned from the post of the UN a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug 9 (Reuters) - A small NASA lander being tested for missions to the moon and other destinations beyond Earth crashed and burned after veering off course during a trial run at the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian rebels in embattled Aleppo tried to maintain morale on Thursday by highlighting small gains in the midst of a withdrawal from the most contested area of the city, as government f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* Lawyers for the suspect in the deadly shootings at a Batman screening say he is mentally ill and have asked for more time for him to be assessed.* James Holmes has again appeared at a Colorado court with...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 61.6 km (38.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:19:20 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) Nortwest of Kota Ternate, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck VANUATU at a depth of 200 km (124 miles), the quake hit at 00:33:07 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26.6 miles) Southwest of Sola, Vanuatu No Tsun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:30:09 UTC Friday 10th August 2012 The epicenter was 318 km (197 miles) West of Morondava, M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC at a depth of 46 km (28.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:58 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) WSW of El Valle, Domi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck EASTERN IRAN at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:01 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) NNE from Birjand, Iran No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE ATACAMA, CHILE at a depth of 42 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 21:51:47 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) Northwest from Andaco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 58.9 km (36.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:31:30 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) East of ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat.” - George Carlin • James Brown, “Living in America” (“Rocky IV”) - http://www.youtube.c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE GUATEMALA at a depth of 56 km (34.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:15:39 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) SSW of Puerto San Jose, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“The two galaxies on the far left were unknown until 1968. Although they would have appeared as two of the brighter galaxies on the night sky, the opaque dust of the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"An Unusually Candid Interview With Mitt Romney"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dropped by The Borowitz Report today and gave what so...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoMassai Warriors visit Navajos at Cameron, Arizona on Aug. 7, 2012! Photos by Calvin Johnson, Navajo, published with permission at Censored News. Calvin said, "Massai Warriors from Kenya were there to talk ...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoThe Freedom of Information Act It's time to demand the information on where our tax dollars are going. End education corruption BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana's education chief has refused to provide records fr...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 14 hours agoJ.T. Waldron GOLIATH: Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry How far will he go to block election transparency? After Arizona's appellate courts ruled in favor of the Libertarian argument for prospect...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoMexican poet Javier Sicilia and members of his Caravan for Peace protest the drug war earlier this summer in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Photo by Henry Romero / Reuters. Can the Caravan for Peace end the War on Drug...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*"Merely 'liking' a Facebook page is insufficient speech to merit constitutional protection. In cases where courts have found that constitutional protections extended to Facebook posts, actual statements ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours agoKenner, Louisiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours agoInteresting development on a slow news day: "DUMP ROMNEY" contends that no delegates are actually "bound" by law or GOP rules to vote for Romney and that, to win the White House and toss-up Senate seats,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoBrenda Kenny has got a pair. That much you have to give her. The president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association plans to counter a string of public relations disasters by announcing an “Integrity...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoThis link takes you to an amazing video clip from the thunderstorm that hit Vancouver yesterday. The young guy is recording the storm when, at the 6 second mark, a bolt of lightning hits a neighbour's tr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"Gott Mit Uns"* by Chet Raymo “Deus lo volt! shouted thousands of people assembled in a meadow near Clermont, France, in the year 1095. Pope Urban has appealed for the liberation of the Holy Lands from...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 17 hours agoTiny Tax Would Make a Big Difference Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research Wednesday 8 August 2012 The Knight Capital debacle last week gave us yet another example of the financial system run ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 17 hours ago[image: image] *Wow! The Lightning Bolt has struck twice twice! The 100/2oo double at the Beijing Olympics, then the same again in London—easing up in the last dozen metres in all four events.* *The...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 17 hours agoHave to highlight this comment to my "balanced ticket" post earlier today. Geoff G. starts with a cheesy one playing on Robot Mitt that I had actually thought of using but abandoned, but then gets truly in...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, establ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago*The Ayatollah Vs. The President.* The following is taken from a *comment made by Don Bacon* at the website 'The Race for Iran' in an article called, *"The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamene...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Not from me.* "Massachusetts towns get boost from Hollywood movies" by Dan Adams | Globe Correspondent, July 07, 2012 When the state started doling out *tax breaks* to *attract big-name films*in 2006,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* INCEHON (Yonhap News) ― A Chinese cargo vessel crashed into a docking facility in the Incheon harbor on Wednesday, causing an oil spill, the South Korean Coast Guard said. * About 600 liters of bunker C ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* A deadly disease that hasn't been seen in Colorado for 31-years has been found in the northeast part of state. * The Colorado Department of Agriculture is currently investigating an anthrax case in Logan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Two villagers are being treated at a local hospital for anthrax, an infectious disease, in Ganyu county, Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province. * "There are indeed two villagers who have diagnosed of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* CORNELIA – Cornelia officials are urging people who live within about one-half mile of Irvin and Hoyt streets to exercise extra caution as a possibly rabid cat is loose in that area.* “At approximately ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*A swarm of Africanized bees attacked four people and shut down a business park in Pflugerville Wednesday morning. The intersection around Rowe Ln. and FM 685 was shut down for nearly four hours while eme...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 18 hours agoUniversities are political entities. A state university like my own receives (very little) funding from the state legislature. Federal research priorities impact our programs, and sometimes, believe it o...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Obama, while villifying Mitt Romney for opposing the auto industry bailout, bragged about the success of his decision to provide government assistance and said he now wants to see every manufact...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 19 hours ago*Perplexing update at the bottom**: a Saudi Iranian Truce?** * One of the Anonymous commenters caught this news. Which was my post for today.I note the ending quotation from Ahmadinejad with interest-*Co...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoYesterday, Obama's campaign made a rare misstep-- a stupid radio spot in favor of "clean coal" that attacks Romney for being pro-environmental. Listen to it; it's sickening. Our pals are CREDO were as dis...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours agoA great American. He literally stopped World War III by preventing the Bush admin from attacking Iran. Esquire - *The Man Between War and Peace* (April 2008).
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoA customer in Washington, D.C., ordered a 39-inch television from Amazon.com. This is what arrived on his doorstep instead. *When the UPS package arrived at Seth Horovitz's home, he thought it must be...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 hours agoJudith Crist passed away at the age of 90 in Manhattan on Aug. 7, 2012. Photo by Gabe Palacio / Getty Images. Inset below: Crist in 1967. Photo from AP. An appreciation: Pioneering film critic Judith Cris...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoMy PP post today is about Veepstakes. I make the case that the one thing that nominees should not worry about when picking a running mate is the message that it sends; after a day or two, that message disa...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 19 hours ago------------------------------ *Reflections on a Medical Career by Robert S. Dotson, M.D.* ------------------------------ August 2, 2012 | Forward by Paul Craig Roberts *The Impending Collapse of American...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoRemember Steve Harper's "Alberta Firewall" letter, the one where he advocated the Wild Rose state should ditch the RCMP, implement its own healthcare regime independent of Ottawa and even collect and withh...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoNASA may have been communicating with a vehicle on Mars but NASA is an apolitical organization so its science and its communication technologies can't possibly be as advanced as those of the self-described...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 20 hours agoPadre Island National Seashore, four wheel drive only beach. Anyone who has been to the beach knows that warming over land is much greater than warming over water. Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog. The b...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoThe centre-right Victoria *Times Colonist* more than doubts Steve Harper's claim that he'll leave it up to science to evaluate the "costs and risks" of the Northern Gateway pipeline. Here's how the pape...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours agoWhile deBeauxOs splendidly spanks the fetus fetishists for their glurge-filled lies, there's more to learn from this survey. It seems that in speaking amongst themselves they reveal more than they think. ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 20 hours agoAstounding hypocrisy, self-censorship, and complicity by the West regarding one of the most regressive regimes on Earth. *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 9, 2012* - The Cooperation Council for the Arab States...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoRelated: *CFR Strategist Praises Al-Qaeda Bombings In Syria* *Sympathy For Al-Qaeda Among America's Wacky Foreign Policy Elite* *Washington's Al-Qaeda Dilemma * Al Qaeda: Pride of The CFR
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 20 hours agoOne quick note for everyone, and a follow up to what has been happening in my battle to follow the rules as laid out under the "Fair Use" agreement... I have received today a startling note from the people...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"The Financial Oligarchy Reigns"* by David DeGraw "The experiment known as democracy is devolving into fascism before our eyes; the "iron law of oligarchy" is once again asserting itself. From the Fo...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoI don't know how many times I've said that Mitt Romney is a generic Republican candidate, and so the election will come down to, basically, whether most of the people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 sti...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours agoTHINGS ARE HEATING UP, and the Arctic is turning, well, slushy — and Vladimir Putin is getting all excited about creating more vodka outlets. Actually, they're going to be bases for "combined arms": army nav...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours agoThis is another article beating the dogma that CO2 is driving climatic fluctuation. It you look at the chart above, you will observe that for the past decade the climate has been warmer by about...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago* “The Dispossessed Majority: * *Rule By Private Oligarchy”* by Paul Craig Roberts “The bumper sticker on the beat-up pickup truck read: “Friends don’t let friends vote Democrat.” The driver was obvi...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA Turkish newspaper columnist has been heavily criticised after writing an article which said the Olympic Games is destroying the female figure. The piece - called Womanhood is dying at the Olympics' - wa...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 21 hours agoMy husband keeps wondering if I will run out of ideas for photo shoots each week. I think it is more likely that my little one will stop letting me photograph her first. Right now she thinks pictures...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoThose of us who lived through the Cold War were painfully aware that the Soviet Union was prepared to thoroughly devastate the West with nuclear weapons. We didn't know they had something else in mind al...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours agoThis is interesting. In a speech last month, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah talked about the need for Shia-Sunni unity, the chaotic situation in Syria, the security threat posed by Israel and America ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Ernesto hugged the southern edge of the Bay of Campeche Thursday morning as it prepared to make final landfall on the Mexican coast, the National Hurricane Center said.* Once Ern...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoRussia is growing concerned about Chinese designs on Russian territory and resources. Russian president Dimitry Medvedev said it was essential to defend it's eastern territories against "excessive expans...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoDo banks actually have a conscience? A few German banks apparently do. Germany's *Commerzbank*, the country's second-largest, has removed agricultural products (food) from its commodities index fund, fo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: A field of corn withers under triple-degree heat north of Wichita, Kansas, in Sedgwick County Monday, 16 July 2012. The drought gripping the United States is the widest since 1956, according to n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN ALASKA at a depth of 10.7 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:43:25 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) Northeast from Chenega, Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN PERU at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:14:43 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) SSE of S...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours agoI may not be 100% today, but I figured it was as good a time to get back into the swing of things... I want to thank all of my readers for their get well comments... For the longest time, I have been in c...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoThe Arctic is about more than ice and polar bears. Much, much more. Most of us by now have become familiar with *El Nino* or his ugly stepsister, *La Nina*, that are lumped together as something called ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoEditor's Note: Watch how groups make claims of Anti-Semitism and offer no substantive argument for their claims. Help Us Transmit This Story Add to Your Blogger Account Put it On Facebook Tweet ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoTanzanian chimp. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Fellow primates / 1 Chimps and humans are a lot alike, except that humans, being more intelligent, do what chimps do even better. By Bill Meacham / The Rag Bl...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoJapan Today: A-bomb survivors warn against nuclear power http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/a-bomb-survivors-warn-against-nuclear-power [Excerpted] "The scars that still mark Sunao Tsuboi’...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoGAO criticizes FCC’s standards for cellphone radiation. Hayley Tsukayama. The Washington Post Aug 7, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gao-criticizes-fccs-standards-for-cellphone-radia...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoTuesday night was disappointing for progressives who worked their hearts out on Darcy Burner's campaign in Washington and on Trevor Thomas' campaign in central Michigan. But at the same time wealthy, self...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 23 hours ago*Editor's Note: The author failed to mention corporate welfare! Corporate Welfare far exceeds the social safety net in terms of actual cost to the American taxpayers. I suggest we go after the financia...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 23 hours ago*Contributor: YYC* Victim of face-chewing attack in Miami reveals details of assault in police interview *Poppo said Eugene then “turned berserk” and attacked with his bare hands, screaming that both men ...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoAudio version I tried running once. It didn’t go well. The man I was with at the time thought it would be a good idea if we ran together – fitness and togetherness all rolled into one miser...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoAugust 9, 2012 p. B5 by A. Gasparro & C. Stevenson. The Wall Street Journal Symptom of economic contraction? [Excerpted] "In the U.S., McDonald's July same-store sales decline was the worst performance i...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 23 hours agoJamie Dimon is a weird cross between Tony Soprano and Sarah Palin. In a combination political/mock execution tour, he and his consiglieres have boarded a big black bus to roll down the highways and shake d...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoThere is an enormous amount of water stored underground in aquifers. Or, at least, there used to be. A lot of it is actually "fossil" water, H2O that's been trapped underground for, well, forever sort...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoHawai'i isn't the only colonial possession to get the inset treatment. Although the authors of the *Duck of Minerva* do not condone, endorse, or even take seriously this proposal, we do want to bring to ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAug. 9 - A car bomb southeast of Baghdad kills at least eight people and wounds around 30. Travis Brecher reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*(Reuters) - A new cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, according to a leading computer security firm, Ka...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago*Not on your life!* *Contributor: YYC* MoscowNews: Food crisis looms in Russia *Imposing export restrictions may be trickier for Russia this time around due to the country’s entry to the World Trade Orga...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 1 day agohttp://newspresso.gulli.com/2859-die-kalte-fusion-der-heilige-gral-der-energiegewinnung-ist-realitaet-09-08-2012 Translated from German by Google Translate: The Cold Fusion: The holy grail of energy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Gunman fired shots towards a police station in the main administrative centre of Egypt's North Sinai on Thursday, underscoring lawlessness in the desert region bordering Israel as a Egyptian m...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agohttp://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5332
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 2.5 km (1.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:24:24 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) WNW from Fern...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoAssociation of Justice Counsel v. Canada (Attorney General), 2012 ONCA 530 deals with freedom of association in the context of labour relations -- it makes clear that there right is not defined as being po...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012* *At the Post, still no correction:* On Tuesday morning, Gene Robinson made a plain misstatement. Robinson is a Pulitzer winner. His claim appeared in the Washington Post. See T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 150.2 km (93.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:03:07 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) Sout...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago*This is fantastic* Exposing the nastiness known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). *On the Ropes: Inside ALEC's Annual Meeting* *Bleeding but defiant, the right-wing outfit regroups in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A drug dealer who accidentally shot his best friend in the head during a drive-by attack on a rival gang was jailed for a minimum of 30 years.* Anthony 'Leech' McGivern shot front seat passenger Kevin Go...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012* *The Times talks on second-grade level:* Does the New York Times have “sophisticated readers,” as the fawning newspaper routinely implies and declares? If so, those readers got...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Cancer and HIV patients have been told to buy bottles of ordinary blackcurrent squash and olive oil for £14 by a church claiming the blessed goods are a 'miracle cure' for their illnesses.* The Victorio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Image: Injured: Jackie Stretton suffered 'appalling injuries' as she broke her back and suffered bleeding to her brain in the crash * A judge has launched a stinging attack on the justice system after he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt might look like a scene from a horror film but this is the breathtaking natural phenomenon which has met tourists at a popular French beauty spot. The stunning scenes in Camargue, southern France, ma...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoFound this announcement this morning. Thom Hartmann always says that we need to expose the right wing lies – and it appears that there will be a whole morning of right wing lying happening in Albany New Y...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoThe poster boy for the GOP's "governing" strategy, that being "if Obama is for it, we're against it," Steve King has a brilliant idea. And by brilliant I mean, batshit crazy. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), an...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago- Daniel Drezner unloads on Jennifer Rubin. Bottom line: better hacks, please! - Thomas Rid argues against much of our current discourse on cyberwar. - Lincoln Mitchell writes that: "Georgia'...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 1 day ago. The only place 'The Holocaust' can be debated is in a courtroom, a "Talmudic arena" as Michael Hoffman asserts in this film (below) and the evidence affirms. There will be NO public debate. If 'The H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A police force didn't bother to investigate 36,000 crimes which they didn't think they could solve, representing 40 per cent of all reported cases, it has been revealed.* Devon and Cornwall Police shelve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A Tory MP has been learning Hebrew at the taxpayers' expense following his civil partnership to his Israeli partner, it was revealed today. * Nick Boles, who has called for pensioners to be stripped of t...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Allan Katz and Danae Columbus: The changing world of news ~Uptown Messenger * *What happened to Advance’s papers in Michigan ~Andrew Beaujon, Poynter.* *Independent Police Monitor, PANO file for intervent...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoThis is my favorite photo of the week so far, and it's not even a Dharapak. I love how easily President Obama engages with people. The contrast between him and the Rombot is never clearer than in the photo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: James Holmes' jail booking report The former grad student charged in last month's deadly shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater gave his religion as "agnostic" and his occupation as "labore...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAug. 9 - Three people killed, more than a million evacuate as Typhoon Haiku hits eastern China. Travis Brecher reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*(Reuters) - Greece's jobless rate climbed to a new record in May, underlining how austerity prescribed to slash deficits and keep bailout funds flowing is hitting the economy on which recovery depends.* ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Minsk (Reuters) - Belarus police arrested two journalists for posing for photographs holding teddy bears after hundreds were dropped by air on the country in a pro-democracy stunt that embarrassed author...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFacebook's move into gambling is a distasteful one which prioritises commercial gain over user benefit, writes Emma Barnett. British Facebook users can now gamble on the social network using cash for the ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago*YouTube - EndTheLie* http://EndtheLie.com/ -- Support us! http://EndtheLie.com/store ---- http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/08/house-passes-bill-eliminating-se... --http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day agoJames Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Hours after the PPRN News published the story of the request by the Department of Homeland Security / Transportation Safety Administration, Jacob Goodwin, Edi...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* LONDON (SHARECAST) - The European Central Bank (ECB) gave a gloomy outlook for the Eurozone economy on Thursday in its monthly report, dampening sentiment on equity markets as it downgraded its growth pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Image: Rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters capture a policeman who the FSA allege is a “Shabiha” or pro-regime militiaman, on July 31, 2012, as the rebels overran a police station in Aleppo A horrifyin...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago*Recent shootings turn progressives into proponents of fighting "domestic extremism". Be careful what you wish for.* image source * *Eric Blair *Activist Post* Progressives are generally empathetic to the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A leading credit rating agency has downgraded Greece giving the debt-ridden country a "negative" outlook.* Changing the status from "stable", Standard & Poor's (S&P) said the economy in the crisis hit n...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012* *Part 3—Trivia and gutless small weasels:* Has Mitt Romney been beating his wife? Well, not exactly *beating* his wife. Has Romney been *insulting* his wife about her silly st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck WESTERN XIZANG at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:12:03 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.1 miles) Northeast of Bhimeshwar, X...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (Reuters) - Stock index futures held near the unchanged mark after data showed weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week and the trade deficit was the smallest in 1-1/2 years.* S&P 500 futures d...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to Ken Norton; I guess I should say Ken Norton, Sr., 69. I do miss heavyweight boxing; ethics of it aside, and I'm not here to mount a defense, it really was a terrific sport to watch, and t...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoWhen Usain competes, U.S. aid plummets. At Andrew Sullivan's *Daily Beast*, Patrick Appel offers a few hypotheses about why Americans seem to care less about the killing of Sikhs than the killing of movieg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR at a depth of 73.4 km (45.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:36:29 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34.1 miles) Southwest from Son...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Who's watching their waist... and who's not?* The DCCC has all it's eggs in one basket: defeating Republican freshmen. As we've seen all cycle, the DCCC just doesn't go after senior Republicans, Republic...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoJust as Peter Kent is the Anti-Environment Minister, Lisa Raitt is the Anti-Labour Minister. Her job has been to legislate Canada Post, Air Canada and Canadian Pacific workers back to their workplaces b...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” - Mr. Spock, “Star Trek”, "Amok Time"
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 7.8 km (4.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:09:32 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) NNW from Goldstone Lake...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck NORTHERN COLOMBIA at a depth of 27.9 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:00:58 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) West of Tame, Colombia ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Bird And The Cage"* by Paulo Coelho "Once upon a time, there was a bird. He was adorned with two perfect wings and with glossy, colorful, marvelous feathers. One day, a woman saw this bird and ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago** *OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says he is willing to blow the whistle on banks that break international norms or don't comply with reforms designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financi...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 day ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Prior to the arrival of the Bush crime family in Texas, the state had been progressive and liberal; it was still possible to get a good education. That is true in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?” - Will Rogers
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago*No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantage is to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the ne...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoI was driving to work this morning listening to a rebroadcast of Democracy Now when they started talking about Chevron. Good old ALEC member Chevron. Chevron Corporation[14], "Director" level sponsor of 2...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“If You Wonder Why Medical CURES Are So Rare...”* by Karl Denninger "Type 1 Diabetes is a nasty disease in which the islet cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the body. This renders the sufferer u...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoThis is a recent photo from the Mars Rover -- explanations abound but to my mind it is obviously the shadow of Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews spying on the mission... . *I mean, he is everywhere isn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* DAMASCUS, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian army has started a ground operation and entered several key districts in the northern Aleppo province, local media reported Thursday. * The Syrian troops started a...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoIncreasing the detachment in Kimmirut makes sense. That said, this new incident is atypical and merely a sad suicidal man acting out. Yes, it could have ended very badly but it does not reflect a larger pr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoSeal, “Crazy” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VClKuaehZY
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Note: We have found and shown footage of rebels executing unarmed people during past few months, but no footage of actual Military Executing people...Why is that?* * * *Before anyone comments that we don...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (CNN) -- Despite weakening, Tropical Storm Ernesto poured heavy rains Wednesday on Mexico and portions of Central America, the National Hurricane Center said.* Ernesto, once a Category 1 hurricane, was ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Journey"* "One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice - though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the LOMBOK REGION, INDONESIA at a depth of 117 km (72.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:04:25 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) NNE from Mat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear moves are becoming harder for Israeli and U.S. intelligence to assess, making Teheran's suspected atomic weapons drive an even more urgent matter, Defence Minister Ehud Barak s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAug. 9 - Rescuers race to move thousands of residents trapped in floods across Manila and nearby provinces. Sarah Charlton reports.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"There Is Time Left"* “Well, there is time left – fields everywhere invite you into them. And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul? Quickl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAug. 9 - Japan remembers victims of the Nagasaki atomic bombing as nuclear energy continues to concern residents. Sarah Charlton reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*(Reuters) - As she was ushered into surgery eight years ago, Paula was confident that doctors at Washington's Howard University Hospital would find the cancer that had been growing in her right breast for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (Reuters) - Egyptian police fought gunmen in northern Sinai's main town of al-Arish on Thursday, state television reported, a day after security forces began a crackdown on Islamist militants in the regi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces a cloudy return from his short summer break as his expected request for European aid in September will spur protests on the street and deepen cracks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice investigating the disappearance of Carole Waugh have re-arrested Rakesh Bhayani on suspicion of murder. More follows...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Police hunting for Tia Sharp are liaising with officers who investigated the fake kidnap of Shannon Matthews as the search of bins outside Tia's grandmother's house continues. * Officers say they are tal...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoSince governments, national and local, often cite environmental protection, or ensuring a clean environment for the people, as among their important functions, I started the "Dirty Creeks" series here, and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to kill Imran Khan if the cricket player turned politician holds a planned march to their tribal stronghold to protest against US drone attacks. * Although the Pakis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* The EU is to hold urgent talks on Friday over the diplomatic row between Belarus and Sweden, which followed a political stunt involving teddy bears. * Belarus effectively expelled Swedish diplomats after ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian rebels seized a busload of 48 Iranians in Damascus on August 4 on suspicion of being military personnel. Iran, an ally of Assad, says they are religious pilgrims. All the Iranians kidnapped by Syri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Iran will today try to hijack international diplomacy as peace broker in Syria by stepping into the vacuum created by the resignation of Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab envoy, last week.* Tehran will today host...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (Reuters) - The Philippines began a massive clean-up on Thursday after floods swept the capital and nearby provinces, forcing residents to wade through shoulder-deep waters in some places after nearly tw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Fresh fighting has broken out between gunmen and police in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, according to state TV. * The clashes near a police station in the town of al-Arish come a day after the Egyptian milita...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A convicted murderer has been executed by lethal injection in Texas after the US Supreme Court rejected claims he was too mentally impaired to qualify for the death penalty. * Marvin Wilson’s lawyers arg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Police are searching bins outside Tia Sharp's grandmother's house as the hunt for the missing schoolgirl continues. * The 12-year-old has not been seen since last Friday when she left her grandmother Chr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Reports of a man seen hanging from a noose along a Las Vegas interstate prompted an uproar in 911 calls by horrified drivers this morning.* Teetering in a black suit and tie, officials say the first 'man...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* It was a desperate bid for freedom that, perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, was always going to be described as rubbish. * Two inmates tried to escape from a Brazilian prison by disguising themselves...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A suspected Basque terrorist who was on the run for 12 years has been arrested in Britain.* Kemen Uranga, 43, was detained on an international arrest warrant today in London and is wanted for the murder...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A jury in Jefferson County has convicted a 29-year-old mother of murder after leaving her two-year-old son to die in a sweltering car while she was unconscious through drug abuse in her apartment.* Desp...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThis fast translation from klaus.cz shows what kind of legislative junk is flowing from Brussels to Czechia these days... *Click the picture for an older (2010) TRF article on EU bans of heated houses.*...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A young man who told police he was beaten up in a would-be hate crime appeared in court today admitting that he made the entire incident up.* The story of Joseph Baken travelled from Missoula, Montana ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A housemate of the victim testified on the sixth day of Drew Peterson's murder trial that former Illinois policeman once broke into their shared home in SWAT gear and threatened his ex-wife at knife poin...
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