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- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 9 minutes ago*Facebook Corrects Error and Affirms its Goal of Providing a Politically-Neutral Platform for Election Issues, Including Marijuana Reform * Rainey Reitman *EFF* Last week, news outlets reported that Fac...
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- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 19 minutes agonow, I see so many annoying fucking things in this insane corporate world, but the one that pisses me off the most is THOSE WHO HAVE and THOSE WHO HAVE NOT; those who will eat tonight and those who won't e...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 20 minutes ago*Youtube* This seminal documentary, Genetic Roulette, provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting our...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 23 minutes ago*Dennis Kucinich* Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today urging Members of Congress to support legislation, H.R. 6290, to prevent future presidents from using the North Atlantic Treaty Organizati...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 minutes ago*El Sisi - committed to the Egypt-Israel peace accords* Egypt's new Minister of Defence is Abdel Fatah El-Sisi. "State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, acknowledging that Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 34 minutes agoScott Morgan *Stop The Drug War* The tendency of the courts to trash our privacy rights in a pathetic attempt to prevent marijuana smoking is so routine that I seldom bother even to point it out anymo...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 37 minutes agoAndrew Puhanic, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Carbon taxes are now being heralded as a new way to save thousands of lives, and as a means of reducing government spending on health care in the falsifie...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 38 minutes agoThe last 10 years our awareness of Islam not only has grown, but this awareness also became distorted by wars and self-destruction of people who said to act according 'the rules of Islam'. What 'rules'? N...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 50 minutes agoJonah Lehrer has done it again. I had thought that his invention of quotes and the like had been limited to his essays and books that dealt with people. I had thought that his science reporting had been mo...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 52 minutes agoStephen Lendman, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Last December, Truth 11.com offered a model for destroying and colonizing nations. In Orwellian newspeak, it said: 1. Global "Mafia" scoundrels tar...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 53 minutes ago*"Blogger The Sixth Estate has the name, rank and serial number for the 1,135 Conservative donors and sympathizers who have received patronage appointments since 2006. (Versus the 78 Liberals, 4 New Democ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 57 minutes agoI always find it interesting how propaganda is slipped into seemingly objective accounts. Today the Wall Street Journal provides yet another example. The article is titled "Japan's Nationalist Movement S...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 57 minutes agoCollections of "interviews" conducted abroad and "in the field" shape latest UN report - compiled by US corporate-financier representative Karen Koning AbuZayd. *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 15, 2012* - "...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoI don't have many grievances with Ontario but *Marineland* is a huge exception. For some reason the ads run all summer out here on the coast. They highlight two things that obviously go together, orca...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago- North Korea: future REM exporter? - Washington accuses Iran of training Syrian militia. It seems to me that the "meddling in Syrian affairs" ship has long sailed. - Hayes Brown repots on"So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSyrian military forces and rebel fighters have both committed crimes against humanity during the 17-month uprising against President Bashar al Assad's rule, UN investigators have concluded. The panel appo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck POTOSI, BOLIVIA at a depth of 218 km (135.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:21:33 UTC Wednesday 15th August 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (83.7 miles) Southwest of Uyuni, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA German neo-Nazi group is using modern technology to organise and showcase terrifying protests that have a chilling resemblance to the fascist torch rallies of the 1930s. In one, hundreds of black-clad ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoOkay, I admit I've been guilty of this one too, but: we're getting a fair amount of attention and analysis about the initial bump that Mitt Romney gets from announcing Paul Ryan as his running mate. And, s...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 hour agoFor many people, politics and government is a serious topic that only those academically and politically trained enough should enter politics. The showbiz guys, sports superstars, should keep out of politi...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012* *Wasserman Schultz adds ten years to his greatness:* For our money, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was less than great on Fox News Sunday this week. But the analysts came...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* A mysterious 'mad snake disease' that causes pythons to tie themselves up in knots may be caused by a rodent virus, scientists believe.* The fatal condition, called Inclusion Body Disease (IBD), strikes ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoTeach-in for Protection of the San Francisco Peaks Agenda Saturday, August 18, 2012 – Noon-6PM Native American Cultural Center N.A.U. Flagstaff, AZ ONGOING: Youth Caucus in Lobby By Protect the Peaks Posted...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoOnly two per cent of Canadians believe climate change is not happening. Two per cent, just one-in-fifty. *The findings are in a survey conducted by Insightrix Research, Inc. for IPAC-CO2 Research Inc., ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago*Judges have expressed 'great concern' after being forced to overturn the indefinite sentence imposed on a dangerous paedophile who will now serve just 18 months behind bars. * Simon Crisp twice tried to c...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012* *Soledad O'Brien’s first half hour, also starring Obama:* The stupidification of our discourse had rarely seemed quite so advanced. The stupidification was all over cable las...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoThis is what you're up against when Ottawa, Alberta, Big Oil and Enbridge come to play. The pipeline operator, gaming an already rigged system for clearance to build the Northern Gateway pipeline/Kitimat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* Record numbers of Britons are working part-time after those struggling to find full-time positions pushed the figure above the eight-million mark for the first time.* * *Official figures show that 8.07 m...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 2 hours agoLike the rain here this morning, readership is steadily increasing and very welcome. It’s interesting that as more people read this blog, I struggle with why I do it. I love to write. I also write to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* A generation of Britons could be left on the scrapheap as one million young people are still out of work, official figures revealed today. * The situation is at 'crisis point' as one in five 16 to 25-year...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours agoNow, far be it for me to defend this pro-corporate, neofascist administration of Barack Obama's. Personally, I've love to see few things more than Obama and his cohorts get frog-marched straight to the Ha...
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- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012* *PART 2—KRUGMAN’S WARNING:* Paul Krugman thinks he knows why Candidate Romney selected Candidate Ryan. He offered his theory in a recent blog post. We don’t know if he’s righ...
- posted by Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 2 hours agoBy Capt. Fogg There's something infuriating about those election year robo-calls. For me, it's because of the feeling of helplessness. You can always interrupt a human or even a sub-human caller, or if ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has agreed to grant Julian Assange asylum, officials within Ecuador's government have said. The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up at Ecuador's London embassy since 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* TOKYO — China and South Korea on Wednesday pressed Japan to face up to its wartime past, as festering territorial disputes flared and Asia marked the anniversary of Tokyo's World War II surrender. * Both...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 3 hours agoAP writes on the investment pact signed Thursday... The pact, which took two years to negotiate, offers investors from the two sides formal channels for dispute arbitration, while falling short of a Taiwa...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*New Orleans Saints Preview 2012: Alejandro de los Rios ~Gambit* *Opinion: Assessment appeals need makeover ~N.O. City Business* *Study Shows New Orleans in Poverty Crisis ~WWNO* *And they’re off! OPSB ca...
- posted by Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 3 hours agoIf you've been keeping score, this is the third post in a series about increasing the exposure to your blog by using social media. If you've missed the previous posts, you can find them below: Part 1 - Why...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours agoSome facts: In israel, thousands of Palestinians have been massacred by Israel over the past four decades. In addition, the 500,000 Palestinians living in Israel have long been subjected to state-sponsore...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoHappy Birthday to Rose Marie, 89. Straight to the good stuff: 1. I entirely completely totally agree with Kevin Drum here. But of course you knew that, I suppose. 2. Paul Ryan: More popular than John T...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoAlthough DC lobbyist Tommy Thompson is a little long in the tooth (and thought to be somewhat senile and confused by younger Republicans) to be running for a freshman seat in the Senate, that was hardly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* Two people trapped after a coach fell 30ft (10 metres) from a viaduct in Bath have been rescued by emergency services.* An Avon Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "A coach has left the road close t...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoA lot of press is given to the impact that the Voter ID legislation on the destruction the democratic process in the United States – by removing tens of millions of people from having the ability to vote....
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago*R v Coleman*, 2012 SKCA 65 is a useful decision discussing the often-visited question of what must be proven in order for an accused person to be held to have been in “care and control” of a motor vehicle...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours agoStephen Harper likes to claim that his values are Canadian values. If Harper truly based his decisions on evidence, he might begin to revaluate that assumption. According to a new poll from Insightrix R...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours agohttp://cifwatch.com/2012/08/15/whoss-afraid-of-the-jewish-state-guardian-editorial-derides-israels-enthusiasism-for-war/ The Guardian and the BBC's hatred for Israel is quite disgusting.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* Three people are feared trapped and two seriously injured after a coach crashed off the road in Bath.* Police, firefighters and paramedics were at the scene at the junction of Brassknocker Hill and the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* Stuart Hazell has appeared at the Old Bailey via video-link charged with the murder of Tia Sharp.* The defendant, from New Addington, south London, is accused of killing the 12-year-old schoolgirl betwe...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* Washington (CNN) -- Venezuelan officials have notified the United States about the arrest of an American citizen, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Tuesday. * Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* (CNN) -- Australia's High Court on Wednesday rejected an extradition request from Hungary for a suspected Nazi war criminal, ending a legal battle that began in 2005.* Charles Zentai and two fellow Hung...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAug. 14 - As three of their bandmates face trial, punk protest group Pussy Riot says it will continue its activism. Lindsey Parietti reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* (Reuters) - Security guards scuffled with masked protesters who demonstrated outside Moscow's main cathedral on Wednesday in support of three members of the Pussy Riot punk band who are on trial for stag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* (Reuters) - Worries about the slowing global economy following some gloomy data hit shares in Europe and Asia on Wednesday, although expectations of central bank action to stabilize the euro zone propped...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAustralia's high court rules in favor of tough anti-tobacco marketing laws that could affect tobacco companies around the world. Julie Noce reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAug. 15 - ''Natwest 3'' member David Bermingham, jailed over the Enron scandal, has harsh words for U.S. regulators as Standard Chartered settled for $340 million on claims the bank hid transactions with I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAug. 15 - Standard Chartered’s agreement to pay a $340mln settlement for disputed Iran trades is baffling as the numbers don’t stack up, an explanation is required say Breakingviews.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* (Reuters) - When U.S. carmakers slashed production capacity in exchange for government rescue four years ago, workers faced up to change. Though unions bargained hard for existing employees, they agreed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* (Reuters) - War with Iran would probably turn into a month-long conflict on various fronts with missile strikes on Israeli cities and some 500 dead, Israel's civil defense minister said in an interview p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* (Reuters) - Chinese activists landed on an island claimed by Japan and China on Wednesday and five were arrested as tension between Japan and its Asian neighbors escalated on the 67th anniversary of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* (Reuters) - A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces operatives is set to launch a media campaign, including TV ads, that scolds President Barack Obama for taking credit for the killing of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* At least 21 explosions have been heard across Damascus just hours after a bomb exploded in Damascus near a hotel used by UN observers, wounding at least three people. * Syrian state TV said the bomb near...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*George Zimmerman is all but broke and will ask the court to pay for his legal defense, his attorney claims -- despite the fact that the 28-year-old has raised nearly $250,000 through his website.* Defens...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agohttp://rjstreets.com/2012/08/13/apartheid-segregation-and-now-oppressive-occupation/
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the GUAM REGION at a depth of 62 km (38.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:03 UTC Wednesday 15th August 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) ESE from HAGATNA, Guam N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A former UFC fighter and MTV reality show host was arrested after allegedly breaking into and vandalizing a church in California.* Jason 'Mayhem' Miller was in jail on suspicion of burglary last night af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A prominent Republican campaigner is due in court today after five women came forward to say he had raped or sexually assaulted them.* Gregory Nathan Peterson, 37, has been accused of attacks going back ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoThe BBC reported that the 'Most popular baby names in 2011 are Harry and Amelia',m they included a list of the top 5 names and wrote about some of them. They did include this wordcloud which hints at what ...
- posted by Patrick Porter at The Duck of Minerva - 6 hours agoAll wars end. Or do they? Rather too often, we are being reminded that the 'war on terror' against the Al Qaeda terrorist network is far from over, in fact that it will never end and even, that it can nev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the REYKJANES RIDGE at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:04:29 UTC Wednesday 15th August 2012 The epicenter was 902 km (561 miles) Southwest from REYKJ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* An 18-month-old boy was killed in an apparent gas-related explosion that destroyed a house and injured 14 others.* The terrifying blast took place just before noon on Tuesday in a Long Island suburb of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Tia Sharp's accused murderer is being kept under 24-hour watch after prisoners have threatened to kill him, it is being claimed.* Stuart Hazell, the 12-year-old's step-grandfather is in isolation in Bel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the REYKJANES RIDGE at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:41:52 UTC Wednesday 15th August 2012 The epicenter was 900 km (559 miles) Southwest from RE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Parents are outraged in a New York suburb as information comes to light about a deal struck over a decade ago by a local public school that filled their sports fields with toxic chemical waste.* A possi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A police sting has led to the arrest of an HIV-positive church youth pastor who allegedly attempted to meet up with a 15-year-old boy for sex. * Under the username ‘collegetoy2033’, Kris Gowdy befriended ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A Catholic priest has been arrested on child sex abuse charges.* The Rev Angel Armando Perez, 46, the parish priest at St Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn, Oregon, was arrested on Monday after police res...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A mother has gone on trial accused of raping her baby daughter from birth until she was 18 months old -and allowing her 62-year-old boyfriend to join in the assaults. * Melissa Bailey, 29, faces spending...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A Delaware pediatrician who researches near-death experiences involving children may have been experimenting on his 11-year-old stepdaughter by waterboarding her, police said in court documents.* The po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* When a disgraced ex-pastor swallowed suspicious-looking white pills in court after he was found guilty of sex crimes against juveniles, a shocked courtroom assumed it was a suicide attempt.* But a toxic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe U.S. military's X-51A Waverider has gotten its first view of the clouds, the MailOnline can reveal. This morning, just after 11 a.m., the B-52 bomber carrying the X-51A was airborne for the craft's te...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Groupon's stock is 27 per cent cheaper Tuesday, but that doesn't make it a bargain.* Its stock fell as analysts slashed targets and ratings on the online deals company after it reported its first-ever q...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A teenage altar boy committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on a quiet village street. * Hundreds attended the funeral of 13-year-old William Rudloff on Monday. His distraught mother asked the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A New York City police officer shot a dog who apparently snapped at him in a sad scene on a busy Manhattan street.* The dog is reportedly clinging to life after the shooting, which occurred on the corne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*An 18-year-old used a sickle to beat his five-year-old niece to death before stuffing her body in a plastic container in the family garage, authorities said.* Matthew Kaleb Pierson has been charged with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*In an effort to catch one of the world’s most notorious drug kingpins, the U.S. may use the same daring methods that took down Osama bin Laden.* More than a year after the terror leader’s demise in Abotta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* China's most wanted fugitive, who is thought to have shot dead nine people since 2004 in armed robberies, was himself killed by police in southern China today, following a massive manhunt across the coun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* The source of a huge cluster of floating volcanic rocks spotted last week off the coast of New Zealand has been discovered.* Nasa satellite images and earthquake records have pinpointed an erupting unde...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A mother-of-two has been jailed for making two false rape claims against men she was dating after one, who she had met online, failed to show up for a liaison.* Emma Saxon, 23, from Sheffield, was jaile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A finance director who stole more than £750,000 from his employer to fund a lavish lifestyle including £10,000 holidays has been jailed for four years.* Ian Kelsey siphoned off an average of £100,000 a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* The private firm at the centre of the Olympics security shambles is looking to hire former police officers as civilian investigators to work on sensitive, high-profile cases. * G4S Policing Solutions, pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Stacy Murphy was like any other young woman her age.* The pretty blonde, who was 'loved by everyone', was a cheerleader, went to church regularly and had dreams of being a vet. But the 20-year-old died ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Illegal traders caught selling dangerous bootleg alcohol and tobacco are avoiding being named and shamed because of council fears over breaching their human rights.* Half of all the businesses visited d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* An Oklahoma man accused of murdering the ex-boyfriend of his girlfriend and then dismembering the corpse has been refused bail.* A Garvin County judge denied bond Tuesday for Justin Hammer, who is charge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*The moribund eurozone economy was on the brink of recession last night – but countries such as Germany and France continue to outperform Britain.* Eurostat, the European Union statistics agency, said outp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*The recession is to blame for more than 1,000 suicides, claim researchers.* They estimate that 846 more men and 155 extra women took their own lives between 2008 and 2010 than would have been expected if ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 92.7 km (57.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:54:37 UTC Wednesday 15th August 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) South of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*A spurned teenager stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death with a six inch kitchen knife just hours after she begged police for help, a court heard.* Thomas Dalton, 19, is accused of waiting for Samantha Laney...
- Kehyren Sajid 'dragged toddler across mat like a rag doll and mistreated other children in her care'posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* A nursery nurse dragged a toddler across a mat 'like a ragdoll' while mistreating infants in her care, a court heard today.* Kehyren Sajid was allegedly captured on CCTV mistreating youngsters at the Sm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Classy: Mrs Mahmoud's son came out to show his appreciation of us paying for him to live in the UK.* A family of jobless refugees who allegedly wrecked a £1.25million house paid for by the taxpayer clai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* A young British tourist suffocated on his vomit after drinking huge quantities of cheap alcohol in the popular Cypriot tourist resort of Ayia Napa, police said last night.* George Yuill, 20, from south-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Over 13 years as an MEP, Daniel Hannan has witnessed first hand how Brussels works. Now he has written a forensic analysis of why it’s rotten to the core. His devastating critique should be required read...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* The remains of hundreds of warriors who died in a violent battle around 2,000 years ago have been uncovered in a Danish bog.* For the last two months, excavators have come across damaged bones, fracture...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Universities are closing courses to Britons while offering places in clearing to overseas students who pay tuition fees of up to £20,000 a year.* Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff are among those taking ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Foreign workers are being employed above young Britons because companies think that they are 'lazy and uneducated', a report said today.* The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has warned 'y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia — Thousands of protesters demonstrated against Tunisia's ruling Islamist party during a general strike Tuesday in Sidi Bouzid, hub of the 2011 uprising, an AFP journalist reported.* ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Colin Kahl who once served as US deputy assistant secretary of defense says he does not believe Netanyahu, Barak bluffing adds they are preparing Israeli public for military strike.* Until the end of 20...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* A large explosion has struck close to a military compound in the Syrian capital, Damascus, near a hotel used by the UN's observer mission. * Syrian state TV reported that three people had been injured in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* A hundred extra police have been sent to the northern French town of Amiens, 24 hours after a night of violence during which officers came under attack and a primary school was torched.* Tensions were s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* President Kibaki condoled with President Yoweri Museveni and assured him Kenya would get to the bottom of his military choppers’ crashes on Mount Kenya as eight more soldiers were rescued.* Meanwhile th...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoI stumbled across a rather nasty individual on Twitter who threw at me the accusation that when Jews bake matzah they include non-Jewish blood in it. I challenged @Jew4palestine several times about this bu...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoPhysicists Roger Cohen, William Happer, and Richard Lindzen wrote a calm and sensible text about weather extremes in the Wall Street Journal: 'Climate Consensus' Data Need a More Careful Look They menti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*France's interior minister has been jostled and jeered in the northern French city of Amiens where rioters clashed with police. * The trip by Manuel Valls came after two nights of trouble between police a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* Two grenades exploded inside a mosque compound during morning prayers in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, wounding at least nine worshippers, an Afghan official said. * The attack in eastern Khost provi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials are accusing Iran of increased meddling in Syria, including efforts to bolster its flagging armed forces, who are weary after 18 months of war.* Defense Secretar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* The British Government is assisting Kenyan authorities investigating allegations British soldiers murdered a 21-year old Kenyan woman. * Agnes Wanjiru-Wanjiku disappeared from a hotel in the Kenyan town o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNorwegian police launch a probe into a threatening letter sent by someone purporting to be Anders Breivik's second in command. A person claiming to be Norwegian mass-killer Anders Breivik's second in comm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* Sir Richard Branson's train company has lost its West Coast main line rail franchise in a Government decision expected to spark a storm of protest.* Transport giant FirstGroup has beaten Virgin Rail in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* A bomb has exploded in Damascus near a hotel used by UN observers, wounding at least three people, according to Syrian state TV.* It said the bomb was planted on a fuel lorry. The blast occured in the c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 150 km (93.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:12:39 UTC Wednesday 15th August 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) Northwest of Kiz...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck TAIWAN at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:24:02 UTC Wednesday 15th August 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) East from Fenglin, Taiwan No Tsunam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the REYKJANES RIDGE at a depth of 87 km (53.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:21:33 UTC Wednesday 15th August 2012 The epicenter was 879 km (544.9 miles) Southwest from Ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 46.2 km (28.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:56:37 UTC Tuesday 14th August 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) Sout...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThe human occupation of Mars will have to wait until we have our own Magnetic Field Exclusion Vessels (MFEVs) able to easily transport us there and back. Google this blog for a full description an...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is all quite possible and fits the time frames related to looting opportunities during both World Wars and the additional looting that took place during the French Revolution. Add it all up...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoIt appears that major subduction zone quakes around the ring of fire occur more or less every five hundred years or so. In fact it should be treated as inevitable. There may be specific locales...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck NEVADA at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:17:45 UTC Tuesday 14th August 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) Northeast from Zenobia, Nevada No Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck XINJIANG-XIZANG BORDER REGION at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:33:00 UTC Tuesday 14th August 2012 The epicenter was 286 km (177.3 miles) Southeast...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours ago* * *Michael channeled by Ron Head* *August 13, 2012 in Michael, Ron's Channeled Messages * Today we must discuss the period of energies which you are continuing to pass through and also the changes to...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoSome of the AUPE members who work at the Revera Riverbend facility in Edmonton, which ended yesterday when the Alberta government imposed a first-contract binding arbitration process and ordered an end to ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoI had a magical evening with my extended family last night at my sisters cabin outside of Yellowstone Park. We ate, drank, laughed, feed deer (5 of them!) and watched shooting stars! I don't think I h...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*Syria is the jewel of the Middle East.* "Syria is being invaded by proxy, by the US, NATO, Israel, and the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC). Of this there is no doubt. The corporate-financier interest...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago*Al Qaeda in Libya.* *1.* Libyans, with Irish connections, are now fighting in Syria. Hussam Najjar is from Dublin. He has an Irish mother and goes by the name of Sam. He is now fighting with the rebels...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoAurora Massacre: Mayor Steve Hogan “There is Something is Very Seriously Wrong Here” Posted on August 14, 2012 by willyloman by Scott Creighton (H/T Chris P) Common sense… it’s not just for conspiracy theo...
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 11 hours agoI have some misgivings about Professor Hobsbawm, given his past as sort of an apologist for Stalin. But I thought he has some excellent observations here, and I was surprised to discover that he's still al...
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- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoMajia here: I've posted previously about the work of Capt. Clyde Stagner, Retired. He spent much of his professional life monitoring radiation readings for government agencies. I will post links to his ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 12 hours ago“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion …, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions o...
- posted by Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 12 hours agoA recent report in *The Australian* has brought to light the way in which the fighting in Syria is being regulated by the US. According to the report, the CIA is denying anti-Assad fighters the heavier wea...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoBlue America has endorsed 4 progressive doctors this cycle, Lee Rogers (CA-25), Syed Taj (MI-11), David Gill (IL-13) and Matt Heiz (D-AZ). The first 3 won their primaries and will face anti-health care Re...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 12 hours 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 Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*I've still got the itch. * "EEE risk called worst in decades" by Kay Lazar and Zachary T. Sampson | Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, August 08, 2012 This year’s *infestation of mosquitoes* infected...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 13 hours ago"For the greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." - President John F. Kennedy, Yale University ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Volunteers are seen packing assorted relief food at the social welfare operation center in Manila, on 14 August 2012, for distribution to thousands of flood-affected residents throughout the capi...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago"Not only was a sense of the sacredness of human life put into question, because the word sacred doesn't mean anything in the context of modern science, it just pure sentimentality, but what happened was t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Aerial view of the Taylor Bridge fire in Washington state, 14 August 2012. NBC News] 14 August 2012 (NBC News) – Wildfires raged in several Western states on Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours agoErnest Hemingway
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agofrom the Center for American Progress (download pdf here) *"In 1990 candidates for state supreme courts only raised around $3 million, but by the mid-nineties, campaigns were raking in more than five time...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours agoAs this fellow says at the Houzz site (very useful site for helping you select your favourite ‘clippings’ for your next architectural project, by the way), all architects are influenced by the architects...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 17 hours ago*The Guardian* reports that Ecuador has granted Julian Assange political asylum. Given that the WikiLeaks founder remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, it's unclear whether asylum will me...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoTeddy bears in Court -- a fairly typical trial...Video here
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Let's try a somewhat different format for this one*: *Latest Facebook Scandal: Widespread Advertising Fraud * Just as the IPO was mired with fraud so is advertising on Facebook as marketer’s slowly being...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours ago*R. v. Bellusci,* 2012 SCC 44 deals with a stay of prosecution because of abusive police conduct. The Court, albeit restricting its position to rare cases, upheld such a stay. Some might argue that abusive...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoMusic by Chuck Wild, "Liquid Mind - VII: Reflection - My Orchid Spirit.” Images courtesy of ESA, ESO, NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK_2fgj_Vts&feature=g-vrec
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago“Where will the next Perseid meteor appear? Sky enthusiasts who trekked outside for the Perseid meteor shower that peaked over the past few days typically had this question on their mind. Six meteors from...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoOn 9 Aug 2012, the Department of Commerce, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by way of the National Weather Service, put out a solicitation for a small variety of ammunition. The so...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoTook me all day to decide if I liked this photo or not. Decided that I like it a lot. BuzzFeed billed it as The Wizard. I think I would have called it The Visionary. Either way it's a brilliant catch by th...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 18 hours agoSmiling Buddha, Angkor Wat No matter where you are or what you're doing, you have only two choices in life, to be happy or not to be happy. Which one do you choose? There is no way to happiness, hap...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours agoOne thing about twitter: it's really the best yet for getting election results. I'll be watching, or reading or whatever we call it, for the Wisconsin Senate race. Yes, mainly because I made a more specifi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*From the government's own mouth:* "Justice Dept. rips report on Fast and Furious; Says GOP wrong to lay flawed plan to Obama team" by Pete Yost | Associated Press, August 01, 2012 WASHINGTON — In *Ope...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 18 hours agoThis article is dated June 24th of this year, but, how much has changed in 6 weeks time? Op-ed from the CFR *Summary: **Morsi’s victory in Egypt's presidential election puts Islamists in control an offi...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours agoFrom Think Progress Crossroads GPS And Americans For Prosperity Outspend All Super PACs Combined | Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS (an affiliate of the super PAC American Crossroads) and the Koch brothers’ Ame...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“A One-Minute Course In The Philosophy Of Science”* by Chet Raymo "There was a time in my life, many years ago, when I immersed myself in the philosophy of science. I wanted to understand what science...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.” - Pierre Abelard
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Why We Don’t Remember: The Gift of This Journey"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM ․ "If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, ...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 19 hours agoWhat do you do once the Olympics is over? For most of us it’s a period of adjustment from wall to wall sport back to normal life, but what about the technology that was used to support the event? Does i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"The Great Affair" * * * “The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*Gue$$ who wants to know?* *This is without a doubt one of the most insulting articles I have read in quite some time and an example of why I'm really souring on reading the Boston Globe right now (as the...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*I don't know which is more insane, Fed policy or my continued reading of the Boston Globe.* "Sentiment grows for further Fed stimulus" July 25, 2012 WASHINGTON — A growing number of Federal Reserve offic...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoCan I give a Catch of the Day to a reaction to something that no one has said yet? Oh, why not, since I like the piece a lot. It's Robert Farley, pre-debunking what he suspects is going to be an emerging ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*Meh and meh* Yesterday we talk about how the disdain with which Floridians hold the Ryan plan to kill Medicare and privatize Social Security is likely to help Democrats reelect Bill Nelson to the Senate ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours agoYouTube Video Description: "Melvyn Bragg examines the myths and theology that inspired the Vikings. With guests Carrolyn Larrington, Heather O'Donohue and John Hines."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago* (CNN) -- Whipped by high winds, a wildfire in central Washington state has scorched 26,500 acres and destroyed at least 60 homes, officials said Tuesday.* The fire raging near Cle Elum is one of severa...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 20 hours agoToday, I went on a tour of the Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant near Grindavik, Iceland (pictured above). During the visit I learned that the facility produces >300 megawatts of electricity plus hot wat...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*What do we do with a quasi-government agency that bought boatloads of mortgage-backed securities s***?* "Treasury may seek a post-Fannie Mae safety net" April 19, 2012|By Cheyenne Hopkins, Clea Benson an...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 20 hours agoGaye Levy, *Contributor* *Activist Post* In North America, we are enjoying the final months of summer. This is a time for family activities, picnics, BBQs with friends and perhaps a weekend camping tri...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: FAO Food Price Index for July 2012. The FAO Cereal Price Index averaged 260 points in July, up 17 percent, or 38 points, from June. That was 14 points below its all-time high of 274 points in Apr...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 20 hours agoUS, British, NATO, and GCC are arming and funding the foreign invasion of Syria - Western media providing increasingly tenuous "revolutionary" cover. *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 14, 2012* - Reuters today...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* Authorities are looking into an incident at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant, located 70 miles south of Baltimore in Maryland. The malfunction poses no risk to the public, but it did cause a major drop i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* Aug 14 (Reuters) - Russia will send two navy vessels to the disputed Kuril islands in the Pacific, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, in a move likely to anger Japan which lays claim to them. * The di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* (Reuters) - Norway's prime minister came under pressure to resign on Tuesday after an official report said police could have prevented a murder spree by far right militant Anders Behring Breivik last yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* The highest court in Massachusetts rejected the appeal of a British man convicted of killing his wife and baby daughter in their rented home, saying in its decision released today that warrantless search...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* Anton Vickerman's sentence may set an example, but don't search engines do as much to facilitate piracy as sites like surfthechannel?* Four years is longer than the average jail term for assault or burgl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* (Reuters) - Germany's Economy Minister Philipp Roesler has warned against using populism in the debate over the euro zone crisis and stressed the commitment of his party, the pro-business Free Democrats ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAug. 14 - As three of their bandmates face trial, punk protest group Pussy Riot says it will continue its activism. Lindsey Parietti reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAug. 14 - Another body is discovered at South Africa's Lonmin mine after a feud between rival unions left nine people, including two polices officers, dead. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 21 hours agoالباحثون في مختبر كاسبرسكي في روسيا نطلب من الجمهور للحصول على مساعدة في تكسير رأس حربية المشفرة التي يحصل تسليمها إلى الأجهزة المصابة من قبل مجموعة الأدوات الخبيثة غاوس. يحصل فك الرؤوس الحربية من قبل ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* (Reuters) - Veteran fighters of last year's civil war in Libya have come to the front-line in Syria, helping to train and organize rebels under conditions far more dire than those in the battle against M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*Standard Chartered has agreed a £217m ($340m) settlement with US regulators over allegations the UK-based bank hid illegal transactions involving Iran.* Under the deal with New York State Department of F...
- Link: http://youtu.be/uWCBnYE48Ss Just to reset my mind... The number is called: *Guitar Sbrego*. John
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 22 hours agoI'm just getting angry all the time now; I feel CUT OFF from whatever everyone else is experiencing. Even though I'm convinced THEY'RE the deluded ones with their contacts hither and yon and their visio...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours agoTacoma, Washington, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago“You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 22 hours agoSusanne Posel,* Contributor* *Activist Post* The medical industry in conjunction with Big Pharma wants to classify the right to keep and bear arms as a mental disorder in another power grab to circumv...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"What Does Liberty Really Mean to You?"* By David Galland "For some time now – years actually – I have pondered the nature of liberty. Or more specifically, what liberty actually means to me. And to ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 22 hours ago------------------------------ TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 Bill Black: “Budget Hero” – Public Media’s Most Despicable Financial Propaganda *By Bill Black, the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoFor New Nuclear Chief, Concerns Over Plant Safety. by Matthew Wald. Aug 13, 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/us/new-nuclear-commission-chief-faces-waste-storage-questions.html?nl=todaysheadlines&em...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS at a depth of 45.3 km (28.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:08:16 UTC Tuesday 14th August 2012 The epicenter was 376 km (234 miles) ESE f...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 23 hours agoWhat should be obvious is that the geothermal potential for Japan is superb and that a national effort to displace nuclear power is both feasible and timely. The engineering is mature and readil...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 23 hours agoJames Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Federal Business Online has announced that American Homeland Security Consulting Group, LLC has been awarded $56,994 to provide the Transportation Security A...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 23 hours ago*Activist Post* This weekend please join the former Congresswoman and Presidential candidate, Cynthia McKinnney, along with Roseanne Barr – who is running for President this November! Both of these coura...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours agoBy Mark Strassmann 13 August 2012 DULAC, Louisiana – Shrimping season opened Monday off Louisiana and fishermen can't get over what they're now finding in their nets. Some say the coastline is under in...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 23 hours agoImage Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* *Activist Post* According to recently filed court documents, Miami police brutally broke a man’s arm and then falsely prosecuted him after he refused an offer of pro...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoToday Paul Ryan is kissing the ring of Organized Crime figure Sheldon Adelson at his casino in Las Vegas, the Venetian. Although no one expects Adelson to lure Ryan into the same kind of honey trap he cau...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago*TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012* *Straining, top pundits produce:* Over at the Washington Post, the Flyweights Two have now weighed in concerning the Ryan selection. Dana Milbank journeyed to Iowa, to the sta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.” - Jose Ortega y Gasset
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 23 hours agoOne of the oldest and biggest of Canadian political anxieties is the strife between French and English Canada. As Part II in an intended series, I'd like to describe the progressive position on this issu...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours agoFrom Newsnight's Twitter... Well said @jhnbrssndn
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago‘I am entitled to live in a house like this’ The Mail have the weep-making details, here's an extract: 'Mrs Mahmoud, who has five young daughters and two teenage sons, insisted she had the right to live ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoMajia here: It is my very strong conviction that climate change is real (although, I believe that the carbon market and climate derivatives are a major scam and are infused with fraud at every level). ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAh, takes you back to those great childhood years
- posted by Jon Western at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoOne of the defining features of the current era of globalization is the rise in uncertainty and complexity in global politics. There are more actors, more transactions, and more challenges as a result. ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoAfter taking one day off to recharge my batteries, I am feeling better and now its back to business as usual. A friend of mine, Buelahman, who writes the blog: "Buelahman's Revolt" at www.buelahman.wordpr...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 1 day agoAudio Version My dreams changed last weekend. I was away from home, and they took me even further. I was not in a place I’ve ever imagined or with anyone I’ve consciously known this lifetime. I bel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- The death toll from a pair of earthquakes that jolted Iran on Saturday has escalated once again, state-run media reported Monday. * At least 306 people have been killed and 3,037 in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (CNN) -- A Thai politician accidentally shot and killed his former wife and personal secretary with a submachine gun in a restaurant in northern Thailand, local police said Monday.* Senator Boonsong Kow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (CNN) -- Two Tibetans set themselves on fire on Monday, adding to a string of self-immolations in protest against Chinese rule in the troubled region, according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan endured an unusually bloody day Tuesday, with three separate attacks leaving at least 41 people dead and more than 100 wounded, according to government and police...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck NORTHWESTERN IRAN at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:48:23 UTC Tuesday 14th August 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) West of Ahar, Iran No Injuri...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago*Bereft by Robert Frost* Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing there for, Holding open a restive door, Looking down hill to a frothy shore? S...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFurther evidence that America is being transformed into a genuine "warfare state" comes from a report in *Wired* magazine that the Pentagon is planning to unleash SEAL teams to attack and kill drug lords s...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day agoGlobal Research George Szamuely Let’s revisit the curious lack of military action on the morning of September 11. That morning, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard B. Myers, was havi...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoFrom the delightfully informative traditional Republican, Glenn Greenwald, we learn a few more psychological details about our "leaders." And I know I'm speaking out of turn, but I've wondered from the fir...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Adult pale grass blue (Zizeeria maha) butterflies from the Fukushima area show numerous mutations. Otaki, et al., 2012 via BBC]By Nick Crumpton, BBC News 13 August 2012 Exposure to radioactive...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck NEAR ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:17:41 UTC Tuesday 14th August 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) Sou...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThose who suspect that Steve Harper has "fixed" the environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway pipeline initiative won't be surprised to learn the board reviewing the proposal has ruled the U.S. Tran...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ http://video.msnbc.msn.com/hardball/48652609/#48652609 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Cherchez la Verite
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day agoOccupy Corporatism Susanne Posnell The medical industry in conjunction with Big Pharma want to classify the right to keep and bear arms as a mental disorder in another power grab to circumvent and eventua...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoAs always, I'm interested in whether the Senate resumes getting gradually older, as it did up through the record 111th Senate, or if it gets somewhat younger, as it did in the current Congress. Last week ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day agoAnthony Gucciardi *Activist Post* It’s no secret that tap water contains a medley of harsh chemicals, heavy metals, fecal matter, puss, urine, and many other problematic substances. The dangers of tap...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day agoIn the 1960s and 70s of my early childhood, divorce was rare. I was the only child in kindergarten who came from a “broken” home. The burning question always asked of me: “Where is your father?” was at ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day agoGlobal Research Prof. James F. Tracy The news media’s readiness to accept official pronouncements and failure to more vigorously analyze and question government authorities in the wake of "domestic terr...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day agoimage source Julian Rose *Activist Post* By all accounts time is speeding up and space-time is contracting. As we move further into 2012 this phenomenon is almost palpable. Just where do the hours and da...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoOscar Pistorius' historic run as the first double-amputee Olympic athlete has revived the ongoing discussion of whether or not the Paralympics should be integrated into the Olympics. (Stories in *The Guard...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoCanadian doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals continue to mention refugee health care at every public media opportunity. In this case, a student nurse takes advantage of Lisa Raitt's appear...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day ago*Source: Planeta UFO and VISION OVNI Date: 08.14.2012* *Argentina: Mass Cattle Mutilations in Formosa* *By Andrea Pérez Simondini* We had barely emerged from the commotion caused by cases in Entr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Radiation Disease - * *Here Are The Symptoms And Causes"* by Mark Sircus, AC, OMD "What does radiation do to us? It burns the cells, kind of like burning down a house. It is well known that radia...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoFrom the SSA Q1: When did Social Security start? A: The Social Security Act was signed by FDR on 8/14/35. Q3: When did Medicare start? A: Medicare was passed into law on July 30, 1965 but beneficiaries ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Hydrocoast Map Released by Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation*~Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation (LPBF) sees a parallel between water monitoring and weather forecasting. Just as weather networks and we...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012* *Pimps Romney’s message three times:* Rachel Maddow floundered and flailed when asked about it on Meet the Press. Earlier on that program, RNC chairman Reince Priebus had pushe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied To Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout"* by PRNewswire "An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the F...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed afte...Shades of the Cuban missile crisis - and submarine bays in Cuba for Soviet craft
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