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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute agoAn oil tanker catches fire in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after an explosion at the Holly Frontier Corporation refinery. The blast, and subsequent fire on Thursday caused one smokestack to collapse. Firefighters co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes ago*A yearling female sheep in West Texas has been diagnosed with anthrax. This is the second confirmed case of anthrax in a Texas animal for 2012 and the first in livestock this year. The infected sheep was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago*GNS Science has issued a volcanic alert for White Island in the Bay of Plenty, due to signs of increased activity.* The aviation alert code has been lifted by GNS from green to yellow, which is when a v...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 minutes ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago*Low-level radioactivity was discovered in a packaged oats product from Japan on sale at a retail outlet in Hong Kong, a spokesman for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygien...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes ago*HA NOI — Freak tornadoes swept through three southern provinces early yesterday killing two people, injuring about 75 others and destroying nearly 700 homes.* Thousands of people are reported to have be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes ago*The mayor of Naugatuck has declared a state of emergency after a freak rainstorm caused flash floods on Wednesday afternoon.* The storm dumped more than five inches of rain and two dangerous downpours...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes ago*PHOENIX — Flood waters in the Phoenix area were receding Wednesday, a day after firefighters rescued a baby and several other people who were trapped in their vehicles.* A dust and monsoon storm late Tue...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 18 minutes ago*Global Research* *Susan Posnell* * * *The US government has been scheming on how to provide for continuity of government for many decades now. According to Peter Santilli, an informant who is an ex-marine...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 19 minutes agoBringing new meaning to "indoctrinating the children" this is quite possibly the most disgraceful exploitation of a child I've ever seen that doesn't involve actual physical abuse. Find the gun bit es...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 22 minutes ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes ago*OAKLAND CITY, Ind. — Residents of a southwestern Indiana county began cleaning up Wednesday following a severe storm that brought much-needed rain but also damaged homes, caused power outages and pummele...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 31 minutes agoHave you all been enjoying the Olympics as much as I have? I keep forgetting to do other things as I am glued to gymnastics, beach volleyball, swimming and even some of less watched sports. I will prett...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 37 minutes agoThe Appeal Court of Ontario has upheld a man’s jail sentence for criminal negligence and assault after a racially motivated attack on anglers that left one of them with permanent brain damage. The Crown h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 38 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:42:45 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (8 miles) NNE from East End...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes ago*The Philippines has summoned Cambodia's ambassador over comments linked to Manila's territorial row with Beijing.* Hos Sereythonh was asked to explain remarks accusing the Philippines and Vietnam of pla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes ago‘If America can do it to Manning, what will happen to my son?' – Christine Assange
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour agoFederal Jack Popeye (WAC NYC) Luke Rudkowski talks with Abby Martin of MediaRoots.org and RT about U.S. Senator Rand Paul’s attempt to get her arrested and stripped of her press credentials for asking him...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 hour agoFox News and others just promote a new paper in Nature Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch (by Jörg Pross + 16 + 318 co-authors) which claims the dis...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour agoThe President Of Iran Is Calling For The 'Annihilation Of Israel' http://t.co/8FbuE559 -- Robert Johnson (@JohnsonRW)
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*Bogus Facebook accounts are on the rise, according to a report filed by the social network with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday.* In its 10-Q statement, Facebook reported ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour agoSlate David S. Levine *The Trans-Pacific Partnership could completely change intellectual property law. But the details are being kept secret. * Imagine being invited to formally offer input on a huge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the NORTH INDIAN OCEAN at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:25:17 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 771 km (479 miles) WSW from Banda Ac...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 hour ago
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoThe Tea Party hatriots are hyped up by their victory in Texas. “This all proves what we’ve said all along,” said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, “that the Tea Party movement is he...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago*A list that comes with a bad odor* EMILY's List used to be thought of as a cherished, even indispensable, piece of the progressive infrastructure. That was a *long* time ago. More recently they've been p...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago*Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka the Arab Bush, is shaking hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao.* *Read the following articles, especially the first two by Voltaire Network:* Voltaire Network: “Syria r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*One of the UK's most wanted suspects has been arrested during a drugs raid in Portugal.* Lee Dryden, 49, was held with four others after the seizure of a boat with 178 kilograms of cocaine on board on t...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour agoWashington's Blog MOSSAD Agents Posing as "Al Qaeda"Forget the claims and allegations that false flag terror - governments attacking people and then blaming others in order to create animosity towards th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck HONDURAS at a depth of 35.5 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:36:35 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) WSW from Santa Rosa de Copán, Co...
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- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 2 hours agoI posted this on Facebook some time ago, but not on the Duck. The setting is Edinburgh Castle. Time time is shortly before the firing of the One o'Clock Gun. Skip to about 50 seconds in.
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoBuffalo News The City of Buffalo has a chance to be the first in the country to ban Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, also known as drones. A group of activists and community leaders came to City Hall on Tuesda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago*Borrowing costs for Italy and Spain have risen after the European Central Bank delayed a decision to restart a bond-buying programme. * ECB President Mario Draghi told a news conference in Frankfurt that ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours agohttp://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-greenfield/islams-universal-economic-failure/ Well worth a read...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoInstitute for Political Economy Paul Craig Roberts The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into next century when any s...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFormer U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is stepping down as the U.N.-Arab League mediator in the 17-month-old Syria conflict at the end of the month, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said in a statement on Thursda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago*A drug addict has been jailed for life for the murder of a pensioner he attacked during a street robbery late last year.* Nellie Geraghty was found with severe head injuries, mumbling and face down in m...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 2 hours agoRumor has it that Grist may publish my impressions of the RAMPS action to shut down the largest mountaintop removal mine in the state of West Virginia, so pending their decision, I will have to wait to pos...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours agoI have been doing my best over the last year to get as much information out to everyone concerning the TRUTH about exactly what is and has been happening with the still deadly situation at Fukushima Japan....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the CERAM SEA, INDONESIA at a depth of 61 km (37.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:10:47 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (83.7 miles) East of Amahai...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 2 hours ago[image: Chicas jugando Volleyball Playero en los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012]
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 2 hours ago
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoLong-Term Outcomes after Phthalate Exposure: Food Intake, Weight Gain, Fat Storage, and Fertility in Mice by Wendee Holtcamp Environmental Health Perspectives http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArti...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoMajia Here: This story is so strange and disturbing that I had to post it. The Wall Street Journal reports on Aug 1, 2012, p. B1 "Genetically Modified Tires" by Bob Tita [Excerpted] "High yielding, genet...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 2 hours agoJill Stein, presidential candidate on the Green Party ticket, has been arrested and charged with trespassing after a sit-in protest against foreclosures at Fannie Mae in Philadelphia. Since she had just wo...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours agoThe guillotine is a device used for carrying out executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope, and the condemne...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*'N.O. to Venice Project' ro prepare Plaquemines for storms * *Corps sending the Butcher to unclog Lake Providence Port ~Monroe News Star* * * *Bids on Former Bywater Base Call for Film Education Center, H...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoI missed this one earlier this week... Brendan Doherty is blogging about incumbent presidents and electioneeringover at the Monkey Cage this week, based on his new book on the same topic. Anyway, it's no ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012* *The repurposing is complete:* Chris Matthews was quite worked up at the start of last evening’s Hardball. To watch the full segment, click this. As we ingested his opening p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS at a depth of 16.8 km (10.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:32:09 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 476 km (296 miles) Northeast from P...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012* *We’re forced to give Charles a prize:* Tribal fervor rots the mind. This rather obvious pattern dates back into prehistory. This week, our dumbness has us fighting about the ow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*Rebel fighters near Syria's city of Aleppo have attacked a key army base, using a tank seized from the military.* The rebels say they bombarded the base to the north of Aleppo, which had been used to la...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA teenager killed eight people with a knife and wounded five more in northeast China after falling out with his girlfriend, state media said Thursday. The teen killed two of her family members and six mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*The European Central Bank has decided to leave its main interest rate unchanged at record-low 0.75%.* The decision comes after officials wait to see whether inflation and the eurozone economy slow furthe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*The cyclist killed by a bus near Olympic Park has been named as 28-year-old Dan Harris.* An inquest into Mr Harris' death has opened at Poplar Coroner's Court. The inquest was quickly adjourned until Au...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 4 hours ago
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- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoRule 56.01 allows for an order for security for costs where: (e) there is good reason to believe that the action or application is frivolous and vexatious and that the plaintiff or applicant has insuffici...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours agoI get a lot of emails asking for advice about putting together their graduate-school applications. I also get a lot of emails asking how to "improve" an application to make it "more competitive." I suspect...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 4 hours ago[image: Iron Buddhas] *Paperback, 213 Pages **:* $9.99 Ships in 3-5 business days Iron Buddhas is a lightly fictionalized memoir of a woman's experiences tree planting and fire fighting in the Pacific Nor...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 4 hours ago
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours agoFrom left, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and David Crosby. Photo by Darrel Ellis / Toledo Blade. Shamans of sound: A transcendent Crosby, Stills and Nash Hearing CSN’s standards reminds us boomers of a tim...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012* *Part 3—Major pundits are starting to notice:* Inquiring pundits are starting to notice the dumbness of this campaign. One such pundit is David Brooks. In Tuesday’s column, his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Financial Times) -- The head of Germany's Bundesbank has warned the European Central Bank against straying beyond its remit, as the bloc's central bankers gathered on Wednesday night to discuss a possibl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*(CNN) -- Three suspected terrorists were arrested in Spain in the past 48 hours in "one of the biggest operations against al Qaeda in Spain," Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Thursday.*...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*(Reuters) - Stock index futures turned sharply negative on Thursday, quickly erasing a short-lived bounce that followed comments from Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank.* At a pres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Giving Europe's permanent ESM rescue fund a banking license and thereby allowing it to tap the European Central Bank for funding is against European law, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Thur...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 5 hours agoI hadn't heard of this film, or its reviewer before, but I agree with almost every darned statement made in the review. (Except for basing the relative intelligence of Mexicans and US-Americans on the qu...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 5 hours agoFrom Media Matters: Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown criticized New York teachers unions in a *Wall Street Journal* op-ed over the weekend without disclosing a possible conflict of interest -- her husba...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoAnother day with lots of excellent choices, but I'm going with a Happy Birthday to Cynthia Stevenson, 50. I've seen a remarkably high percentage of everything she did up through about 12 years ago or so, b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*Syrian rebels have used a tank captured from government troops to bombard a military air base in Aleppo.* The report, form the Associated Press, is one of the first indications that rebels are starting ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago*Jesus had a different economic and fiscal point of view* The video below is Obama's latest ad about the contrast between his tax plan and Romney's tax plan. Under Obama's tax plan, millionaires would pay ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago*Activist Post* Anaheim, CA continues to be the site for a wave escalating police brutality protests following the chaos that ensued after the shooting of unarmed Manuel Diaz. It has since come to light ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* America is facing the worst drought in decades as nearly 220 counties in a dozen states are added to the list of natural disaster areas.* The additions to the long list of devastation yesterday came as t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* In Camp Pendleton, California, the Marine Corp have created a law-enforcement battalion (ELB) consisting of specialized military police officers (SMP) that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*The mother of a four-year-old girl caught drawing on rocks with chalk on public property has been ordered to serve 50 hours of community service for her crime*. Mother Susan Mortensen, 29, was offered t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*Hundreds of air passengers narrowly avoided a massive mid-air collision when three U.S. commuter jets came within seconds of each other after a mix up by air traffic controllers.* The Federal Aviation A...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 6 hours agoimage source Brandon Turbeville *Activist Post* In an easily predictable move, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has recently proposed a plan to ban what he calls “assault” weapons in his state. Quinn is usin...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 6 hours ago- That aircraft carrier base in Perth? Not so much. - Against self-epublishing ("self-epublishing"? Gah!). - Artillery as "The Last Argument of Tyrants." - Gerard N. Magliocca asks if Washingto...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 6 hours agoPaul Craig Roberts, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into next century when any...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours ago"You said hockey was an Olympic sport" -- "Yes, but I never said it was on the games in London!"
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours ago*More than 80 lawyers have signed an open letter to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney challenging his insistence he played no role in granting Conrad Black a permit to live in this country even before the...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 6 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The US government has been scheming on how to provide for continuity of government for many decades now. According to Peter Santilli, an informant who is an...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 6 hours ago
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- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 6 hours agoA week after the premiers invited Stephen Harper to their next meeting on the economy, he rejected the invitation -- again. He does G8 and G20 summits. And he certainly does Davos. But he has no time f...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 6 hours agoWREG (Jonesboro, AR) Teresa Carter just doesn’t understand what happened to her son Chavis in the back of a police car. Officers picked him up, said he had drugs on him, and missed a court date on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*Torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding across Taiwan today, killing five people and injuring 15, as Typhoon Saola skirted the island's east and north coasts and headed towards China.* The mil...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 7 hours agoMichael Snyder, *Contributor* *Activist Post* This week has provided two very clear examples of why it is so important to keep on prepping. In the United States, the historic drought ravaging the centr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAug 2 - At least one home destroyed in Californian fire. Sophia Soo reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi was under intense pressure from investors, European leaders and even the United States to deliver on Thursday on his pledge to do whatever it take...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the AEGEAN SEA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:30:41 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.9 miles) Northeast of Glóssa, Greece ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck EAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:26:14 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 392 km (243 miles) ...
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- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 7 hours agoIt is not very often that good news comes out of war-torn Syria. However, yesterday in Aleppo, the Syrian people scored a major victory against the international terrorists who have, since March 2011, be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck the NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 70.6 km (43.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:56:44 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (80 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*An arms race between the United States and China - reminiscent of the former Soviet Union Cold War - has already begun, a leading Australian academic says.* While Defence Minister Stephen Smith quickly r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*When astronauts first touched down on the moon in 1969 as part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission — and for every Apollo mission that followed — they left behind evidence that they'd been there, some intentiona...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is set to meet a representative of a citizens group arranging large weekly protests in front of his office in Tokyo against the restarting of nuclear power plants, it has bee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck CENTRAL PERU at a depth of 143.3 km (89 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:31 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19.8 miles) East of Pucallpa, Peru No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) is sticking to its media restrictions for news coverage of footage of teleconferences it held immediately after the outbreak of the crisis at its tsunami-hit Fukushima No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*FUKUSHIMA -- An overwhelming majority of Fukushima Prefecture residents at a hearing on Japan's future energy policy that the government held on Aug. 1 called for the total elimination of nuclear power s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Secret meetings of pro-nuclear power experts organized by the Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) influenced discussion by a subcommittee on Japan's nuclear fuel cycle, a report by a Cabinet Office inv...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 8 hours ago"Misclosure", that's the name Miles Johnston of UNDERGROUND VIDEO gives to the 'fake disclosure' that's on its way. *Matt Todd has a number of implants, which he explains and is suffering from. He desribe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*(CNN) -- Heavy rains from the outer bands of Typhoon Saola, which hovered near the Philippines beginning last week, have left 23 people dead and another five injured, an official with the National Disas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAug. 1 - Indian official seeks to reassure the public about the state of the power grid following a a blackout that left 670 million people in the dark. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAug. 1 - A driver crashed his 30-foot long motorhome into his neighbor's swimming pool in Massachusetts. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAug 2 - Heavy rain, floods and landslides after Typhoon Saola make landfall in Taiwan. Sophia Soo reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - Pentagon planners will consider adding bombers and attack submarines as part of a growing U.S. focus on security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, a senior Defense Department official said on W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - San Bernardino filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday citing more than $1 billion of debts and making it the third California city to seek protection from creditors. * The city of about...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Syrian government forces launched two operations in Damascus to root out rebel activists on Wednesday, killing at least 70, the opposition has said.* Troops reportedly went from house to house demanding ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*France is offering to pay local fisherman to cull sharks in the waters of its Indian Ocean isle Reunion. * The nation's government is controversially pressing ahead with the plans despite a wave of prote...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*The mother of two young brothers arrested on suspicion of their murder after they died within three months of each other has been granted police bail.* Shelley Adams, 26, from Southampton, has been on p...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoLOVE I AM *Oops... It looks like many do not see that SOFT ROSE in their Hearts.... * * * *Let us give it another GO... with PASSIONATE INTENT... * * * *The Rose for each-HEART: * * * *Let The ROSE of So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*A drug-addicted mother-of-two who got a runaway schoolgirl high on crack cocaine before pimping her out to a 44-year-old builder has been jailed. * Leanne Gilder, 26, from Oldham, plastered the intoxicate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agomagnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck KEPULAUAN TANIMBAR REGION, INDONESIA at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 07:37:38 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 120 km (74 miles) NNW from...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoAnthony Watts posted the 7-minute video of John Christy's testimony in the U.S. Senate. Well, about 2 minutes at the beginning are dedicated to an introduction – explanations why Christy is really good....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*A paedophile stabbed his neighbour to death for threatening to expose him as 'a Gary Glitter', then went home and suffered a fatal heart attack, an inquest heard today.* Both men’s bodies lay undiscover...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*Three 'merciless' thugs battered a pensioner in his bed before stringing him up by his belt and fleeing with just £20, a court heard yesterday. * Frail John Savage was asleep in his bed in Loppington, Shr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoOh, dear, what can the matter be? Poor old Boris got stuck; it’s a tragedy. One moment he was zipping along like a circus clown doing a high-wire act. The next, he was dangling like a wet otter glistening...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*In a video produced to highlight the unknown long-term consequences of fracking, Sherry Vargson lights a match and sets fire to water as it comes out of the faucet. * The water has become flammable beca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*State troopers who stopped a woman for drink driving were stunned when they found six children crammed in her car - and she was so drunk she could not even remember how many were in there.* Shelley M. B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*An enormous, 30-foot long motor home smashed through a fence and into a pool in Brockton, Massachusetts today. * Police said Stephen Pierro was driving the RV and lost control of the vehicle. Mr Pierro ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Online storage service Dropbox has admitted to a security breach that led to many of its members receiving unsolicited emails. * A stolen password had been used to access an employee's accounts and copy a...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*It may look like a peaceful, tranquil place, but in fact the spiral galaxy below, known as 'The River' has been the scene of two two violent supernovae in the last 30 years, scientists said today.* Call...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agomagnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck POLAND at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:50:25 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) South of Polkowice, Poland No Reports of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Two pigs heads have been found in a pool of blood outside a French mosque, leading Muslims to claim that Islamophobia is on the rise.* The heads of the two animals were found attached to two pillars at t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*A 29-year-old university employee has been charged with robbing four banks in the last two years. * Crystal Little, who is an administrative assistant at the University of Kentucky, was taken into police...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agomagnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA at a depth of 17.4 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:20 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoIt appears that vertical blade rotors will get a second look. While they are at it, perhaps it would be useful to consider the three blade configuration. I suspect that would go hugely to ameliora...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThis starts to provide us benchmarks for both human and animal intelligence that is overdue. Once a series of testing protocols can be developed, it becomes possible to then test a range of ani...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThis possibly resolves a past problem in which the linkage had the rise in the CO2 occur some several hundred years after the ice loss. The time gap made little sense as the biological response ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoWhat makes this experiment so important is that it provides a tool that directly links neuron activity to action. Perhaps we can now see something other than noise. We have been piecing togeth...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 11 hours agoAlex Jones talks with former Wall Street stockbroker and filmmaker Max Keiser about the continuing implosion of the economy as the euro crisis plagues global economies, cuts factory and productive output, ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 11 hours agoMy deep condolence to the families of young students who have died of violent fraternity hazing and initiations, the latest of whom is San Beda law student Marc Andrei Marcos. And to families and friends o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agomagnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck OFF EAST COAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 110.2 km (68.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:38:18 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 305 km (18...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago99.9% of your DNA is the same as the DNA of Rihanna. DNA survey finds all humans are 99.9pc the same - Telegraph And your DNA is rather similar to that of James Holmes. However, no two people smell al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Forgive us if this puts you off your dinner because, as snakes go, this is not much of a charmer. * The unique creature, atretochoana eiselti, was found after engineers drained a hydroelectric dam which ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*An online Xbox fight dramatically escalated when a 17-year-old boy stabbed his friend 22-times after first attempting to shoot him.* Living just doors apart, 20-year-old Kevin Kemp and the unnamed teenag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*A 45-year-old 'hockey mom' plied her son's teammates with alcohol before indulging in sex acts with two of them, a court has heard. * Kathia Marie Davis is alleged to have engaged the teenagers in sexual ...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 12 hours agoAllaudin and his wonderful expense account? Departing Alberta Health Service executives may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: One of the few photos available of Allaudin Merali; CBC investigative journ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*The judge in Drew Peterson's murder trial considered today whether to declare a mistrial after blasting prosecutors for a second time in less than two days for bringing up information he said could preju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Police have searched the trailer of a convicted killer who has been a 'person of interest' in the murder case of 16-year-old Molly Bish who was abducted in 2000.* An old wallet belonging to Rodney Stang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*The United States racked up $41,210 in debt every second of every day in 2011 -- making the federal deficit the largest portion of the economy since the height of war spending in the 1940s.* That shocki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*In a drug-addled frenzy, a middle-aged couple invaded a neighbour's home armed to the teeth with guns and knives because they believed they were under attack from a gang camped under their house. * Donna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*The Defence Minister Stephen Smith says talks are continuing between the United States and Australia about how to pay for the increasing numbers of US marines visiting the Northern Territory.* The first...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player *Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect James Holmes came to the attention of the threat assessment committee at the University of Colorado but no further...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*A technical glitch on the US stock market has caused sharp swings in dozens of stocks, causing confusion and disarray in the first hour of trading. * It was the latest breakdown in the increasingly compl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Those of us young enough to hang on for another 33 years may be able to extend those three decades into eternity.* Of course, you'd have to be okay with living out the rest of your endless days as somet...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agomagnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck EAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:17:07 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 212 km (131.44 miles) Nor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agomagnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck OFF EAST COAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 59.8 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:58:13 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agomagnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the KUWAIT REGION at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:32:35 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) Northwest of Al-kuwayt, Ku...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Drive-through lanes were backed up and dining rooms were packed at Chick-fil-A restaurants across the nation today as hundreds of thousands of people turned out to support the fast food chain after it ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPresident Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to get rid of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his government. Obama's order, approved earlier this year and known as...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago*Was Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar assassinated? Don't bother asking that question to mainstream journalists. They're too busy watching the Olympics to pay attention to world developments. * There is a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*Levi Aron, the 'butcher of Brooklyn', is expected to plead guilty next week after he admitted to the murder of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky who was abducted last July.* The deal on the table means that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*A pastor at a mega-church has been dismissed after allegations that he committed a grave ‘sin’ with a 16-year-old female church member.* Dr Jack Schaap, 54, had been pastor of the First Baptist Church of...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours agoThere is something quite amusing about Anjem Choudary, well it would be were he not espousing such dangerous views. *To make it clear the surtitles are not mine, nor do I agree with them.*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*Israel's Defence minister Ehud Barak has given Army chiefs one month to draw up a plan to enlist around 60,000 ultra-orthodox young men who were legally exempted from compulsory military service while th...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*First came the diplomatic offensive, then the flexing of military muscle.* Now, China is opening a third front to assert its claims in the South China Sea - moving ahead with its first major tender of oi...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoI found this on Facebook tonight, it was on one of my readers Facebook pages. About a month or so ago I had a kind of a vision where I met Gaia. She was green and rode an Impala (animal - not a Chev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*KABUL — Five insurgents planning a suicide attack in Kabul were killed in a pre-dawn gunbattle in the capital, an Afghan security official said Thursday.* Fighting raged for six hours after Afghan force...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*SAN ANTONIO – A bomb threat temporarily cleared out San Antonio International Airport on Wednesday after officials said someone called alleging that three packages had been left inside a parking garage.*...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoMajia here: Recently (June 12, 2012) Japan Today reported that over 1300 Fukushima residents filed criminal charges against Tepco http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone/view/crime/over-1300-fukushima-citize...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*Aug 2 (Reuters) - Torrential rain and strong winds triggered landslides and flooding, forcing financial markets to shut and disrupting transport, after Typhoon Saola made landfall in eastern Taiwan on Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*The UN says fighting in Syria's embattled city of Aleppo has increased significantly in the past few days.* Sausan Ghosheh of the UN mission in Syria told the BBC that opposition forces were now in poss...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*Two Chinese Olympic badminton players and their team leader have been told to make a public apology, the country's official news agency says. * China's top-seeded pair Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli were among e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*A 23-year-old woman convicted of adultery will be stoned to death unless granted a last minute appeal by authorities in Sudan. * Laila Ibrahim Issa Jamool is being kept shackled to her 6-month-old baby a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago*Samsung's lead lawyer in its patent trial with Apple has secured his decision to approve the release of a statement containing facts the judge had ruled unacceptable in court.* Samsung had hoped to curr...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoThe big news going on isn't Watergate; it's the Eagleton fiasco, which at this point has George McGovern searching around for a new running mate. But the White House continues to manage the only thing that...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago* * *“Fukushima:* * Japanese Authorities Struggle to Maintain Cover-up” * by Jonathan Benson "The cat is out of the bag, as more evidence continues to emerge proving that clean-up workers at the strick...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agomagnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 58.1 km (36.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:15:30 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck JUJUY, ARGENTINA at a depth of 264 km (163.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:00:55 UTC Thursday 2nd August 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122.1 miles) West of Jujuy, Argen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck SERAM, INDONESIA at a depth of 25.1 km (15.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:36 UTC Wednesday 1st August 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) Southeast of Khonsa, I...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoIf you're following the congressional races by paying attention to the drivel coming from the DCCC or if you get all of your info on House races from the lazy Beltway media types who act as stenographers ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoFor some reason, this reminded me of this:
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 14 hours ago(the ONLY thing EVER going for Republican Voter ID advocates was evidence-free propaganda folklore in the media, supplied BY THEM!) * * *Pennslyvania's top electon official, a Republican, in court:* * "I D...
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 15 hours agoBy Manifesto Joe I haven't looked at many Chick-Fil-A's around the country, so I'm going mainly by what the Mainstream Media say about this. There are gaping primates all over the country standing in line...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago2002, “Sunny Day” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqLFemZOOg
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“You don't have to be at Monument Valley to see the Milky Way arch across the sky like this -- but it helps. Only at Monument Valley USA would you see a picturesque foreground that includes these iconic r...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind,...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 15 hours agoI find I keep on returning to themes explored in a piece from last year, "Partisanship, Policy and Bullshit." Among other things, it contended that Beltway pundits tend to obtusely conflate different types ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“Time And Constancy”* by Chet Raymo “I spent a lot of time in my grandmother's house when I was a little kid, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. A big house, on 9th Street (now Martin Luther King Bou...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours agoArne Duncan has a No Excuses approach to education, and to prove it once more, he has just signed off on a plan to give every American child living in a car, motel room, or urban hovel a chance to take ano...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours agoNiceville, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agohttp://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/syrian-rebel-forces-execute-clan-leaders-loyal-to-assad-regime/article4457043/?service=mobile On Tuesday, over the strenuous objections of the Syrian National Coun...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"Chick-fil-A Introduces New Hate Sauce"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)— "Customers across the nation who turned out for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day were in for a surprise, as the ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 16 hours agoI have said it for a very long time, and for those who are new to this blog I will say it again... America, that once great nation of hopes and dreams, is finished! The American Empire is crumbling right...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“A Computer Infection That Can Never Be Cured”* by Tom Simonite "As the manufacturing of computers and other gadgets has migrated to China, an occasional paranoid voice has asked whether the country m...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*"Every now and then, when I really want to know what the joke of a particular cartoon is, I just ask someone in the magazine's art department. That is the perk of being a cartoonist myself."* *-- New York...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 17 hours agoCave Painting in France dated to 15,000-17,000 BCE Posted on August 1, 2012 by Wes Annac -Channeled through Wes Annac- Our consciousness and the consciousness of the craft in which many of us tak...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago*President Obama, aka the Bat Man, is talking with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan about Syria. What did the Dark Knight tell Robin on the other side of the call? One can only guess. * T...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 17 hours ago*Today was Conservative Party cabinet minister Bev Oda's last day as a Member of Parliament. Good riddance! Let's sincerely hope that the door doesn't hit her in the ass on her way out!! Bloody right wing...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 18 hours agoSoala is pounding us in central Taiwan. *UPDATED* Photo taken about 11:30 am Taiwan time. From WeatherUnderground. Cancellation information is in the post below this one! Twenty seconds of Soala in my ba...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours agoInfowars Nightly News: Let Them Eat Chemicals, Says White House Chef
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said. Obam...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago*GUEST POST from Jeff Clark from the **Casey Daily Dispatch* *Deflationists and inflationists have been arguing since the crisis hit and stimulus began which outcome will prevail. Each side has data to ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 19 hours ago
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 19 hours ago*Global Research* * * * * *When Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip fatally shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, the assassination is seen a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 19 hours ago*EneNews* *Dr. Michel Fernex* - Emeritus Professor, Basel Faculty of Medecine - Former Consultant, World Health Organization “What should WHO have done after Chernobyl ?” asked Dr Nabarro in 2002 wh...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours ago*Is It Even Possible To Keep Track Of All The Drew Brees Records? ~Saints Tailgate*
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBay Area Rapid Transit users have all experienced it; escalators that are down at their station. But what’s really behind the maintenance issues for the transit agency? Officials said one of the main iss...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWild bottlenose dolphins bond over their use of tools, with distinct cliques and classes forming over decades as a result of their skills, scientists have found. The communities, which have been compare...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 20 hours agoGo here to find the others. The book covers below were scanned from books on the blogger's shelf. ------------------------------ * the**REALnews ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours agoI found this fascinating picture here. It is located above a link to the Christian Science Monitor's daily photographic coverage of the Olympics. What do the elements of this striking graphic represent?
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 20 hours ago[image: Angry Birds (Juguetes de peluche para coleccionistas)]
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNo, not really. It's just my little joke, based on pretending to take people like the BBC's resident climate activists David Shukman, Richard Black and Roger Harrabin seriously. I'll tell you what doesn'...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBecause conservatives are scrooges, the good folks at Americans for Tax Reform have gone through the fine print to find out what our Olympians will have to cough up to the IRS should they be lucky enough ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 20 hours agoActually only half a day as they cut us loose at noon. Full days tomorrow and Friday and another half day on Saturday will wind it up. Today were presentations by the students and hosts on LittleFe and BC...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago[image: Ardillita curiosa en el bosque - Curious little squirrel]
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoYesterday, Blue America endorsed Sue Thorn, a populist Democrat from West Virginia, who's running for Congress in the first district (the northern third of the state). We didn't really get a chance to ta...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 21 hours ago*La. Tech: Mascot died from heat stroke, neglect ~WWL*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"The “War On Terror” Has Changed, * *and Not One In 1,000 Americans Has Noticed"* What You Should Know about this “Unthinkable” Development… by WashingtonsBlog "In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the c...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 21 hours agoRefreshing News From his computer console here in the Syracuse suburbs, Col. D. Scott Brenton remotely flies a Reaper drone that beams back hundreds of hours of live video of insurgents, his intended ta...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours ago*This is pretty good, its much the way I feel. I have had this certain detachment from drama since my NDE in 2009, I just find it hard to get into any dualistic human drama most of the time. **US a...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoFrom Department of OmnishamblesMore good stuff where this came from (via Jairus Grove).
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Fixing The Fixers"* by Bill Bonner "News from London is that they are going to throw the book at the LIBOR rate fixers. The insiders are facing jail time. The Telegraph has the story: "Bankers foun...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWe need you to become a monthly subscriber to the Coming Crisis (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your support, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researc...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 22 hours agoHelp Us Transmit This Story Add to Your Blogger Account Put it On Facebook Tweet this post Print it from your printer Email and a collection of other outlets Try even more services
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 22 hours agoabout the controversy & boycott, but were afraid to ask, can be found in this blogpost, written by a thoughtful US citizen. *It can seem ridiculous to get all worked up over fast-food chicken.* * Let’s al...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 22 hours agoOn the Twitter #M312 timeline there are a few new players, some yet to be blocked by the Woody Wankers. One such, Voice of Reason, tweeted at Stephen Woodworth himself: @WoodworthMP #M312 You do of c...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours ago*Coming to a town near you – soon.* Don't kid yourself that this is a Montana problem. Montana is the testing ground. This is all about the corporations trying to increase their revenues at the expense o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Soliloquy of the Somnambulist"* by Joel Bowman "Phew! That was close. We were skeptical, as you might recall. Truth be told, we thought it was all going to end in catastrophe. And yet… The situatio...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 22 hours agoThere's no place to go!
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 22 hours ago------------------------------ Salon / *By* *Glenn Greenwald* * * Why People Cave in to Extremist Ideas That Were Once Unthinkable *What was once radical and taboo have arrived as fixtures in Amer...
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- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoPart of why Nevada Republican freak Sharron Angle lost in the 2010 Republican sweep was because she was so far to the right that even some mainstream conservatives couldn't bring themselves to vote for h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*Samtse & Phuentsholing: The public health laboratory last week received 17 blood samples from Phuentsholing and Samtse to test them for Chikungunya, a viral disease that is spread by mosquitoes.* On Mon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*JERUSALEM, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Israel warned visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday that time was running out for a peaceful settlement to the nuclear dispute with Iran, saying sanctions...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*A 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering missing oil executive Carole Waugh, Scotland Yard said tonight.* The man was originally arrested last night at Luton Airport, where he was a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoMitt Romney is outraged that anyone would dare criticize the fairness of his across-the-board 20% tax cut proposal. The criticism is that this would benefit very, very rich people a very, very great dea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* (CNN) -- More than half of all U.S. counties have been designated disaster zones, the Department of Agriculture reported, blaming excessive heat and a devastating drought that's spread across the Corn Be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*(CNN) -- Syria's president exhorted his country's armed forces Wednesday to restore stability to his nation, which is reeling from a growing grass-roots armed resistance and mounting deaths.* "The enemy ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours ago*Never before have so many of you had such an opportunity.* *Michael channeled by Ron Head* *July 31, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages * Good morning on this marvelous day. You are feeling a new ener...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoSenate majority leader Harry Reid says he's heard that Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes for 10-years. That, according to Reid, could well account for Romney's refusal to release his tax records. The Twit is ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours agoLooked at the title I picked for this a couple of days ago ALEC's Survival Requires An Ignorant Media and immediately thought about Breitbart.com BB - ignorant media, yep Where is their rep...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours ago*Something of enormous significance is shortly to come into view* *August 1, 2012 by John Smallman* Excitement mounts as the most pivotal moment in all of human history draws ever closer. Examples o...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours ago* * *Your awakening will allow you to interact fully with all of creation* *08/01/2012 by John Smallman* We are all one – there is no separation. Your human perception of individuality is caused by t...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoJournalist Pepe Escobar speculates on the death of Prince Bandar Bush in his article, *"Where is Prince Bandar?"* He writes: "There are also problems with a Syrian death squad being able to strike Riy...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 1 day ago. Above is the letter that Tony Farrell, sacked Principle Intelligence Analyst for the South Yorkshire Police, has just sent to all Chief Constables and Principal Intelligence Analysts in the UK. Ton...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoBramble and his bumbling buddy didn't realize what a gift they were giving to me when this came out in the news last Friday: Utah Senators say it’s time for ALEC to be more open Secrecy is one of the hits ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago*SaLuSa, August 1, 2012* *Channeled by Mike Quinsey* Your response to the recent positive messages about the Olympics has been wonderful. A wave of great expectation has swept around the Earth, and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*(Reuters) - An Israeli who set himself on fire in protest at economic difficulties has died of his injuries, the hospital treating him said on Wednesday, the second such death in a few days. * Akiva Mafi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering missing oil executive Carole Waugh, Scotland Yard said tonight. * The 50 year old, originally from Durham, went missing earlier this year. Mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAug. 1 - Syrians waited in long lines for bread in Idlib while the country's 17-month insurgency prompted Turkey to deploy tanks to the border. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoThis is not a Ted Cruz bashing item. As far as we know from the record, Cruz is an intelligent man. This is a NYT-bashing item, for Erik Eckholm's profile of Cruz today: "Senate Candidate in Texas Is Know...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago*... is government itself. * *Contributor: YYC* There are so many crazy things happening in this world it's hard to pick one on which to comment. With a lot of them - believe it or not - I really don't k...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoThe politicization of climate science is so complete that the lead author of the IPCC's Working Group II on climate impacts feels comfortable presenting testimony to the US Congress that fundamentally mi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe twin cities of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, and Rawlapindi are facing the prospect of running out of water. Both cities rely on the Khanpur Dam as their main source of water. An extended heat wa...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
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