- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 minutes agoThe only Michigan Democrats Steve Israel is allowing the DCCC to help this cycle are Blue Dog Gary McDowell (MI-01) and virulent anti-Choice fanatic Steve Pestka (MI-03). No doubt John Boehner and Eric C...
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The worst drought in the United States in a half a century has led to the destruction of roughly one-sixth of the expected corn crop in America over the past month and will likely lead to a significant ri... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 31 minutes agoRecently a friend and I were discussing our frustration with the presidential candidates and the broken political and economic institutions in our country. My friend, Craig, suggested that there are issu...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 51 minutes agoRyan a flop? Alex Seitz-Wald Americans are not big fans of Ryan; his call to Akin . . . . Why Aren’t Conservatives Pro-Business? Michael Lind Today’s right serves rich investors, not the industries that ma...
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*A police officer has been fired from his job and arrested on assault charges after his dashboard camera filmed him slamming a female suspect against her car multiple times and handling her roughly.* F... - posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 55 minutes ago*"Oh my God. When does the beatification commence?"* Warren Kinsella August 22, 2012 However, more progressive Liberals are sharing in the sentiments expressed by most Canadians: *"Jack Layton's memory i...
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------------------------------ http://youtu.be/cO1F7EcGFAc Original here Monday, August 20, 2012 *The Five Reasons Wh... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
* When Curiosity first touched down on Mars, Internet pranksters were quick to mock up photographs of alien life on the alien landscape.* But it seems Nasa has itself captured something very strange on c... - posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour ago
Washington Times Jim McElhatton *Contract shows no new jobs were created* The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more th... - posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour ago
God loves everything He creates August 22, 2012 by John Smallman We in the spiritual realms are observing with joy your increasingly powerful intent to awaken. You yourselves have to make and hold t... - posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour agoBig governments are in a massive state of disintegration 08/22/2012 by John Smallman Truly wonderful things are happening all across the planet as the moment for awakening approaches. Many of you can...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour agoThis is a cool science story. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have identified a hormone in semen that nudges a woman's body to ovulate. It's a finding that could potentially open up new tes...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour agoCommon Dreams Carl Gibson Fact: There are two things that occur more often than the right-wing myth of “voter fraud”: UFO sightings, and election-rigging. Statistically, you’re 3,615 times more likely to...
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*Daily Bell* * * *Attention U.S. Military: You are Being Demonized. This is an Extremely Important Article ... It's now becoming overt. The meme emanating rapidly from the mainstream media is that the U.S... - posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour ago
Washington's Blog *Mental Health Diagnoses Are Sometimes Politically-Motivated* * * Many psychologists and psychiatrists are good people, who are only trying to help their patients. But the Nazi governme... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
* Four people have died after a tourist plane with 14 people on board crashed in Kenya's Maasai Mara park.* Police say two pilots and two German tourists were killed when the Mombasa Air Safari flight wen... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoNancy Scola has a very nice piece over at The Atlantic talking about the reasons why presidents don't name their cabinets during the campaign (viaJohn). She quotes a number of scholars who point out that fo...
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Mike Quinsey - SaLuSa, August 22, 2012 SaLuSa, August 22, 2012 You can be sure that there is nothing to worry about where the dark Ones are concerned, because we have aborted many of their attempts t... - posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
- The Department of State Report on "Mutual Assured Stability: Essential Components and Near-Term Actions" (PDF) deserves a thorough analysis. - Japanese exports are down, but the country's growt... - posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 hour agoA drug package can still be seen attached tothe bottom of this downed cartel ultralight plane. Photo: ChuckHolton/Flickr THE WAR ON DRUGS continues its catastrophic process of destroying lives and cultures...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 2 hours agoMost of the attention paid to Ferguson's anti-Obama Newsweek cover story has focused on his mendacious and unprofessional discussion of the administration's domestic policies -- notably its stimulus and he...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoAntiWar Jason Ditz Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi seems to be in the ultimate no-win situation tonight. Pressed by both Israel and the US to get more involved militarily in the Sinai Peninsula, which i...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012* *Todd Akin becomes a big star:* Todd Akin made a *very* dumb comment last week. In some quarters, it has produced some very dumb commentary, a topic we expect to explore next ...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 2 hours agoWhile we're all being Akinized (the latest method of torture in the eternal presidential campaign of the muddled mind), there's been hardly a riffle of angst over President Obama's announcement yesterday t...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 2 hours agoYesterday Ed Week published a sad gloss on Save Our Schools, which has gone from a fire-breathing operation in 2011 to a small band of conventional conventioneers working under the non-coordination of corp...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours ago2012 Plutonium Detected at 10 Locations in Fukushima Aug 21, 2012 http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2012082100888 (Jiji Press)--Plutonium believed to originate from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s crippled ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 2 hours agoBrandon Raub forcibly transferred to psychiatric facility 3 hours away from legal team, family *Paul Joseph Watson* Supporters of Brandon Raub – the man kidnapped by police and committed to a mental ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoInfoWars Tony Cartalucci * From Amnesty International USA’s website, “Free Pussy Riot.” “Help Amnesty International send a truckload of balaclavas to Putin.” ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoGlobal Research Finian Cunningham Murder, sabotage, bribery, contract killings -- and that’s just the behavior of Western political leaders and their Arab allies. Forget the fancy titles, manners and clot...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours agoand more. First, because it sets up the post lets start with the "Operational Mechanism" talks, taking place today in Ankara, Turkey The " Operational Mechanism" Turkey and the US have decided to set up ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Progression of obesity and overweight rates, respectively, in seven OECD countries, with previous OECD projections (dotted lines) for overweight. The prevalence of obesity today varies nearly ten...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012* *Here too, the Washington Post refused to serve:* In all likelihood, it isn’t Rosalind Helderman’s fault that she refused to serve. Last Thursday, Helderman reported Romney’s...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Projected food security outcomes in East Africa, July-September, 2012. FEWS NET] 27 July 2012 (Famine Early Warning System Network) – There are about 16 million people facing Stressed (IPC Phase...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours agoMichael Snyder, *Contributor* Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world? Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down....
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago*Coltsfoot Publishing Ltd. v. Foster-Jacques*, 2012 NSCA 83 is a curious case where a judge, without any evidence and based on judicial notice alone sealed a court file. The Court of Appeal said such ...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours agoThe caption for this photo is, no joke, "All the experts posing for a group photo after the event." So, here's *all* the experts. Conventional wisdom from a foreign-policy expert: It is one of the truisms...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours agoMadison Ruppert, *Contributor* Mobile devices are quickly becoming one of the most powerful tools for surveillance evidenced by the breakthroughs in ultra-precise location tracking technology, enabling...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* A sudden surge of activity in an Ecuadorian volcano is captured up close in these fiery and spectacular pictures of the natural world at work.* Ecuadorean authorities say 110 families have been evacuated...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* A space professor from Oxfordshire is battling 'to save Earth' from a solar storm that experts fear will wreak worldwide chaos next year.* Professor Mike Hapgood, who chairs the Space Environment Impacts...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 3 hours agoHere's a culture that's obsessed with ranks and scoring. Companies proudly display awards. Bushibans advertize student scores. Schools rate professors based on publications in prestigious journals with hig...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*Sign at Vilma's restaurant says not to serve Goodell* *Saints Nation: Chronic Podcast - Linebacker Apocalypse Edition* *Tropical Storm Isaac getting better organized ~WDSU* *Public Transit Tuesdays: Lake...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* Dr. Erin Giudice, a pediatrician at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, proposed a new way to coerce parents into giving their children vaccinations: a clear, di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*Senior clergy and staff in Cyprus' Orthodox Christian Church will be given salary cuts because of dwindling revenue.* Archbishop Chrysostomos II blamed the island nation's ongoing financial crisis for th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago* Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have fallen amid a report it is being investigated over possible violations of sanctions against Iran.* The bank, which is part-owned by the taxpayer, declined to c...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012* *Part 3—The Post refuses to serve:* It isn’t hard to repeat Mitt Romney’s charges concerning the Medicare program. There is little confusion or murk about what the candidate s...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours ago*Activist Post* Six days ago we posted a link in our Forum to a campaign that was issued in order to raise enough money to purchase Nikola Tesla's laboratory now up for sale at Wardenclyffe. A non-profit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago* Tony Nicklinson, who lost a legal battle last week for the right to end his life with medical help, has died at the age of 58.* Lawyers for the father of two said he died at his home in Melksham, Wiltsh...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoHappy Birthday to Cindy Williams, 65. C'mon: is there anyone who was in American Graffiti who you don't like? Okay, I guess I don't especially have any fondness for Richard Dreyfuss. Hey, I didn't know th...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours agoJ.G. Vibes *Activist Post* One of the main obstacles that tie the general population to the status quo is that many people are looking for a step-by-step process for how we can peacefully neutralize the...
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- posted by Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 4 hours agoWhew! We made it through the social media trainings for your blog, at least as far as Facebook and Google+ are concerned. I still want to get to Twitter, but I felt a break was needed before tackling Twitt...
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posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*Misogynist freaks Akin (R) and Donnelly (D)* Democrats were in a feeding frenzy this week because Rep. Todd Akin's insane statements about legitimate rape not causing pregnancies, not so much about the d... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck EASTERN NEW GUINEA REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 86.8 km (53.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:38:19 UTC Wednesday 22nd August 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (45 m...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours agoWiki image Brandon Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Almost three years ago I wrote an analytical piece on the concept of deliberately engineering wars, big and small, by elitists to distract the mass...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 25.1 km (15.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:13:56 UTC Wednesday 22nd August 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) ESE of Pangai, Tonga No Tsunami W...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Julian Assange has been in 'custody' illegally! His right of 'habeas corpus' has been denied him though not formally. He is simply detained, denied his freedom of...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 hours agoOne year after the passing of NDP Leader Jack Layton, the War Resisters Support Campaign joins with Canadians across the country to mourn our collective loss and to remember his great contribution to build...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoThe stories about Isreal on the BBC, in The Guardian and Indepndent newspapers and much of the West's media is overwhelmingly negative. Here's some more positive facts: 'Did you know... ...That Israel has...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 6 hours agoThere is some positive twist in healthcare discussions in the country these days. And that is involving more non-healthcare students and professionals in various healthcare debates. Reiner Gloor of PHAP re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* As delegates and the media gather for the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 27-30, an unwanted visitor, "Isaac," may join in.* Tropical Storm Isaac is forecast to become a hurrica...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Moscow warned on Monday that the implementation of the European missile defense project could become a throwback to the Cold War era.* * *The United States says the shield is designed to protect against “...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* There is a very important article on Jesse's Cafe Americain blogspot, “Warren Pollock and Ann Barnhardt On the Increased Risk to Customers In the US Financial System,” that illustrates how the US bankrup...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* This is the era of multiple, prolonged, and deep crises. They touch on every facet of modern life: the political, economic, social, spiritual, scientific, cosmic, and personal. * The media construction o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Israeli press criticises increased presence of Egyptian troops in the Sinai, however Operation Eagle was 'well coordinated' with both the US and Israel, says military source * An Egyptian military source...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened London with radical measures in case British authorities attempt to break into the Embassy of Ecuador to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.* Assange has...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Dallas planes took to the skies Friday to spray insecticides to combat the worst West Nile virus outbreak the United States has seen this year. Thus far, 10 people have been killed and at least 230 other...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Two Fukushima Prefecture men in their 70s suffered a relatively high level of internal radiation exposure by consuming homegrown vegetables contaminated with radioactive cesium, a survey by the Universit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Radioactive cesium measuring 258 times the amount that Japan's government deems safe for consumption has been found in fish near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan's Kyodo news agen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Athens, Greece (Financial Times) -- Planned cuts to Greece's public expenditure will be even deeper than previously announced, the government has said, as fears rise that the scale of the proposed reduct...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Bucharest, Romania (CNN) -- Romanian President Traian Basescu will officially return to office after the country's top court ruled Tuesday that a referendum to remove him was invalid.* The nation-wide i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*(CNN) -- The Ebola virus has killed 10 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.* As of Monday, WHO said, the deaths are among 13 probable and two confirmed...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 8 hours agoThese eyeless shrimp even lack eye sockets. Photo courtesy: Youtube/screen capture Last September, a fisherman pulled nearly 400 pounds of mutated, eyeless shrimp out of the Gulf of Mexico. That was shock...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- Julian Assange made headlines Sunday by simply stepping onto an embassy balcony in London. The same day, the young man some say made Assange famous passed his 817th day behind bars. Army Pfc. Br...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (CNN) -- The gruesome civil war in Syria that pits government forces against rebels is now in its 18th month. Here are the latest key developments:* Deputy PM: Al-Assad's resignation not an acceptable c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* A woman has been arrested by police officers investigating claims that a black woman made racist comments about white people on a London bus, Scotland Yard said today.* The Metropolitan Police said a 34...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (Reuters) - Fifty buildings were destroyed by a 21,500-acre wildfire raging in Northern California that has forced the evacuation of about 3,000 people near the small town of Manton, fire officials said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (Reuters) - Foes of Arizona's tough immigration law asked a federal judge in Phoenix on Tuesday to keep the state's controversial "show me your papers" provision on hold because it was discriminatory, de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (Reuters) - Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes, charged with killing 12 people in a movie theater rampage last month, saw at least three mental health professionals at the University of Colorado before...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (Reuters) - The death toll from fighting between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in Tripoli climbed to at least 10 overnight, medical sources said on Wednesday, in clashes that the city's residents described ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (Reuters) - For the 12.5 million Dutch who go to the polls on September 12, the national election really boils down to one issue: Europe.* The election is taking place at a time of rapid decline in suppo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAug 21 - As investors pin their hopes on fresh stimulus for the recovery, Reuters Correspondent Alister Bull says minutes from the Fed's last meeting will tell us how far we are from more action
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAug. 21 - More than twenty rail cars could be seen laying on their sides after a freight train derailed near Baltimore, Maryland. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAug. 21 - Japanese news organization releases the last video journalist Mika Yamamoto shot in Syria before she was killed in a gunfight. Deborah Gembara reports
- posted by Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 8 hours agoA lot of people lament the decline in manufacturing employment, which has fallen by about 1/3 since 2000. As Upjohn Institute economist Susan Houseman points out in the linked article, we're talking about ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAug. 22 - Greek PM Samaras hosts Eurogroup's Juncker in Athens to kick off his charm offensive of European leaders aimed at buying Athens more time for reforms.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - A Washington state man was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday after making threats against President Barack Obama in emails sent to the FBI, authorities said. The FBI had notified the Secre...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 8 hours agoPhoto courtesy: wjklos/CC BY 2.0 Although the intricate messages conveyed within a whale's call are mostly lost on human ears, there's a pretty good chance that at least one young humpback's songs will b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (Reuters) - Congressman Todd Akin, under fire for controversial remarks on abortion and rape, insisted on Tuesday he would not leave the Missouri Senate race, despite pressure from fellow Republicans and...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoDuring a recent conversation with Stephen Cooke I mentioned the ArcelorMittal Orbit in London brought out a strong revulsion impulse in me, almost a vomit reflex. Its hideous to be sure, lacking any ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* Japan is sending its ambassador back to South Korea, one week after recalling him in the wake of an intensifying island dispute between the two Asian neighbors.* Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said Wed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* A joint Peres-Ovadia front against a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, uniting the two old friends, may prove to be the only barrier insurmountable to the Netanyahu-Barak duo.* Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTehran claims its upgraded Fateh-110, with a range of 300km., is "one of the most precise and advanced" of its kind; security expert says Iran is hinting at both land and sea targets, a veiled threat to US...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* QUITO — Ecuador on Tuesday called on Britain to retract a threat to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London, adding that Quito remains open to dialogue.* The South American coun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* An unusual species of rat that cannot gnaw or chew has been discovered, which scientists say is a new step in rodent evolution. * The rodent, called paucidentomys vermidax, has fang-like upper incisors t...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoWhatever you do, always give 100% - unless you are donating blood. In case of fire, exit the building before tweeting about it. Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level; then, beat you ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoActor and comedian Steve Martin is also known for his banjo-playing abilities. He learned to play the banjo during the 1960's before starting his career as a stand-up comedian. Those who want to fry thei...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours ago*Source:* *http://notesalongthepath.com/2012/08/21/i-am-your-mother-2/*
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*1.* A 12-year-old girl has become the ninth victim of a bomb blast in Turkey. Turkey bomb blast death toll rises to 9 as 12-year-old girl dies / Bomb blast in south-eastern Turkey killed four children...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoIn February 2012, Eef van Beveren and George Rupp released a provocative preprint based on their February 2011 work Material evidence of a 38 MeV boson in which they argued there is some evidence in the...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours ago*Benjamin Fulford – Extra Update* *Obiturary : Dr. Michael Van De Meer, AKA Dr. Michael Meiring, AKA???**The Real James Bond * August 22, 2012 The fictional character James Bond does not hold a cand...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 10 hours agobecause the skies over Oxford are this morning getting BOMBARDED with whatever/whyever are those long persistent contrails (aka chemtrails) in the sky, I've decdied to feature BOTH FILMS of documentary fil...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoSource of the prayer. *Ho yannah to thee, oh Almighty One!* *Hear my prayer of him who is of the Acorn Clan!* *I have purified my feet from the dust of the Earth on which I am a dweller until they are wh...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 10 hours agoRobert H. King of the Angola 3 and Hamja Ahsan in London. *Do US Prisons Violate European Human Rights Law?* *--An interview with Hamja Ahsan and Aviva Stahl* *By Angola 3 News* On April 10, 2012, the Eu...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThis another blast from the classic canon of geology that at least appreciates that folk tales are teaching you something even if the knowledge is profoundly local. Regrettably he appears to com...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoTwo items here on the manipulation and creation of engineered nanoparticles of gold. Read and wonder. I am expecting a lot out of this research, comparable to the output related to the work on gr...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThe first item woke me up to the virtues of the lotus plant that is not used significantly yet in the West. What peaks my interest is that we have underutilized wetlands in temperate lands and ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoFolded into the context of the Bible are a number of fully developed separate stories or even what we would describe and accept today as novellas. They have a legendary flavor and while inspired...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours ago*Source:* *Stop The War Coalition UK*
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ *Amerika’s Future is Death ~ Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ August 20, 2012 “*The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die*.” - Martin...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoWhat if British Columbians decided we'd rather be independent than Alberta's and Ottawa's sodomites? What if we actually told the "ROC" rest of Canada to f--k off with their pipelines and bullshit? We co...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* August 21, 2012 *Broken Anvil: Victims Fight for Justice After DEA...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoTuesday, August 21, 2012 Snowbowl Employees Threaten Tree-sitter's Life, Two Supporters Arrested as Tree-Sit Continues Contact: Ariana Sauer (602) 388-3726Xander Vautrin@ (847) 334-7212protectpeaks@gmail.co...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* One of Britain’s most wanted tax fugitives, who was caught after a decade on the run, has absconded again after being released on bail by a Spanish court.* Cigarette smuggler Malcolm McGowan, 60, has be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* The mystery surrounding the suicide of British filmmaker Tony Scott deepened after the chairman of 20th Century Fox said that the director was 'burning with excitement' over new projects just two weeks b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* British taxpayers will have to contribute to yet another bailout fund for Greece if it leaves the euro, Treasury officials have admitted.* The UK would contribute to a soft landing fund for Greece put to...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoI've waited but it's time to say farewell to the legendary bassist, Bob Babbitt. He was an enormously talented musician but a far bigger man.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* An immigration computer database is being set up to track down the 150,000 people who are staying in Britain illegally, it was revealed yesterday.* Border chiefs are due to launch the project next month...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoSheldan Nidle - August 21, 2012 August 21, 2012 9 Etznab, 6 Uo, 9 Eb Dratzo! We come to give you another report on what is transpiring around your world. In Asia and Europe a general rebellion conti...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 13 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 DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player I don't know much about women's shoes but I remember a woman friend of mine who worked at a non-profit spending an astronomical amount of money on ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago*Source*. "Many sociologists and mental health professionals say that those who believe the official version without any questioning are the ones suffering from psychological defense mechanisms." - Was...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 13 hours agoAmnesty run by US State Department representatives, funded by convicted financial criminals, and threatens real human rights advocacy worldwide. *by Tony Cartalucci* *Image: From Amnesty International USA...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unveiled an new version of a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile. Iran’s state-media reported that Ahmadinejad attende...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Israel is planning a military strike against Iran’s nuclear programme before November, security sources in Israel have claimed.* British officials say prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun a proces...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago<p><a href="http://video.heraldsun.com.au/2269236636/Phuket-nightclub-fire">VIDEO: Phuket nightclub fire&...
- posted by risa bear at A Way to Live - 13 hours agoA five gallon carboy of cider needs about eight buckets of apples, seems like. Since they're going to be crushed, I don't have to be careful about bruises. Except maybe my own -- I did fall into the dry ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Larch forest in Siberia, Summer 2012. One of the changes observed in the larch forest was the significant amount of burned area. Fires appear to be returning to these forests more frequently than...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil says the West is looking for an excuse for military intervention in his country, a move he says would be impossible.* Jamil said during a visit to Moscow Tuesday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Nasa has reported its first setback in the Curiosity rover mission to Mars.* A sensor on the robot's weather station that takes wind readings has sustained damage. The mission team stresses this is not...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Greece's Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, has called for more time to implement tough spending cuts and reforms, ahead of crucial talks on its EU/IMF bailout. * Mr Samaras told German daily Bild that Gre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 53.2 km (33.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:33:05 UTC Wednesday 22nd August 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) East of Shizuna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* Ongoing violence in Syria has spilled further into Lebanon, amid fears of a widening regional destabilisation. * At least seven people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in sectarian clashes in t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoPhotos by Dawn Dyer. Thank you from Censored News! Two protesters locked down to protect the Protect the Peaks treesitter James Kennedy today, Tuesday, and were taken into custody. The treesitter remains in ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 14 hours ago[image: El tiempo es oro - Time is money - Dinero y Reloj]
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours agoIn 1963 Colin McCahon’s painting “Landscape Theme and Variations (Series B),” below, was rejected for inclusion in the collection of the National Art Gallery. This afternoon, however, the painting enter...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image on 20 August 2012. Sporting a well-defined eye, Tembin hovered over the ocean...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Motorcyclists ride on a flooded street in Hanoi on Sunday. Strong wind and rain in northern Vietnam unleashed by Typhoon Kai-Tak have killed at least 17 people, damaged thousands of houses and su...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours agoTuesday, 08/21/12, on American Indian Airwaves "Auctioning Pe' Sla: An Urgent Crises" Listen online tonight Chase Iron Eyes, attorney, writer, and founding writer at LastRealIndians.com, speaks with on t...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 15 hours agoSadly it seems our local Country Fair is cancelled this year. I chalk it up to political ineptitude and million dollar home owners who apparently don't want their little Draper Road fiefdom sullied by the...
- posted by Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 15 hours agoIn an opinion piece last week in *The New York Times*, Dennis Ross, a former US senior diplomat, wrote: *Each country *[Israel and the US]* could set Iran back militarily, but neither could destroy Iran’...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Evidence of marine extinctions in the fossil and historical records. (a) Extinction rate of all marine genera in the Phanerozoic [past 550 million years (Ma)] and (b) by major clades in the Cenoz...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours agoUnlike many of his critics, I'm rather fond of Jake Tapper. He was one of my first twitter follows and over the three or so years since, I've come to like him as a person. But as a journalist, not always s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours agoI was informed just today, via email, from a good friend of mine, John Friend, who writes the very important blog: "John Friend's Blog" at www.johnfriendsblog.blogspot.com, that he received a very shocking...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“Like delicate cosmic petals, these clouds of interstellar dust and gas have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile star fields of the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes called the Iris Nebula and ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"A Gathering of the Tribe" by Charles Eisenstein "Once upon a time a great tribe of people lived in a world far away from ours. Whether far away in space, or in time, or even outside of time, we do not ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"Miracles"* "Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade wi...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*"Whether mandating transvaginal probes prior to abortion under 'informed-consent' logic or misunderstanding basic biology, Republicans have managed to alienate a fair portion of the female population. Ev...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"�M�i�r�a�c�l�e�s�"�* "�W�h�y�,� �w�h�o� �m�a�k�e�s� �m�u�c�h� �o�f� �a� �m�i�r�a�c�l�e�?� A�s� �t�o� �m�e� �I� �k�n�o�w� �o�f� �n�o�t�h�i�n�g� �e�l�s�e� �b�u�t� �m�i�r�a�c�l�e�s�,� W�h�e�t�h�e�r� �I� �...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 16 hours agoPosted by Stephen Cooke UFO Over Sedona, ‘The City of Light’, Arizona, USA – August 11, 2012 Thanks to Christopher. I think we all better book ourselves a flight to Sedona! This footage was taken o...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours agoYouTube Video Description (August 10, 2012): "Glenn Greenwald was on the program today, talking about his new article the "Normalization of Extremism." Glenn and Sam talked about how policies once thought...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoBothell, Washington, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours agoTeam Rmoney is in Tampa now and the Mittster, being a world famous Olympics extravaganza stager, is reportingly taking an active role in designing the Republican convention. He has a particularly keen inte...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“Dreams and Obsessions”* by Paulo Coelho “Your theory about every person could reach everything in life is really optimistic. But if the person tried once and was despaired and disappointed what is h...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours agoEnter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most.
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 18 hours ago[image: Pinturas 3D en las calles - Tan reales que pueden tocarse] [image: Pinturas 3D en las calles - Tan reales que pueden tocarse] [image: Pinturas 3D en las calles - Tan reales que pueden tocarse]
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 18 hours ago*"Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen rode a couple of ATVs through a delicate ecosystem in Yukon Tuesday, an activity that most people in the territory say must be better regulated.* *In...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you." - African proverb.
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAmid increasing talk of a possible Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities, Iran has begun construction of a new, state-of-the-art, anti-aircraft missile base. The new base, located near the city of Aba...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 18 hours agoDynamic duo. Graphic by DonkeyHotey. What to do in November, and beyond The 2012 election will be one of the most polarized and critical elections in recent history. And it will have little to do with ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Fear and Courage"* by Phil Stutz, M.D., Psychiatrist "I've never understood why psychotherapy doesn't deal with courage. Ask anybody what qualities they'd like more of, and courage will be high up th...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 18 hours agoHow could the great egalitarian (sic) George Galloway say that the rape allegations facing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange amount to little more than "really bad manners" and "bad sexual etiquette"? It's ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoTantoo Cardinal opposing tarsands and Keystone devastation to Cree homeland Respect Pe Sla as a Sacred Place By Tantoo Cardinal Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Respect Pe Sla as a Sacred Pl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." - James Baldwin
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck COLORADO at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:21:28 UTC Tuesday 21st August 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (8.7 miles) NNE from El Jebel, Colorado No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* Wildfires have been spreading across southern Europe, fuelled by the hot, dry climate. * Firefighters in Spain are struggling to cope with the country's worst blazes in a decade while thousands of acres ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* In March 1993 Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan and took this photograph. The picture would later bring him the Pulitzer prize, but also death. * The girl had stopped to rest while struggling t...
- posted by Cliff Bob at The Duck of Minerva - 19 hours agoUN members last month failed to reach agreement on the Arms Trade Treaty after a month-long conference. This is the latest setback in a decades old attempt to control the trade in small arms. A broad net...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoA friend of mine who runs a progressive PAC called me to go over some of the senators he was thinking of doing fundraising for. "Is there anyone else as good as Bernie Sanders (I-VT)," he asked me. I sai...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: Fish on sale near Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. A pair of greenlings have shown the highest level of radioactive caesium detected in fish and shellfish caught in waters off the cripple...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*1.* *Those Who Can See blog* *2.* Former marine Brandon Raub was carted off by the Feds and locked in a psychiatric ward for his Facebook posts questioning the government’s version of 9/11. Raub isn’t ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*“Variable Expressions in the American Quest for Liberty”* by Eric Fry “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 21 hours agoSince beginning this feature over seven years ago, I've often found that August, the month Congress recesses for five weeks, tends to be slow. But the environment gets very target-rich during election yea...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 21 hours agoWhen bugs eat Monsanto's genetically-engineered corn, they die, and when Roundup is sprayed on Monsanto's Roundup resistant corn, the weeds around the corn die. And yet Monsanto's and Walmart's paid scien...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoCalls I made, that is. In the keeping me honest category... I haven't mentioned it since the primary, and I should: wow, I was dead wrong about Tommy Thompson. I figured he would fade right out of the pic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoChicago News and Weather | FOX Chicago News *CHICAGO (FOX Chicago News) - A prosecutor in Southern Illinois won't enforce the state's ban on carrying loaded, concealed handguns and other state's attorneys ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* Six people were hurt in Berlin when a train came off the tracks at lunchtime on Tuesday. Emergency workers said they were glad the incident was not more serious. * “We arrived with heavy cutting machiner...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* Fire gutted 150 buildings on Jl. Gotong Royong in Pondok Bambu, Duren Sawit in East Jakarta on Tuesday. No casualties were reported as a result of the incident.* Fire not only devastated houses but also...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* Tegucigalpa, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) Specialists with the Permanent Contingency Commission (COPECO) are now in Trojes area, in the eastern Honduran department of El Paraíso, to investigate the alleged cra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- There has been a small eruption from a remote Alaska volcano.* The Alaska Volcano Observatory says in a release that satellite imagery showed a low-level ash cloud from Cleveland Vo...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 21 hours agoDaily Bail WikiLeaks Cable: "Systemic Insolvency Is Now The Problem, Global Bank Bailout Needed" In light of the Assange speech this weekend, we are reposting three wikileaks stories. This peice was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAug. 21 - Still defiant -- Rusisan protest group Pussy Riot releases a new song "Putin Lights Up the Fires."
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 22 hours agoKudos to Glenn Greenwald and his last column for Salon before moving permanently (whatever that means today) to The Guardian. Leave it to Glenn to expose the so-called "terrorism" crowd for the pretenders ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 22 hours ago*Daily Bell* *Ecuador might take the case to the International Court of Justice, but would first try to convince London that it should allow Assange to travel to the South American country or give him gua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe China authority announced on Aug 14th that Zhou Kehua, suspected as a serial killer and armed robber in several provinces in China was shot dead by police. Netizens widely questioned this after findi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoAP*This is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. He formerly worked as a national security consultant. His research focuses on terrorism and religious conf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* TMZ reportedly viewed, but did not purchase, the video of the director's death as more questions emerge about his motives. * Witnesses who filmed and photographed Tony Scott's fatal leap from a bridge in...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 22 hours agoProgressive activist and New Left pioneer: Tom Hayden in Austin Saturday The Rag Blog and Rag Radio are presenting progressive activist and New Left icon Tom Hayden at the 5604 Manor Community Center, 5604...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 22 hours agoLand Destroyer Tony Cartalucci *Obama's bizarre threats indicative of losing strategy and increasing desperation.* US-led NATO forces armed, funded, trained, and even provided air support for Libyan terr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:37 UTC Tuesday 21st August 2012 The epicenter was 737 km (456.9 miles) Southwe...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoGlobal Research Nicola Nasser To keep “all options on the table” in the U.S. – Israel plans to change the incumbent Syrian and Iranian regimes and neutralize what both Te;l Aviv and Washington perceive as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* London (CNN) -- The Ecuadorian president said the United Kingdom would be "suicidal" to come into Ecuador's embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up since June.* "I t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAug. 21 - Spanish fire fighters found themselves trapped by a wall of advancing flames as they worked to contain a massive wildfire in the city of Leon. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* (Reuters) - They call it "rahowa" - short for racial holy war - and they are preparing for it by joining the ranks of the world's fiercest fighting machine, the U.S. military. * White supremacists, neo-N...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 23 hours agoYou never thought you would hear the words clean and healthy in the same sentence as ice cream, did you? This easy, fun recipe is a favorite around our house. I have no problem letting my daughter have ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoPersonal Liberty Sam Rolley President Barack Obama signs a bill into law earlier this month. Staff Secretary Doug Kramer prepares the next bill for the President's signature.Political polarization is sup...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* (Reuters) - Four people were killed and more than 60 wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli as the war in neighboring Syria inflamed tensions there ag...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoBusiness Insider Mandi Woodruff While most attention in the ongoing student debt crisis narrative has focused on new graduates, it turns out the federal government has been quietly targeting a different ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A large plume of black smoke rose over Heathrow Airport after a fire broke out in west London.* Firefighters were called at 4.00pm on Tuesday and crews with six fire engines tackled the blaze on Bath Ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:39:38 UTC Tuesday 21st August 2012 The epicenter was 727 km (452 miles) SSW from ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoIsraelNationalNews Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu *Netanyahu has demanded that Egypt cease sending tanks into the Sinai without approval, a “blatant violation” of the 1979 peace treaty.* Prime Minister Binyamin Netan...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoKevin Drum says about the Fed Board: Could better colleagues have won Senate confirmation? There's reason to doubt it. I really disagree with this one. Yes, Peter Diamond was successfully filibustered. B...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoThe National Memo Jon Conason Veteran Republican political consultant, unrepentant dirty trickster, and recently reborn libertarian Roger Stone yesterday published a startling accusation against Paul Rya...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours agoHotAir.com reports that: 'A new report by Britain’s Department for Education and Skills notes that an increasing number of schools are dropping the teaching of the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid ...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoToday begins our Love Quest. For the next 7 days we will explore agape and this blog will essentially move there – to a face book event. You can join via this link and receive each daily note to your ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoGlobal Research Richard Silverstein In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level Israeli source wh...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoIs Hillary Clinton the man in the relationship? According to a new book, yes. President Obama apparently backed off the *fake raid of Osama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan* until Clinton stepped in and co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* JERUSALEM — Israeli officials said Tuesday that Egypt is violating the historic 1979 peace treaty between the two countries by deploying tanks in the demilitarized Sinai desert near the Israeli border.* ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThree daycare employees were arrested on Monday for allegedly watching and encouraging toddlers to fight each other while under their care. According to Dover Police, three employees from the Hands of Ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* Russia has warned against unilateral action in Syria after the US said it might intervene militarily if Damascus used chemical weapons on the rebels.* Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there should be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* Alexander Barankov fled to Ecuador from Belarus after claiming to have unearthed corruption there as a military investigator.* Ecuador gave him refugee status two years ago, but in June police came for ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoSuicides by American military personnel are a tragic symptom of the underlying immorality of American overseas military pursuits and the traumatization and hopelessness of too many soldiers. So, since th...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago*The piece below is by Jay Bookman, writing for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.* *Note: This post contains material published here earlier. It is posted here as the electronic version of my Sunday AJC c...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoOn Facebook, someone familiar to readers of this blog wrote: "As readers of Weber know, there are three forms of legitimate rape: forcible, fraternity, and rational-legal." But enough of that neo-Weberian ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoProtect Our Good Red Road by Debra White Plume, writing from the banks of Wounded Knee Creek Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Debra White Plume/Photo Brenda Norrell Debra giving Lewi...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn addition to two months of temperatures over ３５℃, Japan has recently been hit with a spate of lightning storms. In fact, when writing a previous story my building was hit by lightning knocking out my co...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Dr. Taj and his family celebrating Eid in Canton over the weekend* We usually have our live chats with Blue America candidates on Tuesdays at 11am (PT)/2pm (ET). But our newest candidate, Dr. Syed Taj, se...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day ago*UPDATE: At The Washington Post Brad Plumer does a fantastic job explaining the Purdue/FF paper discussed in this post. * Today's FT says this in an editorial: Passed by Congress in 2005, the Renewable...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*1196158 **Ontario** Inc. v. 6274013 Canada Limited*, 2012 ONCA 544 is a useful case dealing with delay in civil litigation: [17] The civil justice system aims to resolve disputes fairly, on t...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoOne of the questions heard around the mid-tier blogsphere "why doesn't anybody comment anymore?" Answers usually invoke 'big think' claims about the changing ecology and norms of blogging, the topics addre...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoWall Street Journal Aug 21, 2012 p. B7 by W. Ma, S. Chen & A. Li [Paraphrasing] China is moving forward with plans to offer an initial public offering (IPO) to finance five nuclear power plant projects va...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day agoAdam Kokesh Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoPhoto Brenda Norrell Marcos and Commandantes in Sonora, Mexico “Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas: Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avilés and Francisco Sántiz López" http://sanmarcosavil...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day ago*Shadow Worlds: Monsters in Our Midst* *By Scott Corrales (c) 2012* The concept of other creatures sharing our planet – creatures that do not fit into the accepted taxonomy – can be challeng...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 1 day agoAll right you drones, it's emo time. By the way something, they may be making a movie about this, so... SPOILER ALERT.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoFrom the California State University system comes this remarkable news: The California State University system is embroiled in a controversy over plans to admit higher-paying out-of-state and internatio...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoI have been watching the situation with the impending world economic collapse unfold at a very alarming rate. Right now, we are seeing crisis after crisis in the so called Euro-zone, where countries are f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*George Osborne's attempt to cut Britain’s deficit was dealt a blow today when official figures revealed that the Government borrowed £3 billion more than expected last month.* Public sector finances suff...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago2127423 Manitoba Ltd. o/a London Limos v. Unicity Taxi Ltd. et al., 2012 MBCA 75 is a useful decision dealing with the level of disclosure needed for administrative decisions: 19 Nex...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 1 day agoFacebook Incorporated director Peter Thiel has sold most of his stake in Facebook (the world’s largest social-networking website in case you didn't know that already). Facebook had banned insider sales, bu...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoToday from BetterUtah In an article that reeks of ALEC secrecy in relation to re-districting *Government and the people are not two distinct entities. * *Government IS the people, * *formed BY the people a...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 1 day agoBy Charles Moffat. Here are my picks for the best cooking lessons in Toronto. *#1. Luca* www.lucatoronto.com Luca offers private cooking lessons in both Italian cooking lessons and also private cooking l...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoONE AND A HALF BILLION ROUNDS OF AMMO — and more — have been acquired by various domestic US Government agencies. That's enough ammo to shoot every American 5 times. Really. According to The Daily Caller'...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012* *Our culture’s long walk through the desert:* Finally, we read Politico’s report about the skinny-dip in the Galilee. At the end, we came upon the funniest formal correction in...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoPhoto by Dawn Dyer/Thank you from Censored News! Tree-sit Halts Snowbowl Pipeline Construction Rally and March from City Hall to be Held Video Interview with James Kennedy: http://youtu.be/I2XMtLiX1pk ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoTo Matt Yglesias, on monetary policy and the Obama Administration: This is a Fed full of Obama appointees pursuing a disastrous policy trajectory that's creating all kinds of problems for Obama. But I've n...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day agoTU*ESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012* *Part 2—O’Brien and "expert" stage fraud:* When Medicare came center stage in the White House campaign, so did a series of charges. Mitt Romney began saying that Obama “stole” ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A general view of drought-damaged corn stalks at the McIntosh family farm in Missouri Valley, Iowa, 13 August 2012. Larry Downing / Reuters] By Sam Nelson; editing by John Wallace 21 August 2012...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoIt is Difficult to Produce "Morning Linkage" While Occupied by a Large Cat - Mona El-Ghobashy on the emerging relationship between President Mursi and SCAF in Egypt (via Laleh Khlelili) - Co...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Retreat of the Ata Glacier since 1917. Photos of the Ata Glacier are from 1933, 1976, and 2006. Image reproduced with permission from ref. 21, © 1933 Wiley. Yao, et al, 2012] The Ata Glacier (29...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Giant Swallowtail, a southern butterfly historically only seen as an occasional stray in New England, has been present in conspicuously high numbers in Massachusetts in recent years, with sco...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoI have to be totally honest – I don’t fanatically follow the so-called "educational model” legislation put out by ALEC. But I am aware of what it does – ALEC educational legislation steals taxpayer money...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day agoDees Illustration Brandon Turbeville *Activist Post* In my last article entitled, “As Above, So Below: The Globalist Agenda Reflected in Local Politics Through ‘Council of Governments,’” I highlighted ho...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Visitors stand on the observation tower in front of the RWE AG coal-fueled power plant in Weisweiler, Germany. Hannelore Foerster / Bloomberg] By Stefan Nicola and Tino Andresen 20 August 2012 ...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoJust say no to theory.Parents: Are you worried that your college students aren't interested in the real world anymore? Are they growing distant from conversations about foreign policy at the dinner table? ...
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