- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 minutes ago"Male Smokers Can Affect Future Offspring" The Arizona Republic (2012, July 6), p. H1. "Children of male smokers can inherit their fathers' damaged DNA, which could increase their risk of genetic disease...
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- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 minutes agoDisease Rates for 2012 for Pertussis and West Nile are up significantly: [Paraphrasing] Cases of Pertussis are "surging" in Maricopa County AZ and across the country. 508 Maricopa county residents have be...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 16 minutes ago*FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012* *Robert Reich starts to imagine:* At Salon, Robert Reich calls Romney “a lying machine.” After that, he starts to imagine: REICH (8/24/12): *Mitt Romney, lying machine* I’ve b...
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------------------------------ *Sarah Kendzior * Sarah Kendzior is an anthropologist who recently received her PhD from Washington University in St Louis. ------------------------------ *The c... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 30 minutes agoThe Wall Street Journal "Court Rules Biotech Firm can Patent Human Genes" 8/17/2012 p. B3 by Brent Kendall. Majia here: In 2005, almost 19% of the human genome was patented. http://news.nationalgeographi...
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Der Spiegel *A large portion of Germany's massive gold reserves are stored abroad, mainly in the Federal Reserve in New York. But are the bars really where they are supposed to be? A dispute has broken ou... - posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 54 minutes ago
As a solution to several requests, what follows is the note from the Love Quest, which is a Face Book event. These will continue until 8.27.2012. I sort of planned to explore today what oneness isn’... - posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 56 minutes ago
My husband has worn the same pair of glasses going on almost ten years now. The glasses were falling apart, all he would need is a lightening scar on his forehead and a cupboard under the stairs and peop... - posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour ago
FAIR Peter Hart There's an interesting *Politico* story (8/22/12) about Andrea Seabrook, who until recently was a Capitol Hill reporter for *NPR*. She's moved on to a new independent reporting project, bu... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoFurther to this post, one more thing we should all know. Not one war crime exposed by WikiLeaks has been investigated. Not one war criminal has been prosecuted. Only Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, who...
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Website for this image On 24 August 2012, anti-Morsi protests hit Egypt. * * "Violence in Tahrir flared when witnesses heard shots. *24 August 2012 - Anti-Morsi protests.* Website for this image "The ... - posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
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*Miss. governor urges vigilance as Isaac approaches Gulf ~WDSU* *Isaac is strengthening ~Wunderblog* ~Tropical Storm Isaac is strengthening. An Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft measured surface ... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
Paul Ryan's high school class voted him biggest brown-noser in school. A former classmate from Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville told us he was "always kissing up and kicking down. He was very pop... - posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A Canadian is among the six Greenpeace activists who scaled a floating Russian oil rig early Friday to protest against drilling in the Arctic and were clinging to the structure's side as employees sprayed... - posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
*Activist Post* * *It is being reported that at least 10 people have been shot by someone who appears to be a disgruntled ex-employee. No other details are currently available, but media is on the scene. W... - posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours ago
Foreign Policy* plums new depths of own legendary depravity. * Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor* *Foreign Policy* published a recent article literally titled, "Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists." In it,general... - posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoObama's Twitter account has 18.8 million followers -- but more than half of them really don't exist, according to reports. A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama's crowd includes "fake followers...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoPaul Craig Roberts The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally. The country that exists today is not even a shell of the country int...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours agoBy Robert Bradfield, with photojournalist Jason Thomason 13 August 2012 MAYFIELD, Kentucky – At Mayfield's United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success. "Jus...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago*Grosman v. Cookson*, 2012 ONCA 551, released today, holds an arbitration agreement can oust the power of the Court to vary spousal support. The decision is extremely important -- a link is set out below a...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago*By United Native Americans* *Posted by Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com SAN FRANCISCO, CA (8/23)- Native American leaders held a protest outside the Hearst Building on 3rd Street & Market...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours agoEditor's Note: Remember CNBC selling us on QE to keep stock prices high? *Report shows wealthy do 240 times better out of QE than the poor* Independent Ben Chu Mervyn King claims QE has boosted the econ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours agoXRepublic The Commission on Presidential Debates is a private corporation headed by the former chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties. The CPD is a duopoly which allows the major party candi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: In this 22 August 2012 photo, drought condition water levels have taken their toll on the wildlife at Anderson Lake State Fish & wildlife Area near Astoria, Illinois. According to the latest drou...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 3 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* In June of 2012, Eric Bloom, former chief executive, and Charles Mosely, head trader of Sentinel Management Group (SMG) were indicted for stealing $500 million in customer ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*New Orleans in Isaac cone - at least for now ~WWL* *East bank District C residents lead their own budget forum ~Steve Beatty, The Lens** * *LA Swift bus service hits millionth ride benchmark ~Daily Comet...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours agoLand Destroyer Tony Catalucci Foreign Policy published a recent article literally titled, "Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists." In it, general editor of the Neo-Con Middle East Forum Gary Gambill concedes th...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours agoGather Robert Flynn *William McMahon* supervised the Phoenix-run Fast and Furious program.The Fast and Furious Scandal is taking a new, sinister twist as one of those at the center of the botched gun-run...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012* *The essence of Congressman Ryan:* Our grandmother used to say it about her sometimes-warring daughters: “Why must they fight?” This morning, we thought of those words as Krugm...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 3 hours agoWhite boys night out on the big town! Oh, those GOP Bathhouse bad boyjs!
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoFrom a national survey conducted by the non-profit Share Our Strength [Excerpted] Three out of five public school teachers in Maryland say they have students who regularly come to school hungry because th...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoI've been meaning to write something more about conservative pundit Philip Klein's column yesterday about Todd Akin and the GOP. Klein writes that perhaps the Akin affair will be a "remembered as an import...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 4 hours agoAn 87-year-old man is set to be charged on allegations that he served as an SS guard at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Also: Outstanding anti-war op-ed from Pat Buchanan.
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 4 hours agoCIA agent Raymond Davis, who gained notoriety after his arrest in Pakistan killing two ISI agents, is on trial for assault after a Colorado bar fight. His lawyer charges that the CIA is interfering in t...
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- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 4 hours agoBusiness Insider Michael Kelley UPDATE: A circuit court judge has dismissed the government’s case against Brandon Raub and ordered that the Marine veteran, detained over anti-government Facebook posts, b...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012* *The joy of non-consensual sex:* Everything seems to be amusing to the high lady Collins. We thought the start of yesterday’s column put several points in perspective: COLLIN...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours agoAnthony Freda Art Paul Craig Roberts, *Contributor* The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally. The country that exists today is n...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 4 hours agoGlobal Research Eric Draitser The shootings and bombings in Ingushetia and Dagestan this week rekindled a long-standing, brutal campaign of violence and terrorism in Russia’s Caucasus region – one that ha...
- posted by Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 hours ago*Source: GEIFO (Grupo Español de Investigación del Fenómeno OVNI) Date: August 24, 2012* *Spain: Preliminary Report – The Almería-Aguilas Case (March 2006)* *Case Name*: Sighting of Disc-Shape...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 4 hours agoNew research by Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, and Francesco Giavazzi suggests an answer: This paper studies whether fiscal corrections cause large output losses. We find that it matters crucially how the...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012* *Epilogue—Calmes rewritten:* Last night, we had an incomparable dream. We dreamed of a press corps which actually served! A press corps which tried to examine the charges made by...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 4 hours ago*NYT embeds with war criminals, spin and excuse craven human rights violations as "cunning."* Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor* One can only imagine the headlines had the Syrian government been caught usin...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSaudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Its involvement in Syria is the first battle in what is going to be a long conflict that will know no frontiers nor limits. O...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe NY Times is reporting that unknown computer hackers who call themselves “Cutting Sword of Justice” have claimed responsibility for spreading a malicious virus into Saudi Aramco, the Saudi government-o...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAt least four people were shot outside New York City's Empire State Building on Friday morning and the gunman was dead, New York City officials said. A witness said the gunman was firing indiscriminately....
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoFrom Think Progress – You really need to read the whole thing >>>>HERE<<<<< *Romney Energy Plan Would Let States and His Oil Donors Drill On Public Lands* By Public Lands Team on Aug 23, 2012 at 5:07 p...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours ago- Indonesia's foreign minister warns of "deeper divisions" between China and ASEAN over South China Sea. - Taylor Favrel and Dennis J. Blasko assess the new PLA South China Sea garrison ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoSo you aren’t happy with Obama? You think he didn’t DO IT ALL? What are you a one-issue GOPesque Dem? Grow UP! Quit your bitching - now is NOT the time. Were you ignorant enough - are you still so igno...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 5 hours agoUpdate: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Empire State Building shooting: gunman, bystander killed, 8 wounded (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) Source [image: Several peopl...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Arctic sea ice extent, August 2012. NSIDC] By John Vidal, environment editor, www.guardian.co.uk 23 August 2012 Arctic sea ice is set to reach its lowest ever recorded extent as early as this we...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 5 hours agoLisa Garber Turmeric has gained yet another victory under its belt. New research published in the *Journal of Biological Chemistry *shows that it stopped the multiplication of the often deadly Rift Val...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Climate change threatens the future of a significant number of bat species. Mark Caewardine / NPL via bbc.co.uk] By Matt Walker, Editor, BBC Nature 24 August 2012 Climate change threatens the f...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 5 hours agoY-12 National Security/Dept of Energy Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* In yet another case demonstrating just how farcical and laughable so-called “homeland security” really is, three anti-nuclear activists...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 5 hours agoHave you ever thought about switching to biofuel for your car? Well maybe you need a little education in what biofuel actually is. Myth #1. "Biofuel can be used in any car." Biofuel is actually "Biodiese...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 5 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come out publicly to state that he will authorize a military strike on Iran before US elections in November. With the Defense ...
- posted by Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 5 hours agoBy Capt. Fogg Could it be that Anne Coulter just said something I agree with? I think I need to wash out my brain with Lysol. But I guess it's not quite that bad. Yes, I do believe that the oh so Typic...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 5 hours ago...on the Amazon list of bestselling books. I believe it is the first time one of my texts has made it into the top 100.
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 5 hours agoAndrew Puhanic, *Contributor* A new study published in the International Journal of Electrochemical Science has discovered that *cooking with aluminium increases the risk of developing Osteoporosis and...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoHappy Birthday to William Morgan Sheppard, 80. The good stuff: 1. Alex Massie on Barack Obama as a Tory. A sensible argument, although I think it falls short of accounting for the activism of the Obama ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 5 hours agoRT America [image: Americans leaving US in record numbers] Americans leaving US in record numbers Ever dream of leaving it all behind and heading out of America? You’re not the only one. A new stu...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours agoR v Poon, 2012 SKCA 76 deals with an unusual situation. After the start of trial information came to the court in a jury trial that a juror had been the victim of a crime similar to that which was it issue...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 6 hours agoThe sixth episode of the Duck of Minerva Podcast just went live. In it, I and PTJ discuss academic administration before turning to the foreign-policy rhetoric of the 2012 campaign. This leads to under-de...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 6 hours agoJust a reminder about what a craven turd and self-centred tool Peter MacKay is. We all know that the mega-expensive F-35 fighter jet is a highly problematic project. Evidently, it's one claim to fame, it...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoWhatever normal people think about Todd Akin and his bizarre pronouncements, the kind of claptrap he spouts is standard Republican fare they all talk about amongst themselves when they think no one else i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Barack Obama has always been known for his silken words, soaring rhetoric and ability to use language to his advantage.* Lately, however, the president seems to be losing command of the details. In a sp...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 6 hours agoH/T to @stephaniecarvin for this bit of silliness: Enjoy your last few days before the students come back, if they have not already done so!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* There’s still a 100 percent chance the world heads into recession, Marc Faber, publisher of “The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report,” told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Thursday, echoing a call he made in May.* When ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) will survey the earth beneath the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture to check if two fault lines there are active, the utility announced on Aug. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* High concentrations of rust have been found in the water in the Hamaoka nuclear plant's No. 5 reactor following a seawater inflow accident last year, plant operator Chubu Electric Power Co. has announced...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 6 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* In Chaffee County, Colorado, the voter ballots for the 2012 Republican Primary election contain a smartphone data matrix barcode that ties the voter to the ballot. Both the...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAug 24 - Narrow escape for 2 year old girl after falling off a motorcycle. Julie Noce reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAug. 23 - Officials in Florida make contingencies as Tropical Storm Isaac threatens the Republican National Convention while the Dominican Republic and Haiti brace for the storm. Sarah Irwin reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* (Reuters) - Talal Mohammad is a long way from Tennessee, and he's out of his depth.* In an olive grove a few miles from the frontlines of Aleppo, he's at a loss to explain to a battle-hardened bunch of ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 6 hours ago*Purchase HERE* *Activist Post* For those who doubt breast cancer, or any cancer for that matter, can be cured by holistic health modalities, the author of *A Cancer Answer, Holistic BREAST Cancer Manage...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours agoA vast majority of the people who write popular books, blogs, and comments at discussion forums about the foundations of quantum mechanics are peers of the stupid monkeys. A week ago, Scott Aaronson w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A mysterious package dated 100 years ago will finally be opened after generations in a small Norwegian town heeded to the instructions written on the wrapping: ‘To be opened in 2012’.* The parcel was se...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 hours agoThis blog is ostensibly about trees, and the damage being done to forests by air pollution. It was always intended to function as a repository for any information I can find on that topic, with my interpr...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 6 hours agoI've been avidly following the strange tale of Julian Assange, Ecuador, Sweden, extradition, the lying UK media, and people who suddenly care so much about prosecuting sexual offenders. (This has been an e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Scientists discovered that ink diluted with bacteria-tainted water is to blame for more than four dozen cases involving infected tattoos that have been reported in at least four states.* According to re...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 6 hours agoThe agency that regulates workplace safety is OSHA. If your workplace temperature has reached dangerous levels, OSHA might be able to help. In general, though, there’s no law saying how hot is too hot. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Rodney King had been drinking and was on a cocktail of drugs when he plunged into a swimming pool and accidentally drowned, a coroner's report released today concluded.* The report confirmed a police co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*More than a year after she was acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee, Casey Anthony is free. * The 26-year-old completed her probation at midnight on Thursday. Anthony will no longer be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Norwegian right-wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik was today sentenced to 21 years in jail for mass murder after he was declared sane.* The militant extremist, who killed 77 people in a shooting and bom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Two women have been electrocuted after trying to rescue a man injured in a car crash in Los Angeles.* The accident happened after the vehicle smashed into a fire hydrant in a residential area in the San...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 6 hours agoDees Illustration Milo Nickels, *Contributor* On February 2, 2009 the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) released its now infamous report entitled “The Modern Militia Movement.” This report, com...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 6 hours agoPhillip Smith *Stop The Drug War* An Arkansas initiative to legalize medical marijuana appears has qualified for the November ballot, state officials announced Monday. After a first round of signature-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*WASHINGTON — The United States is in discussions with close ally Japan about expanding a missile defense system in Asia, the top U.S. general said Thursday.* Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Pakistan have come under growing criticism for being unable to protect the rights of religious minorities. Most of Pakistan's 180 million people are Sunni Muslim. Christians co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian civil war has spilled over into Lebanon, bringing with it sectarian street clashes, mob violence and general government paralysis in Beirut.* But it was the dramatic arrest earl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*TAIWAN evacuated nearly 5000 people ahead of Typhoon Tembin, as a military official warned major measures were needed a avoid a repeat of a deadly disaster three years ago.* About 50,000 soldiers were on...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 7 hours ago*Typhoon skies over Douliu this morning.* FTV reports: 50,000 households without power, Hengchun, Pingtung area (Kenting) smacked by the typhoon (Video). FTV reports: Fangliao in Southern Pingtung hard h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* NEW DELHI: Government's attempt to block online material that it blames for fuelling ethnic tensions was on Friday described by Internet experts as "monumentally incompetent" and "completely illegal". * ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* China's economy is continuing to grow at breakneck speed but - as these pictures show - the giant nation's infrastructure is quite literally buckling under the strain.* At least three people were killed...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 7 hours agoWhile the rest of the world is riveted on the Senkakus, Taiwan has been riveted by the Justin Lee case. Justin Lee (李宗瑞), who is wanted by prosecutors for allegedly raping a woman and filming bedroom trys...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE KERMADEC ISLANDS at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 10:01:53 UTC Friday 23rd August 2012 The epicenter was 205 km (127 miles) South of L'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the BALLENY ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 15.6 km (9.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:03:08 UTC Friday 23rd August 2012 The epicenter was 543 km (337 miles) Northeast of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik smirked in court as he was jailed for 21 years after a judge ruled he was "not insane". * The five-judge panel in Oslo convicted Breivik of terrorism and prem...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoSébastien Chabal - "We are in France, we speak French... OK ?" Except he said that in English...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours ago*A Foreigner's Travel Guide To Taiwan's Indigenous Areas: Central and Southern Taiwan* Cheryl Robbins http://www.tipi.com.tw 211 pages Cheryl Robbins gave me a copy of this volume, the latest in her series...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 9 hours agoAmnesty International is championing the talentless 'punk' band Pussy Riot. Why? Because according to Amnesty, 'the three women are prisoners of conscience, sentenced solely for the peaceful expression ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago'Starting on Friday, August 23, 1929 and lasting for a week, attacks by enraged Arab mobs were launched against Jews in the Old City in Jerusalem, in Jerusalem suburbs Sanhedria, Motza, Bayit Vegan, Rama...
- posted by Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 9 hours agoThere can be only one reason – and one reason only – why certain segments of Australian society do not want asylum seeking boatpeople in Australia; xenophobic racism. Today Bolt wrote a column complaining...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Deutsche Bank director ran through traffic and struck martial arts poses during a bizarre altercation with Los Angeles police, authorities said. Brian Mulligan, 53, appeared 'out of it' after officers r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* Astronomers have revealed a pair of galaxies just like our own.* It is the first time an 'exact match' of the Milky Way, our own galaxy, has been found in our local universe. The discovery was made usin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* An ancient tablet unearthed in Kent has turned out to be inscribed with curses intended to bring bad luck to more than a dozen people.* The rolled up lead tablet found in East Farleigh, on the site of a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*I have removed the addresses from the Image that I took from this weknowyourhouse site earlier as they contained addresses from twitter users. * Just goes to show your data isn't safe online, although the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* The killers of Stephen Lawrence were refused leave to appeal against their convictions yesterday.* David Norris, 35, and Gary Dobson, 36, claimed their six-week trial at the Old Bailey which resulted in...
- Redundancies, botched defence reviews and pay freezes leave military morale at lowest ebb since 2008
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* Morale in Britain’s Armed Forces is plummeting, the Ministry of Defence’s own survey has revealed.* Crippling government cuts to the Army, Royal Navy and RAF has sparked a wave of disgruntlement, the fi... - posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 11 hours agoWell, like him or not, believe him or not, agree with him or not, Dr Steven Greer is certainly ploughing along regardless in his quest to expose the alleged ETs among us and reveal the secrets of Free Ener...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours ago Reflecting Home by Lovell D'souza: http://click.lovelldsouza.com/94/reflecting-home *From Endings to Beginnings - A Poem* *When all has been said and done for this lifetime .* * **And we bathe in the L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Record low interest rates have robbed savers of more than £70billion while printing money to revive the economy has mainly benefited the rich, the Bank of England admitted yesterday. Interest rates have b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* The strange creature resembles a fox but bears features similar to a kangaroo* Vets in Ukraine are struggling to identify a 'mutant' animal shot by hunters in a remote area of the former Soviet republic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* Around 100 homes have been evacuated after a fire in a factory complex triggered a gas explosion.* The blaze broke out at the industrial site in the Radcliffe area of Greater Manchester at around 9.45pm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 20.5 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:43:49 UTC Friday 23rd August 2012 The epicenter was 245 km (152 miles) NNE of Raou...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoWebsite for this image. Scarred by online porn: Number of children ringing ChildLine after seeing hardcore images on internet soars to 50 a month. Allegedly, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is child porn, and is l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* Former Bundaberg surgeon Jayant Patel could walk free on bail as early as Friday night but the crown is yet to decide whether to pursue a retrial on his manslaughter charges.* Dr Patel was granted bail ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoCENTENNIAL, Colo. – The first glimpse of a once-promising career beginning to unravel emerged Thursday during a hearing in the case against James E. Holmes, accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 in a pac...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 11 hours ago*Falungongers in Douliu in the town center performing exercises* In case you were wondering, while there may be rain somewhere [UPDATE: Kenting is getting pounded], most of Taiwan is having a pleasant, co...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours ago Source: http://gmo-journal.com/index.php/2012/07/11/californias-right-to-know-ballot-measure-is-now-prop-37/ Top 10 Lies Told by Monsanto on GMO Labeling in California by Michelle Simon Reader Suppp...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 12 hours agoyou hear this argument again and again, mostly sponsored by the Car Companies themselves in advert after advert... WHO WOULD TRUST A ROBOTIC CAR? I mean, "Isn't it better that you, as the driver are in IN...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThe evidence for the radiation of modern humanity throughout Eurasia around 60,000 years ago was generally indicated by occasional occurrences. Most famously we had a fossil l group from Australi...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoIt is a nice number to know and it is important in that it provides us an order of magnitude size measure when we consider other locales. What is missing in everyone's calculations however is jus...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoWhat this is clearly about is a false memory of deja vu that recurs again and again without necessarily disturbing the victim. Although obviously disturbing, it is likely no more harmful than a...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoIt appears that heart disease will turn out to be an autoimmune system failure that misidentifies a a ordinary protein as foreign. Thus the idea that it can be treated with vaccine is creditable...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoForeign Policy plums new depths of own legendary depravity. *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 24, 2012* - Foreign Policy published a recent article literally titled, "Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists." In it, g...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours agoWe Have the Right To KnowMost Americans, including moms, haven’t been told about some of the ingredients that are in the food they eat. So it's no wonder that 92% of Americans want the FDA to label genet...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoTwo days ago, Scott Aaronson was rightfully confused by some bizarre statements in the literature on "superqubits" and he asked: Two very intriguing papers recently appeared on the arXiv, claiming that on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* Spain has begun talks with eurozone leaders about a multi-billion euro bailout to prop up its economy.* In a move that will renew fears of a collapse of the single currency, Spanish officials have discu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Greece is considering selling off some of its islands to avoid national bankruptcy.* Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras said yesterday that leasing islands might ease its woes. Greece has around 6,000 ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 hours ago*London may be host to the Olympics and Paralympics but Bristol is the position to be if you are an athletic robot.* This is the primary time that the occasion has been hosted in the UK and organizers ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 14 hours agoNYT embeds with war criminals, spin and excuse craven human rights violations as "cunning." *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 23, 2012* - One can only imagine the headlines had the Syrian government been caug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* “I’m not trying to bash Obama in a crude way,” Dinesh D’Souza says in a TV news clip featured in the conservative writer and commentator’s new documentary “2016: Obama’s America.” It’s a comment recycled...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*BERLIN — The authorities in Germany banned three known neo-Nazi groups and raided dozens of members’ homes and meeting places in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Thursday, in an effort to br...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*CAIRO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi on Thursday used the legislative powers he wrested back from the army this month to pass a law banning the pre-trial detention of journalists, a m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* DUBAI — A Bahrain appeals court on Thursday acquitted activist Nabeel Rajab, who had been sentenced to three months in jail for alleged insults issued via Twitter, but he must still serve a three-year te...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*DUBAI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Iran hopes to earn diplomatic kudos over the coming week as it hosts a summit of 120 developing nations, but any jubilation could turn sour over starkly different views on the bl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoLiquid Mind, “Through My Eyes (Nebulae)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HTgHuUuDQg
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 15 hours agoBy Manifesto Joe Rep. Todd Aiken, a Republican, represents Missouri's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House. I didn't think it possible, but he's even more of a kook than former Texas Solicitor Gen...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 15 hours agoTucson to Phoenix runners arrive at the school board of education in Phoenix to deliver a messageSaludos: I have been writing most of my life, and have always been proud of my work. This academic piece, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoI have to admit, I don't read RedState much but this David Diapers Vitter tweet early yesterday got me to take a look. And, I admit, I was surprised. It looks like the far right-- or at least the populist...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* The Bank of England's money-printing programme, intended to revive economic growth, has delivered a massive boost to the wealth of the most prosperous 10 per cent of households in Britain while deliverin...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* The Sun has become the first British newspaper to publish the photos of a naked Prince Harry taken in Las Vegas*. Owner News International said it was making the move despite warnings from the Royal Fam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling for life, the US Anti-Doping Agency has said.* The decision came after Armstrong announced he was dropping his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* A stowaway has been found dead inside a jumbo jet after it touched down at Heathrow Airport.* The body of the man was discovered on Thursday morning in the landing gear bay of the British Airways Boeing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* The Syrian government has warned Western powers against any military intervention in the country.* It comes after Britain and the US said they were drawing up plans to safeguard Syria's chemical weapons...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“Similar in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies, IC 342 is a mere 7 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago* “Retreat From Reason” * by Chet Raymo “Is there a flight from reason in the United States? Everywhere we look, science is under attack. In government. In the schools. In the churches. We are offer...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 16 hours ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari) The Tampa Bay Times Forum, Tampa, FL --- 8:01 Decided to postpone my shower at the Ricky Ricardo Arms until this afternoon. The roach was still in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“The Code of the Desert”* by Paulo Coelho "Two men were crossing the desert when they saw a Bedouin’s tent and asked him for shelter. Even though he did not know them, he welcomed them in the way tha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“Wild Geese”* "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves....
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 17 hours agoEveryone has been watching the news this week where the criminals in the US Government have been warning the Syrian government against their use of "chemical weapons". It seems that the Barry Soetoro reg...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 17 hours ago[image: Expected routes of severe typhoons Tembin and Bolaven, 23 August 2012. National Meteorological Center of CMA / China Daily] By Wang Qian in Beijing and Sun Li in Fuzhou 24 August 2012 (China Da...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoCastlegar, British Columbia, Canada. Thanks for Stopping by.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago*"While the argument over which came first, the chicken or the egg, may never be resolved," says *New Yorker* cartoon editor Bob Mankoff**, "progress has been made on an analogous conundrum: Which comes fi...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoTampa prepares for the Republican National Convention. [Zeke Miller photo] [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agoNice story but, in truth, Cambridge Bay isn't really that remote --airlines fly in pretty well all the time and it's a civilized place (1,500 people, a Northern Store and a Royal Bank) -- but it makes for...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 19 hours agoI heard someone on the radio today talking about the Republicans focused efforts over the course of decades to minimize/eliminate the Democratic Party’s voting base. Now we have Voter ID And Historically...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 19 hours ago* But an international coalition of the "willing" will be necessary......* *Read on-* US, Turkey in regime change talks "Operational Mechanism" In Ankara, Turkish and US officials began their first “op...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* "Thousands of Clandestine Operatives Are Fueling a Shadow War"* By Chris Hedges "There are now many thousands of clandestine operatives, nearly all of them armed and equipped with a license to kidna...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDozens of people have died in Pakistan and India's northern Rajasthan state amid flash floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains, officials said Thursday. At least 21 deaths are confirmed in Pa...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago[image: image]*Yes, the nomination of Paul Ryan for US VP has caused an explosion of interest in Ayn Rand—if not an explosion of knowledge about what she actually stood for—an explosion such that even th...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe gold standard has returned to mainstream U.S. politics for the first time in 30 years, with a “gold commission” set to become part of official Republican party policy. Gold Drafts of the party platfor...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 19 hours agoJoe Biden is a BFD in Detroit. The supporters were stacked up to the rafters at his public speech. The dissenters outside his fundraiser formed a less impressive crowd. Always find it somewhat amusing...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." - 1970s Aboriginal activists group, Queensland
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: The famous hockey stick graph by Dr. Michael Mann (paper in 1999). This image has stood the test of dozens of reviews and investigations. Every scientific peer group that has looked at it says it...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours agoHenry Corbin. "Thus every spiritual person, every mystic, is always seen as a *salik*, a voyager, or pilgrim (*homo viator*). To be a philosopher is to take to the road, never settling down in some p...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 21 hours ago[image: Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharret declared the commitment order granted Brandon Raub’s arrest and detainment was invalid overturning Special Justice W.D. Stoke.] Tiffany Madison *DALLAS*, August 2...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago* PE’SLA AUCTION CANCELLED ON DIRECTION OF OWNERS’ REPRESENTATIVE* ** *By Last Real Indians* http://www.lastrealindians.com/ The auction scheduled for August 25, 2012, for the acreage called Reynold’s Pr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago* “Fiscal Cliffs, Then There Was This...”* by Chuck Butler "Did you see the report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) yesterday? This nonpartisan, independent accounting office issued a report ...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 21 hours agoThe way to grow a blog's readership is to post frequently so that there's always something knew when bored people click in to waste some more time. But, obviously, I ain't doing that. This whole online wor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"Republicans Move Convention to Seventeenth Century"* by Andy Borowitz TAMPA (The Borowitz Report)— "With the threat of Hurricane Isaac hitting Florida next week, the Republican National Committee too...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoNeither McKeon nor Akin believe in rape. They believe in "she was asking for it... now let her feel the joy of raising the child." They both backed the deranged legislation that would have allowed a conv...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"The Un-Mourned Victims Of Our Bankster Politics"* by Karl Denninger "Nobody wants to talk about this, it seems, but me. (Ok, that's not entirely fair, but it sure is in the political context!) So be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Three ground squirrels found at Palomar Mountain campgrounds have tested positive for plague, a deadly bacterial infection that wiped out millions of people in the Middle Ages, San Diego County officials...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn unemployed man carried out a stabbing spree on Wednesday in Seoul, marking the fourth knife attack to take place in Korea in less than a week. While public anxiety grows, experts say that dissent again...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* (Reuters) - Iran has installed many more uranium enrichment machines in an underground bunker, diplomatic sources said on Thursday, potentially paving the way for a significant expansion of work the West...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Washington (CNN) -- Law enforcement officials are concerned about possible violence by anarchist extremists at the upcoming Republican and Democratic national conventions, according to an intelligence bu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Brandon Raub and the Thought Police" * "For nearly a week, Brandon Raub, a former marine, found himself incarcerated against his will in a psychiatric facility for posting political opinions and son...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 22 hours agoEverything *old* is new again. In a political climate where the ideological dogma & lies of christian Sharia influence public policy and legislation, this casual display of racism should come as no surpri...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 22 hours agoSometimes we all miss the launch of something and its only when someone discovers it do some of the ramifications come home and the service become ‘news’. We were alerted to a piece in Publishers Weekly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*GAINESVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) - A billboard that sparked a protest in Indiana because of its reference to the Navy Seals, and removing the President from office, has appeared along I-35 in North Texas.* The...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 22 hours agoRoberto Rodríguez Especial Para La Estrella De Tucsónhttp://azstarnet.com/laestrella/noticias/la-deshumanizaci-n-de-los-racistas/article_943f10ae-2a09-5723-99d5-45456486cfb9.html En la audiencia del 7 de...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoSuzy Khimm has a nice summary of what political scientists have to say about party platforms today, but she doesn't address a question I've seen a couple of times this week: why do parties have them, anywa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the FLORES SEA at a depth of 415 km (257.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:21:36 UTC Thursday 23rd August 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90.5 miles) Northeast of Bima, Ind...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 23 hours agoA judge has ordered the release of patriot marine Brandon Raub after he was essentially abducted and held against his will for posts he made on Facebook that the government deemed suspicious. The judge...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours agoJustice Watt in R. V M.T. 2012 ONCA 511, para. 35
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours agoIf you just read headlines and ledes, this from The Hill might have you imagining tanks rolling up to the convention center and spewing out legions of SWAT teams to storm the doors. Team Obama breaks pre...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 1 day ago[image: Picture] *In June it was a shock. After a decade of sweeping the seconds, the kitchen clock crashed to the floor. There was no sudden movement or jostling to have caused it to do so. We laugh...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoWho will win in a world of .... LASER CATS and hegemonic stability theory?In an interesting thought experiment at *Foreign Policy*, James R. Holmes (an associate professor at the Naval War College) asks wh...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day ago*Richard Falk* *When it is realized that Mahatma Gandhi shook the British Empire with a series of hunger strikes, none lasting more than 21 days, it is shameful that Palestinian hunger strikers ever since...
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