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*Crown Prince Moulay, M6 & Joe Lieberman (l-r)... royalists* Thursday, Joe Lieberman, who is finally retiring from the Senate, was on a junket to Morocco. I can't blame him-- other than the taxpayer-funded... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 minutes ago
*The old world is dying, and the new one faintly appears in the distance.* "In the old days, your tribe's values were clear, and you transgressed them to your own risk. They would vanish you or kill yo... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 27 minutes agoWill Mittens get to pick your pocket????? Please note that by playing this clip You Tube and Google will place a long-term cookie on your computer. Please see You Tube’s privacy statementon their website ...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoLiquid Mind, "Velvet Morning" Liquid Mind ® is the name used by Los Angeles composer and producer Chuck Wild of the best-selling Liquid Mind relaxation music albums. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp3...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“The most distant object easily visible to the eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy some two and a half million light-years away. But without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy- spanning over ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Starting With Little Things" * "Love the earth like a mole, fur-near. Nearsighted, hold close the clods, their fine-print headlines. Pat them with soft hands- Like spades, but pink and loving; they bre...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*“Living In The Little World” * by Chet Raymo "My wisdom is simple," begins Gustav Adolph Ekdahl, at the final celebratory family gathering of Ingmar Bergman's crowning epic “Fanny and Alexander.” I s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoAnacortes, Washington, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"How Can I Wash This Blood Off My Hands?* * Where Is My Soul? It's Lost In The Sand"* by samdiener "To the LA Times' credit, they published an article, "Stress of combat reaches drone crews," by Dav...
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British Columbia is shaping up to be the battlefield where the Conservative government will suffer the decisive defeat that will bring it down. BC'ers of all political persuasions are massing in oppositio... - posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 2 hours ago
Sorry for the extreme lack of blogging this month. Work has kept me quite busy. I have a few projects I'd like to get done around the house and a few destinations I'd like to get to before summer ends so I... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoSome Random Legislative Thoughts by Del. Gail Bates I was honored this summer to be asked to be one of 10 legislators nationwide who are on the Board of Directors of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force o...
- posted by Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 3 hours agoBolt has succeeded in splitting Australia’s indigenous community. So-called ‘traditional Aborigines’, led by Bess Price, are now at loggerheads with so-called ‘fair-skinned’ Aboriginals and the only people...
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*Tyler Clementi* *"In the months after Tyler's death, some of Ms. Clementi's friends confided that they, too, had gay children. She blames religion for the shame surrounding it -- in the conversation abou... - posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours ago
Global Research Galeb Kandil (translated from Arabic by vijayvaani.com) Destruction at Aleppo.*The recent developments in Syria revealed a series of important signs which will have decisive repercussions ... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 3 hours agoCorbett Report Iran and the UN’s nuclear watchdog are set to resume talks later on Friday – more than two months after the previous round failed. Tehran insists it only wants peaceful energy, but the Wes...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"As Hurricane Approaches Florida, * *Romney Calls for Emergency Tax Cuts"* by Andy Borowitz TAMPA (The Borowitz Report)— "With Hurricane Isaac heading towards the site of the 2012 Republican Nation...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"3 Simple Questions That Will Change Your Life"* by Jonathan "I love simple solutions to seemingly complex issues, don’t you? So often we seem to complicate the daylights out of things by over-analyzi...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours agoIt’s not enough just to reject the existence of gods if one ends up embracing nihilism. “Atheism means only that one does not believe in god; it does not mean that one embraces reason… Far more importan...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"So The Cops Shot 9 New Yorkers?"* by Karl Denninger "We need the law to be enforced upon the law enforcers. Police said it is unlikely that Johnson (ed: The bad guy who is dead) fired during the sho...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPeople from all over El Dorado County say they’re hearing loud booms several times a week, but there are many theories on what is causing them. “I thought it was thunder,” said one person. “It’s definit...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 6 hours agoToday Stephen Krashen posted a letter at EPATA by Bess Altwerger, co-founder of Save Our Schools. In it she makes a strong case for SOS voting to put its full weight forward in opposing, blocking, and di...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Perverts: Father Denis Lyons of Orange County & Don Vito Lopez of Brooklyn* When you want to talk about corruption in Brooklyn the discussion begins with Party Machine Boss and Bushwick Assemblyman Vito L...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 7 hours agoSouthern Lad remembers watching with awe as Neil Armstrong put bootprints on another planet. Armstrong shunned publicity and never took advantage of his unique status in business or in politics and eve...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoIf there's one message for you Gen X'ers and Millennials to be gleaned from Nobel laureate economist Joe Stiglitz' new book, *The Price of Inequality*, it's that you're not going to get your problems fi...
- posted by Laura Sjoberg at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours agoThe left (and even the semi-left) has been legitimately stewed in the past week or so about Todd Akin's remarks about rape. Akin is apparently under the impression that women can't get pregnant from "legit...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: Wildfires in California, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada sent smoke over large stretches of the United States in mid-August 2012. Particularly thick smoke collected over Wyoming on August 14, when the ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours agoBut that wouldn't have fit in the title block. I'm a big fan of Zeke Miller, but boy howdy, he's really stretching to make this an outrage: One of the women in the Obama campaign's new video of Republican...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 8 hours agoWe are watching and hearing daily the increasing saber rattling by the criminals in Tel Aviv, and their useful slave minions in Washington against the peaceful nation of Iran. These criminals definitely ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoI have just found all of the Posh Nosh episodes on YouTube. Richard E. Grant and Arabella Weir are a sheer joy to watch and listen to in this series of eight episodes. Joanna Lumley's voiceover is also fri...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 8 hours agoFrom Jeffrey C. Isaac, the editor of *Perspectives on Politics*: I am very happy to report that Melissa Harris-Perry just held up a copy of the new *Perspectives on Politics *on her MSNBC show and quoted ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Astronaut Neil Armstrong has died aged 82, according to reports in the US.* Armstrong had heart-bypass surgery earlier this month to relieve blocked coronary arteries. As commander of the Apollo 11 missi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 81.9 km (50.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:36:59 UTC Saturday 25th August 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11 miles) So...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours agoAs usual, TBogg has the definitive post on Rmoney's stupid, racist, birther "joke" yesterday. Congratulations Mitt Romney, you are now just as funny as short fingered TV vulgarian Donald Trump but withou...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoThink you know what you need to know about Enbridge, the pipeline giant behind the Northern Gateway project? Chances are, you don't. ONEarth.org has a three part feature on Enbridge and the Kalamazoo Riv...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoThe Missouri Senate seat went from about 60/40 Republican to about 80/20 Democratic. All Senate seats matter, so that's a pretty big deal. What didn't matter? I'm with those who consider the choices of som...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoIs Stephen Harper waging a deliberate campaign to suppress British Columbia and her people? I have been working on compiling a list of the measures Harper has imposed on British Columbia to facilitate the...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago*Marine Veteran Brandon Raub’s Attorney says he is getting calls from veterans and people all over the country reporting psychiatric detention for political speech.* * * Alexander Higgins, *Contributor* ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoMajia here: Yesterday I reported that “SEC Refuses to Vote for New Rules Aimed at Securing Money Market Funds Friday,” August 24, 2012 http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/sec-refuses-to-vote-for-new-...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours agoAnthony Fred Art "War Mind" Stephen Lendman, *Contributor* Irresponsible leaders risk the unthinkable. Media scoundrels cheerlead mindlessly. So do neocon think tanks. Ordinary people are more concerned ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago*YouTube - EndtheLie* http://EndtheLie.com/ -- Support us! -- http://EndtheLie.com/store *More information:* http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/employees/ http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2012/OI...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAug. 25 - A U.S. navy convoy, including a warship and submarine, pass through Egypt's Suez Canal on way to Mediterranean sea.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*The Arab Spring: organised by the CIA, NATO and Mossad.* Damien Thompson writes: "Is a new and shocking wave of anti-Semitism engulfing the Middle East and the developing world? *Radical Islam revives...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAug. 25 - Police video shows the moment officers fatally shot the man police say killed former co-worker outside the Empire State Building.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* Tropical storm Isaac has swept across the shores of Haiti, damaging hundreds of homes and killing at least three people, with the impoverished Caribbean country still struggling in the wake of a massive ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago*War, economic collapse, and personal devastation await Americans no matter who they vote for - and what we should do instead.* * * freakingnews.com Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor* A vote for Obama will br...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoLooks bad. Heart of the Rose posted this. At about 1:07 there is a bright flash amidst growing smoke. The video is from 8/24 (Japan time) so that would be yesterday US time: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoA couple of days ago I posted about the financial crisis' health and welfare consequences for millions of people globally. http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/killed-by-financial-crisis.html At least 8...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 12.8 km (8 miles), the quake hit at 17:14:14 UTC Saturday 25th August 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) SSW of Puerto Penasc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 10 hours agoThe image above comes from the ICAT Damage Estimator, a nifty online tool that allows you to compare (soon to be) Hurricane Issac with historical analogues, including an estimate of what damage those ana...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAccording to the fringe sector of the Internet, Mars is practically teeming with aliens. Since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet two weeks ago and powered up its cameras, it has alrea...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago*SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012* *Romney’s new campaign director:* Sheryl Gay Stolberg has spotted a problem with Mitt Romney’s campaign. On the front page of today’s New York Times, she describes the lingerin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 44.6 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:16:15 UTC Saturday 25th August 2012 The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles) East of Shizunai...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoIn 2006 when I first wrote of it, it happened on October 9th. Just six years later it has crept up to August 22, almost seven weeks earlier. "It" is *Earth Overshoot Day*, the benchmark of our planet's...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Satellite view of Super Typhoon Bolaven, 25 August 2012. Typhoon Tembin, which skirted Taiwan the day before, is visible on the left side of the image. Blue Marble basemap imagery courtesy of NAS...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoFlipper-time NOBODY EVER WENT BROKE underestimating the taste of the American public — H. L. Mencken. Probably one of the most acerbic observations of the American Experience. And part of that attitude is a...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoI have a new column over at Salon giving the reasons why the conventions are still worth having. The one I'm really pretty interested in is the notion of rituals and symbols of party and of democracy -- ho...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours agoU. S. Air Force E-4b 9/11 mystery plane No evidence whatsoever Solving the mystery of WTC7 Zero: an investigation into 9/11
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Aerial view of a dry riverbed and partially irrigated farms in California, 25 April 2009. dwinstonfidler / flickr] Media Contacts NAU Office of Public Affairs: opaffairs@nau.edu or +1 928.523.228...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoThis week Joe Conason did a perceptive post for the *National Memo* on why the GOP breeds politicians like Todd Akin. "The embarrassing fall of Todd Akin," he writes, "should induce Republicans to confron...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours agoBuzzFeed Zeke Miller *The Establishment wins a round over the grassroots. “Awful,” says the conservative Blackwell.* * * Campaign counsel Ben Ginsberg walks at a private donors' conference for Republica...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoAlex Jones interviews Stewart Rhodes about the illegal imprisonment of Brandon Raub and the war on veterans.
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours agoAmhram Amer Sultan *British officials refrain from giving full backing to Egypt's $4.8 billion loan request, having previously supported such funding under military rule* Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi (...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours ago*This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the futur...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours agoFrom the Trenches Huffington Post On Nov. 6, California voters will have the opportunity to vote on historic Proposition 37, which would mandate the labeling of genetically-engineered foods. At a time wh...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago* * *MNN: OBAMA, BUFFALO SOLDIER CHIEF OBAMA, BUFFALO SOLDIER CHIEF Mohawk Nation News http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/ MNN. Aug. 23, 2012. US President Obama obeys his masters just like the Buffal...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ *America’s Descent into Poverty ~ Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ August 24, 2012 | Original here The United States has collapsed economically, socially, p...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours agoYes Magazine Greg Palast *It won’t be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.* * * * * In more than 100 years, there has not been ...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoToday begins the second half of this Quest. The path to Agape will take us to Oneness. Self love is love of the One that you are. The One that you are is a piece of divinity. We are connected. We...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoWar, economic collapse, and personal devastation await Americans no matter who they vote for - and what we should do instead. *by Tony Cartalucci * *August 25, 2012* -A vote for Obama will bring war with S...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 12 hours agoGaye Levy, *Contributor* Periodically, I like to perform what I call a “walk around” inventory. In the simplest of terms, what that means is that I walk around my home, garage and yard with an eye peel...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Cartoon: Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria. Pismestrovic.com* "Judged as a whole, the eurozone does not have a solvency problem. *"The International Monetary Fund projects that net government ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoLewrockwell.com Posted by Christopher Manion on August 24, 2012 11:30 AM In a stinging rebuke to the FBI, the Secret Service, and other self-appointed Thought Police, Hopewell Circuit Judge W. Allan Shar...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012* *Interlude—Medicare muddle no more:* The Post’s Matt Miller has been on fire since Romney selected Ryan. This morning, he offers a deconstruction of our Medicare mess. His hea...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoKelley Albrecht, Candidate for the 63rd Assembly in Wisconsin released a press release on Friday – that is well worth the read – for every person in every state. *This is not only about Wisconsin* – it is...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 13 hours ago. WTVR.com August 24, 2012 The following text is from a copy of a Facebook post that Brandon Raub made in 2011. The text was given to CBS 6 by Raub’s mother. The Truth by Brandon J Raub on Friday, ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 hours agoNew DNC video. It's clever. Not sure it would play with the 23 undecided voters left in this country. Certainly won't change the minds of the 27%ers. Hell, they won't even get it. But it's perfect for the ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*A certain right wing Liberal, (who writes for the Toronto Sun), simply can't stand the fact that Canadians like Jack Layton. If you listen to him, New Democrats must never ... ever, mention the name of '...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago*Hurricane watch issued for Florida Keys* *Isaac pounding Haiti and the Dominican Republic with torrential rains ~ Wunderblog*** *Preview: Saints-Texans as good as it gets in preseason ~Gambit* *New Orlea...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012* *Interlude—Failed by Drum:* We’re fans of Kevin Drum around here. Yesterday, Kevin Drum failed us. At the close of the week, Drum published this post, “An Itsy Bitsy $716 Bil...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 13 hours agoOn July 12, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Professor Dr. Tim Ball, climatologist, about climate science and the politics of global warming. Fascinating history of the cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Amnesty International said it had received credible reports that Gambia executed nine death-row prisoners on Friday. * The human rights organisation said eight men and one woman were removed from their p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Opposition to Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood is likely to cause the new president to step up pressure on Egyptian media, despite his recent move to ban arrests for 'publishing crimes.' * Thousands demo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* CARACAS, Venezuela — An explosion at Venezuela’s biggest refinery early Saturday killed at least 19 people and injured more than 50 others in the deadliest disaster in years for the country’s crucial oil...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago- The emergence of Ahn Cheol Soo as a contender in the upcoming South Korean election (via B&T). - Chris Clary on Pakistan's nuclear program. - Zenpundit reflects on the precarious position o...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago*Press For Truth* The city of Drummondville Quebec has ruled in favor of a couples right to grow their own vegetables on their front lawn! This case could set a precedent and generate a ripple effect that...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours agoRussia's own Federal Reserve Bank photo source Brandon Turbeville In what seems to be the stirrings of a Russian “End the Fed” movement, a band of Russian Duma deputies has embarked upon a mission of remo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* French president says Greece 'must stay' in the eurozone following talks with the country's prime minister, but stressed Greece needed to prove its commitment to economic reform.* Francois Hollande, the...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours agoPhillip Smith *Stop The Drug War* Two of the three marijuana legalization initiatives on state ballots this year have won the endorsement of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 14 hours agoIf you read nothing else today, treat yourself to this amazing conversation(via Shannyn Moore's blog) between law professor Jonathan Turley and actor/activist John Cusack. Turley destroys every single excu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:26:59 UTC Saturday 25th August 2012 The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) Southeast from Sa...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Dr. Lee Rogers with his new-born daughter, Lily, now 3 months old* President Harry Truman first proposed Medicare in 1945. Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats fought it bitterly for two decade...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours agoWebsite for this image "When I was back in my private equity days, we went to China to buy a factory there. It employed about 20,000 people. And they were almost all young women between the ages of about...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA tiger has killed a female keeper after escaping from its enclosure at Cologne Zoo, according to German media reports. The dapd news agency cited a police spokesman as saying the tiger was later shot dea...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 16 hours ago*So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.* ~Philip Shabecoff, New York Times Magazine, 4 June 1978 I ca...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 16 hours agoAs Anders Breivik begins his 21-year sentence for murdering 77 people in Oslo, *in five-star luxury accommodation*, what will be the repercussions for those who oppose the drive to a single global slave s...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 16 hours agoThis will be more of a discussion outline rather than a paper. I would appreciate readers' comments, especially in the two conceptual analysis that I am introducing below. *A. Consumers of Healthcare* Pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* The Greek Prime Minister has arrived in Paris in a bid to buy more time to carry out the spending cuts demanded by the eurozone.* Antonis Samaras' pleas to German chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday appea...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoDoctor Who: The First Question Teaser Trailer I managed to miss this at the time, just saw this recently...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA new report from a liberal think tank says Chinese imports caused the loss of 2.7 million jobs in the United States, including 96,300 in the Mid-South, since the industrializing nation joined the World Tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*It was never exactly rocket science. You didn’t have to be Einstein to figure it out. In early 2003, the Bush administration was visibly preparing to invade Iraq, a nation with a nasty ruler who himself h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* AFP - Over a hundred students were arrested in Santiago in clashes between police and demonstrators demanding better public education, after the occupation of several schools. * Some 4,500 students, most...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoUS officials are worried that if Greece exits the eurozone, it will damage President's election hopes The Obama administration will pressure European governments not to let Greece fall out of the eurozone...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* "This administration has punished so-called whistleblowers – those who reveal certain illegal actions by US government agencies – more than any other in US history."* This past weekend, while giving a t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Police departments across the United States will soon have access to facial recognition software developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). * Under the expanding pilot project, the FBI will ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Isaac lashed Haiti early Saturday, bringing gale-force winds and potential flooding to a nation where hundreds of thousands still live in tent cities followi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* (CNN) -- An explosion rocked the Amuay oil refinery in northwestern Venezuela, killing seven people and injuring 48 others, CNN affiliate Globovision reported.* The refinery is part of the giant Paragua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* President Obama'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 "fak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – With hundreds of human cases of the West Nile Virus being reported across Texas and more than a dozen related deaths in North Texas it seems some people are overreacting and cal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*After Vice President Joe Biden infamously told an audience that Mitt Romney is “going to unchain Wall Street,” and concluded they are “going to put y’all back in chains,” Mr. Romney’s campaign cried foul....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* With rise of Morsy, a new dictatorship may be replacing the old while world persists in looking for signs of pragmatism.* While the world persists in looking for signs of pragmatism in the Egyptian pres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican authorities are trying to sort out why a U.S. Embassy vehicle was shot up by federal police on a rural back road in mountains south of the capital, leaving two U.S. government ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAug. 24 - Tropical Storm Isaac churned across the Caribbean en route to Florida where tens of thousands will gather for the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAug 25 - Tropical storm Isaac bears down on the DR, Cuba prepares for the worst. Julie Noce reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*(Reuters) - "Bomb, bomb, bomb!" shouted the rebel fighters in the midst of battle on the streets of Aleppo. Everyone crouched down and held their fingers in their ears. But the rusty foot-long metal conta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* (Reuters) - One way to win a court case is to get the United States Congress to change the rules of the game midstream.* A little-noticed provision tucked into the latest Iran sanctions bill may have do...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours agoSource of the picture: http://www.judithdupre.com/2004/07/05/painting-as-prayer-an-interview-with-father-john-giuliani/ *Prayer for the White Man* *Grandfather, I ask you to bless the white man.* *H...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours agoSource: http://adjunctprofessor.tripod.com/bravehorseswarriors/id39.html *"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion, respect others in thei...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago*This Navajo Christ moves forward beyond this page, and with his hands initiates a welcoming embrace. His compassionate countenance bears the marks of human suffering summoning us to transform our own....
- posted by Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 20 hours agoIn yesterday’s *The Age* opinion pages, Nick Dyrenfurth wrote that “the real issues go begging in the quest to ‘save’ Julian Assange”. One has to ask, however, is it not equally true that the real issues g...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours agoChildren are happy when they encounter a mysterious garden full of odd-looking trees and interesting creatures. Much better than the predictable play area in a municipal park. Tourists are happy when th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours agoMoody Blues, "The Story In Your Eyes" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoDXzvXxUbc
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 21 hours agoTrademarks are trademarks, patents are patents and copyright is copyright and all should and need to be protected but one has to question the findings of a US jury in San Jose. They have delivered a mass...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoFirstly, difficult as it is to credit the phenomena, it is clearly real. Accepting the reality, and last year's event in Ireland dragged it into our present rather that old newspaper reports we...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoYes neutrinos do affect decay rates and I suspect that they are the actual drivers of decay in the first instance. Since I am able to actually model them (unpublished.) I am comfortable with that...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoCivilization has learned to adjust to the risk of suicide bombers. Worse, their deaths have become meaningless because civilization has learned that a small loss here and there can be absorbed. ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWe are talking about major depression here and all that. It appears that we have a biological marker and that this could lead to effective therapies. Similar effects appear typically caused by imb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* There could be a deadly killer in your home – the kitchen tap.* Last year in Louisiana, two people died from a single-celled organism that thrives in warm, freshwater after using tap water for flushing t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Tropical storm watches for all of Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties have been issued as Tropical Storm Issac strengthens and approaches Florida. * Issued at 11 p.m. om Friday as Issac's wind's incr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Angela Merkel last night insisted she wanted Greece to stay in the euro amid rumours that Germany was planning a ‘temporary’ exit for the country.* The German Chancellor sought to reassure Greek prime mi...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoWell, the Giants are playing extremely well -- 15-6 over the last three weeks -- and they need to, because every time you turn around the Dodgers have added someone else. Tonight, the news is that the Bums...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* It is an astonishing view of the swirling paths hurricanes and tropical storms have taken across the globe.* This amazing image was created by designer John Nelson, and shows data of every recorded even...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 23 hours ago(Alexander Torrenegra, Flickr) In response to the recent announcement that Ban Ki-moon will attend the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran, New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal wr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* This is the man who walked free following a mix-up between prosecutors and police investigating a vicious attack on a teenage girl.* Thomas Briggs, 31, is a menacing career criminal who has a string of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* David Cameron was yesterday accused of keeping ‘beneath the radar’ a meeting with the king of Bahrain in Downing Street.* The Prime Minister this week hosted Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, whose bruta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* He has served in the British Army for four years with an ‘exemplary record’, but Poloko Hiri has now been ordered out of the UK – because of a speeding offence.* The 32-year-old from Botswana has had hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A Cambridge University student has drowned after getting lost in a cave while snorkelling on a family holiday.* Marcus Hughes-Hallett was swimming in the Santa Maria Bay off the Maltese island of Comino...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*For months there have been international discussions about the threat a nuclear Iran would present - most notably to its avowed enemy, Israel, which Iran has vowed to 'erase from the map'.* Aggressive, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon packing winds up to 162 kilometers (101 miles) per hour is lumbering toward the southern Japanese island of Okinawa and is expected to reach the island on Sunday.* Island...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* AHLE, Lebanon — For most of the refugees streaming across the border into Lebanon, Syrian President Bashar Assad is to blame for the violence back home and the rebel effort to oust him is laudable. For t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* Modern Indo-European languages - which include English - originated in Turkey about 9,000 years ago, researchers say. * Their findings differ from conventional theory that these languages originated 5,00...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Tsunami created by undersea earthquakes can be made much larger by the "pop-up" movement of large amounts of sediment, research suggests.* These quakes release huge amounts of energy as tectonic plates w...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by ProfPTJ at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoSteve Walt opines that "would-be foreign policy wonks" should basically get a classical liberal-arts education, and he uses a traditional justification for this: "In world that is both diverse and changing...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoWhen I’m researching a story I run into some stuff that is unrelated to what I am doing – but has to be read anyway. As the GOP gets ready to start their convention I thought I should share these pieces o...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"The second movement is a set of variations, and the most original thing about it is that the theme of the variations is in the minor mode, but every second [section] is in the major mode. So the theme is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Two US embassy staff have been shot by Mexican police in what is believed to be a case of mistaken identity. * Both have been taken to hospital, according to reports, though their injuries are not though...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $1.05bn (£664m) after a court battle over patent infringement.* The decision in the complex case came after the nine-member jury began deliberations on Wednesday. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A laid-off clothing designer who killed a former colleague outside New York’s Empire State Building did not fire at police, according to evidence collected so far. * Gunman Jeffrey Johnson, 58, was shot ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago* Say goodnight to the old bad guy, and make way for the new bad guy: The American Veteran.* "Question from student: 'This relates to what you were talking about the container. I don't quite understa...
- posted by Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 1 day agoGawker (via Eman at Daily Kos) dropped a bombshell yesterday when it released over 950 pages of confidential documents from 21 Bain Capital-related investment vehicles, all of which Mitt or Ann Romney inv...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day agoWell, *that* was a busy week. And (just like *last* Friday) Southern Man was sufficiently worn out upon his afternoon arrival at *La Casa* that he crawled into bed for a Friday Afternoon Nap. Last week he ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoThe impending world wide economic collapse is definitely coming, and I have already said that it will hit us sometime this Autumn. There is absolutely nothing, short of a miracle, a major war, or actually...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoActually the title should read why you can't trust legacy media reports about polls. Take for instance CNN's spin on this poll with the alarming headline: CNN Poll: Obama 49%-Romney 47% among likely voters...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"The more I see of Man, the more I like dogs." - Madame de Stael
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day agoI'm saying goodbye to a dear old friend tonight, who died in the early hours of the morning in Victoria. I went looking just now for some photos of Dyhan from the summer of 2007, the year a group of us h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“The Human Cost of War on Iran”* by Elizabeth Murray “In late 2002, just prior to the launch of the U.S. “shock and awe” campaign against Iraq, I was invited to join a gathering of intelligence ana...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"*Another Night in the Ruins" * "How many nights must it take one such as me to learn that we aren't, after all, made from that bird that flies out of its ashes, that for us as we go up in flames, our on...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The folks at Center for American Progress Action Fund have produced a report that includes this infographic (click to enlarge it) showing, as The Progress Report put it today, "how much Romney and Ryan wi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million light-years away toward the chemical constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is a domin...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Chimps And Cosmologists”* by Chet Raymo “Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and president of the Royal Society in Britain, caused something of a flap by suggesting that humans may never be able to un...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a momen...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoMajia here: Two articles dated 8/24/2012 in the Wall Street Journal examine this development: Straw that Broke SEC Vote: Schapiro's Release of Report on Money Funds Solidified Colleague's Opposition by A...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Aquifers are major groundwater basins with recharge of >2 mm/yr in the global inventory of groundwater resources. At the bottom of this figure, the areas of the six aquifers (Western Mexico, High...
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