Coat of arms of Syria -- the "Hawk of Qureish" with shield of vertical tricolor of the national flag, holding a scroll with the words الجمهورية العربية السورية (Al-Jumhuriyah al-`Arabiyah as-Suriyah "The Syrian Arab Republic"). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Damascus Panorama, Looking Southwards (Photo credit: spdl_n1)
English: View of Bab Sharqi Street which is the east end of the old Street Called Straight, Damascus, Syria Français : Vue de la rue Bab Sharqi qui est la partie est de l'ancienne rue Droite, Damas, Syrie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Damascus (Photo credit: sharnik)
St Ananias Church in the Christian section of Bab Touma in Old Damascus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Protests in Damascus by women demonstrators against Turkeys annexation of the Sanjak of Alexanderetta in 1939. One of the signs reads: "Our blood is sacrificed for the Syrian Arab Sanjak." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Syrian Arab News Agency (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Douma Damascus 08-04-2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Damascus in flames as the result of the French air raid on October 18, 1925. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque in Damascus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: A view of the Barada river in Damascus, Syria in the spring of 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Skyline of Jaramana Refugee Camp outside Damascus, Syria. Taken 2009. Uploaded per request at WP:IFU. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 15 seconds ago
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This thing doesn't look like the Unity Convention Romney desperately needs it to be. Last night's David Brooks column in the *NY Times*-- he's their conservative guy-- was like a harbinger of bad tidings... - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 40 minutes ago
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I returned from a trip across Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with the following impressions: 1. In Quebec, Jean Charest and his Liberals are in deep trouble. Nonetheless, the results on Septembe... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes ago
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- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan- 53 minutes ago*She came out into an alley in Changhua city to challenge me.* This little missive to the Washington Times shows how the KMT hopes to use the Senkakus to fire "nationalism" in Taiwan. Written by an adviso...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* Two people have died after contracting Legionnaires' disease in an outbreak linked to a downtown Marriott hotel this summer, Chicago Department of Public Health officials said Monday.* The two dead are ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoWASHINGTON -- Seven years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, federal officials say they are embracing the most important lesson they learned from that catastrophe as they brace for Trop...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* Some Homeland Security Department employees have found creative ways to supplement their government salary. * A Citizen and Immigration Services worker charged $1,500 to approve citizenship applications....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* International Relations experts say that India has a difficult task at hand to maintain friendly ties with Iran without offending the United States, which has put various sanctions on the Iranian regime....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*President Mursi’s bid for a $4.8 billion loan is raising questions as to what the exact benefits of increasing Egypt’s debt will be and the likely long-term repercussions on the economic situation*. Cair...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, environmentally, and morally. The country that exists today is not even a shell of the country into which I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* A reported leak of the new emergency law drafted by Minister of Justice Ahmed Mekki appeared in several news outlets Sunday.* The law, which is made up of ten articles, makes it harder for the President...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* In June and July Russia held several military exercises with its regional partners. There are more to come in August and September. Of course, none of the planned events are quite as extensive as the one...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Their involvement in Syria is the first battle in what is going to be a long bloody conflict that will know no frontiers or l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* NEW YORK: US Republicans have all but guaranteed the backing of the "gold vote" this November by raising an idea that even the most bullish mainstream bullion boosters believe is unrealistic - a return t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* To understand a rip-off of this scale, designed to be incomprehensible to customers, regulators and lawmakers, you need an insider's insight. Provided by our guest author Honestly Banking, the undercover...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* [War is the only thing that drives the American economy. International arms transfers by the United States are just selling some of our potential wars to somebody else. Last year was our best year yet--a...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoALEC and GOP – Forcing States to Increase Taxes The party of fiscal responsibility (HAH!) - smaller government FAILS AGAIN!! Current Voter ID legislation In 2011, Republicans have advanced photo ID legi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* The Japanese river otter, which had been categorized as a critically endangered species, was declared extinct by the Ministry of the Environment on Aug. 28. * In making the announcement, the ministry sai...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 hour agoDees Illustration Doug Casey *Casey Research* It is a deal with the devil: governments churn out more and more cash for the promise of continued prosperity. But the day of reckoning is near, according to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* THE Government is set to press ahead with a controversial deal that will see the running of the West Coast Main Line removed from Virgin Trains.* • Virgin Trains want the decision to be re-examined • Fi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour agoThis question should be included in every abortion poll. Republicans for Choice wanted to know: Who decides? "Regardless of how you personally feel about the issue of abortion," the polls, which surveyed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* SEOUL, South Korea — A powerful typhoon pounded South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain Tuesday as it churned up rough seas that smashed two fishing ships into rocks, killing at least five fishermen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* TEHRAN — Iran "will never stop" its controversial uranium enrichment, the country's envoy to the IAEA said on Tuesday, on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement ministerial meeting in Tehran.* "Our enr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago* Paris (CNN) -- Citing "unsanitary and unsecure living conditions," French Interior Minister Manuel Valls ordered police early Monday to dismantle a Roma camp set up along suburban railway tracks in Evry,...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour agoNeil Armstong, a great hero of mine, died over the weekend and images of him on the moon or in his NASA unifirm abounded. Barack Obama thought he'd commemorate Neil Armstrong's death with a picture of hims...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 hour agoimage source Nikola Danaylov, *Contributor* Why do we fear the technological singularity? Well, let me give you what I believe are the top 10 most popular reasons: *1. Extinction* Extinction is by far t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* (CNN) -- A Mexican judge has ordered the detention of 12 federal police officers accused of opening fire on a U.S. diplomatic vehicle south of the capital last week.* Under the judge's order, the offic...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* Iran said on Tuesday it has no plans to show its nuclear sites to diplomats visiting Tehran for this week's Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, contradicting an earlier offer by a deputy foreign minister....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAug. 27 - Emergency workers reinforce New Orleans Levee system ahead of Tropical Storm Isaac which is forecast to become a category 2 hurricane. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAug. 28 - Apple seeks to pull the plug on 8 Samsung phones in the US, although its flagship Galaxy S3 isn't on the list. And the euro should fall to $1.20, as central bank stimulants wear off, says BoNY Me...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* (Reuters) - The Spanish economy is falling deeper into recession and depositors are pulling their money out of the banks, figures published on Tuesday showed, as the government moves closer to seeking a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it was disciplining U.S. troops over two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one involving a video depicting Marines urinating on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* (Reuters) - Firefighters have managed to extinguish two of three burning storage tanks at Venezuela's biggest refinery on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities aim to restart the facility by the end of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* There are fears of a possible outbreak of a rare, rodent-borne disease called hantavirus after a second person died from it. * Officials at the Yosemite National Park in California are warning past visit...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 2 hours ago*Summery Pasta With Salmon Salad!* * * This pasta salad was invented when I was in Sweden and needed a good meal to bring along to a day of fun in the park. In the town where I grew up there is an occasion...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* It was a moment to hail a great hero - a chance to remember a man who placed America at the forefront of space exploration and in the history books forever.* And yet President Obama saw the passing of N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* An elite counter-terrorism unit trained and supplied by Australia is being accused of acting as a death squad in Indonesia's troubled West Papua region.* The group, known as Detachment 88, receives trai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* Police cordoned off several blocks of a bustling Los Angleles neighborhood when a gunman started firing shots from his Sunset Boulevard home.* The man barricaded himself inside his residence while busin...
- Most Americans think the rich SHOULD pay more taxes, research reveals ahead of Republican convention
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* As the income gap between rich and poor widens, a majority of Americans say the growing divide is bad for the country and believe that wealthy people are paying too little in taxes, according to a new su... - posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours agoThe BBC's Newsnight Economics Editor, Paul Mason, usually updates his blog very regularly, however he seems to have gone off the boil recently. Here's a list of the dates of the last 20 updates to his BBC ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* KILLER DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE JAMES HOLMES - JAMES HOLMES BEING USED IN BLACKMAIL OF ROBERT HOLMES FINANCIAL FRAUD DETECTION EXPERT FOR FICO IN LIBOR SCANDAL.* James Holmes father Robert Holmes, was said...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* The Queensland Police Union (QPU) is furious over plans by the State Government which it says will make it easier for residents to obtain firearms. * Police Minister Jack Dempsey set up a firearms adviso...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* The world’s population could become all but vegetarian by the year 2050 because of water shortages and a spiralling population, scientists have warned. * At present, humans consume around 20 per cent of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* An ingredient found in Vegemite may be able to help combat some antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" that kill thousands, a study suggests*. But consuming jars of the popular yeast extract before your next h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* One of three storage tanks on fire has been extinguished as the search for bodies continues in Venezuela's deadliest oil disaster. * Firefighters have been battling the inferno since a gas explosion kille...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* A thief in Uganda has contracted Ebola after stealing the mobile phone of a hospital patient suffering from the potentially fatal infection.* Security and medical officials in Kibaale District, mid-west ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:53:36 UTC Tuesday 28th August 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) South of Puerto El ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours agoBarack Obama supporters can't help but show their true colours. This time it's Samuel L. Jackson This is the same Samuel L. Jackson who once said "I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why o...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 4 hours agoThe main sources of development assistance for health (DAH) is slowly shifting from official foreign aid (bilateral and multilateral) to international NGOs and public-private partnerships. This is a good ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours agoI have blogged about the disgusting way that the BBC have fought to keep the Balen Report secret for so long. As I have said before, I think we can draw our own conclusions as to what the Balen Report fou...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours ago*We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoOver the past week 'the left' have criticised George Galloway twice. First for his rather unenlightened comments about rape, whilst defending Julian Assange and second for this Tweet What is odd is tha...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoI'm back and what a lot to write about there is! Postings to come this morning, unless work interrupts, will be on George Galloway and the inconsistencies of 'the left', the Balen Report and a catch-up ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* A former soldier accused of killing two people and leading a plot to assassinate President Obama worked at the last Republican National Convention, it has been revealed.* Isaac Aguigui is currently on t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*A man who was apparently trying to make passing motorists think that he is Bigfoot paid for the ruse with his life when he was run over by two cars on highway in northwestern Montana Sunday night. * The ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoEra, “The Mass” Slideshow created by Forien from some digital pictures found in deviantART.com - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQrnhWXmPwA
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* NASA has showed off the first spectacular images taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, detailing a mound of layered rock where scientists plan to focus their search for the chemical ingredients of life on t...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours agohttp://justlabelit.org/ Farmer Debunks Corporate Propaganda Against Proposed Law to Label Genetically Modified Food By Will Allen Alter Net News, 27 August 2012 *Giant corporations like Monsanto, DuPont...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoVERO BEACH, Fla. — Emergency crews in Indian River County are scouring through at least 30 homes that were damaged after a tornado reportedly touched down on Monday. Sheriff's officials said some resident...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* AP reported today that four U.S. Army Soldiers were arrested in a plot to assassinate President Obama and overthrow the federal government. While this operation remained in the planning stage, the group ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago* Two Tibetan teenagers died after setting themselves on fire outside a monastery in south-west China in the latest protest against Chinese rule, according to an overseas rights group.* The incidents push...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* MOMBASA, Kenya — Deadly riots broke out in Kenya's main port of Mombasa after the assassination of a radical cleric linked to Somalia's Al-Qaeda-allied Shebab militants.* At least one person was hacked ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*ISLAMABAD (AP) — The lawyer for a Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy says a medical review has determined that the girl is a minor. * Tahir Naveed Chaudhry says a report by a medical board inves...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Ahead of the 16th NAM Summit, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has said that India hopes to boost mutual cooperation with Iran especially in the economic sector.* The remarks came even as US has be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A powerful typhoon pounded South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain Tuesday, while the nation's coast guard battled rough seas in a race to rescue fishermen on two Chinese s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* NATO says one of its helicopters has crashed in eastern Afghanistan. It says no one was killed.* Lt. j.g. Amy Hession says the helicopter made a hard landing in the eastern province of Logar late Monday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A poll found many voters believe Prime Minister David Cameron should appoint a new chancellor in George Osborne's place when he carries out his forthcoming cabinet reshuffle.* Nearly half of voters beli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBOGOTA, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A taxicab exploded in Colombia, killing six people, including two children, authorities said. Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon blamed FARC guerrillas, calling it a "cowardly at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Israel was not at fault in the death of a US activist crushed to death by an army bulldozer during a pro-Palestinian protest in 2003, an Israeli court has ruled. * Rachel Corrie's family filed the civil ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours agohttp://movetoamend.org/ *NORTHAMPTON, MA: Move to Amend New England! Regional Convergence* Friday, September 28, 2012 - 6:00pm to Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 12:00pm First Churches of Northampton 29 Ma...
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- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 6 hours agoGolden Rice provides a simple and direct method of introducing vitamin A into the diet unmistakably. Unfortunately the rent seekers of the environmental movement have locked on to the GM angle i...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 6 hours agoThis is great news. Tesla has not been properly written into the history books and a well endowed museum will provide a natural remedy to that ridiculous oversight. The past century has been...
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- posted by Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 6 hours agoThe Atlantic Wire (via @NoBigGovDuh) has a great story on the dishonesty of Mitt Romney's "You didn't build that" ads. It turns out that at the Republican convention on Tuesday night, they plan to ramp it ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoIn November 2011, a group of three physicists/mathematicians wrote the 3,635th paper suggesting that there had to be something wrong about the foundations of modern physics as redesigned by the founding ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours agoThe US generals refer to Nato as 'Snow White and the Twenty Seven Dwarves'. NATO | Stratfor The USA controls NATO and uses it to control the world. Any country that is in NATO is, to some extent, a col...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoby Benjamin Fulford 8-28-12 The old colonialist regime is Asia is falling apart fast and hysterical efforts to fan “territorial disputes,” will not save it. This can be seen in a flood of new revelat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"Don't wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don't. In the face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it together." - "Grey's Anatomy"
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* August 26, 2012 *120 NAM Countries Head to Iran Despite Western Pr...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*According to NASA, the Arctic has lost more sea ice this year than at any time since satellite records began in 1979.Scientists involved in the calculations state it is element of a basic change.* The s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* The images of boarded up storefronts and empty streets in the city's normally-busy French Quarter show that New Orleans residents are taking heed of the evacuation warnings issued in preparation for Cate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* An Algerian asylum seeker who financed a suicide bomber using illegally claimed benefits was yesterday jailed for seven years.* Nasserdine Menni was living in Glasgow and sending cash to Taimour Abdulwa...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoSuits Mount in Rate Scandal: Billions of Dollars at Stake in Claims by J. Eaglesham Aug 27, 2012 pp. A1, A8 "Banks being probed for interest-rate manipulation face potentially tens of billions of dollars...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours agoI haven't commented much on the revelation that our because there is very little. It's a funny place one arrives at when the move beyond the emotionally intense sort of outrage that normally follows when on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAn immigration officer sacked over alleged links to Islamic terrorism has attacked the Home Office for not allowing him to defend himself against the unspecified allegations. The Arabic interpreter, who h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* Wales’ four prisons are all operating at an overcrowded level with one holding almost twice as many prisoners as it should be, latest statistics show.* In July there were 847 more prisoners in Wales’ fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* (Reuters) - Syrian fighter planes made rare sorties on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, killing at least 60 people in its eastern suburbs, the same day a Syrian military helicopter crashed while un...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 9 hours ago*-by Noah* In a very real way, holding the Republican Convention in Florida is all too perfect. Once a beautiful state, Florida is now a postcard of its own dark demise, strangling in overdevelopment, ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* A main rebel commander fighting the battle for Syria's biggest city Aleppo has criticised the British Government for failing to provide them with weapons.* Clashes are raging across Syria as the rebelli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* Tropical storm Isaac has churned up the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is predicted to strengthen into a dangerous hurricane before hitting the US mainland later.* The US Gulf Coast is braced for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 13.21 km (8.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:01:20 UTC Tuesday 28th August 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) Northwest from Brawle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 01:08:20 UTC Tuesday 28th August 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) SSW of Puerto Penas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:16:01 UTC Monday 27th August 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) SSW of Puerto Penasc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours agoKarunesh, “Moon Temple” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE1yQu6I0A4&feature=related
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIf you have trouble remembering whether you took your pills on time, your medicine may soon have the answer for you. Pills for anything from the common cold to diabetes or cancer can be embedded with tin...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 10 hours agoAUDITAZ John Brakey "The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die" - Martin Luther King Pima County officials/employees tapped to support Yes! 1 and 2 RTA initiative in 2006Well *t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"The Limits of Our Freedom"* By Mark Harrison "Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, wrote in "Man’s Search for Meaning", ‘Between stimulus and response there is a space, ...
- posted by What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 11 hours agoTahca Ushte (Lame Deer) was a Lakota medicine man from a land now known as South Dakota (“Sioux” is a white name that insults the Lakota). His government-issued name was John Fire. He was born some time ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago*Photo: A group of professional actors watching an early preview of Kathryn Bigelow's much-anticipated film about the mysterious Bin Laden raid called, "Zero Dark Thirty."* The discussion about the my...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"Man's Search For Meaning" * by Viktor Frankl “In attempting this psychological presentation and a psychopathological explanation of the typical characteristics of a concentration camp inmate, I m...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing and are raised to the rank o...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 11 hours ago*The Liberal Party no longer “stands for anything” and could be “squeezed out” by Canadians who think the political spectrum is strictly left or right, says a high-profile leadership contender. * *Debor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." ~ Angela Monet
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 12 hours agoWhen Joe Biden warned that the GOP wants to put y'all back in chains, he was not kidding. Just check out the oligarchic orgy getting underway in Tampa. So how ironic is it that former Florida Republican Go...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“Far beyond the local group of galaxies lies NGC 3621, some 22 million light-years away. Found in the multi-headed southern constellation Hydra, the winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*I'm taking the day off work to do the New York Transit Museum tour Squire Vickers, Subway Architect (Monday, October 15, 3-5pm), which features New York City Transit's chief architect, Judith Kunoff, who ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoFrom Think Progress Tom Smith, the Republican challenging Sen. Bob Casey’s (D-PA) seat, MARK SCOLFORO, ASSOCIATED PRESS: How would you tell a daughter or a granddaughter who, God forbid, would be the vict...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera- 13 hours ago[image: Mariposa de alas transparentes - Transparent butterfly wings]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera- 13 hours ago[image: Así empieza todo y así termina todo... Vida y Muerte]
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 13 hours agoOn this eve of the Republican Convention I turn to the strident (almost Republican) words of James Howard Kunstler at Clusterfuck Nation to define the now much-bragged-about figment of most of these Republ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago*Our unelected, undemocratic Senate limps along with absolutely no regard for the nation. Here we have a Liberal Senator, who, as a result of Alzheimer’s disease has been declared legally incompetent. Ye...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoDemonstrators form a "human oil spill" in Burlington, VT, July 30, 2012. Photo by Sarah Harris / North Country Public Radio. Inset image below: Riot police used rubber bullets, sting ball pellets, and peppe...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 14 hours agoRead the rest of the article here: http://rt.com/news/hover-bike-star-wars-255/
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoTalk Poverty, from *The Nation* Mariana Chilton of Children's Health Watch, testified before Congress in 2007 about childhood hunger and poverty. She said of the Congressmen, "Their eyes glazed over." Fi...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoFormer Navy adviser Gwenyth Todd* exposed and stopped* the Neocon conspiracy to provoke a war with Iran in the Persian Gulf during the Bush years. For her act of heroism, she was fired from her job and...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoJust ask anyone who lives alongside or works on the Mississippi River. This is what Big Muddy looked like last year. And this is what the mighty river looks like today, down 14 feet from normal....
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago...goes to Philip Klein for noticing that the RNC was giving out copies of Mitt Romney's book to the press at the convention...but it's the hardcover original, which says that he's going to give Romneycare...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours agoNeocon spin doctor Dan Senor. Image from Getty Images. Inset below: Dan Senor, Mitt Romney, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Image from ThinkProgress. Enter Dan Senor... Ryan a pawn in neocon...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 15 hours agoPosted at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/no-algebra-isnt-necessary--and-yes-stem-is-overrated/2012/08/26/edc47552-ed2d-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_blog.html#comments Roger Schank: “ …we ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours agoDr. Suzanne Humphries, *Contributor* Millionaire vaccine inventor and mandatory vaccine advocate Paul Offit recently released a short VIDEO for doctors on medscape. Here is a transcript of the speech....
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 15 hours agoI’ve just received the very sad news that inspirational literacy campaigner and friend Graham Crawshaw died on Sunday at his home. [image: image] Graham Crawshaw’s greatest passion was teaching young bo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours agoJonathan Edwards, “Sunshine” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQe8Mk19_s4
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera- 16 hours ago[image: Lindo atardecer sobre el Lago del Ciprés Azul - Blue Cypress Lake]
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities." - Albe...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours agoWith an attack to follow? Likely and I will explain. *UPDATES AT THE BOTTOM *....... France. France. France. Calls for a no fly zone. Aiding in destroying Syria. The new boss that’s the same as the old b...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera- 16 hours ago[image: Visitando los verdes prados muy cerca de Italia]
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIt took me a few days to work up the nerve to phone William Binney. As someone already a “target” of the United States government, I found it difficult not to worry about the chain of unintended conseque...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“Hatching”* by Chet Raymo "Yesterday, Paul gave us a link to a "Scientific American" article on the death of mathematician William Thurston. In a sidebar was a link to a video of the hatching of the Lo...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 16 hours agoTomorrow is primary day in Arizona. I want to spend a little time talking about the race for the district the Democrats have the clearest shot of turning blue-- AZ-01. One of the largest in America by squ...
- posted by rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 16 hours agofor friends in the US - CALL TODAY - Urge Your Rep to Attend the NUCLEAR BRIEFING OCCUPY THE NRC SOLIDARITY ACTION - CALL DRIVE #3: TODAY MONDAY AUGUST 27- LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!! - See picture for #....
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 17 hours agohttp://www.npr.org/2012/08/26/159373972/torture-lab-kills-trees-to-learn-how-to-save-them http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193410/Huge-blanket-black-smoke-settles-parts-Alaska-wildfire-grows-42-00...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 17 hours agoYou've all heard of *Stockholm Syndrome*, right, where traumatised kidnap victims start to sympathise with their captors no matter how brutal or alien? *Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of trauma...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoPaella "When the fishermen are still wet" "By all means buy stock cubes if you have no self-esteem"
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 17 hours ago*Isaac update from WWL* ~As of 10 PM CDT today.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours agoHattingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago* “The Prisoner: * *‘I am not a number. I am a free man!’”* By John W. Whitehead “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a boo...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours agoChildren used to dream bug dreams about their future. They aspired to greatness. Now… [Hat tip Gareth V.] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Frequency of occurence (y-axis) of local temperature anomalies divided by local standard deviation (x-axis) obtained by binning all local results for the indicated region and 11-year period into ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 18 hours ago*YouTube - ornpatricktimpone* President Garfield and The Fed -- Monetary History that is relevant today. Listen to this fascinating tidbit of history presented by Andrew Gause. He explains how President ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 18 hours agoThe WB-IFC's "Doing Business 2012 Report was released several months ago. and the result for the Philippines was as ugly as in previous years: Long procedures to start and continue a business, lots of taxe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA at a depth of 19.9 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:54:23 UTC Monday 27th August 2012 The epicenter was 314 km (195 miles) Northeast f...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 19 hours ago*MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012* *These broken-souled losers can’t help it:* In fairness to Maureen Dowd, she really couldn’t help it. Two others had already said what follows. So she had to type it up too: D...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: Indian shepherds walk with their cattle in Bagodara, about 75 kilometers (47 miles) west of Ahmedabad, India, 23 August 2012. The showers, which normally run from June to September in large areas...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoBrace yourself. You owe it all to this dapper bunch. Nice black knee socks, eh? Or maybe you're more into the ankle socks.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago*Failed pumps at Corps pumping station could increase Mid-City flooding risk ~Dainiel Bell, The Lens* *Rusty pumps - the summing up ~Fix the Pumps* *Corps of Engineers Commander Has Confessed ~Sandy Rosen...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 19 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* After Special Justice Walter Douglas Stokes sentenced former US Marine Brandon Raub to 30 days detention in the psychiatric ward of the Veterans Hospital, Circuit Court Ju...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 19 hours ago12160 http://www.paulfestival.org | Peter Schiff reads a text message from Jesse Benton to Paul Festival Organizer Deborah Robinet. Help Us Transmit This Story Add to Your Blogger Account Put ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters smashed cars and torched churches in the Kenyan city of Mombasa on Monday after unknown gunmen shot dead a Muslim cleric accused by the United States of helping Islamis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* BEIJING—The Japanese Embassy in Beijing says a car carrying the ambassador was attacked by a man who ripped off the Japanese flag from the vehicle. The attack comes amid rising diplomatic tensions and an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* The ice cap covering the top of the world is smaller than it has ever been since scientists started to measure it precisely from space.* Satellite data released tonight show that the sea ice floating on ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 19 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* Igor Panarin, dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry School for future diplomats, believes that President Obama will announce martial law by the end of 2012. He explains: “T...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 19 hours agoTUC RADIO http://www.tucradio.org/ *Yastel Yamada: The Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima** http://www.tucradio.org/new.html * *29 second Preview/Promo Part ONE** 29 second **Preview/Promo Part TWO* * ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 19 hours agoCorpWatch Puck Lo The Obama administration is backing Shell Oil after abruptly changing sides in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that could make it even more difficult for survivors of human rights a...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 19 hours agoWashington's humanitarian aid program Anthony Freda Art Stephen Lendman, *Contributor* America's history is blood-drenched. Permanent war is policy. Peace and stability are verboten. One nation after an...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 19 hours agoAnthony Gucciardi Documents reveal that The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered over 1,400 pounds of super high-powered explosives through the (TSA) Transportation Safety Administration ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 19 hours ago*MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012* *We already had Ayn Rand:* We never went through an Ayn Rand phase. We’ve never read her novels. We probably saw her on Carson once or twice. That was likely enough. Last nigh...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 19 hours agoRight. So, besides the "Toronto 18 (12? 9?)" who would have done exactly NOTHING had a coke-addicted RCMP informant gotten them all fired up, Canadian security forces have produced nothing in the way of...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoOh, I assume everyone found something to be annoyed by in the Sunday Times Style profile of Al Gore and his family, written by Patrick Healy. Or maybe not; maybe part of it is that I find all things Gore p...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 19 hours agoWaging NonViolence Jake Olzon The Obama administration continues to defend its right to violate the rights of the people it is supposed to govern. On August 6, Department of Justice lawyers filed an appe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* At least five Somali children have been killed playing with an explosive in their school playground.* Around a dozen other youngsters were wounded in the large blast in the town of Balad, which is situa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 39.7 km (24.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:49 UTC Monday 27th August 2012 The epicenter was 261 km (162 miles) NNE of Raou...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 19 hours agoWashington Post Iran opened a world gathering of self-described nonaligned nations Sunday with a slap at the U.N. Security Council and an appeal to rid the world of nuclear weapons, even as Tehran faces ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 20 hours ago*MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012* *Petri grows up fast:* In Saturday’s Washington Post, Alexandra Petri scolded Mitt Romney for the previous day’s birther-tinged remark. To her credit, Petri scolded Romney for wh...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 20 hours agoOne of the major subjects that I cover in this blog is of course important health issues. I have long been showing strong evidence of the association between Vitamin D deficiency and the increasing amount...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours agoThere's a brilliant opinion piece in Psychology Today that exposes and guts every single odious anti-Choice, so-called pro-life right-wing rhetoric and sexism perpetrated upon women. Utilizing a philosop...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: High waves crash on the eastern coast of Jeju Island, South Korea, as Typhoon Bolaven approaches the Korean Peninsula approaches the Korean Peninsula Monday, 27 August 2012. Kim Ho-cheon / AP Pho...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 20 hours ago*Just wanted to bring this to your attention* *Ali over at the naked facts* was interviewed by an individual from Shoah - The Palestinian Holocaust. *The topic is Syria and Ali discusses the behind the sc...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 20 hours agoMonday - August 27 Six more companies have indicated that they are cutting, or have cut, ties to ALEC: General Electric (GE), Western Union, Sprint Nextel, Symantec (maker of Norton antivirus softwa...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoWell, who didn't see this coming? Florida's former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist will be a speaker at the Democratic National Convention. GOPers get Artur Davis. Dems get Crist. About a fair trade I gue...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours agoMarket Pulse The Arizona Republic p. D2 8/25/2012 "Approximately 52% of metro Phoenix homeowners have negative equity in their homes or are upside down... 55% of the region's homeowners owed more than th...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours ago"Laid off workers find work at less pay" Christopher S. Rugabeer The Arizona Republic (8/25/2012), D1. [Excerpt] "Only 56% of Americans laid off from January 2009 through December 2011 had found jobs by ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 20 hours agoSeattle Times Sarah Kuta *Smart meter movement stirs rowdy debate in Texas* Thelma Taormina keeps a pistol at her Houston-area home to protect against intruders. But one of the last times she used it, she ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 20 hours agoProgressives are in an awkward position right now. It's pretty essential the our most important task is to help as many progressives as possible win seats in Congress. And we have to do what we can-- tho...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoApparently the world is on the cusp of the "Consumption Revolution." The developing economies are surging, opening up what could be a $30-trillion a year demand for, well, stuff - stuff that affluent consu...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: This graph shows Arctic sea ice extent as of 26 August 2012, along with daily ice extent data for 2007, the previous record low year, and 1980, the record high year. 2012 is shown in blue, 2007 i...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 20 hours agoWatch 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out on PBS. See more from KBDI. If you have trouble viewing the above video it is also available here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/911-explosiv...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 20 hours agoMy husband doesn't like it when I mess with his food, and I do it all the time. I have replaced his pizza crust with cauliflower, his chips with kale and all sorts of other experiments. Most of the time...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 21 hours ago(A Brilliant @ Breakfast exclusive.) *Cotton Marcus: Do you believe that if you go ahead and allow the Holy Ghost into your heart, you can be cleansed of all your sins and sit in the Kingdom of God? Cong...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 21 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* Congressman Paul Ryan, appearing to want to facilitate a national discussion about the too-big-to-fail banks, is really just focusing the social attention toward the conce...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 21 hours agoFor 10 seasons the TV show "Smallville" graced screens the globe and showed Clark Kent's rise from a lowly farm boy with only a handful of superpowers to the juggernaught that is *Superman*. The show aire...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 21 hours ago*"An element of their party has pitched so far to the extreme right on issues important to women, immigrants, seniors and students that they’ve proven incapable of governing for the people." * *Charles C...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 21 hours agoThe *Toronto Public Archery Range* is overflowing with new archers in the wake of all the archery films that came out in 2011 and 2012. A year ago you could go the archery range, also known as the Seton P...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoAUG 27, 2012 Syria: Civilians Massacred in Daraya The NATO run mainstream media claims the Syrian military was responsible for a massacre in the town of Daraya, however the residents of Daraya have a dif...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt is now quite easy to design and roll out a new car. Certainly as compared to what was possible two decades ago. Yet folks have gone out and tried over and over again. The bad news is that th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: imageScreenshot of the Cliff Mass Weather Blog, 26 August 2012. Cliff Mass is known for being a weatherman and vocal denier of climate science. He touts a 'middle road' between 'deniers' and 'ala...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 21 hours agoEditor's Note: The following exchange between Adam Kokesh and Webster Tarpley seems to mark the beginning of Kokesh's reassessment of the Paul Campaign. Whether co-opted or initially conceived as a honey...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoNow extra-cranky since my youngest started school today, thus switching my sleep schedule. That is, less. So: I have two complaints about Robert Frank's pitch for a carbon tax in the Sunday NYT Business s...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 22 hours agoRegular readers know that Southern Man is vacating the apartment in town to live out at The Land for a while. Most of the big stuff is moved but there remains a few items plus a lot (and Southern Man means...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 22 hours agoHello! We arrive today at our beginning, the place where love was planted. It rests within you. It’s always been there. We just had to turn the light on so we could find it. Our light is on now. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Relations between Labour leader Ed Miliband and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls have deteriorated, according to senior Labour sources.* Shadow Cabinet ministers are now concerned the relationship is so dysfu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* French Interior Minister Manuel Valls today ordered police to destroy a Roma camp in his political powerbase and to deport illegal immigrants living there.* Officers armed with truncheons and shields mo...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago*MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012* *Conclusion: The world’s most primitive journalists:* Everyone has heard about the less-than-modern people who never developed full number systems. According to these stories, su...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 22 hours agoLisa Garber In both the ‘30s and recent history, economic collapses and food shortages troubled average people across the nation and globe. While a global food and energy crisis may seem outlandish to...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 22 hours agoIntelhub J.G. Vibes For hundreds of years the establishment has used agent provocateurs as a means of discrediting protest movements that spoke out against the injustice that was being perpetrated by the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAug. 27 - Japan's coast guard releases video of a sea chase with Chinese activists who sailed from Hong Kong and landed on the disputed islands.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours agoI did not think this would happen. Well good for the various Police Services. It seems like a lot of hard work paid off.
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours agoMike Quinsey - SaLuSa, August 27, 2012 SaLuSa, August 27, 2012 Some people ask what shall they do when they have to make decisions that will take them beyond the 21st. December. The answer will alwa...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours ago*Isaac picks up speed, heads for Louisiana* ~Hat Tweet~ @*Editilla* From my friend, engineer H.J. Bosworth.Why send out maps like this one everytime a storm in the gulf? WTF???? http://twitpic.com/aob7y2...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 22 hours agoNatural News Ethan Huff Portland Commissioner Nick Fish plays the "for the children" card to justify the chemical dumbing down of the population for the protection of teeth enamel. Politicians supporting fl...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 22 hours agoImage credit: Kounosu Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* According to multiple reports, both Israel and Jordan have denied entry to a group of pro-Palestinian activists from the United States and Europe who ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 22 hours agoVisit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Remember that Sylvester the cat cartoon where Tweety drinks the Jekyll and Hyde potion and turns into a huge, hideous monster? ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 22 hours agoimage source *Activist Post* Going off grid should not be a spontaneous decision; it can be exceedingly difficult, costly, and fraught with unexpected problems if one has not done the proper research, no...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 22 hours agoOrganic Consumers Yesterday it was revealed that the biotech industry and Big Ag have already dumped $25 million - $4.2 million from chemical and seed giant Monsanto alone - into the campaign to defeat ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoThe Guardian Naomi Wolf Tom Cruise as John Anderton in the futuristic film Minority Report, where the advertisements use recognition technology to call out to the shoppers. A software engineer in my Faceb...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoReuters Daniel Fineren (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is cutting short home leave for the crew of one of its aircraft carriers and sending them back to the Middle East next week to counter any threat from Ir...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: On 17 August 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi-NPP acquired this image of wildfires blazing in the western United States. The brightest fires are white; smoke i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: a. the disks of O. mirabilis (~2 mm diameter for ophiuroids in the figure) and the arms (~5 times as long) contrast with the host species b. Leptogorgia punicea, c. Gorgonia ventalina, and d. Myc...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoGlobal Research F. William Engdhal Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the nominal end of the Cold War some twenty years back, rather than reducing the size of its mammoth defense spending, the US ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours agoTimminco Limited (Re), 2012 ONCA 552 is a helpful source for the law that CCRA appeals will be granted only sparingly: [2] In the CCAA context, leave to appeal is to be granted sparingly and on...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Dozens of miles of levees slicing through urban Stockton and rural east San Joaquin County are no longer eligible for federal rehabilitation dollars should a flood occur, the U.S. Army Corps of E...
- posted by Brian C Rathbun at The Duck of Minerva- 23 hours agoTHE CANARD "All the fake news that's fit to print." --New Orleans The god of tolerance struck down with fury yesterday, unleashing a mighty hurricane headed for New Orleans that forced the American Polit...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: In this Wednesday, 22 August 2012 photo, smoke from the Dry Creek Fire spreads through the sky after it rekindled from a June 23 lightning strike in Fairbanks, Alaska. The fire, 25 miles south of...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago- Heather Hurlburt parses the RNC foreign-policy platform: "Politico found what seems to be a close-to-final draft on the RNC's website. The national security section, titled "American Exception...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Isaac sets sights on landfall near Louisiana Gulf coast ~Advocate* *Isaac still tracking toward New Orleans, storm expected to strengthen ~WWL* *New Orleans residents feel better prepared for Isaac ~Shre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVIDEO: Grim warning
THREE previously fit and healthy Queenslanders have died in as many weeks after falling ill with the flu. ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Friday that with the addition of 52 new human cases of H3N2v influenza, the total number of cases seen nationwide since July is 276.* Of tha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoThe longer I follow the ravings of fetus fetishists, the more I'm convinced their photos should illustrate the encyclopedia entry for magical thinking. They want to believe something so badly they can twis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Lafia, Katsina, Minna, Yola — Floods wreaked havoc in several states in the North at the weekend, killing at least 15 people in Adamawa State and another four in Niger State.* Hundreds of homes and farm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* An anthrax outbreak in a Siberian village left one person dead and 10 others hospitalized as the Russian government declared a state of emergency in the area in a bid to prevent an epidemic. * There were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*(Reuters) - Iran indicated on Monday it might allow diplomats visiting Tehran for this week's Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to inspect the Parchin military base, which U.N. nuclear experts say may hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAug. 27 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un calls for his military to be prepared to retaliate as the U.S. and South Korea press on with defence exercises. Jessica Gray reports
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*Aliant Inc. v. Ellph.com Solutions Inc*., 2012 NSCA 89 deals with security for costs. In so doing the Court undertook an extensive examination of the exercise of judicial discretion and its intersect...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 day agoIf it's real, the video above, of Romney bragging to some fatcats about buying a huge sweat shop in China, was shot at a private $50,000 a plate fundraiser at the mansion of one of his billionaire suppor...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to Sarah Chalke, 36. I watch all (or most, anyway) medical sitcoms, but no medical dramas. This probably indicates something profoundly unhealthy about me, I suppose. To the good stuff: 1...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoAs the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association may face cancellation due to Hurricane Isaac, there is only one thing to do: wildly speculate how APSAHungerGames would play out in 2012....
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