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English: Museo del sitio, Teotihuacán. Human sacrifices found at the foundations of La Ciudadela Deutsch: Museum Teotihuacán. Menschenopfer, gefunden an den Fundamenten der Ciudadela (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
* Seven Cameroon athletes who have disappeared whilst in Britain may be intending to claim asylum, according to an official from the country.* Mission head, David Ojong, said that the seven sportsmen, incl... - Majia here: Contemporary people look with disdain upon now-passed civilizations like the Aztecs in Mexico that required human sacrifices. Modern people consider human sacrifice to be barbaric. What hypo...
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- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 minutes agoPolitico is calling this perhaps the harshest, most personal ad of the 2012 presidential race. I wouldn't call it that, but it's a damn good ad. "It features former GST Steel employee Joe Soptic speaking t...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago* (Reuters) - A fire that shut Chevron Corp's Richmond plant, the second-largest refinery in California, was extinguished early on Tuesday as fears of a months-long closure caused a 25-cent spike in region...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 minutes agoThis week Blue America is endorsing our second California candidate, Jay Chen, who's running in a newly created district that takes in a chuck of L.A. and San Bernardino counties-- Brea, Buena Park, Chin...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 30 minutes agoMajia here: Why doesn't Tepco tell us about the condition of unit 3? Why don't they tell us how much radioactive water is going into the ocean everyday? Why don't they tell us where the hot, damaged fuel ...
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magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE at a depth of 142.1 km (88.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:34:04 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) East of Taltal, Chile No... - posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 34 minutes agoI quote the conservative John Mauldin infrequently, but mainly when he makes unpleasant points about the economy backed up by lots of data. The reason for this is that he is known for being a voice of calc...
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*The Two Faces of a Police State: Sheltering Tax Evaders, Financial Swindlers and Money Launderers while Policing the Citizens* Global Research Prof. James Petras “The rotten heart of finance” The Ec... - posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 39 minutes ago
A tweet from the BBC's Evan Davis I did respond with a pertinent question but Evan Davis has not deigned to reply Why am I not surprised? - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes ago
* (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Ernesto is expected to reach hurricane strength by the time it makes landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday night.* The Mexican government extended a hurricane warning... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes ago** * (CNN) -- Three suspected al Qaeda terrorists arrested last week in Spain appear to have been interested in targeting a Gibraltar-area shopping mall in a strike that was likely intended to coincide wi...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 hour agoYou're so vain, you probably thought the electoral process was about you. You walk into that voting booth like you were mounting a pulpit, all self-involved and righteous and following your conscience. You...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoLast week, I declared a pox on both the houses of Harry Reid, for making reckless and irresponsible charges, and Mitt Romney, for violating the norm of releasing tax returns. Now? Politfact, too. They gav...
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* Aleppo, Syria (CNN) -- Syria's president welcomed a top official Tuesday from Iran, a friend and ally of the much-reviled and increasingly isolated government in Damascus.* Saeed Jalili, secretary of Ir... - posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012* *Telegenic children at play:* Yesterday, Mitt Romney went to the hardware store. On MSNBC, this became the latest chance to see the children at play. Alex Wagner was guest-hostin...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012* *His contract required him to say it:* At this point in the campaign cycle, the children kill time in a time-honored way. The children kill time pretending to guess who the VP se...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 2 hours agoI've got a hankering to write something about any number of recent political atrocities, but no time today. So instead I thought I'd take one more bash on the useless stupidity of religion. A lot of relig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* Schmallenberg virus is present in the UK this summer and could spread throughout the country, scientists say.* Staff from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and Institute for Animal Health (IAH) found t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* A former Lloyds Bank worker in charge of online security has admitted carrying out a fraud worth more than £2.4m.* Jessica Harper, 50, had been accused of submitting false invoices to claim payments bet...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago* Tehran will continue to back Syria and Bashar al-Assad’s regime because the alliance between the two countries is central to Iran’s foreign policy in the region, a senior Iran official has said.* Iran h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAug 7 - NASA scientists release more images from the Mars cover Curiosity during news conference. Sophia Soo reports.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago*Marigny neighbors concerned with size of Sean Cummings proposed development ~WWLTV* *Owen Courreges: The latest weapon in the war on live music ~Uptown Messenger* *Nuisance Bars ~Library Chronicles * *...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAug. 7 - Flooding and torrential rains kill over 50 in the Philippines and force hundreds of thousands more to evacuate. Jessica Gray reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:48:21 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73.7 miles) South of Sumber, ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Polar sea snail from the Arctic, Buccinum glaciale. Increased ocean acidity is affecting the size and weight of shells and skeletons, and the trend is widespread across marine species. Sue-Ann Wa...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012* *Part 1—Rachel was upset with Romney:* Mitt Romney is the most god-awful White House nominee in modern campaign history. He has produced the craziest tax proposal of the modern e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* (Reuters) - Two F-15 fighter jets intercepted two small planes that strayed into President Barack Obama's airspace during a campaign visit to Connecticut on Monday and the planes landed without incident,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* KABUL — A bomb strapped to a donkey by Taliban insurgents killed an Afghan district police chief and wounded three others, an official said Tuesday.* The explosive-laden donkey was tied to a bridge near...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* (Reuters) - Police arrested a journalist working for Rupert Murdoch's British Sun newspaper on suspicion of corruption on Tuesday as part of a wide-reaching investigation centred on allegations of phone-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* The head of Iran's supreme national council flew to Damascus on Tuesday for talks with embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad.* Jalili landed in Damascus after a two-day visit to Beirut, where he warned...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours ago*Sorry, I won't proofread the text below because I found the program extraordinarily stupid and decided that I have already wasted way too much time with it. Apologies for all the mistakes in the text be...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago*The Parent Trigger on the Suicide Bomb* Jim Horn Since No Child Left Behind became law, schools where there are lots of poor kids have been turned into brutal testing factories, where the focus is on r...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours ago*Jurriaan Maessen* Explosive Reports In the last couple of years the omnipresent force known as Agenda 21 is meeting with increasing resistance worldwide. With the rise of the alternative media, the flow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* (Reuters) - Egypt began work to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* Syrian TV has broadcast footage showing President Bashar al-Assad meeting Iran's security chief, the first time Mr Assad has been seen on state television for more than two weeks.* His appearance came a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* (NaturalNews) There are times when, despite the potential seriousness of a crime, a little compassion is in order for those and their families, for children cannot be held responsible for the crimes of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* (CNN) -- Police in Florida are trying to solve a mystery surrounding a man arrested with an enormous stash of fake military, law enforcement and medical paraphernalia including federal badges, police rad...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours ago- The battle for Aleppo continues. - Are China and Russia providing the US with an excuse for not acting in Syria? James Vreeland, quoted in the article, thinks so. - Did the USSR win the sol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* A University of Florida scientist has created a living "brain" of cultured rat cells that now controls an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator. * Scientists say the research could lead to tiny, brain-control...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago* Manila and much of the island of Luzon is flooded after an epic 3.24m of rain fell in less than 24 hours. * Initial reports say eight people were killed in a landslide in the Manila suburb of Quezon City...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck TARAPACA, CHILE at a depth of 62.1 km (38.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:28:38 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 104 km (64.4 miles) Northeast of Tocopilla,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA at a depth of 7.5 km (4.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:47:50 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) Southeast of Prague, Oklahoma No R...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoHappy Birthday to Kristin Hersh, 46. I'm not sure there's an album from the 00s that I liked better than 50 Foot Wave's Golden Ocean, and generally she's one of the people I listen to the most these days. ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours agoThe past is a foreign country. This footage is oddly disturbing -- a familiar and yet wildly unfamiliar place: Footage here 1913Today
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours agoDon Lenihan and Graham Fox argue this morning that, under the Harper government, federalism has been turned upside down: The federal government seems to have opted for a more transactional approach to...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago*Hess v. Town of Iqaluit*, 2012 NWTCA 8 is a very ordinary case with one interesting aside – the plaintiff let the case drag and was faced with a motion to dismiss for delay. That motion was dismissed but...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago*In fairness to the police, they probably were on edge when the incident occurred -- but that doesn't justify what appears to have been a needless and very dangerous escalation. As a practical matter, wh...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoWe all know that Buck McKeon is, at the very least, a legalistic bribe takerof massive proportions. We call them legalistic bribes because they are in the form of campaign contributions and eventually mak...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours agoOne of may favourite bits from the film Wild at Heart. My absolute favourite bit would not be safe for work...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoFrom a report by the Iowa Policy Network - educating you and me about the fallacies in the ALEC Rich States Poor States Report (please read it - it is important). The policy prescriptions laid out in the...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours agoIt is possible that they are being shipped to an army base in Southern California to be painted with camouflage. But no Southern California civilians have ever seen so many tanks before. Keep watching ...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 4 hours agoAmid the news about the domestic terrorist incident in Wisconsin, the Mars Rover landing, the Olympics, and sundry other incidents, Taiwan's economy continues to slow....WaPo says: Taiwan’s exports fell 1...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoFrom the Huffington Post SNIPS a Tennessee Republican state lawmaker said via a mass email last week. Right after the ALEC annual meeting – wonder if he was there taking notes. Keisling’s assistant, Fran...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago*John Aziz* Azizonomics Should President Obama (alongside Lindsay Graham and John McCain) be wearing an orange jumpsuit? Welcome to the beautiful and surreal reality of life under American corporatism...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago*UK Daily Mail* Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who aren’t on social networking sites are ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago*William Grigg* LewRockwell Deranged ex-federal employee Michael Page, a former Army psy-ops specialist, committed what has been variously described as a “hate crime” and an act of “domestic terrorism” ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoGreat blog read this morning. ALEC spouts the free market philosophy and it is OUR responsibility to use the free market philosophy to no longer support ALEC through ALEC corporate profit sector members. ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoI love it when one Republican gives me enough materials to write for a week. Here are some of the blatherings of a Republican – by the name of Ron Nehring – who use to be president of the California Republ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU at a depth of 25.4 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:31:03 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) West from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Gunmen fired on worshippers in a church in central Nigeria, killing at least 19 people, including the pastor, and wounding others, the military has said. * The attack targeted a Deeper Life church in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* At least 15 people have been killed and 250,000 have fled their homes after more than 24 hours of torrential rain in the Philippines capital Manila. * Officials say the heavy rain triggered a landslide i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* (Financial Times) -- The Tokyo Stock Exchange stopped trading of derivatives on Tuesday morning, citing the latest in a series of technological glitches that have embarrassed Japan's largest exchange gro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck CENTRAL ALASKA at a depth of 9.2 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:48:21 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) Southwest from Dry Creek, Ala...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago** * Aleppo, Syria (CNN) -- Reports of bloodshed in Syria's largest city continued unabated Tuesday as an activist group said it had photographic evidence of heavy weapons used near residential parts of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* The vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said at a teleconference in the early morning hours of March 14, 2011, the first day of rolling blackouts after the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Pl...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 6 hours agoYesterday the Taipei Times reported on President Ma Ying-jeou's public reiteration of longstanding KMT catechism: the Treaty of Taipei gave Taiwan to the Republic of China: The Sino-Japanese Treaty is a t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A Cabinet Office fact-finding team has come under fire for failing to get to the bottom of secret meetings between pro-nuclear officials after it released a report that stopped short of concluding whethe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Secret meetings of pro-nuclear power experts organized by the Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) "manipulated" deliberations by a subcommittee on Japan's nuclear fuel cycle by removing policy scenario...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) released video footage on Aug. 6 of teleconferences it held in the crucial first days of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, underscoring a deep...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 6 hours ago*PM was only in office since June 2012 - had been planning "defection" for at least as long based on battlefield before "Damascus Volcano" fizzled. * * *Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Haile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAug 7 - A New Zealand volcano dormant for 115 years roars to life, disrupting air traffic but causing no injuries.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* (Reuters) - A massive fire struck at the core of Chevron Corp's large Richmond, California, refinery on Monday, spewing flames and a column of smoke into the air, threatening a prolonged outage that may ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:43:28 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (65.6 miles) East of Kashi, X...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi has said the bomb blast caused heavy damage to the building and there were many light injuries among the employees. Some of them h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - A suicide bomb blast that killed at least four interior ministry soldiers and injured others in the capital of Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Monday may have been organis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A second person has died following an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Stoke-on-Trent, health officials have confirmed today.* A spokesperson for University Hospital of North Staffordshire said: "We ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Russian prosecutors have asked for three years' prison for three women musicians accused of inciting religious hatred during a protest in a cathedral. * The three members of the punk band Pussy Riot play...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* KABUL, Afghanistan — A truck bomb exploded at a NATO military base south of the Afghan capital Tuesday, wounding three soldiers and at least 17 civilians, Afghan police said.* A spokesman for NATO's Int...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* (Reuters) - A New Zealand volcano dormant for more than a century has spewed boulders and spread an ash cloud over the centre of the country, disrupting air traffic but causing no other damage or injurie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* At least eight people have been reported dead as torrential rain caused flooding that paralysed most parts of the Philippine capital, Manila. * The flooding - neck-deep in some areas - forced tens of thou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* A woman has been stabbed to death in a taxi in Northfield, Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.* A man ran from the scene, at the junction of Dimsdale Road and Hoggs Lane, and officers are now searchi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Shares in the London-listed Standard Chartered bank plunged more than 21% as markets opened, in the wake of US regulators claiming it was a "rogue institution".* The price drop comes on top of a 6% fall...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*Two children have died after they were involved in a car crash while sitting in their pushchairs.* The one-year-old boy and two-year-old girl had suffered serious injuries after a collision between a dar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Police are searching for a man who was seen walking around a road-side motel in Florida trying to sell a baby in exchange for food.* Detectives released surveillance camera footage of the man, who carele...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* A huge fire broke out at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California on Monday night forcing mroe than 160,000 residents to stay indoors to protect themselves from the hazardous smoke. * The fire, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* American officials are using diplomatic back channels in an effort to ease tensions with India in the wake of the shooting of six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday.* President Obama gave hi...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 8 hours agoNo tropical cyclone or storm yesterday and today, just plain heavy rains due to southwest monsoon affecting so many provinces in the country. Some photos below, mostly from the facebook wall of "24/7 Cool ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCNN has been forced to apologise after playing Billy Joel's song Only the Good Die Young following a segment about the Sikh temple massacre in Wisconsin. A panel on Monday morning's Starting Point discu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Looking back at the days leading up to the fatal July 20 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, it appears now that there were ignored warning signs that could have saved many lives. * Psychiatrist...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Sixty-five years after a UFO allegedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, a retired Air Force official has spoken out to say that not only did the shocking incident really happen – but it happened twice.* ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* A woman posing as a nurse and disguised in scrubs was caught stealing a newborn baby girl who she hid in a duffel bag to smuggle out of hospital, police said. * * * Grisel Ramirez, 48, was arrested Monda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Two thieves ripped a cash machine out of a wall with a digger and then dumped it in the street when their getaway car would not start.* One man drove the industrial vehicle into the wall of Barclays Bank...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Pictured for the first time, these are the 11 men and women who have admitted carrying out a sustained campaign of neglect, abuse and torture aimed at the vulnerable patients they were meant to care for....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* The devastated mother of the neo-Nazi and former soldier who shot dead six people and injured three others at a Sikh Temple yesterday has spoken of her heart break that her 'precious little boy' turned i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* A drug-dealing woman and her boyfriend 'punished' a teenage girl by raping her after they mistakenly thought had stolen from them.* Elizabeth Seagrove and Matthew Costello have now been jailed for more t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Chemotherapy treatment for some cancers may actually encourage tumours to grow, researchers have claimed.* The treatment triggers the healthy body cells around the tumour to produce a protein that helps...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* A three-year-old Malaysian girl has died after seven members of her family allegedly suffocated her during an exorcism ritual. * A police report said the tragedy occurred at the home of the child's paren...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Bella Mae, a three-year-old bulldog from Oklahoma, learned a lesson she probably won't forget after she tangled with a porcupine and was left with 500 quills stuck in her face. * Veterinarians in Norman ...
- Simon Arthur is jailed for beating and abusing his mother, 87, who he treated 'like a dog' for years
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* A senior Liberal Democrat councillor who punched his frail 87-year-old mother and told her she would 'suffer in the afterlife' has been jailed.* Simon Arthur, 44, treated his mother Isabelle 'like a dog'... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 36.2 km (22.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:43:38 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* The discovery was made by a dog handler on a routine patrol in the car park who called in the fire brigade. * The body was found after the fire was put out. Police say it is too early to say whether or n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* Shares in the London-listed Standard Chartered bank plunged more than 16% as markets opened, in the wake of US regulators claiming it was a "rogue institution".* The price drop comes on top of a 6% fall...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck CRETE, GREECE at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:48:21 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55.8 miles) South of Palaiokhóra, Crete, G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:50:12 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 1433 km (888.4 miles) Southw...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Gates in Indonesia.* The biggest Moslem country in the world is full of AIDS. Indonesia, which includes Bali, has an AIDS epidemic. Indonesia's sex trade "is booming (and widely tolerated) all over Ind...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoVia Jericho *Thursday the 26 of July I had the parole board hearing at 8 am, both attorneys were there: James Simmons and Nana Gyamfe from LA.* *We were able to expand the record as to the new disclosure...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours ago*A Voice For Mother Earth.* *A Voice For Us All.*
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoFrom: "NYC ABC" Date: Wed, August 1, 2012 Hey: Here's the latest compilation of every other week updates. We've mailed hard copies to Sundiata Acoli, Joe-Joe Bowen, David Gilber...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoJuly 5, 2012 For the first time in history the Traditional Hopi Elders from the Village to Shungopavi (the Mother Village) are stepping forward to speak to the public. They have a warning for the world....
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAug. 6, 2012 Samidoun Photo: ActiveStills/Ahmad al-Bazz Palestinian Authority security forces arrested hunger striking prisoner Hassan Safadi’s brother, Saleh Safadi (30 years old) today, August 6, 2012, r...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 10 hours agoPUBLISHED IN THE LA TIMES, Sunday August 5 Re: Teaching and testing options, August 3 Arthur Levine compares testing students once a year to having a car GPS update its position once an hour instead of con...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoFirst off the economic attack on the consumer is generally negligible although it looks like an easy target. Even the banks are likely getting off just fine simply because other types of fraud ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoSlowly the lessons of micro lending are been applied to agriculture as they should be. The potential happens to be huge and can certainly massively expand agricultural output. I have already po...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoI am pretty sure that just using the tools we have and that I have additionally identified, we can sustain a population on the land surface of close to 100,000,000,000. This particular trick open...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoFirst off the economic attack on the consumer is generally negligible although it looks like an easy target. Even the banks are likely getting off just fine simply because other types of fraud ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThis is a particularly excellent Sasquatch report as well as a couple of decent photographs. The creature is not particularly scared of humanity or at least this particular couple which is quit...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAug. 4, 2012 Samidoun As they organize to defend their land and Palestinian farming against the onslaught of settlements and siege, Palestinian agricultural workers and organizers have been subject to an...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAugust 6, 2012 Solitary Confinement by Sal Rodriguez At this time one year ago, a three week hunger strike across California prisons had been concluded, and the California Assembly had begun planning ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agofreeahmadsaadat.org Recently released Palestinian political prisoner Yousef Abu Ghoulmeh, freed in late July 2012, shared a prison cell with Ahmad Sa'adat for nearly three months following the end of th...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAugust 4, 2012 Solitary Watch by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway The *Atlantic*‘s Andrew Cohen, who has been reporting extensively on a lawsuit challenging solitary confinement and mental health care a...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAugust 4, 2012 Prison Books.info We just received word that earlier this week prisoners at Central in Raleigh voted to end their hunger strike, started on July 16th in protest of conditions on Unit 1. W...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoBy Hadeel Al Shalchi | Reuters – Aug 3, 2012 ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian forces stormed the last rebel stronghold in the capital Damascus in tanks and armored vehicles on Friday and blasted artillery ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAug. 2, 2012 Ma'an Some 2,000 prisoners held an open hunger strike in April. RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli prison authorities on Wednesday assaulted two prisoners on hunger strike, a lawyer from the Palest...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoTogether with our families in the homeland, we are planning our return to a Free Palestine! Help design and energize the work for the coming year along with our expanding network of grassroots, student, a...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAug 1, 2012 Al Jazeera Filmmaker: Ahmed Adnan al-Ramahi *"Nothing is harsher than imprisonment. It's the cruelest form of torture." **A former Palestinian prisoner* This film tells the story of Arab an...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours agoPhoto by Roger Albani http://rogeralbani.com/photographyart/Roger_Albani_Photography_Art.html *Come to the realization that all life in this realm is based upon the illusion that love conquers all. Love ne...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoAugust 1, 2012 Solitary Watch by Sal Rodriguez Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina On July 16th, inmates at Central Prison, Bertie Correctional Institution and Scotland Correctional Institution lau...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoFREE THE MOVE 9!! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! * From: *ONAMOVELLJA@aol.com Date: *July 30, 2012 As most of you know, august 8th marks 34 years of unjust imprisonment for The MOVE 9. We are pushing for ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoJuly 25, 2012 Puget Sound Anarchists REGIONAL CALL-OUT FOR SOLIDARITY DEMO AUG. 2 AT THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE! SOLIDARITY WITH SUBPOENAED COMRADES! RESIST GRAND JURIES! This is a regional call-out for a s...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoJuly 31, 2012 Examiner.com By: Michael Richardson COINTELPRO 101 Credits: Freedom Archives [image: COINTELPRO 101] The Malcolm X Memorial Foundation will host a Black August commemoration in Omaha...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoAnd, once again, I'm going to try to get back to doing these, at least occasionally. I actually have a couple things I've watched that I want to write up, but I never seem to get around to it these days. S...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours ago* *Addameer *Ramallah-Jaffa*, *30 July 2012 —* Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) are gravely concerned for the life and health ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoThis was posted at Kerry Cassidy's Project Camelot blog: Click here to read more at Kerry's blog.
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoJuly 30, 2012 Electronic Intifada Holding an image of her hunger-striking son, Hassan Safadi’s mother speaks to reporters in Nablus on 28 June 2012 (Ahmad Al-Bazz / ActiveStills) Back in the old city of N...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoJuly 22, 2012 Atlanta Black Cross On Monday, July 16th, 2012 there was a rally held in Forsyth, Georgia to show solidarity with Hunger Strikers in the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center (also kn...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoCommittee to Stop FBI Repression (stopfbi.net) Please sign the Solidarity Statement Speak out against FBI raids & Grand Jury repression in Oregon and Washington The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is ci...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours agoImages that the inquisitiveness rover took of the surface of Mars as it made its historic descent on Monday have now been released. Observable in the timelapse is the heat shield discarded by the vehicle a...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoThis is a call out for a new letter writing campaign to protest the treatment of Jerome White-Bey, who yet again is being held in isolation on the punishment blocks under a false investigation. His situation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* A group of al Qaeda prisoners was caught trying to tunnel out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, an official said on Sunday, after the militants said they would step up their fight against the government.* Ir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck WESTERN MONTANA at a depth of 5.7 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:07:15 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) North from West Yellowstone...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck MINDORO, PHILIPPINES at a depth of 29.2 km (18.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:03:43 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62.6 miles) West from Batangas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAs a boy, Liam Oliver-Christie excitedly watched his father Linford on television run some of the greatest races of his life. But yesterday Oliver-Christie, now 26, himself became the centre of far less ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago* The average home in Britain is worth nearly £40,000 less than it was five years ago.* Prices peaked at £200,000 in August 2007, but the same home is now worth only £161,000, according to figures publish...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* A grandmother feared for her life when raiders burst into her £7million home and subjected her to a water-boarding ordeal.* Francoise Jansen, 73, had boiling water poured down her back after being strip...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* A UK bank hid £160billion of transfers that helped finance terror groups and Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, it was claimed last night.* In another devastating blow to the City of London’s reputation, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAug. 6 - Sikhs say they appreciate the "better safe than sorry" approach New York police are taking to security around temples following the Wisconsin shooting spree. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* (Reuters) - A group of investors rescued Knight Capital Group Inc (KCG.N) in a $400 million deal that keeps the embattled leader in U.S. equities market-making in business, but comes at a huge cost to ex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* (Reuters) - A fire struck the core of Chevron Corp's large Richmond, California, refinery on Monday evening, sending flames and a column of smoke into the air and prompting authorities to order nearby re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* (Reuters) - The gunman who killed six worshipers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was identified as a 40-year-old U.S. Army veteran and authorities said they were investigating possible links to white supre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* ATHENS, Greece -- Authorities in Greece are rounding up thousands of suspected illegal immigrants in a large-scale deportation drive to combat what a government official compared to a prehistoric invasio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* The banners, T-shirts and handwritten posters said it all. "China! Hands off Vietnam!" read one. "Shame on you, bastard neighbour," said another. "Stop escalating, invading the East Sea of Vietnam," a th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* KANO, Nigeria — The suspected leader of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram criticised US President Barack Obama in an online video over Washington's decision to label him a "global terrorist".* It was u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* A mosque in Joplin burned to the ground early Monday in the second fire at the Islamic center in little more than a month, officials said. No injuries were reported, and no charges have been filed in con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoKenyan authorities on Monday charged a Venezuelan diplomat with the murder of Venezuala’s acting ambassador to Kenya in what the police believe was a killing motivated by a battle over leadership of the V...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* A bomb blast near the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least eight civilians, local officials say.* They say the remote-controlled device hit a minibus in the Paghman district at about 0500 local ti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 34 km (21.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:18:34 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) ENE f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* Japan marked the 67th anniversary of the first atomic attack with a ceremony on Monday that was attended by a grandson of Harry Truman, the US president who ordered the bomb to be dropped on the city of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago* Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's administration has struck a defiant tone, renewing its counterattack on rebel forces in the country's largest cities and vowing to stay in place, despite the defection ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago*Message from U.N. Secretary-General on 67th anniversary of Hiroshima A-bombing* * http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120806p2a00m0na002000c.html * [excerpted] The following is the tex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Nasa has released an image of the mountain that its mars rover will attempt to climb as it searches for signs of life on the red planet. * The peak, dubbed Mount Sharp is 3.4 miles high and scientists thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* John Lewis said sales at its flagship store had dropped 8.7% in late July. * Retailers suffered a "lacklustre" July as expectations of an Olympic boost appear to be "wide of the mark", a leading survey s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* The uncle of missing Tia Sharp has appealed to the 12-year-old to contact her family and come home.* David Sharp also urged anyone who knows where Tia may be to come forward straight away. Tia, who has...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoToday marks the 67th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This unnecessary attack killed some 140,000 innocent people almost instantly, with the subsequent dea...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 13 hours agoHelp Us Transmit This Story Add to Your Blogger Account Put it On Facebook Tweet this post Print it from your printer Email and a collection of other outlets Try even more services
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agoAll current polling shows that voters in New Hampshire's first congressional district have changed their minds about freshman congressman Frank Guinta and that they are eager to replace him in November wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck CENTRAL PERU at a depth of 123.9 km (77 miles), the quake hit at 02:02:50 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13.6 miles) Northeast of Tingo Maria, Pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck ATACAMA, CHILE at a depth of 64.3 km (40 miles), the quake hit at 00:39:05 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32.2 miles) SSW of Copiapo, Chile No Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck EASTERN XIZANG at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:17:58 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) South of Domartang, China N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck HALMAHERA, INDONESIA at a depth of 70.3 km (43.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:13:52 UTC Monday 6th August 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) ESE of Tobelo, Indone...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoClick on Image To Enlarge I found this image on Facebook, and then found a larger version of it through the TIN EYE search engine. This is from the Urantia Book, a kind of guide to our strange unive...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours agoEconomist John Diamond offers some simulations from a computable general equilibrium model.
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours ago[image: image] It’s fifty years this week that Marilyn Monroe died, aged 36. I’ll bet you didn’t realise, but her passing and the manner of it profoundly moved Ayn Rand—who wrote in the *LA Times* short...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours agoIn the aftermath of the shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, U.S. government officials and U.S. journalists are going by a script that was written for them in advance of the event. The most import...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*It's what they drew up for you, readers*: "Drew Peterson.... the real-life drama inspired a TV movie and attracted national attention." *Related:* Drew Peterson introduces self to would-be jurors Judg...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*Must have lost communications between the web and printed paper*: "iRobot receives $7.7m order from the US Navy" by Chris Reidy | Globe Staff July 17, 2012 Bedford’s iRobot Corp. said Tuesday that ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoTucson schools banned books: Just what was so provocative, so dangerous, about Rethinking Columbus? By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- Still delirious from the rele...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 15 hours agoYou have to be crazy to live in an insane world.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Fires rage above Funchal in Madeira, 20 July 2012. AFP / Getty] By BETH GARDINER 21 July 2012 CLIMATE CHANGE is staring us in the face. The science is clear, and the need to reduce planet-warmin...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 15 hours ago[image: image] Whatever your view of arch supply-side economist Art Laffer—inventor of the Laffer Curve, and infamous as one of Peter Schiff’s adversaries in the months before the big crash who bonehead...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 15 hours agoAllGov Noel Brinkerhoff Chabad Rabbi Levi Shemtov with Barack Obama While nothing in its policy guidelines say it’s supposed to be this way, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has distributed the va...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago"Sirius.neverendinglight.com filmmaker Arm Kaleka's father was killed at the Sikh Temple. Our heartfelt sympathy and prayers go with him." - *Dr. Steven Greer*.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoPhoto of a Sikh thrusting a sword through the American flag. *Source*.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoNNHRC releases its relocation public hearing report citing human rights violations By Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Navajo human rights off...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoNYT caption: *"A vigil in downtown Milwaukee for the dead and the wounded. 'Everyone here is thinking this is a hate crime for sure,' said Manjit Singh, who goes to a different temple in the region. 'Peopl...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 17 hours agoBeen raining daily since around July 19, except for a few days after the SONA, around July 24-25. So this is almost three weeks of rains and cloudy sky already. But the rains yesterday and today are strong...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 17 hours agoBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) - The United States Army North is preparing for its largest training exercise ever which consist of 9,000 members of the Defense Department's chemical, biological, radiological a...
- posted by rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 17 hours ago------------------------------ A-bomb Drawings by Survivors(原爆の絵ーヒロシマを伝える ) This is the second edition of the pictures drawn by atomic bomb survivors, published by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in ...
- posted by Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 17 hours agoSomehow, Andrew Bolt, Australia’s foremost and loudest racist, has managed to divide the Aboriginal community by giving voice to some Aboriginal people that, for purely political reasons, have chosen also ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 17 hours agoI've got an essay up at Foreign Policy on the state of the climate debate. Here is how it starts: The heady days of early 2009, when advocates for global action on climate change anticipated world lead...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours agoDougJ is home so my guest gig at Balloon Juice is done. Glad it came up when I had time to fully enjoy the community of like minded people. Kind of the opposite of my life at the Detroit News. Not to say t...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 17 hours ago*Plaquemines Parish to declare state of emergency ~WWL*~Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser says he will be declaring a State of Emergency tomorrow, August 7, 2012 at 6:00 a.m. due to a salt wedge...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHarjit Jeji Shergill would not go so far as to say there was an inevitability to the murder of six Sikh worshipers at his local temple, but after years of people venomously calling him "Bin Laden" he fear...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 18 hours ago*Trail Tues Aug 7* By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez After the January 2012 dismantling of Tucson’s Mexican American Studies (MAS) department by TUSD’s governing board, my colleague Norma Gonzalez at MAS-...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 18 hours agoTHE OGALLALA AQUIFER might be the show-stopper for Keystone XL, according to the Washington Post's article "Keystone XL pipeline may threaten aquifer that irrigates much of the central U.S.", part of their s...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 19 hours agoBack in May Robert Kelley touched off a discussion about Journal Citation Reports and impact factor rankings. Journal impact factor provides a textbook study in the consequences of a well-institutionalized...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago*NFL still playing games with Vilma situation ~WhoDatWarriors* *Saints Bountygate Litigation and The Death of Reason ~Steph Stradley*
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*Another single shooter, huh? * "Six killed in shooting at Sikh temple in Wisc." by Dinesh Ramde and Todd Richmond | Associated Press, August 05, 2012 OAK CREEK, Wis. — A *gunman* opened fire Sunday and...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoInvestigators say it will take a few days to determine if the fire that destroyed a southwest Missouri mosque was arson. Imam Lahmuddin holds his hands over his face after a fire destroyed the Islamic So...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours ago
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 19 hours agoBack in the days of Capital Health… Very little may be exactly as illustrated. Below: Dr. Chris Eagle, Alllaudin Merali, Fred Horne, Sheila Weatherill. Alberta Health Services CEO Dr. Chris Eagle announced...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 20 hours ago*Pat Robertson WISHES* *... or is he hinting that Zionists are masterminding the hideous bloodshed in North America?* *Contributor: YYC* Latest U.S. mass shooting gunman IDed as army man, white supremaci...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 20 hours agoJames Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Recently, Tennessee state Rep. Kelly Keisling (R-Byrdstown) sent out an email from his state email account to his constituents with a concern that Obama and t...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 20 hours agoNice to see that Australians, or some Australians at least, have retained a sense of humour over their athletes unexpectedly poor gold medal haul. Sick of seeing Australia so far down the medal table, i...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoOver the weekend I was driving to meet a friend for dinner when a report came on NPR about America's poverty-stricken-- something like 100 million of us-- a group that is basically ignored by politicians...
- posted by rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 20 hours agoHunger Strike Los Alamos 2012 - YouTube Why do we still have nuclear weapons on high alert nearly 25 years after the end of the Cold War? Why are Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and seven other f...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 20 hours ago------------------------------ *MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012* *Pulitzer-Winning Reporting Duo Don Barlett and James Steele on "The Betrayal of the American Dream" (Part 1) * http://www.democracynow.o...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*I thought the tide had turned.* "Maine Turnpike board agrees on toll hikes" by Clarke Canfield | Associated Press, August 03, 2012 PORTLAND, Maine — During a series of public hearings on the* toll hik...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Vladik (right)* Vladik Shibanov was killed in a car 'accident' on October 20, 2009. As a child, Vladik appeared in the 'naturist' or 'soft-porn' films produced by Azov-Films. Azov-Films' headquarters w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* A thick ash cloud is covering much of the central North Island after Mt Tongariro erupted for the first time in more than a century late last night. * The volcanic alert level for Mt Tongariro has risen f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 21 hours agoSyria and more: It's going long so I will keep my commentary down to a minimum. Do take the time to read it all. * * *First up, Tozz was back and that is some good news out of Syria.* Here is his commentary...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoSummer stalemate continues but lots going on under the surface in preparation for autumn regime changes Posted by Benjamin Fulford August 7, 2012 War and rumors of war continue to be promoted by terr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck HALMAHERA, INDONESIA at a depth of 216.2 km (134.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:55:13 UTC Monday 6th August 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) NNE of Tobelo, Indo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* The killing of a Masonic leader in front a Detroit lodge in broad daylight has left detectives baffled. * Grand Master Jerry Sears was shot once in the neck while he was cleaning outside the building, lo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Standard and Poor's has downgraded 15 of Italy's biggest banks, and cut the ratings of 15 more.* The credit ratings agency said today that Italy's recession could potentially be deeper and more prolonge...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago*Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar was last seen being bombed.* The Saudi leadership has broken its silence. The internal crisis is officially over. All is well in the House of Saud. The partying can cont...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Authorities in Greece are rounding up thousands of suspected illegal immigrants in a large-scale deportation drive to combat what one government official compared to a 'prehistoric invasion'. * Greece h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Two children, aged three and two, have died from apparent heat stroke after being left in a locked car for more than an hour.* Three-year-old Daniel Marise and her two-year-old sister Savannah were foun...
- Oklahoma town completely wiped out by devastating wildfire... but police say ARSON could be to blame
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* While residents of a quiet Oklahoma town sifted through their charred belongings after flames ravaged their community, police say they are investigating if the fire could have been deliberately set.* Th... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* A lawyer shot dead his own sister in the middle of a courtroom because she had 'brought shame' on the family for marrying a man they disapproved of, it has emerged. * In an honour killing that has shocke...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 22 hours ago*Activist Post* Never before has the New World Order been exposed to the degree that Shepard Ambellas and Jason Bermas do in the film *SHADE the Motion Picture*. Once again the elites have something to fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* A crazed man set his girlfriend alight on a chair and left her fighting for her life before going on a city-wide crime spree, police said.* Officers in Lakeland, Florida, said the alarm was raised on Fri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* On the same day NASA makes a historic encounter with Mars, one of Man's earliest rockets is setting it's own truly historic record.* In the last week, Voyager 1, which floated into the heavens in 1977, h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* An Italian newspaper owned by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has caused controversy by printing a front page headline which said 'Fourth Reich' above a picture of German chancellor Angela Merkel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Two friends who went backpacking across Vietnam collapsed and died within days of one another from a mystery poison.* Canadian-born Cathy Huynh, 26, who taught English in South Korea, decided to take a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* TSA screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport lost a woman who reportedly tested positive for explosives on Sunday and only put the airport on lock-down when she boarded a flight to Cleveland, Oh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Chicago is mourning one of its most talented children's surgeons today, after he died while trying to save the lives of two young boys.* Dr Donald Liu, 50, drowned in Lake Michigan as he went to help the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Computerized trading problems aren't unique to the United States apparently. The main stock market in Spain was halted Monday for nearly 5 hours due to a "technical glitch," according to the index operat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Militants killed a driver of a container truck carrying supplies for NATO in Pakistan's tribal region on Monday, a government official told CNN.* Three gunmen in a car opene...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* (CNN) -- American judoka Nicholas Delpopolo has been thrown out of the Olympics after a failed drug test he blamed on inadvertently eating food that had been baked with marijuana.* The 23-year-old has b...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 22 hours agoSent to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 6 Educators are always interested in improving teacher evaluation, and Anne Faigen’s comments (“Evaluating teachers is not so easy,” August 5) are helpful. Her ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours agoPM was only in office since June 2012 - had been planning "defection" for at least as long based on battlefield before "Damascus Volcano" fizzled. *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 6, 2012* - Hailed by the Wes...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 23 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* While a compromised version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was introduced to the Senate in July, the false claims of “. . . foreign governments, criminal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* Before their wedding ceremony begins in rural Afghanistan, a 40-year-old man sits to be photographed with his 11-year-old bride. The girl tells the photographer that she is sad to be engaged because she...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 23 hours agoLunch at the pool yesterday, courtesy of CharrissaI've always known there were exceptional young people doing volunteer work in the challenged countries of the world, but it's been heartening to see so man...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agohttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19155577 Standard Chartered bank 'in $250bn scheme with Iran' Standard Chartered has been accused of undermining US sanctions against Iran Standard Chartered bank i...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoAudio Version Before me now is an old fisherman with a minnow bucket followed by two dark haired women in sunglasses and visors, deeply engrossed in their conversation; all of them waiting for a br...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* Standard Chartered has been accused of leaving the US financial system vulnerable to terrorists, drug kingpins and corrupt regimes by "scheming" with the Iranian government to conduct secret transactions...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoThis image is an absolute eye-opener. We think of Earth as the Blue Planet, literally covered in water - fresh, saltwater or frozen. So, just how much water do we really have to go around? This much:...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoBillionaire Ted Turner is outspoken about the state of our Earth, and he puts his money where his mouth is on a scale that shames many affluent countries. His message is plain, we can no longer ignore ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 23 hours agoNo. No matter how it reads, the righties are not awakening from a bad (rage-inspired) theocrat-centric dream and willing to redo the last 30 years of religious American Talibanism to reclaim their integrit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Oak Creek, Wisconsin (CNN) -- An Army veteran who neighbors say played in a far right punk band was the lone shooter in the rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed six people and wounded four, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Fighter jets scream in an almost vertical dive unleashing bombs and machine gun rounds into the heart of Aleppo. * The noise and the percussion waves from the explosions are sickening. Day and night. He...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* The London-listed Standard Chartered bank has been accused of violating US laws by conducting more than £160bn worth of secret transactions with Iranian entities.* Officials in New York state said a ban...
- posted by What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 1 day agoIn the years 1876-1879 and 1896-1902 between 12.2 and 29.3 million died of famine in India. In the years 1876-1879 and 1896-1900 between 19.5 and 30 million died of famine in China. In the same period, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* The Deputy PM has said he was dropping Lords reform after David Cameron told him Tory MPs were not prepared to support changes.* Nick Clegg said that the Tories had "broken the contract" between the coa...
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