Massachusetts Coastline (NASA, International Space Station, 06/27/11) (Photo credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center)
English: The title page of the first serie of Slavonic Dances with Dvořák's dedication to mr. Wassman Español:Portada de la primera serie de las Danzas Eslavas con la dedicatoria de Dvořák al Sr. Wassman (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
6987 - Message Intercept Base (Photo credit: pasukaru76)
Members of a visit, board, search, and seizure team from USS Anzio intercept a skiff containing a group of suspected pirates (Photo credit: Official U.S. Navy Imagery)
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 59 seconds ago*Seiji Ozawa conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in the first of Dvořák's Slavonic Dances, in C minor, Op. 46, No. 1.* *by Ken* I could swear that we've sampled Dvořák's *Slavonic Dances* in Sunday Classics...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 7 minutes agoKARN William Hoover(WASHINGTON) -- The former Deputy Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has left the agency in the wake of the fallout from the Fast and Furious gun walkin...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matt...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*I didn't win because I never play. * *Looks like you came up a winner though, readers*: "Mass. lottery sales hit a record $4.74b; Instant tickets helped lift total" by Sarah N. Mattero | Globe Corresp...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 hour agoApparently after 10- and 12-hour shifts, not everyone is feeling the long day and many still have plenty of energy to make babies. How else to explain a record number of babies born in the city here last ...
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- No, I really don't care about the Olympics, but I've got this quote I've been wanting to share . . .posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Is Japan's Kohei Uchimura, who was generally conceded to be a shoo-in for Olympic gymnastics' all-around gold, and as it turned out rightly so, "the greatest male gymnast who ever lived," as many people a...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago*The **Neoconservative War Criminals In Our Midst* ------------------------------ August 1, 2012 | Original here The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours agoimage source Stephen Lendman, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Washington bears full responsibility for imposing illegitimate sanctions on Iran. Other countries are pressured to agree. Doing so harms their ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours agoSayer Ji, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The present-day definitions of Osteopenia and Osteoporosis were arbitrarily conceived by the World Health Organizatoin (WHO) in the early 90's and then projecte...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoFrom the YouTube video description: "Psychetruth News Correspondent interviews psychiatrist Dr. Colin Ross about the CIA mind control experiments called MKUltra. These were a series of projects covertly u...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours agoimage source Stephen Lendman, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Since 2008, Western nations have force-fed their people austerity poison. Decline replaces prosperity. Millions suffer. Living standards deterio...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoWhat is happening at the Fukushima plant? The Tepco webcam has been moved and is now focused on the plant from a different angle. I've been watching from the new view all day. What I've seen has been so...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoVoltaire Network: *"Russia blames US for Annan resignation as envoy for Syria crisis."* Bloomberg: *"UN’s Syria Envoy Kofi Annan Resigns as Fighting Escalates."* It seems the current of history is with th...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 4 hours agoGlobal Research Prof. James F. Tracy How informed are we with Amy Goodman's 25 million dollar media machine "Democracy Now"? Look at Syria, look at 9/11...Since the early 2000s US-based "left-progressive"...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours agoI'm late in offering up a hearty round of applause for Harry Reid's showdown with Slippery Mitt over his tax returns. TBogg's tribute to Honeybadger Harry, in its full delicious snarkery, has the backstory...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:32:55 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) NNW fro...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours ago*Stumbled across this-* “ It was also reported on July 29 that the United States government re-opened its investigation against Prince Bandar, regarding allegations that he received bribes from BAE System...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 5 hours agoBecause it's too fucking hot to think for more than 140 characters at a time. During the memorial video, ask, "Yeah but where's the home movie we took during that weekend on Fire Island?" #*ThingsNotToDoD...
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- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 5 hours agoSomewhat Reasonable Katie Brunk In the United States, every citizen is called to be a scientist of sorts, testing out the hypothesis that a constitutional democracy can survive as a viable government. A...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 5 hours agoSalem News *The Qataris and Saudis give financial support to the ‘rebels’ for weapons, payments to fighters and mercenaries, and logistical oversight of attacks on Syria.* [image: Map of Syria] Special ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*Quarantine restrictions are in place at two Hunter disability and aged care facilities after three people are suspected of dying from a strain of flu.* The deaths have prompted NSW opposition health spo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*GlaxoSmithKline [NYSE: GSK] announced today it has begun shipping the first lots of 2012-2013 FluLaval® (Influenza virus vaccine) and Fluarix® (Influenza Virus Vaccine) to CDC distribution centers and U.S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*(CNN) -- Health officials have seen an uptick in cases of a new strain of swine flu in humans.* According to the latest flu report published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 16 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*QUEBEC — An elderly woman has died from Legionnaires’ disease during a Quebec City outbreak that has caused 14 other cases. * Authorities suspect the cause might be the air-conditioning system in a large...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*Image Credit: Steve Sbraccia for NBC-17 RALEIGH, N.C. -- A beaver recently attacked two people at Falls Lake, Wake County officials said. As a result, the pair are being treated for rabies.* "We had a b...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 6 hours agohttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/feds-gold-being-audited-us-treasury The Fed's Gold Is Being Audited... By The US Treasury Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/02/2012 21:25 -0400 When we started re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*A BUSY supermarket, doctor’s surgery and an industrial estate all had to be evacuated following a major gas leak in Musselburgh.* Tesco at Mall Avenue, Musselburgh Primary Care Centre and Inveresk Indus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*GORKHA: An outbreak of dysentery in the remotest and northmost VDC of Gorkha has claimed at least eight lives in the past two weeks. As many as 50 people have contracted the disease and condition of 21 i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCINCINNATI (AP) — Health officials investigating illnesses linked to a southwest Ohio county fair confirmed a strain of swine flu in nine cases Thursday and said it matches the virus that infected several ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* Security camera footage from a pizza restaurant in Louisiana in the U.S. purports to show the existence of ghosts. Lori Evans, an employee of Stocky’s Pizza in Haughton, Louisiana, discovered that object...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMK Zevulun Orlev of the Jewish Home party has called for massive reforms, including new Basic Laws, in order to establish a Third Temple in Jerusalem. In an article published in advance of the fast of Tis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe US has confirmed it will resist efforts by China, Russia and their allies to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. The confirmation came in a statement issued by the US Department o...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 6 hours agoThrough filing of a FOIA request, the Education Law Center in Newark has obtained the Broad Plan for privatizing schools in New Jersey where least resistance will be offered--poor schools. The plan is bei...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 8.3.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said to his top generals, “We’ll be at war within weeks.” The quote and story comes from D...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*A body found in a lock-up garage in New Malden, southwest London, has been formally identified as missing oil executive Carole Waugh. * Police have also confirmed that a post-mortem examination found that...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*“Working hard to do more with less.”* *When the state is allegedly outperforming the nation economically?* "State OK’s $31m in tax breaks" by Todd Wallack | Globe Staff, June 27, 2012 A state economic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck ATACAMA, CHILE at a depth of 61.7 km (38.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:48:02 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 174 km (108 miles) NNE from Copiapo, Chile No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINABOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:57:26 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) S...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Government Is Shrinking?"* by Jeffrey Tucker "In today’s political climate, the more implausible the claim, the more likely it is to stick. One that seems to be sticking now is that government today i...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Bernie Sanders- ranked "most influential politician on Twitter"* Back last September we ran a Twitter Directory of congresscritters and now I follow a whole bunch of 'em. And some follow me. I woke up yes...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours agoAndrew Sullivan's blog has been running a series of reader reactions on the subject of the Olympics and nationalism. A recent entry: Gabby Douglas' gold medal is being hailed all over the place as a first...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 7 hours agoOne of the best talks I attended at this year's Marxism Conference was given by my friend Pam Johnson. I know little about Canadian labour history; my knowledge of labour struggles is mostly about the US. ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*They are just calling it new and using a different name. That oughta fool ya'!* "Bill aims to curb health spending in Massachusetts; Allowable increases would be tied to growth of economy" by Liz Kowalcz...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours agoThe Saudi leadership has still not acknowledged *unofficial reports* that Prince Bandar bin Sultan was assassinated in a bomb blast last month. Do they seriously think this is a smart strategy? Why not ki...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 7 hours ago[image: Conservative Party of Canada lawyer Arthur Hamilton, seen here in a file photo from 2010, says his party objects to the introduction of new evidence from Elections Canada in the robocalls case.] P...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours agoCharles Hill has a storied and impressive career, successful books to his name, and a prestigious position at Yale University. He's also repeating historical tripe: *"The way the world through almost all...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*I suppose I have failed you, dear readers; however, the blog was always designed to show you what my flagship was telling me about you and what it was telling you about us.* "News from the Jews I follo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*And back again*: "Ex-headmaster’s staff say problems were known" by James Vaznis and Andrea Estes | Globe Staff, August 02, 2012 Rodney Peterson, the Boston school headmaster allowed to keep his job af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF SOUTHERN PERU at a depth of 84 km (52.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:03:16 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (73 miles) WNW of from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the ALASKA PENINSULA at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:02:56 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) SSW of from Ugashik, Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Hong Kong (CNN) -- Two tropical cyclones have made landfall in eastern China, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from coastal areas as the Philippines and Taiwan assess the damage...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Kagadi, Uganda (CNN) -- One of five prisoners receiving treatment for a suspected case of Ebola virus in Uganda escaped overnight Friday from the hospital at the center of the outbreak, a health official ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck NORTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 1.9 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:30:01 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) West from Anderson Spring...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAug 3 - Expect trading glitches to be the new normal says TABB Group Partner Alexander Tabb.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Thomson Reuters said the blogging platform of the Reuters News website was compromised on Friday and a false posting purporting to carry an interview with a Syrian rebel leader was illegally po...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 9 hours agoStandards lead to more creativity? Standards are popular with educators? Why e-learning industry is enthusiastic about the standards. Comments on a NY Times article: Common Core Standards Boon to E-Learni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy inched closer on Friday to asking for an EU bailout for his country, but said he needed first to know what conditions would be attached and what form the ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 9 hours agoSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) recently revealed that a former Bain Capital investor informed him that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney did not pay any taxes whatsoever for a 10 yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Philadelphia police have finally caught a teen who they believe has tried to mug numerous people with a gun in broad daylight.* The 13-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday morning at a deli in Southwest ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*The 16-year-old boy who admitted to Wisconsin police that he was the one to shoot his young neighbor with an arrow is now due to be tried as an adult. * The local circuit court ruled Wednesday that the b...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago*Sean Payton allowed to attend Hall of Fame ceremony ~Brian McIntyre *
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*From the street, the two decomposing bodies were nearly invisible, concealed in an overgrown lot alongside worn-out car tires and a mouldy sofa. The teenagers had been shot, stripped to their underwear a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* A farmer angry over a recent arrest surprised police in Vermont on Thursday by driving his tractor over seven parked police cars before driving away.* Roger Pion, 34, had been arrested last month for re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*A kidney dialysis worker accused of asking his patients for painkillers is behind bars after allegedly pouring bleach into the clinic’s dialysis machines.* Donald Foster III, 49, who worked at the Frese...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoSpecial "where's the irresponsible press?" edition. One could interpret this one as congratulating the press. 1. I have to say that I'm disappointed in the failure of the irresponsible press to press hard...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*A pedophile who was once on America's Most Wanted was finally caught this week and convicted of molesting his quadriplegic stepson.* George Ross Wilcox, from Calgary, was arrested in a shopping mall in S...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 10 hours agoChild sexual abuse in the world of Romney's top LDS donors Old Man Fight: Cheney vs McCain Should the tolerant tolerate intolerance? Was this a major blow to the Saudis? The black ops are being exposed, an...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoA TRF reader expressed the following sentiment: I would have liked to see the gauge symmetries of standard model emerging purely from the 10-dim geometry. In other words, he would have liked if string t...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 10 hours ago"Champagne Socialists" or "Limousine Liberals" are political epithets that used to mean people who advocated for policies that they had no intention or danger of having to follow themselves. Today though, ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours ago*SaLuSa, August 3, 2012* *As Channeled by Mike Quinsey* There are as usual mixed messages going around, but they are of a far more positive nature and it is in those you that you should place your c...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoThis is the most amusing thing I've seen all morning. "Adult" movie star Jenna Jameson endorsed Romney. “I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office,” Jameson said while sipping champag...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 10 hours ago* * *"Since the annual budget, released in March, projected only a razor-thin $14.8 million surplus on a summary financial basis, there can be no doubt that Saskatchewan has a deficit and growing debt. [....
- Megabus suffers bursts tyre sending it smashing into bridge on Highway, one is killed and 48 injuredposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*A 25-year-old woman was killed after a packed double-decker Megabus blew a tyre and slammed head-on into a concrete bridge support pillar on an Illinois interstate yesterday.* Indian native, Aditi Avhad...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 10 hours agoJan Delhey and Christian Kroll of Jacobs University Bremen have a new paper out (here in PDF) with the Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) in which the...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours ago*Global Research* *Stephen Lendman* * * *Since 2008, Western nations have force-fed their people austerity poison. Decline replaces prosperity. Millions suffer. Living standards deteriorate. Societies bec...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoIn Central Florida, two Republican incumbents, teabagger Sandy Adams and Establishment shill John Mica, have been thrown into the same district, FL-07, in the Orlando area. In 2008, McCain won Adams' old...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ *August 1, 2012 at 16:19:03* Promoted to Headline (H3) on 8/1/12: *Permalink* ** Where is Prince Bandar? *By **Pepe Escobar (about the author)* opednews.com...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Last month, President Obama placed more stringent sanctions on Iran’s oil sales and financial transactions. And in the next breath, he claimed that because ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours agoTarpley PressTV has conducted an interview with author and historian Webster Griffin Tarpley from Washington to further discuss the issue. What follows is a rough transcription of the interview. *Pre...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours agoJennifer Lynch *EFF* Recently-released documents show that the FBI has been working since late 2011 with four states—Michigan, Hawaii, Maryland, and possibly Oregon—to ramp up the Next Generation Identif...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*A homeless man from San Francisco has been arrested on multiple drug and weapons charges after police said they found a massive cache of guns and ammunition in his car. * Robert Johns, 37, was taken int...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the ALASKA PENINSULA at a depth of 26.7 km (16.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:58:05 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) SSW of from Ugashik, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*The death toll from Typhoon Saola rose on Friday to 44 in the Philippines and Taiwan as storms and Typhoon Damrey made landfall in China, where two died and about 770,000 were evacuated.* The Philippine...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours agoCNN Annalyn Censky As a result, the labor force is now at its smallest size since the 1980s when compared to the broader working age population. "We've been getting some job growth and it's been signi...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours ago*Activist Post* Shawn Henry, 24-year veteran of the FBI's cyber security division, stated that he is surprised a massive cyber attack hasn't happened yet, and feels it is "very very likely" that one is...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoStephen Greer MD *I received this in my email today from Sheldan Nidle's wife Colleen -AK* A big thank you to everyone who has supported us at: Sirius.Neverendinglight.com ! Because of your inc...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours ago*Youtube* Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most.
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- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours ago*Youtube - RT* Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours agoAndre Evans *Activist Post* With the overt disclosure of the 2045 program, a scientific advancement process intended to ultimately lead to ‘immortality’ via an artificial body and mind, a startlingly c...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours agoMadison Ruppert, *Contributor* *Activist Post* On August 1, 2012 a federal appeals court ordered the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to clarify why they have yet to comply with a now year-...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago*FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2012* *To let this man quiz you, click this:* Last night, Chris Matthews attempted to discuss Mitt Romney’s tax proposal. Almost surely, it’s the craziest proposal in modern campaign h...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours agoA Lonely Soul *In the stillness See the wonder of God’s art In the silence Feel Christ’s presence In the sunlight Watch the Holy Spirit dance In the darkness Find faith’s essence.* *Jane M. MacKichan* ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoJonathan Martin in the outlet that makes CNN look like The Monkey Cage. The South, like the rest of the country, is a complicated place. It’s at once the heart of the Obama resistance but also a region tha...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours agoOlympic fever doesn't seem to be dying anytime soon at our house. In fact, the girls have spent the last week running around in gymnastic leotards, with medals around their necks. They love the Olympics so...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Abandoned lots, alleys and neglected parks in Detroit used to be a favorite destination for discarded tires and trash. But over in 2012 they have become dumping grounds for the dead. Carlos Osori...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she hopes drones will soon be able to see through jungle cover so they can locate warlord Joseph Kony.* Clinton made the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Turkey's state-run television says Kurdish rebels have killed one soldier and wounded 10 others in an attack in the country's southeast.* TRT says on Friday that the rebels attacked a military outpost nea...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 12 hours agoMike Barrett *Activist Post* Some excitingly call it the ‘beginning of an era in digital medicine,’ while others view it as a technological movement toward absolute lunacy – despite the positive-soundi...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago*The Push For Nuclear Power in Space By Karl Grossman, Nation of Change 03 August 12* *[Excerpted] W**orld Nuclear News, *the information arm of the World Nuclear Association which seeks to boost the use ...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 12 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Based on a new mathematical reconfiguration of the false claims that CO2 is affecting the earth’s temperature, a call for a “carbon deinvestment campaign” h...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoOf course it's irresponsible for an elected official -- and not just any elected official, but a high ranking one, the Senate Majority Leader -- to make reckless, rumor-based allegations against a presiden...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 12 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The US agenda of proxy wars and fake revolutions in Syria are pointed to one end: to eliminate opposition forces who have any potential of disrupting the gl...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 12 hours ago*Natural News* Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. ...
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- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoI have long wondered why most Americans, and also Canadians, have not long awakened to the reality that we live in criminal states controlled by evil interest groups who care not about the welfare of the c...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 12 hours ago*Youtube* Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2012* *Part 4—Ignoring the craziest plan:* Mitt Romney has proposed the craziest plan in modern campaign history. In a rational country, that might seem like news. You don’t live in tha...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 13 hours agoAnthony Gucciardi *Activist Post* McDonald’s restaurants are the very epitome of poor health, with their McNuggets most notably containing chemicals used in breast implants and silly putty. So why have...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago(My emphasis throughout) * * *From ThinkProgress: * Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) told the Voice of Christian Youth America that God controls the climate, not humans. Promoting his book The Greatest Hoax: How...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*MANILA — The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Saola has risen to 37 and is expected to go even higher as new rains worsened flooding, the government said on Friday.* Monsoon rains continued to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck EAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 77.9 km (48.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:42:17 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 353 km (219 miles) No...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 13 hours agoThe trial for the individual issuing death threats (against me) regarding Tucson's Mexican American Studies department is set to go to trial Aug 7 in Tucson's Justice Court. An Aug 2 press conference reg...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 13 hours agoMichael Snyder, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Do you want to know why it seems like good jobs are very rare in the United States today? It is because good jobs *are*very rare in the United States today...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 13 hours agoThe young woman walks this dirt road twice a day, 90 minutes each way. She carries her nine-month-old baby in her arms while her two other children - seven and four - follow behind. Seven days a week, they...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 13 hours agoMadison Ruppert, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The Office of Naval Research – the same entity which runs the Naval Research Laboratory, developers of the unbelievable Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Rob...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoFor this article, I want to cover more reports on what is really happening right now in Syria. Readers, we must not accept anything that our governments and media are saying about Syria, because it is no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNasa's Curiosity rover is going to the most scientifically exciting place on Mars yet visited: Gale Crater. Early on Monday morning, Nasa's Curiosity rover will attempt a hazardous landing on the Martian...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoThe third episode of the Duck of Minerva Podcast just went live. This one is longish. Adam Elkus (and numerous other places, e.g.) and Kelsey D. Atherton talk about their group blog devoted to the intersec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*A major US stock brokerage is close to collapse after an IT meltdown caused it to lose 75% of its share value.* Knight Capital made a trading loss of $440m (£283m) after the technology glitch affected t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Oklahoma senator Jim Inhofe, a prominent climate sceptic, told the Senate's environment and public works committee: 'The global warming movement has collapsed', 1 August 2012. Axel Schmidt / AFP ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago*New Orleans Saints keep the faith in wake of penalties ~Sam Farmer, L.A. Times* *Big Willie Style ~moosedenied* *~William Layton Roaf, bitches. For the second time in three years, it's gonna be one hell ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoChinese border guards help a tourist trapped near the beach in Taizhou, Zhejiany province, China. Flood water pours into a caved-in area in Songchon county. Source
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: The only catch these days at the Salton Sea, a California lake that is shrinking and growing saltier each year, is tilapia. Monica Almeida / The New York Times] By JENNIFER MEDINA 29 July 2012 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 50.1 km (31.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:19:36 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) ENE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:01:07 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 1260 km (782 miles) North of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS at a depth of 14.1 km (8.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:58 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) Southwest of Lata, S...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 14 hours agoThe most common question I have been asked lately is, "Why the hell did you agree to become department chairman?" It is a bullet I have been dodging for some years, but I finally capitulated when the dean...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Prime Minister Harper speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons. The Harper administration has silenced government scientists by forbidding them to speak with press. Chris Wattie / RE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck EAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:46:39 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 387 km (240 miles) No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA at a depth of 64.6 km (40.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:45:45 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 66.5 km (41.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:21:21 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) NNW of Otsuchi, Japan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck WESTERN TURKEY at a depth of 11.9 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:18:22 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) ESE of Golmarmara, Turkey No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 31.4 km (19.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:00:44 UTC Friday 3rd August 2012 The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) South...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoWatch video about project http://www.indiegogo.com/thislandwasyourland By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Seattle filmmaker Rebecca Rodriguez will be walking from Alberta to T...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Emergency repairs on a highway that buckled in triple-digit temperatures in June 2012 near Cary, N.C. Travis Long / The News & Observer via Associated Press] By MATTHEW L. WALD and JOHN SCHWARTZ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*The parents of schoolgirl Shafilea Ahmed have been jailed for life for the murder of their daughter in an apparent "honour killing".* Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana, 49, suffocated Shafilea, 17...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoEVEN PLANTS ARE GETTING TOUGHER these days, thanks to Monsanto and others in the genetic modification business, and this is causing problems for farmers who grow the mutants. According to Chris Taylor at AUT...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Tony Bennett, 86. The good stuff: 1. I'm not sure if there's much point to keep mentioning that Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up, but for whatever it's worth, Mitt Romney's tax pl...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours agoMichael Snyder, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Are you ready to have a microchip implanted into your brain? That might not sound very appealing to you at this point, but this is exactly what the big pha...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThis week Blue America is teaming up to help Alan Grayson raise some money for his campaign in the Orlando area. He has a newly redrawn district (FL-09) that would have to be called "very, very blue." Und...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago*Award-winning actress, author, activist, and presidential candidate Roseanne Barr will join weather experts, researchers, journalists and filmmakers to discuss Geo-Engineering based Weather Modification P...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoMichael Harris reminds his readers that the RCMP has been a troubled organization for a very long time: There were all those sled dogs they slaughtered; there was that dynamite they stole and tried to ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago- I think it highly unlikely that I will ever see anything geekier in my entire life (via PM). - Former MSFS student Kristina Wong reports on Secretary Clinton's trip to Africa. - USIP h...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoI bet you don't think about the minimum wage very much, unless you're one of the folks trying to live on it. There's a move afoot to raise the minimum wage, and you should support it. It's in everyone's be...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours agoDees Illustration Peter A. Kirby, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Facts lead me to speculate that the chemtrails so often seen in our skies are sprayed for financial gain. Chemtrails are admittedly sprayed ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoIn an interview with CBC News Network's*Power & Politics*, Tom Flanagan, a professor at the University of Calgary and former adviser to Harper said Kenney's office "made a mistake" by filing a formal com...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 16 hours agoGiven last week's review of Redshirts, I thought I would provide this Comic-con video (shaky, NSFW graphic in the background) that helps to illustrate the humor behind Scalzi's book. It is a skit written...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago'Palestinian Media Watch has found that the PA teaches an ideology of virulent hatred of Jews and Israel that mandates the killing of Jews solely because they are Jews. The murder of Jews is presented no...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 17 hours agoTaipei Times editorializes on the Strawberry Generation: For those who have long complained about the seemingly apathetic Taiwanese youth on matters of politics, the past two weeks must have had elements o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*When 17-year-old John Clark jumped into the Pacific Ocean to save a drowning boy from certain death, he wasn't thinking about himself, or the hospital bill that would follow the daring rescue.* The Wash...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 18 hours agoThe Washington Post hosts an article this week detailing Pentagon planning to fight China. It's a glimpse of the war planning process and from that perspective is informative. However, despite its veneer o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Two men and an 82-year-old nun allegedly broke into the U.S. government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium, government officials said Thursday. * The Oak Ridge, Te...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*They were 99.999 per cent sure they had found the "the God particle" last month. Now they are even more certain. * New results coming from the Large Hadron Collider suggest that the hunt for the Higgs Bo...
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