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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago* Amy Winehouse's ex-husband is fighting for his life after collapsing following an apparent drink and drug binge, his girlfriend has revealed.* Blake Fielder-Civil, 30, was found choking in bed by partner...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes ago* BEIJING, Aug 9 (Reuters) - China's annual consumer inflation fell to a 30-month low in July, suggesting that the central bank has scope to ease policy further after rate cuts in June and July to keep the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes ago* A man is due to appear in court charged with the murder of a young mother of three who was stabbed to death in a taxi.* Junior Saleem Oakes, 28, is accused of attacking Natasha Trevis in the Northfield ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago* Global Jihad in Egyptian peninsula receiving support from Salafi-linked terrorists abroad, senior Israeli official reveals. * Global jihad terrorists in Sinai receive financial and logistical support fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago* BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rebel fighters in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, said Wednesday that government forces had opened a ground assault, forcing them to pull back from parts of the city because their ammunit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago* Four years after the global financial crisis, the British economy remains flat on its back, the Bank of England confirmed yesterday. The Bank also warned that George Osborne's new scheme to kickstart len...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoHefei, China (CNN) -- The murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of a recently deposed top official in the Chinese Communist Party, has begun in the eastern China city of Hefei, local officials said Thursday....
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 minutes ago*The DCCC is on board with that* Earlier today the DCCC announced their latest batch of crappy Red-to-Blue candidates-- all mediocre to horrible except progressives David Gill (IL-13) and Carol Shea-Porte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS at a depth of 172 km (106.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:20:45 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.9 miles) North of Lata, So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago* Dozens of officers have joined the hunt for Tia Sharp as fears mount over the whereabouts of the schoolgirl nearly a week after she went missing.* Tia has not been seen since last Friday when she disappe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago* Members of a Russian sect found living in an underground bunker with some 20 children, many of whom have never seen the sun, have been charged with child abuse.* Authorities said the Islamist cult had e...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 31 minutes agoThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that "India's Wilting Crops Tarnish Gold" Aug 7, 2012, C4 Majia Here: The article discusses the implications for the gold market. I believe the gold market is subject...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the REVILLA GIGEDO ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:41 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 241 km (149 miles) Northeas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 58.7 km (36.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:55:13 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) SSE of Pagar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 20.1 km (12.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:42:11 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 46 minutes agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 445 km (275.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:54:01 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 737 km (245.9 miles) Sou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:10:10 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35.3 miles) Southeast of Severo-ku...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck OFF THE COAST OF OREGON at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:45:33 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 363 km (225 miles) West of Waldport...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes agoIRS supervisors ignored employees who tried to warn agency higher-ups of fraud in a program designed to collect taxes from immigrants, resulting in the agency paying out potentially bogus refunds. The Tr...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 49 minutes agoThere is a war on the white male and the black male. Tupac spoke about the abuse of black communities and black males by the U.S. government in his songs. Poor white communities are also being abused and d...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 55 minutes agoAs the lone social scientist in a room of lawyers, philosophers and technicians last week, I was struck by a couple of things. One was the disconnect between descriptive and normative ethics, or rather q...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour agoThe Titanic will *never* sink… Hand me that fork. There’s something stuck in this outlet… I saw this in a movie once… Don’t worry, I’ve done this *thousands* of times before… Hold my beer a second and...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoJoe South, “Games People Play” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGyENr3_44
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 hour agoAugust Newsletter, 2012 *Your money power* *Europe/UK – Fall Tour Update* Your Money Power The vast majority of people remain unaware of it, but the fact is, we have in our own hands, right now, the...
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- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoDaily Bell *Christy is a data maven. He spends "tedious" weeks and months examining surface observations as well as weather balloon and satellite measurements to build "datasets from scratch to advance ou...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoImmigrants lag behind native-born Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who have been in the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, which ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 2 hours agoAfter another restful night in The Trailer Southern Man finished clearing out the front part of The Barn and scraped and swept and scraped and swept and scraped and swept some more and now the concrete flo...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 2 hours agoPiles of stuff. Part of our lives, found everywhere in Taiwan, like this pile of TVs on its way to the recycling center. A pile of wood outside Checheng. Straw, man. A house, reduced to rubble. The hil...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] & the Serpent [Serpens] ..." begins the description of the 5th entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous catalog of nebulae and sta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously use...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Plus: A slick cartoon while we await some Good Christian outrage over the Sikh temple shooting (including CARTOON UPDATES)* *"I just feel that Chick-fil-A is just part of my gay identity. I was actually...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Sail On! Sail On! And On!"* by Chet Raymo "Almost as incredible as the safe landing of Curiosity on Mars was the image of the craft parachuting to the surface by the Mars-orbiting HiRISE satellite: ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago“We need to attach a reason to our emotional states. At the high end of the emotional spectrum, we believe that true joy is an effect rather than a cause. Because of this deep-seated belief, we spend m...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoAhmet Sik is a Turkish journalist who has written about the deep state in Turkey as well as the cultish Gülen movement. The head of the movement is *Fethullah Gülen*, a Turkish Islamic leader who has lived...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoThis story is a bit dated, but many people may have missed it. You may recall that a few months back, Conrad Black, a convicted felon who renounced his Canadian citizenship, received a temporary resident p...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 4 hours agoGang members, Adam Blackwell, in El Salvador jail elsalvador.com Canadians don't make the papers in Honduras very often. But last week, Adam Blackwell got a full page in El Tiempo when he showed up to...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"Beware the Alterverse of Willful Ignorance"* by Zen Gardner "Let’s face it. This isn’t reality. It’s a fleeting world of voluntary make believe only adopted by self-numbing drones too afraid to ev...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 4 hours agoSee *here* for why you should fear (and despise) the Food and Drug Administration. ------------------------------ *Why doctors are more dangerous than guns - Health Ranger investigation* http://youtu.be/J...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours agoThedford, Nebraska, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 5 hours agoAlexander Higgins Blog Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner is forced to admit under oath that he did NOT inform the DOJ even though he was aware of specific cases of fraud. Decent clip. More from Geithner’...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago“Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that- it's astonishing. These numbers ar...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago[image: image] Usain Bolt blitzed the 100m final again, and with a runaway win in his heat of the 200m (well, *jog *away. given how he crossed the finishing line) he’s now bidding for the rare 100/200 O...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 5 hours ago*Global Research* Felicity Arbuthnot* * *Amnesty International has released satellite pictures of "craters" in Syria, citing : "an increased use of heavy weaponry, including near residential areas".* ** ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 5 hours agoDiscerningKate Kate Johnston On July 1st 2012, Australia joined nations around the world in their move towards a carbon economy through the implementation of a Carbon Tax, which will become an Emissions...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoJust a couple for you today. Over at Plum Line, I wrote about the latest in the War on Voting, which is actually a golden oldie in the war on voting: claims that the Minnesota Senate race in 2008 was stole...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours agoA psychoactive political journey: Smoke Signals from marijuana maven Martin Lee By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / August 8, 2012 [Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Sc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Gerald Celente:* * “I Have That Feeling” It’s 9-11 All Over Again"* By Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul "In back-to-back interviews on the Gary Null Show and the Tommy Schnurmacher Show, Gerald Cel...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 6 hours agoSyria Captures Turkish and Saudi Officers Commanding Death Squads; Washington Post Sees Saudi Arabia on the Brink as Qatif Demonstrations Grow. Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV - Tarpley.net August 9, 2012
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours ago*R. v. Gordon*, 2012 ONCA 533 is a useful source for the principle that the calculation of 11 (b) delay runs to the *end and not the start of trial*: Section 11(b) of the Charter [1] The trial judge m...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours ago
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 6 hours agoMadison Ruppert, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Lately there has been a surprising amount of news dealing with technology allowing people to see through walls, clothes, skin, and just about everything e...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoI am not 100% but in tonight's 10pm BBC 1 NEWS when referring to Egypt seeking the militants who killed 16 of Egyptian army, did the word terrorists appear? If so I suppose it's official BBC policy tha...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 6 hours agoIn a forest of mics: Brady Coleman on Rag Radio at the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, Friday, July 17, 2012. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog. Inset photos below: Brady Coleman and Jim Simons. Photos by...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA shocking billboard in Las Vegas adorned with the words “dying for work” and a mannequin dangling from a noose will be removed after motorists thought the dummy was a real person. Nevada Highway Patrol T...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago"The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal means-tested welfare programs," the Senate Budget Committee notes. However, the committee states, the figures used in the chart d...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours agoHave you seen this *image*? The caption says, "Israel hasn't won any Olympic medals, but word on the street is that they're going to steal a few & say the medals were given to them by God." This is absolu...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 6 hours agoDees Illustration Mike Barrett *Activist Post* High-fructose corn syrup, an extremely cheap, processed, and easily produced alternative to sugar, has been deemed ‘safe’ by the Food and Drug Administrati...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 7 hours agoAnthony Freda Art Paul Craig Roberts, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The bumper sticker on the beat-up pickup truck read: “Friends don’t let friends vote Democrat.” The driver was obviously not affluent. Y...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWe need you to become a monthly subscriber to the Coming Crisis (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your support, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researc...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago"Romneyhood" is easy to understand-- a kind of bizarro world Robin Hood, stealing from the poor to give to the rich. That's exactly what his economic agenda boils down to. It is, in essence what Paul Rya...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 7 hours agoBoycott & disassociate yourself from them - their legitimacy and prominence is granted to, and capable of being stripped by, we the people. *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 8, 2012* - I recently received an ...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours agoIt appears as if the rebels have withdrawn from Aleppo, Syria. Or parts of it? It’s hard to tell. Syrian government said they had retaken Saladin but the terrorists have said they launched a counter offens...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoTwo in a row on the same subject? Yup. Today's is to Mike Konczal for ripping apart another part of Team Romney's defense of Romney's economic thingy(plan? show me numbers, or at least some sort of details)...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 7 hours agoYes! I've finally got the time to talk in detail about the pressing political-economic issues of today. Or something. Whatever. Actually, I'll just be snotty. That's all an unhinged moonbat leftist such ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours agoTeam Rmoney is apparently hellbent on convincing me they're trying to throw the Mittster's nomination away. After months of carefully avoiding any mention of Romney's signature achievement as governor of M...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoDees Illustration Michael Snyder, *Contributor* *Activist Post* How in the world is someone supposed to actually prepare for an economic collapse? What should you do with your money? How can you make sure...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours ago
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoHolly Deyo, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Stan and I are Second Amendment proponents. Full stop. If people choose not to avail themselves of this right and find themselves in a bloody knot, then likely...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Country music star Randy Travis has been charged with driving while intoxicated after being found naked at the scene of a car crash*. The 53-year-old, regarded as one of the biggest names in US country m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago** (CNN) -- Russian authorities were stepping up security after a threat of violence at Madonna concerts this week, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow warned. "The U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg has rec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- Millions of people in the Philippines suffered further torrential rains Wednesday, as deadly floods claimed several more lives and kept many people from returning to their de...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoJames Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* * *A solicitation placed today at the Government marketplace shows that the Department of Homeland Security, via the Transportation Safety Administration has r...
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- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours agoHow does a top official of a powerful state end rumours of his death? Easy. Show your face in public and talk to the press. Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar, who has been *reported dead* by a couple of news...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (Reuters) - Standard Chartered won some help from Britain's central bank governor on Wednesday in its fightback against a U.S. regulator's allegations that it hid $250 billion of sanctions-busting transa...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.” However, right now we are under a s...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck the GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA at a depth of 6.7 km (4.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:22:13 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* Belgium has halted one of its seven nuclear reactors on suspicion that one of its components might be cracked, the country's atomic power regulator said Wednesday.* "We have found anomalies," said Karin...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agoNHK: Hereditary effects of radiation to be studied http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120808_23.html [Excerpted] Children born to South Korean survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Na...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours agoI actually appreciate it when some jackass CEO makes dumb threats like raising the price of his pizza a few cents if Obamacare isn't repealed. It helps me to figure out which chain restaurant I'm going to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(CNN) -- A medical emergency was under way Wednesday at the largest research station in Antarctica, the hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Someone needs to be evacuated from McMurdo Station in the dead of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*The Centre for Environmental Impact Analysis (CEIA), an environmental integrity non-governmental organisation, said the 3,000 fishes that were discovered dead in a dam at Newmont Gold Ghana Limited (NGGL)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Two people were killed and 15 injured in a fire that engulfed an apartment building in the Denver suburb of Aurora, forcing some residents to jump from the four-story building as neig...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago*Could The War On Syria Create Regime Change in Ankara?* *Source: Moon of Alabama* *Wednesday, August 8, 2012* The fight over Aleppo is waging on with advantages on the Syrian government side. The Syrian a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago, researchers say.* The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans co-existed in Africa. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* Some members of the eurozone may have to leave the bloc as the debt crisis continues, according to one of the architects of the euro. * "Everything speaks in favour of saving the euro area," said Otmar Is...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours agoR. v. Jiwa, 2012 ONCA 532 is a strong case dealing with sentencing where a peace officer is killed: [42] In my view, the sentencing judge committed no error in treating denunciation and deterrence...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the EASTERN NEW GUINEA REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 105 km (65.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:14:04 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 10 hours agoJACOB OSTREICHER IN PRISON IN SANTA CRUZ Since Spring of 2011, a New York businessman has been in 'la jaula'- that is, prison, in Bolivia - and it is a strange case indeed; contrary to popular thought, it...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agohttp://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/First-time-ever-Snow-in-all-9-provinces-20120808 First time ever: Snow in all 9 provinces 2012-08-08 09:10 South Africa's winter wonderland Johannesburg - It...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoI've been looking for some fitting tribute to Gore Vidal, who died last week at age 86, to post here. The internet is full of Vidal's aphorisms and his cutting wit, but those are the easiest and least mean...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* (Reuters) - A three-day rally in world equity markets faded on Wednesday, with shares trading little changed, while the euro fell as doubts grew on the prospects for early central bank action to bolster ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAug. 8 - Egyptian forces move into villages near the border with Israel in a crackdown on Islamic militants blamed for an attack on Egyptian border police. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAug. 8 - Turkey deploys tanks along its border with Syria.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* (Reuters) - July was the hottest month in the continental United States on record, beating the hottest month in the devastating Dust Bowl summer of 1936, the U.S. government reported on Wednesday.* It w...
- posted by Joe Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 10 hours agoTwo canals in Michigan are dangerously contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, according to this advisory. The seriousness of the contamination was underscored by the Michigan Department of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck near the Southern California town of Yorba Linda for the second time in just over 10 hours on Wednesday, rattling the Los Angeles area, but no damage or inju...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoI wrote a longer post about Mitt's latest ad falsely attacking Obama about the waivers for welfare work requirements at the Detroit News but Steve Benen brings up a good point about media complicity in Mit...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoFrom 2006 to 2008 the Harper government maintained an apparently illegal contract with Blackwater for the training of special forces troops and police officers. Blackwater was supposed to disclose the de...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 10 hours ago*On Aug. 1, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a commitment to pardon some farmers who broke the Customs Act by refusing to present grain export licences to Canada Customs (now Canada Border Services). S...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago*Rusty pumps - the summing up ~Matt McBride, Fix the Pumps** *~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg* * *~There's lots of matters the Corps of Engineers' New Orleans District would rather the public didn't know about, or a...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 10 hours agoTraditional English Folk Culture has been all but destroyed as it has been legally forced to give way to alien cultures, Multi-Culturalism is a lie. For a Culture to live, it must be protected and nurtu...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoClick here for Audio Their beaks buried in the damp lake grass, the gaggle of geese eat, oblivious. All but one. He stands removed, head up, ever vigilant, taking in everything. Three quiet honks ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck the GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA at a depth of 5.1 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:36:26 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* One of the world's largest torrent file-sharing websites, Demonoid.com, has been taken down by the Ukrainian authorities. * Torrents allow users to download music, video and other internet content by dow...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoToday, on August 8th, we celebrate anniversaries related to three British and one American scientist. (Thanks to Gene for his reminder about the calendar.) Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born in South Dako...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* The boyfriend of missing 12-year-old Tia Sharp's grandmother has left his home and been driven away in a police car. * Two men in plain clothes were seen entering the house before leaving a short time la...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoThe people of the African Sahel are in a bad way. You might even say that they're the poster boy for global warming. Make that anthropogenic, or man-made, global warming which as the deluge of scient...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* Canadian troops and police were trained for two years by the international security contractor formerly known as Blackwater without the permission of the U.S. State Department. * The revelation is contai...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoThis is really a strange thing to post on a government sponsored TV network.......
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSHANGHAI, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's commercial hub of Shanghai was rushing to relocate people in order to avoid risks posed by the approaching severe typhoon Haikui, officials with the municipal flood con...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoAcademi LLC, better known by its earlier name, Blackwater, has forked over $7.5-million to buy a "Deferred Prosecution Agreement" from the U.S. government. The case focuses on allegations that Blackwater ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoI don't suppose many people write about Joe Crowley, one of the most corrupt Democrats in Congress. I think he managed to get his House Ethics Committee case thrown out but most powerhouses in both partie...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoMajia here: It is my contention that our debt-based economy is antithetical to widespread prosperity and economic stability. Credit masks declining living standards temporarily, but ultimately enables a s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck the GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA at a depth of 6.7 km (4.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:51:04 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours agoRegular readers know how much I love these sightings. This Jesus on a tortilla is one of the best ones I've seen in a while. And love this detail: "I usually get up and go to the counter to get my tac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:33:22 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) NN...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoJust a heads up to my readers.. I have been suffering for the last few days from a horrific head cold that is absolutely persistent...I also have been working while suffering from the symptoms of this head...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 12 hours agoPoppy Bush (Remember how he got his nickname? No kidding!) Don't you just adore the "new" American journalistic courtesy that is so polite and thoughtful that it allocates the wealthy a different set of ru...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoAn Australian defence expert says America is playing a dangerous and potentially disastrous game with China. *The American plan, known in Washington as Air-Sea Battle, is strategically flawed, Australia...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012* *Three plus three still equals six:* This morning’s hard-copy New York Times is an edition for the ages. The paper spills with puddles of piffle about Obama, penned by Chozick...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*"The arbitrator appointed by the government to settle the labour dispute between postal workers and Canada Post should be recused, says a federal court. * * After the government passed the Restoring Mail...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*A woman who was stabbed to death in a taxi in Birmingham has been named as 22-year-old Natasha Trevis.* The attack took place in the Northfield area of Birmingham on Tuesday and a 28-year-old man is bein...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoThe Prince of Darkness says he'll let "science" determine the fate of the Northern Gateway and, presumably, Kinder-Morgan bitumen trafficking proposals. *Harper insisted Tuesday a decision on major projec...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Standard Chartered left the US financial system vulnerable to CIA terrorists, CIA weapons dealers, CIA drug kingpins and corrupt CIA regimes? Standard Chartered Bank’s group executive director: 'You f---...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoIf you follow the international news on the F-35 it appears Lockheed has made it through the rough patch and now has the controversial warplane flying straight and level. Although the F-35 is over budget ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoUpdated Below! Have to say one thing for the Republicans: they certainly are interesting, at least for party scholars. I don't think they've achieved and O'Donnell-sized fiascos this time around, but ther...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*“Apple and Amazon Security Lapses Exposed:* * Writer Has 'Entire Digital Life' Destroyed By Hackers In Minutes”* by Daniel Bate "A leading tech writer has revealed how easy it was for his 'entire digi...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 13 hours agoCNA reports that Olympic venue personnel warned Taiwanese students that they will be kicked out if they wave the ROC flag. 奧運跆拳道擂臺旁,中華民國國旗陣陣飄揚。倫敦時間今天上午比賽結束後,現場工作人員已向台灣的留學生下通牒:「如果再把國旗拿出來,很抱歉,我必須把你們趕出去。(If ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012* *Sam Stein makes a winning suggestion:* This happens very rarely. Last night, the analysts rose from their chairs and cheered—while they were watching Hardball! The analysts w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"A Sip of Soda: How Soft Drinks Impact Your Health" by HealthRanger* "Check out this graphic to see how drinking a soda affects your health, from the moment it enters your mouth to the time it is absor...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours ago*American Scofflaw * A stranger in a Coast Guard uniform introduced himself to New Port Richey police Chief James Steffens. It was a Memorial Day event at a cemetery. The man said he was Lt. Cmdr. Roy Anti...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours ago*"Sometimes I think peace prize winners shouldn't have a kill list"* *Youtube* *Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine. You can also support this information by voting on Current. [image: Relate...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agoThe massacre is said to have badly damaged the western-backed rebels and opposition forces’ ability to claim the moral high ground in their fight against Damascus and showed their accusations that Syrian ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*“If I were an Iranian, I would be very fearful of the next 12 weeks.”* "US and Israel intensify talks on Iran options" by Elisabeth Bumiller and Jodi Rudoren | New York Times, August 02, 2012 ASHKELON...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: U.S. East Coast temperatures, 19 June 2012. hoboken411.com] ITHACA, New York, 7 August 2012 (AP) – No surprise for Northeast residents sweating out the summer after a winter barely touching their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the ALASKA PENINSULA at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:57:44 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) SSW from Sand Point, A...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: The damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, Japan, 15 March 2011. White smoke billows from the No. 3 unit. Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News / AP] 2 Augu...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours agoPhillip Smith *Stop The Drug War* North Dakota could be voting on medical marijuana in November. Proponents of a medical marijuana initiative there handed in about 20,000 signatures to the secretary of...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours ago*Rebellious Truths* 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 Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 14 hours agobrutally redefining what it means to 'fight like a girl', SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD American female middleweight boxer Claressa Shields from Flint, Michigan, is like a boxing machine. She's just demolished her ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest takes on many different patterns. In Rondônia, a state in Western Brazil, deforestation took on the fishbone pattern revealed in these Landsat images from 1...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours agoWiki image Brandon Turbeville *Activist Post* On Friday, August 3, 2012, the United States Postal Service experienced its first-ever default on a Congressionally-mandated payment of $5.5 billion for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe UK arm of the search giant will also report a loss after tax of £24.1million in accounts filed yesterday at Companies House. Much of this, however, is due to the £51.45 million cost of giving shares t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoRussian general denies Syrian rebel video claim that he was killed in Syria. Simon Hanna reports.
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 14 hours agoOne more reason not to join a pretend faction of the monied Duopoly: the Obama Machine has an app for you. Privacy advocates (the Don Quixotes of America) are concerned that anybody, not just Obamabots goi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*So does China**, for that matter. * "*The trial, which began in February, involved some of the country’s largest financial institutions* *and raised uncomfortable questions* *about corruption at senior l...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012* *Part 2—ABC News “quotes” Mitt:* On July 25, Mitt Romney sat down with Brian Williams, the NBC News TV star. Brian wanted to know about the upcoming Olympics. Candidate Romney ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 14 hours ago[image: Piscina canina - Alberca para perros muy especiales]
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* Authorities have recovered the body of a British holidaymaker who drowned during a river trip in Canada. * Andrew Barrie, from Balloch in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, was on holiday with his wife Carol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe recent flourish for the FTSE 100 Index has come to an end despite a fightback for shares in under-pressure bank Standard Chartered. Better-than-expected jobs figures in the United States and hopes of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAug 8 (Reuters) - Turkey warned Iran "in a frank and friendly manner" against blaming Ankara for violence in Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday, a day after holding talks wit...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*New Orleans Saints Coach Joe Vitt: "There Are a Lot of Hall of Famers Out There"* *I feel like a Kolb salad! ~moosedenied* *Public invited to add voice to discussion on changing media ~The Lens** *~Hat ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Keith Carradine, 63. I mostly associate him with Alan Rudolph, who I liked a lot during his peak (although I suppose he's the Don Mattingly or Mo Vaughn of directors -- very nice peak, bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* AL-BAB, Syria — As the Arab world’s bloodiest revolt continues to maim, kill and ravage lives on an ever-escalating scale, anti-American sentiments are hardening among those struggling to overthrow Presi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck FIJI at a depth of 9.5 km (5.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:19 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 246 km (153 miles) NNW from SUVA, Fiji No Tsunami Warn...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoOne of the more interesting issues raised informally during the time I spent at the Lincoln Center's Emerging Technologies Workshop was the relative likelihood of developments in lethal autonomous robotic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoFOX 10 News - Phoenix, AZ | KSAZ-TV Phoenix, AZ | KSAZ-TV There was a report of a fire at 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday morning. But in less than an hour the situation was "de-escalated." The call ca...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Does the Victory Fund have Stockholm Syndrome now?* I know I haven't written much about the Victory Fund-- a kind of less effective gay version of EMILY's List-- but I've been hearing a lot about them fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* A fire has broken out on the 88th floor of One World Trade Centre in New York. The size of the fire is not yet clear but reports say some 24 fire engines and 84 firefighters are on the scene. There are...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago- More politics of Batman, this time with special Schmitt sauce. Well, yeah, superheroes are kind of about who gets to decide the exception.... and their answers are often fascist. Wasn't that...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoStephen Harper said yesterday that there would be an independent review of the proposed Northern Gateway Project: “The only way that governments can handle controversial projects of this manner is to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago* A leading credit rating agency has downgraded Greece giving the debt-ridden country a "negative" outlook.* Changing the status from "stable", Standard & Poor's (S&P) said the economy in the crisis hit n...
- Developments in Euro-land are so volatile, so many contradictory words are spread by media, so much political galimatias is told, that I really had a hard time to keep up with it and gauge the real situat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* MOUNT TONGARIRO, New Zealand — A second volcano in New Zealand threatened to rumble to life on Wednesday, a day after a long-dormant mountain that was the backdrop to "The Lord of the Rings" movies erupt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*A police dog team are searching Tia Sharp's grandmother's house as the hunt for the missing schoolgirl continues. * The 12-year-old was last seen on Friday leaving the home in New Addington in Croydon, so...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* Police say they have arrested the former girlfriend of Wade Michael Page, the man who allegedly shot and killed six people in a Sikh temple, after authorities say they found a gun in her Milwaukee home.*...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(Financial Times) -- "We can do it alone" is the latest rallying cry to be heard in Italy as economists and politicians shower Mario Monti with proposals to use the country's own vast but often dormant re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- It's official: It was a great white shark that bit a man's legs last week just off the coast of Truro, Massachusetts. "This conclusion was reached after examination of the injuries and testimony ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* (CNN) -- Ernesto weakened to a tropical storm early Wednesday as it doused Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with rain, the National Hurricane Center said.* Even though Ernesto was no longer a Category 1 hurri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* (CNN) -- An Australian newspaper found itself the focus of a 14-paragraph denouncement in the state-run North Korean media agency, KCNA.* The North Korean news agency lashed out at mX, a free commuter pa...
- posted by Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 16 hours agoSome blogs get lucky and seem to gain followers with almost no effort, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Most blogs need to have a solid strategy to become large and successful. A big part o...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“HUNDREDS of Tanks Moving Through Burbank, California…* * Without Desert Camouflage"* by WashingtonsBlog "Hundreds of tanks moving in California through Burbank, Google Earth coordinates 34°11'35....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTyphoon Haikui slams into eastern China, causing heavy downpours and flooding, and forcing an estimated 2 million people to evacuate. Travis Brecher reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(Reuters) - The Obama administration, in a move aimed at reviving Afghan peace talks, has sweetened a proposed deal under which it would transfer Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison in exchange f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* (Reuters) - Abu Bakr, a Syrian rebel commander on the outskirts of Aleppo, is a devoted Islamist determined to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. But the radical allies that have joined the rebels in r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck FIJI at a depth of 12.3 km (7.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:57:44 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 234 km (146 miles) North from SUVA, Fiji No Tsunami W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Beijing: A Tibetan rights group says a 26-year-old woman has died after setting herself on fire in west-central China' Gansu province. * London-based Free Tibet said Dolkar Kyi self-immolated Monday at Ts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Iran's Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, says some of the 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels are retired members of the Revolutionary Guards and the army and were in Damascus on a religious pilgrim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* One of the men accused of killing honeymooner Anni Dewani has been sentenced to 25 years in jail after pleading guilty to her murder.* Mziwamadoda Qwabe admitted kidnapping, robbery, murder and possessio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Syrian rebels claim to have killed a Russian general they accuse of helping President Bashar al-Assad's forces, and say it is evidence Russia is deeply embroiled in the Syrian conflict. * Members of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* NKANDABWE, Zambia (Reuters) - Zambian police have charged a coal miner with murder in connection with the killing of a Chinese supervisor during a protest over pay, a police official said on Tuesday.* Z...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The lead mediator in regional efforts to end unrest in Mali told rebels there that they had to cut ties to "terrorist movements" like al Qaeda before any peace talks could begin, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* ABUJA Aug 8 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three people in an attack on a mosque in the Nigerian town of Okene on Tuesday, a day after 19 were killed in gunfire at a church in the same town in a new outbreak ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* HANGZHOU, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Haikui, the 11th typhoon of the year, has brought downpours and floods to east China after landing in Zhejiang Province early Wednesday morning, the provincial observ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* A Paris law firm has been inundated with wealthy businessmen asking if they should leave France after President Francois Hollande vowed to impose a 75 per cent tax rate on income above one million euros....
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 17 hours agoFSA fighters in a house on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria credit: AP/Khalil Hamra, file Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* *Activist Post* As Syrian media is reporting the capture of military officers from for...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours agoThe Data Blog at the Guardian's sport section has printed interesting tables of Olympic medals that take the nations' population or GDP or team size into account. Just to be sure, the table of unadjuste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 9.2 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:09:17 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 196 km (122 miles) North fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Though Iran is still loyal to the Syrian regime, the time has come to start considering other options – Iran’s recent political maneuvers show that it is doing just that. * The political campaign recentl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Police have renewed appeals for information over the disappearance of 12-year-old Tia Sharp as overnight searches proved unsuccessful and a newspaper offered a £25,000 reward to help find her. * New pict...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHIROSHIMA -- A former U.S. Marine was arrested here on Aug. 8 after resisting police with kitchen knives, local police said. At around 12:30 a.m., police were asked for help by the man's wife, who said th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*KYOTO -- Researchers at Kyoto University have discovered an organic compound in a common herb that can help prevent or arrest a host of health conditions including cancer, it has been announced. * A team ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* The levels of an airborne fine particle called "particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5)," an air pollutant that is believed to cause asthma and heart disease, exceeded the government-imposed limit in 26 locations...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 17 hours ago*[T]here is no such thing as society*. - Margaret Thatcher, England’s prime minister, 1987 (1) *If there is a single, metaphysical idea that I have dedicated my life’s work to [exposing], it is that the g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* FUKUSHIMA -- An experiment to test radiation levels in rice produced in Fukushima Prefecture was conducted at an agricultural facility on Aug. 7 ahead of the launch of shipments of rice from the prefectu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 163.2 km (101.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:00:44 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck CENTRAL PERU at a depth of 93.6 km (58.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:35:14 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) Southeast of Tingo Maria, P...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 18 hours ago*YouTube - NotForSale2NWO* Bob Tuskin reports live from the University of Florida Campus as activists present Monsanto with a lawsuit from 'We the People.' After finding out that Monsanto had setup a PR c...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 18 hours ago* This is my article today in the online magazine, http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/less-gorvernment/1340-rain-rain-everywhere -------- It has been raining almost daily since nearly three weeks ago h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* A six-year-old boy who died last summer after falling from the grand staircase at his father's luxurious mansion was likely assaulted before plunging to his death, a new medical report claimed. * Max Sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* Scientists say a third of Earth's organisms live in our planet's rocks and sediments - and the amount could even be greater than what we find on the surface.* This week, microbiologist James Holden of t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Ignoring the Effects of 40 Years of Money Printing"* by Eric Fry "Here’s some great news for all of our pot-smoking Daily Reckoning readers! A recently-concluded study by researchers at the Univer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* Scientists have come up with a theory which could answer one of the biggest mysteries in the universe.* In 2010, NASA scientists discovered four stars which absolutely dwarf anything that comes before ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“Sliding Toward a Recession”* by Bill Bonner “Déjà vu” is a French expression that means…well, you know what it means. For our purposes, we will use it to refer to the slumpy economy…and to the fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIt is a sight that could make even the most hardened movie viewer feel a little queasy. Hundreds of feet above the ground, a young woman looks down as she walks precariously along a narrow concrete beam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* Fewer benefit cheats are being jailed by lenient courts despite a government crackdown on false claims, figures have shown. * The court system has been accused of jeopardising ministers' blitz on benefi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* A 15-year-old boy is being questioned by police over six terrifying sex attacks on women. * The teenager has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two 18-year-old women in south Manchester in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* Amnesty International has released new satellite images which it says show an increased use of heavy weapons in and around Aleppo amid reports rebels have abandoned a stronghold in the city.* "We have r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* As the search continues for 12-year-old Tia Sharp, members of her local community have pledged to do all they can to help find her. * On Tuesday night people gathered at Croydon Rugby Club to search for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN at a depth of 135 km (83.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:11:02 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (75 miles) NNW ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the SEA OF OKHOTSK at a depth of 486.3 km (302.2 miles), the Quake hit at 05:57:20 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 206 km (128 miles) WSW of Vostok, R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA at a depth of 8.2 km (5.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:23:34 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 2km (1.2 miles) N...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoParallel parking can be tricky... Really tricky... As can parking straight on... Because those parking barriers are easy to miss... Of course gettin out of a parking space cam also be tricky... <p>&...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago*Washington and Al-Qaeda stand shoulder to shoulder in Syria.* It is hardly surprising that there is widespread approval, *even outright praise*, among the American foreign policy elite for Al-Qaeda's...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 20 hours agoThe Royal Walnut Moth can grow to a wingspan of three to more than six inches wide. Photo courtesy: David Moskowitz The word "moth" may conjure up images of drab brown insects sticking to your screen doo...
- posted by rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 20 hours agonuclear-free.comStatement of MissionThe Nuclear Age is no geological era – it's a creation of humankind. Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award has honored and helped facilitate the on-going work of ind...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis an extraordinary discovery. The immediate take home is that a mulch of operating in difficult conditions can be applied to enhance seed receptivity and likely prepare the soil. If it can b...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago*Note: This skull is of a two toed extant sloth. Those teeth are for tearing as described in this item below.* This is a fourth individual report that can once again be attributed to the giant ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI always considered the idea of a humanoid robot as totally over the top and only worthy of doubtful science fiction. Yet it seems to be happening. We can even imagine the mass production of th...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe steady decline of the Arctic sea ice continues apace. Now the areal extent has dropped below the 2007 record which was amassed because strong winds compressed the sea ice from the West. Sin...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours agohttp://hurryupharry.org/2012/08/07/yet-more-ducking-and-diving-from-mehdi-hasan/
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoAugust 2011 ended a summer that brought record-breaking and near record-breaking warmth to the U.S. and the globe. Photo courtesy: NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) As relentless heat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Detectives are trying to establish Tia Sharp’s movements in the hours before she went missing, amid conflicting reports about whether the schoolgirl left home alone.* They plan to quiz convicted drug-de...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoMilking it for all that it’s worth – not how it’s done any more. Below: Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber. ST. ALBERT, Alberta Brent Rathgeber, Member of Parliament for Edmonton St. Albert, has launch...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*CIA Terrorists In Syria Hang Child In Public After Executing His Family*Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 7, 2012 at Alexander Higgins Blog *A child hung in public is the latest victim of CIA terrori...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago*Initially a real-money gambling app has been launched on Face book the social networks. According to Face book only its UK members would be able to view the app. A Face book orator stressed Bingo Friend...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA, RUSSIA at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:20:02 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 1275 km (790.5 miles) North of Ta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*The family and friends of a gifted surgeon killed outside his home reacted furiously yesterday when a teenager charged over his death escaped prosecution.* Anthony Owen, 68, was found sprawled on the gro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* This is the shocking CCTV footage which shows a BMW heading towards two toddlers being pushed in buggies by their fathers. * The heart-stopping image shows the moving car just metres away from the group,...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 23 hours ago*The whirlwind is about to sweep you up, my friends.* Michael channeled by Ron Head August 7, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages Well, here we are on the eve of the Lion’s Gate. We will not go into wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* First came the torrential weather, then the floods. Now residents living near the Somerset Levels say they are facing a new problem - a plague of mosquitoes. The insects are are the latest blight on the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A MINOR earthquake has scientists closely monitoring a New Zealand volcano that erupted for the first time in more than a century yesterday.* The steam-triggered eruption late Monday of Mount Tongariro o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours agoMusic By Chuck Wild, "Liquid Mind V: Serenity - Awakening" Images courtesy of ESA, NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCa4dpKyzwo&feature=fvwrel
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* The security firm formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to pay a fine of $7.5 million to avoid US prosecution for smuggling arms, the Justice Department said in a statement on Tuesday.* The company, n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* At least 16 people have died in severe floods in the Philippine capital, Manila, officials say.* More than 80,000 people are in emergency shelters, as torrential rain left low-lying areas under water. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAug. 6 - Global shellfish populations are under increasing pressure brought about by ocean acidification. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey say that oysters, mussels and crabs are finding it mor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* SHANGHAI — China's third typhoon in a week ploughed into its eastern coast on Wednesday, halting transport in the financial capital of Shanghai and toppling houses in some rural areas, state media said.*...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* KABUL, Afghanistan — A man who had been arrested on suspicion of insurgent activity and then released by the Afghan authorities detonated a remote-controlled bomb along a road outside Kabul on Tuesday, k...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago[image: Bikinis de colección - Dead or Alive 5 - Vivo o muerto 5] [image: Bikinis de colección - Dead or Alive 5 - Vivo o muerto 5] [image: Bikinis de colección - Dead or Alive 5 - Vivo o muerto 5] [image:...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* (Reuters) - Egypt launched air strikes in the Sinai region close to the border with Israel on Wednesday, killing more than 20 suspected Islamic militants, the state-run Ahram news website said. * The air...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to purge his country of what he called "terrorists," as security forces continue to fight rebels who have tried to seize control of parts of Aleppo and Damascus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Nasa has used one of its satellites to image the Curiosity rover on Mars. * The picture shows not only the six-wheeled vehicle, but also all the components of its discarded landing system. These items in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* A grandmother who had boiling water poured on her and was water-boarded by two masked burglars has described the torture as "sheer hell". * Francoise Jansen, 73, said she feared she was going to die after...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Nauseating Grief of Diseased America"* by Arthur Silber "Some years ago, I saw a man in profound emotional distress. The sobs which wracked his body had caused him to collapse to the ground, s...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoMy first job as a dj was at WUSB in Stony Brook, New York, my college station. That's when I learned about the Fairness Doctrine, which the FCC had put in place in 1949. Being pretty opinionated, I didn'...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 day agoA Canadian on Horseback *9 July 1944 Memorialized in Bronze* *By...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoYikes - I wrote this hours ago and forgot to post it. I suppose it's still fine; it's time for a major catch-up elsewhere post. On Friday, at PP I talked veepstakes basics again -- why it doesn't matter, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:19:48 UTC Wednesday 8th August 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) East of Shizunai, H...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I'm sick of it because it's always the same, and given the fake blogger**, the CNN **reports being **stage and scripted, and now evidence of photoshop propaganda**, how can they ever think it will be beli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck WASHINGTON at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:59:45 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4.3 miles) WNW from Entiat, Washington No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck WESTERN TURKEY at a depth of 7.9 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 23:57:39 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11 miles) North of Salihli, Turkey No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 40.4 km (25.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:54:11 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the FIJI REGION at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:47:12 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 224 km (138.8 miles) East of Labasa, Fiji No ...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day agomoon rising daedalus ziggurat
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck WESTERN TURKEY at a depth of 22 km (13.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:17:39 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) East of Gölmarmara, Turkey N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN PERU at a depth of 89 km (55.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:43:52 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21.7 miles) East of Tacna, Peru No Repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck SALTA, ARGENTINA at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:36:45 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) WNW of Tartagal, Argentin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* The number of people placed in permanent jobs has fallen for the second month in a row, suggesting that employers are putting recruitment decisions on hold until after the Olympics, according to new rese...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoPhoto courtesy: Flickr Once you have finished reading this blog, you will understand why I am not so proud to be Canadian anymore. Papua New Guinea's government has just granted a Canadian mining company...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Troops may soon be sent in to try to sort out the gang warfare in the South African city of Cape Town*. The country's largest trade union group (COSATU) and the premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* As the search continues for 12-year-old Tia Sharp, members of her local community have pledged to do all they can to help find her.* On Tuesday night people gathered at Croydon Rugby Club to search for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew York police are investigating threats posted on Twitter just weeks after 12 people were killed at a cinema in Colorado. Twitter has been forced to reveal information about the source of a tweet saying...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoA super volcano could kill millions of people. Photo courtesy: ABC News The eruption of Mount Vesuvius near Naples, Italy, in 79 A.D. killed thousands of Pompeii residents and remains one of the most famou...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoOne of the more interesting issues raised informally during the time I spentat the Lincoln Center's Emerging Technologies Workshop was the relative likelihood of developments in lethal autonomous robotics...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*SHOCKING: Bobby Jindal’s Vouchers Will Provide Over $700,000 Per Year To School Led by “Prophet, Apostle.” ~CenLamar*
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