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- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 minutes 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. - 2 minutes 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 - 3 minutes 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 - 6 minutes 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 - 9 minutes 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...
- Today, 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 - 13 minutes 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 - 13 minutes 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 - 23 minutes 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 - 24 minutes agoThis is really a strange thing to post on a government sponsored TV network.......
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes 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 - 43 minutes 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! - 47 minutes 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 - 50 minutes 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 - 52 minutes 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 - 54 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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!) - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 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 noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 hours agoRussian general denies Syrian rebel video claim that he was killed in Syria. Simon Hanna reports.
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 hours ago[image: Piscina canina - Alberca para perros muy especiales]
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 hours ago*New Orleans Saints Coach Joe Vitt: "There Are a Lot of Hall of Famers Out There"* *Public invited to add voice to discussion on changing media ~The Lens** *~Hat Tweet @NolaDefender* * *Jefferson Parish ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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! - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 hours agohttp://hurryupharry.org/2012/08/07/yet-more-ducking-and-diving-from-mehdi-hasan/
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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! - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours agoA Canadian on Horseback *9 July 1944 Memorialized in Bronze* *By...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours agomoon rising daedalus ziggurat
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours ago*SHOCKING: Bobby Jindal’s Vouchers Will Provide Over $700,000 Per Year To School Led by “Prophet, Apostle.” ~CenLamar*
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 15 hours agoI've been watching the past couple weeks especially as the little berries on my ash trees begin to ripen. Even this evening they are more red than the orange they appear in the photo here. Long work s...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 15 hours agoThanks to Les for this information: FDIC and Fed issue "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" to adopt Basel III Last week, the FDIC and the Fed issued a "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" to adopt the Basel II...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoI spent last week doing "field research" - that is, participant-observation in one of the several communities of practice whose work I'm following as part of my new book project on global norm development....
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 16 hours ago“Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course, we cannot vanish it with a program nor with a resolution. But we c...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 16 hours ago*I just got this from a dear friend who did so much to help me escape out of fundamentalist religion, this sounds like a really interesting book. -AK * *Dear AK: Re Book Launch for Laugh and Tough...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoSupremacist pleads Guilty in Death Threat Trial Roberto Rodriguez, Mexican American Studies professor, and author banned by Tucson Public Schools, describes the trial of the supremacist who threatened him ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Israel says it arrived postage due.* "Egypt official: leader’s letter to Israel is fake" by Daniel Estrin | Associated Press, August 01, 2012 JERUSALEM — A letter to Israel from Egypt’s new president h...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours ago*Russian wheatfield ravaged by locusts and drought* Another giant grain exporter, Russia, is also being hammered by drought leaving Brits fearful of major food price increases. *Farmers in Russia are being...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 16 hours agoIt's a jungle out there! Left: corn and pumpkins. Right: Runner beans and potatoesCukes and kaleThe beans are coming in
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 16 hours agoToday was a historic date of sorts; the supremacist, Randall Leon Thompson, who threatened me pled guilty today Aug. 7, 2012, for sending threats over the telephone. He will be under managed supervision f...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 16 hours ago*I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw this exchange **live **with Sean Corrigan on CNBC Europe. The banks are at war with each other!!! It sounds like two bratty kids ratting each other out doesn't...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoFulton J Sheeb
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoI'm not sure that Harper/Enbridge will get the Northern Gateway pipeline/tanker port up and running before climate change closes in on them. The drought of 2012 is going to send a shockwave through world f...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*"If all this sounds as if New York's soda consumers were about to become the subjects of an elaborate social-science experiment designed to reshape their behavior and desires, well, that's kind of true. ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*And a signal they are preparing for war.* "Israel ending draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men; Order threatens to deepen rift between sects" by Amy Teibel | Associated Press, August 01, 2012 JERUSA...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 17 hours agoMy article in interksyon, "Population decontrol, not RH bill", http://www.interaksyon.com/business/39513/fat-free-economics-population-decontrol-not-rh-bill , gathered lots of comments, mostly critical of my...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Proving they are not interested in a two-state solution. They mean to take it all. * "Israel bars delegates to West Bank; Summit meant to draft UN plan" by Jodi Rudoren | New York Times, August 06, 20...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 17 hours ago*Quebec Solidaire's latest election ad, exposes viewers to an animated stick figure gleefully kicking Canada's national symbol — the beaver — right off their television screen.*
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 17 hours agoAfter a most restful night in The Trailer Southern Man had breakfast and got back to work. It was more of the same - move, scrape, sweep, clean - and by mid-afternoon another large area was clear. The Work...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"Stunning emission nebula IC 1396 mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Energized by the bright, bluish central star seen here, this star forming ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoAnconia has announced that drilling has begun on its MARCE Occurrence located in the Nunavut Territory of Canada. There is the potential for a significant iron mine. http://www.equities.com/news/headlin...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 17 hours agoThe day started off with the usual Monday doctor's appointment and a really challenging geocache in that part of town - it hadn't been found in six months, but Southern Man nabbed it. And then it was time ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago* * *“The Place We Desire”* by Paulo Coelho "A friend came to wait on our table – at a café in San Diego, California. I had met Cláudia in Brazil four years previously, and tell my friends about her l...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 17 hours agoAn *Aviation Week* editor spent some time recently at Edwards Air Force Base filming an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in flight. His recording was disrupted by a severe sonic boom from an F-35 speeding th...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 18 hours agoAbout fourteen years ago Southern Man and Southern Ex had a dream of building a house and raising our (then two) children in the country so we went shopping for land. We looked at a couple of lots and were...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoThe struggle of the 21st century will be to reduce atmospheric carbon concentration to safe levels. There's a fair chance it can be done, given time, commitment and vast resources. One way to reduce c...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago*There were at least two glaring omissions in the grand announcement last week of “The Government’s Grand Plan for Central Christchurch.” The first was **any acknowledgement at all of those whose land i...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours agoA mother’s use of antidepressants during pregnancy has been linked to several severe neural tube defects — defects of the brain and spinal cord. Every year, 1 in 4,859 babies in the United States is born ...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 18 hours agoGerman reporter Klaus Bardenhagen writes: Having been an eye witness to some political key developments, I have just published an English/Chinese book called 'Taiwan: Snapshots of Democracy in Action' (我...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“The Cosmography of Myself”* by Chet Raymo “It was a common conceit of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to think of the human self -– body and soul– as a microcosm, a little world made cunningly of...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours agoTwickenham, Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago“When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.” - Byron Katie
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBingo Friendzy, developed by the British online gambling company Gamesys, was introduced on Facebook this morning. It allows players to stake cash in 90 bingo and slot machine games. The app is marketed ...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 18 hours agoEveryone who has lived in a foreign country warns you of the challenges of adjusting to a different culture. I'm living that right now, stuck in the incomprehensible process of looking for someone to do r...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"The Science of Genocide"* by Chris Hedges "On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime wit...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 hours agoMembers of UN General Assembly vote on Saudi Arabian-sponsored draft resolution against Syria. Photo by Kathy Willens / AP. Syrian policy looks familiar to Cubans Those who sponsored the resolution condemni...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 19 hours agoToo good to wait (spoilers for Dark Knight Rises):
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*Well, he's under house arrest in the Green Zone. * "White House moves to extradite prisoner from Iraq" by Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra | Associated Press, July 13, 2012 BAGHDAD — The White House h...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago[image: image] People, we’re starting to whinge like Australia, and it’s not pretty. It’s starting to sound as if folk think Valerie Adams, like Australians thought about their swimmers, *owned *her go...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 19 hours agoFirst published on The Daily Censored on August 5, 2012. ------------------------------ *"This increasingly well-rooted network provides the Gulen Movement with daily access to the minds of over 45,000 st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago* WASHINGTON — A mosque burned to the ground in the midwestern United States on Monday, in what worshippers suspect was a hate attack, less than a day after a deadly shooting at a Sikh temple.* Firefighte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago* Israel's leadership cannot gamble on the notion that it will be able to drag the United States into the war if enough Israeli lives are sacrificed.* The sweeping opposition by heads of the defense establ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Some 200,000 people have been ordered out of their homes in Shanghai, where authorities are preparing for the third typhoon to hit the Chinese coast in a week.* Authorities say 23 people are dead and nin...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoBuzz is heating up again that Romney's hail Mary pass in his failing presidential campaign may be to pick Ayn Rand fanatic Paul Ryan as his running mate. Right wing propagandist Byron York reminds GOP zom...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours agoThe above drawing, from here, encapsulates the odious dishonesty at the heart of M312. The pregnant women are featureless incubators, whose human rights are secondary to the *personhood* rights that Blob ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoAn easy choice: Brad DeLong gets the coveted CotD for a thorough fisking of the economists defending Mitt Romney's economic plan. Except, as DeLong says, it's not a plan: HHMT: The Romney economic program...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 21 hours agocredit: FARS News Agency Brandon Turbeville *Activist Post* Iranian FARS News Agency reported yesterday August 6, 2012 that so-called Syrian “rebels” have committed yet another atrocity in the city of Da...
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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*So what's the amount lost? * "US wasted billions in Iraq work, auditors say; Actual amount can’t be known, report concludes" by Robert Burns | Associated Press, July 14, 2012 WASHINGTON — After years o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* MANILA — At least a third of this overpopulated capital and its suburbs were submerged on Tuesday as torrential rains battered the city and floodwaters poured in from almost all sides. An overflowing lak...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* (Reuters) - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad won a pledge of support on Tuesday from regional ally Iran as his forces tried to choke off rebels in the northern city of Aleppo.* Seeking to restore his a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe man accused of shooting six people dead and critically injuring a congresswoman is set to avoid the death penalty.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* It's been confirmed today that 13 small fires were started by Sunday night's lightning storm across the Klamath National Forest, according to the U.S. Forest Service.* Six of the fires are burning in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* LA GOMERA, Spain — A wildfire raged Monday on Spain's Canary Island of La Gomera which burnt down several homes and raced through a national park housing a rare subtropical forest, officials said.* Deep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago*RICHMOND, Ky. -- Low levels of a deadly nerve agent have been detected in a chemical weapons igloo containing M55 GB, or sarin, rockets at Blue Grass Army Depot in central Kentucky. * The Army Chemical Ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* A US Nato soldier in Afghanistan has been killed by two gunmen wearing Afghan army uniform, officials say. * Two other American soldiers were wounded in the incident in eastern Afghanistan, a US official...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago* West Midlands Police said the 28-year-old man, named by sources as Junior Saleem Oakes, was was found in the garden of a house on Allens Farm in south Birmingham just after 6pm.* The suspect, also known...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*Now I know it is a psy-op**. * "His *writings were being monitored* by the *SITE Monitoring Service*, a Maryland private intelligence firm that searches the Internet for terrorist and other extremist act...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” – Aldous Huxley
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA at a depth of 77 km (47.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:20:44 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 288 km (178.5 miles) Southeast o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*“It’s A Matter Of Trust, Part 1”* by JimQ “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.” – Lord Acton "Who do you...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA at a depth of 38.8 km (24.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:41:01 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles)...
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- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoI've put together a collection, albeit not a comprehensive one, of posts at the Duck of Minerva that focus on what might be called "the profession." The link is now a tab (Academia and Graduate School) be...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math"* By Bill McKibben "If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard num...
- posted by Joe Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 22 hours agoThe contamination story on a 26-year-old site is winding down to what could be the final public comment period. The site, called the Boeing Wichita Site in Wichita, Kan., now has a draft Corrective Action...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A grandmother who stabbed her four-year-old grandson to death was shot and killed by police after she refused to drop two butcher's knives used in the slaughter.* Charlene Fears, from Buffalo, New York,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A South Carolina man has died just hours after being rushed to hospital with a flesh-eating disease.* Anthony Hills, 55, from Charleston, passed away on Saturday having contracted necrotizing fasciitis ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago------------------------------ *Attorney Bill Risner Explains How Election Fraud Works in Pima County (Tucson) Arizona..wmv* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE0kOvFjn_0&feature=colike Published on Au...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 23 hours agoDees Illustration Kate Johnston, *Contributor* *Activist Post* On July 1st 2012, Australia joined nations around the world in their move towards a carbon economy through the implementation of a Carbon Tax...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 23 hours agoClick on graphic to enlarge.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck COSTA RICA at a depth of 106.8 km (66.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:10:59 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30.4 miles) Northwest from SAN JOSE, Cos...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 23 hours ago*Contributor: YYC* Thought you might enjoy the discussion going on over at the CBC about the drought and the renewed dire warnings of manmade global warming. One of the commenters said that when the US co...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A man who was trying to smuggle guns, ammunition and knives into a late-night showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Ohio has been arrested.* Authorities said the manager of Regal Cinema in the Crocker Park...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours agoWell, that was interesting. Apologies for my disappearance, but as you know I live way out here in the Sonoran desert of Arizona, little population but lots of cactii, lizards, and rattlensakes, and tha...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 23 hours agoA few weeks ago I mentioned that I am now chief interviewer for the New Books Network's SF and Fantasy channel. I've got some exciting authors lined up for launch, and a few more who have agreed to record ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A four-year-old girl was beaten to death during a horrific punishment for dropping a meatball out of her Subway sandwich, her mother has claimed.* Melanie Garcia, 21, brought Kayla Garcia to San Antonio'...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 23 hours agoBrandon Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The idea of “collapse”, social and financial, comes with an incredible array of hypothetical consequences ranging from public dissent and martial law, to th...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 23 hours agoEating healthy can be hard. Really hard. It seems there are packages of Oreos staring at you at every turn, chocolate bars taunting you. One of my greatest weaknesses is chips and salsa. I always measure...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Tropical Storm Saola and Typhoon Damrey appear on NASA satellite imagery to be arm-in-arm as they enter China on 2 August 2012. NASA's Terra satellite passed over both tropical cyclones and captu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A callous thief posing as a Good Samaritan stole a motorbike from its owner as he lay seriously injured in the road after a crash.* Glenn Hawkins, 35, was left with a broken collar bone, punctured lung a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* The disgraced Chinese diplomat's wife who is accused of murdering a British businessman has made a 'relaxed' admission of guilt, a senior prosecutor has claimed.* Gu Kailai appeared 'gracious' as she co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 16:11:22 UTC Tuesday 7th August 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) East of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* Staring defiantly at the camera over the course of ten years, double killer Stephen Bosanko shows his contempt for the law after being jailed twice for two separate killings. * Career criminal Bosanko, 3...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 23 hours agoThis post is a classic case of "Which do you want first, the bad news or the good news?" But unfortunately for dogs and the people who love them, this is no joke. Last week, a dog named Wicca was put to d...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 23 hours agoDees Illustration Anthony Gucciardi *Activist Post* A team of researchers looking into why cancer cells are so resilient accidentally stumbled upon a far more important discovery. While conducting their ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoWell, this is not a surprise. CFR member Ed Husain slyly implies that Al-Qaeda is doing great things in Syria and performing a necessary role. He *writes*: "The Syrian rebels would be immeasurably weak...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago*TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012* *Happy returns of the script:* You’ll rarely see a journalist who is so flatly wrong. Usually, scribes are more skillful. Why say something that is *wrong* when you can say som...
- posted by Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Senator Ron Paul, author of the legislation called Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2012 (HR459) that will subject Ben Bernanke and the privately-owned F...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoGreece Exit of Euro Zone Wouldn't Be a Surprise, El-Erian Says -- zerohedge (@zerohedge)
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 1 day agoClick here for the audio version That old fisherman just headed down to the lake again, pole and bucket in hand. It’s so quiet here. I can hear the hollow sound from his bucket when he first sets ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day agoJohn Brakey AUDIT-AZ Here is a video Clip of Attorney Bill Risner Explaining How Election Fraud Works in Pima County, (Tucson) Arizona: http://youtu.be/JE0kOvFjn_0 We've said nothing about the media bl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* The body has been found of a teenage girl who was reported missing after she left her family home.* Police had appealed for help in tracing Molly O'Donovan who had not been seen since leaving her home i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* The charred human remains found in a supermarket car park this morning may have belonged to a homeless person who was callously set alight late at night by three thugs as he slept. * In a shocking attack...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Seven Cameroon athletes who have disappeared whilst in Britain may be intending to claim asylum, according to an official from the country.* Mission head, David Ojong, said that the seven sportsmen, incl...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoMajia here: Contemporary people look with disdain upon now-passed civilizations like the Aztecs in Mexico that required human sacrifices. Modern people consider human sacrifice to be barbaric. What hypo...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day ago
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoPolitico is calling this perhaps the harshest, most personal ad of the 2012 presidential race. I wouldn't call it that, but it's a damn good ad. "It features former GST Steel employee Joe Soptic speaking t...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* (Reuters) - A fire that shut Chevron Corp's Richmond plant, the second-largest refinery in California, was extinguished early on Tuesday as fears of a months-long closure caused a 25-cent spike in region...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThis week Blue America is endorsing our second California candidate, Jay Chen, who's running in a newly created district that takes in a chunk of L.A. and San Bernardino counties-- Brea, Buena Park, Chin...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoMajia here: Why doesn't Tepco tell us about the condition of unit 3? Why don't they tell us how much radioactive water is going into the ocean everyday? Why don't they tell us where the hot, damaged fuel ...
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