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* The deepening crisis in the eurozone could see Britain quit the European Union for good, according to one of the world’s leading investment banks.* Japanese giant Nomura said the UK government could be f... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes ago
* A massive blackout hit many parts of the Egyptian capital on Thursday, briefly halting traffic on much of its crowded subway and delaying the start of trading on the stock exchange. * Egypt has been bese... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 minutes agoThe video above is from the YouTube account of TeaPartyOrg. It's one of many (endless) crazed propaganda videos just like it inserted into the zeitgeist by this organization and others just like it. Clea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes ago** * (CNN) -- Masked gunmen on motorbikes fired early Friday at a police station in North Sinai in the latest in a string of violent acts in the area, a police official who is not authorized to speak to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes ago* ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The White House Thursday declined to respond to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's comment that new US intelligence warns the Iranian nuclear threat has become much more "urgent...
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* TEHRAN, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Thursday that the peace plan for Syria put forward by Kofi Annan is still alive although he has resigned from the post of the UN a... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes ago
* CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug 9 (Reuters) - A small NASA lander being tested for missions to the moon and other destinations beyond Earth crashed and burned after veering off course during a trial run at the... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
* BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian rebels in embattled Aleppo tried to maintain morale on Thursday by highlighting small gains in the midst of a withdrawal from the most contested area of the city, as government f... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
* Lawyers for the suspect in the deadly shootings at a Batman screening say he is mentally ill and have asked for more time for him to be assessed.* James Holmes has again appeared at a Colorado court with... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 61.6 km (38.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:19:20 UTC Friday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) Nortwest of Kota Ternate, I... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck VANUATU at a depth of 200 km (124 miles), the quake hit at 00:33:07 UTC Friday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26.6 miles) Southwest of Sola, Vanuatu No Tsuna... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:30:09 UTC Friday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 318 km (197 miles) West of Morondava, Ma... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC at a depth of 46 km (28.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:58 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) WSW of El Valle, Domi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck EASTERN IRAN at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:01 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) NNE from Birjand, Iran No Rep... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE ATACAMA, CHILE at a depth of 42 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 21:51:47 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) Northwest from Andaco... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND at a depth of 58.9 km (36.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:31:30 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) East of ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 52 minutes ago“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat.” - George Carlin • James Brown, “Living in America” (“Rocky IV”) - http://www.youtube.c...
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE GUATEMALA at a depth of 56 km (34.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:15:39 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) SSW of Puerto San Jose, ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“The two galaxies on the far left were unknown until 1968. Although they would have appeared as two of the brighter galaxies on the night sky, the opaque dust of the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"An Unusually Candid Interview With Mitt Romney"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dropped by The Borowitz Report today and gave what so...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoMassai Warriors visit Navajos at Cameron, Arizona on Aug. 7, 2012! Photos by Calvin Johnson, Navajo, published with permission at Censored News. Calvin said, "Massai Warriors from Kenya were there to talk ...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 hour agoThe Freedom of Information Act It's time to demand the information on where our tax dollars are going. End education corruption BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana's education chief has refused to provide records fr...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours agoJ.T. Waldron GOLIATH: Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry How far will he go to block election transparency? After Arizona's appellate courts ruled in favor of the Libertarian argument for prospect...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours agoMexican poet Javier Sicilia and members of his Caravan for Peace protest the drug war earlier this summer in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Photo by Henry Romero / Reuters. Can the Caravan for Peace end the War on Drug...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"Merely 'liking' a Facebook page is insufficient speech to merit constitutional protection. In cases where courts have found that constitutional protections extended to Facebook posts, actual statements ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours agoKenner, Louisiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours agoInteresting development on a slow news day: "DUMP ROMNEY" contends that no delegates are actually "bound" by law or GOP rules to vote for Romney and that, to win the White House and toss-up Senate seats,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoBrenda Kenny has got a pair. That much you have to give her. The president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association plans to counter a string of public relations disasters by announcing an “Integrity...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours agoThis link takes you to an amazing video clip from the thunderstorm that hit Vancouver yesterday. The young guy is recording the storm when, at the 6 second mark, a bolt of lightning hits a neighbour's tr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Gott Mit Uns"* by Chet Raymo “Deus lo volt! shouted thousands of people assembled in a meadow near Clermont, France, in the year 1095. Pope Urban has appealed for the liberation of the Holy Lands from...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 5 hours agoTiny Tax Would Make a Big Difference Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research Wednesday 8 August 2012 The Knight Capital debacle last week gave us yet another example of the financial system run ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago[image: image] *Wow! The Lightning Bolt has struck twice twice! The 100/2oo double at the Beijing Olympics, then the same again in London—easing up in the last dozen metres in all four events.* *The...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoHave to highlight this comment to my "balanced ticket" post earlier today. Geoff G. starts with a cheesy one playing on Robot Mitt that I had actually thought of using but abandoned, but then gets truly in...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, establ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago*The Ayatollah Vs. The President.* The following is taken from a *comment made by Don Bacon* at the website 'The Race for Iran' in an article called, *"The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamene...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Not from me.* "Massachusetts towns get boost from Hollywood movies" by Dan Adams | Globe Correspondent, July 07, 2012 When the state started doling out *tax breaks* to *attract big-name films*in 2006,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* INCEHON (Yonhap News) ― A Chinese cargo vessel crashed into a docking facility in the Incheon harbor on Wednesday, causing an oil spill, the South Korean Coast Guard said. * About 600 liters of bunker C ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* A deadly disease that hasn't been seen in Colorado for 31-years has been found in the northeast part of state. * The Colorado Department of Agriculture is currently investigating an anthrax case in Logan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*Two villagers are being treated at a local hospital for anthrax, an infectious disease, in Ganyu county, Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province. * "There are indeed two villagers who have diagnosed of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago* CORNELIA – Cornelia officials are urging people who live within about one-half mile of Irvin and Hoyt streets to exercise extra caution as a possibly rabid cat is loose in that area.* “At approximately ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*A swarm of Africanized bees attacked four people and shut down a business park in Pflugerville Wednesday morning. The intersection around Rowe Ln. and FM 685 was shut down for nearly four hours while eme...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 6 hours agoUniversities are political entities. A state university like my own receives (very little) funding from the state legislature. Federal research priorities impact our programs, and sometimes, believe it o...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPresident Obama, while villifying Mitt Romney for opposing the auto industry bailout, bragged about the success of his decision to provide government assistance and said he now wants to see every manufact...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours ago*Perplexing update at the bottom**: a Saudi Iranian Truce?** * One of the Anonymous commenters caught this news. Which was my post for today.I note the ending quotation from Ahmadinejad with interest-*Co...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoYesterday, Obama's campaign made a rare misstep-- a stupid radio spot in favor of "clean coal" that attacks Romney for being pro-environmental. Listen to it; it's sickening. Our pals are CREDO were as dis...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours agoA great American. He literally stopped World War III by preventing the Bush admin from attacking Iran. Esquire - *The Man Between War and Peace* (April 2008).
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoA customer in Washington, D.C., ordered a 39-inch television from Amazon.com. This is what arrived on his doorstep instead. *When the UPS package arrived at Seth Horovitz's home, he thought it must be...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours agoJudith Crist passed away at the age of 90 in Manhattan on Aug. 7, 2012. Photo by Gabe Palacio / Getty Images. Inset below: Crist in 1967. Photo from AP. An appreciation: Pioneering film critic Judith Cris...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoMy PP post today is about Veepstakes. I make the case that the one thing that nominees should not worry about when picking a running mate is the message that it sends; after a day or two, that message disa...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 7 hours ago------------------------------ *Reflections on a Medical Career by Robert S. Dotson, M.D.* ------------------------------ August 2, 2012 | Forward by Paul Craig Roberts *The Impending Collapse of American...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoRemember Steve Harper's "Alberta Firewall" letter, the one where he advocated the Wild Rose state should ditch the RCMP, implement its own healthcare regime independent of Ottawa and even collect and withh...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoNASA may have been communicating with a vehicle on Mars but NASA is an apolitical organization so its science and its communication technologies can't possibly be as advanced as those of the self-describ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours agoPadre Island National Seashore, four wheel drive only beach. Anyone who has been to the beach knows that warming over land is much greater than warming over water. Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog. The b...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoThe centre-right Victoria *Times Colonist* more than doubts Steve Harper's claim that he'll leave it up to science to evaluate the "costs and risks" of the Northern Gateway pipeline. Here's how the pape...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoWhile deBeauxOs splendidly spanks the fetus fetishists for their glurge-filled lies, there's more to learn from this survey. It seems that in speaking amongst themselves they reveal more than they think. ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours agoAstounding hypocrisy, self-censorship, and complicity by the West regarding one of the most regressive regimes on Earth. *by Tony Cartalucci* *August 9, 2012* - The Cooperation Council for the Arab States...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours agoRelated: *CFR Strategist Praises Al-Qaeda Bombings In Syria* *Sympathy For Al-Qaeda Among America's Wacky Foreign Policy Elite* *Washington's Al-Qaeda Dilemma * Al Qaeda: Pride of The CFR
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 8 hours agoOne quick note for everyone, and a follow up to what has been happening in my battle to follow the rules as laid out under the "Fair Use" agreement... I have received today a startling note from the people...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"The Financial Oligarchy Reigns"* by David DeGraw "The experiment known as democracy is devolving into fascism before our eyes; the "iron law of oligarchy" is once again asserting itself. From the Fo...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoI don't know how many times I've said that Mitt Romney is a generic Republican candidate, and so the election will come down to, basically, whether most of the people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 sti...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours agoTHINGS ARE HEATING UP, and the Arctic is turning, well, slushy — and Vladimir Putin is getting all excited about creating more vodka outlets. Actually, they're going to be bases for "combined arms": army nav...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoThis is another article beating the dogma that CO2 is driving climatic fluctuation. It you look at the chart above, you will observe that for the past decade the climate has been warmer by about...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago* “The Dispossessed Majority: * *Rule By Private Oligarchy”* by Paul Craig Roberts “The bumper sticker on the beat-up pickup truck read: “Friends don’t let friends vote Democrat.” The driver was obvi...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Turkish newspaper columnist has been heavily criticised after writing an article which said the Olympic Games is destroying the female figure. The piece - called Womanhood is dying at the Olympics' - wa...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 9 hours agoMy husband keeps wondering if I will run out of ideas for photo shoots each week. I think it is more likely that my little one will stop letting me photograph her first. Right now she thinks pictures...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoThose of us who lived through the Cold War were painfully aware that the Soviet Union was prepared to thoroughly devastate the West with nuclear weapons. We didn't know they had something else in mind al...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoThis is interesting. In a speech last month, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah talked about the need for Shia-Sunni unity, the chaotic situation in Syria, the security threat posed by Israel and America ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Ernesto hugged the southern edge of the Bay of Campeche Thursday morning as it prepared to make final landfall on the Mexican coast, the National Hurricane Center said.* Once Ern...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoRussia is growing concerned about Chinese designs on Russian territory and resources. Russian president Dimitry Medvedev said it was essential to defend it's eastern territories against "excessive expans...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoDo banks actually have a conscience? A few German banks apparently do. Germany's *Commerzbank*, the country's second-largest, has removed agricultural products (food) from its commodities index fund, fo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: A field of corn withers under triple-degree heat north of Wichita, Kansas, in Sedgwick County Monday, 16 July 2012. The drought gripping the United States is the widest since 1956, according to n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN ALASKA at a depth of 10.7 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:43:25 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) Northeast from Chenega, Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN PERU at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:14:43 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) SSE of S...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 10 hours agoI may not be 100% today, but I figured it was as good a time to get back into the swing of things... I want to thank all of my readers for their get well comments... For the longest time, I have been in c...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoThe Arctic is about more than ice and polar bears. Much, much more. Most of us by now have become familiar with *El Nino* or his ugly stepsister, *La Nina*, that are lumped together as something called ...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 10 hours agoEditor's Note: Watch how groups make claims of Anti-Semitism and offer no substantive argument for their claims. Help Us Transmit This Story Add to Your Blogger Account Put it On Facebook Tweet ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours agoTanzanian chimp. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Fellow primates / 1 Chimps and humans are a lot alike, except that humans, being more intelligent, do what chimps do even better. By Bill Meacham / The Rag Bl...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoJapan Today: A-bomb survivors warn against nuclear power http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/a-bomb-survivors-warn-against-nuclear-power [Excerpted] "The scars that still mark Sunao Tsuboi’...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoGAO criticizes FCC’s standards for cellphone radiation. Hayley Tsukayama. The Washington Post Aug 7, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gao-criticizes-fccs-standards-for-cellphone-radia...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoTuesday night was disappointing for progressives who worked their hearts out on Darcy Burner's campaign in Washington and on Trevor Thomas' campaign in central Michigan. But at the same time wealthy, self...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 11 hours ago*Editor's Note: The author failed to mention corporate welfare! Corporate Welfare far exceeds the social safety net in terms of actual cost to the American taxpayers. I suggest we go after the financia...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 11 hours ago*Contributor: YYC* Victim of face-chewing attack in Miami reveals details of assault in police interview *Poppo said Eugene then “turned berserk” and attacked with his bare hands, screaming that both men ...
- posted by Sophia at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoAudio version I tried running once. It didn’t go well. The man I was with at the time thought it would be a good idea if we ran together – fitness and togetherness all rolled into one miser...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoAugust 9, 2012 p. B5 by A. Gasparro & C. Stevenson. The Wall Street Journal Symptom of economic contraction? [Excerpted] "In the U.S., McDonald's July same-store sales decline was the worst performance i...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 11 hours agoJamie Dimon is a weird cross between Tony Soprano and Sarah Palin. In a combination political/mock execution tour, he and his consiglieres have boarded a big black bus to roll down the highways and shake d...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoThere is an enormous amount of water stored underground in aquifers. Or, at least, there used to be. A lot of it is actually "fossil" water, H2O that's been trapped underground for, well, forever sort...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 11 hours agoHawai'i isn't the only colonial possession to get the inset treatment. Although the authors of the *Duck of Minerva* do not condone, endorse, or even take seriously this proposal, we do want to bring to ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAug. 9 - A car bomb southeast of Baghdad kills at least eight people and wounds around 30. Travis Brecher reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*(Reuters) - A new cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, according to a leading computer security firm, Ka...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 12 hours ago*Not on your life!* *Contributor: YYC* MoscowNews: Food crisis looms in Russia *Imposing export restrictions may be trickier for Russia this time around due to the country’s entry to the World Trade Orga...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 12 hours agohttp://newspresso.gulli.com/2859-die-kalte-fusion-der-heilige-gral-der-energiegewinnung-ist-realitaet-09-08-2012 Translated from German by Google Translate: The Cold Fusion: The holy grail of energy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - Gunman fired shots towards a police station in the main administrative centre of Egypt's North Sinai on Thursday, underscoring lawlessness in the desert region bordering Israel as a Egyptian m...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours agohttp://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5332
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 2.5 km (1.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:24:24 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) WNW from Fern...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoAssociation of Justice Counsel v. Canada (Attorney General), 2012 ONCA 530 deals with freedom of association in the context of labour relations -- it makes clear that there right is not defined as being po...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012* *At the Post, still no correction:* On Tuesday morning, Gene Robinson made a plain misstatement. Robinson is a Pulitzer winner. His claim appeared in the Washington Post. See T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 150.2 km (93.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:03:07 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) Sout...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours ago*This is fantastic* Exposing the nastiness known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). *On the Ropes: Inside ALEC's Annual Meeting* *Bleeding but defiant, the right-wing outfit regroups in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* A drug dealer who accidentally shot his best friend in the head during a drive-by attack on a rival gang was jailed for a minimum of 30 years.* Anthony 'Leech' McGivern shot front seat passenger Kevin Go...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012* *The Times talks on second-grade level:* Does the New York Times have “sophisticated readers,” as the fawning newspaper routinely implies and declares? If so, those readers got...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Cancer and HIV patients have been told to buy bottles of ordinary blackcurrent squash and olive oil for £14 by a church claiming the blessed goods are a 'miracle cure' for their illnesses.* The Victorio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*Image: Injured: Jackie Stretton suffered 'appalling injuries' as she broke her back and suffered bleeding to her brain in the crash * A judge has launched a stinging attack on the justice system after he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt might look like a scene from a horror film but this is the breathtaking natural phenomenon which has met tourists at a popular French beauty spot. The stunning scenes in Camargue, southern France, ma...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoFound this announcement this morning. Thom Hartmann always says that we need to expose the right wing lies – and it appears that there will be a whole morning of right wing lying happening in Albany New Y...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 hours agoThe poster boy for the GOP's "governing" strategy, that being "if Obama is for it, we're against it," Steve King has a brilliant idea. And by brilliant I mean, batshit crazy. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), an...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago- Daniel Drezner unloads on Jennifer Rubin. Bottom line: better hacks, please! - Thomas Rid argues against much of our current discourse on cyberwar. - Lincoln Mitchell writes that: "Georgia'...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 13 hours ago. The only place 'The Holocaust' can be debated is in a courtroom, a "Talmudic arena" as Michael Hoffman asserts in this film (below) and the evidence affirms. There will be NO public debate. If 'The H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*A police force didn't bother to investigate 36,000 crimes which they didn't think they could solve, representing 40 per cent of all reported cases, it has been revealed.* Devon and Cornwall Police shelve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* A Tory MP has been learning Hebrew at the taxpayers' expense following his civil partnership to his Israeli partner, it was revealed today. * Nick Boles, who has called for pensioners to be stripped of t...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago*Allan Katz and Danae Columbus: The changing world of news ~Uptown Messenger * *What happened to Advance’s papers in Michigan ~Andrew Beaujon, Poynter.* *Independent Police Monitor, PANO file for intervent...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 hours agoThis is my favorite photo of the week so far, and it's not even a Dharapak. I love how easily President Obama engages with people. The contrast between him and the Rombot is never clearer than in the photo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoImage: James Holmes' jail booking report The former grad student charged in last month's deadly shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater gave his religion as "agnostic" and his occupation as "labore...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAug. 9 - Three people killed, more than a million evacuate as Typhoon Haiku hits eastern China. Travis Brecher reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*(Reuters) - Greece's jobless rate climbed to a new record in May, underlining how austerity prescribed to slash deficits and keep bailout funds flowing is hitting the economy on which recovery depends.* ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago* Minsk (Reuters) - Belarus police arrested two journalists for posing for photographs holding teddy bears after hundreds were dropped by air on the country in a pro-democracy stunt that embarrassed author...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFacebook's move into gambling is a distasteful one which prioritises commercial gain over user benefit, writes Emma Barnett. British Facebook users can now gamble on the social network using cash for the ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours ago*YouTube - EndTheLie* http://EndtheLie.com/ -- Support us! http://EndtheLie.com/store ---- http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/08/house-passes-bill-eliminating-se... --http://clerk.house.gov/evs/201...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours agoJames Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Hours after the PPRN News published the story of the request by the Department of Homeland Security / Transportation Safety Administration, Jacob Goodwin, Edi...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* LONDON (SHARECAST) - The European Central Bank (ECB) gave a gloomy outlook for the Eurozone economy on Thursday in its monthly report, dampening sentiment on equity markets as it downgraded its growth pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Image: Rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters capture a policeman who the FSA allege is a “Shabiha” or pro-regime militiaman, on July 31, 2012, as the rebels overran a police station in Aleppo A horrifyin...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours ago*Recent shootings turn progressives into proponents of fighting "domestic extremism". Be careful what you wish for.* image source * *Eric Blair *Activist Post* Progressives are generally empathetic to the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 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...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012* *Part 3—Trivia and gutless small weasels:* Has Mitt Romney been beating his wife? Well, not exactly *beating* his wife. Has Romney been *insulting* his wife about her silly st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck WESTERN XIZANG at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:12:03 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.1 miles) Northeast of Bhimeshwar, X...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago* (Reuters) - Stock index futures held near the unchanged mark after data showed weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week and the trade deficit was the smallest in 1-1/2 years.* S&P 500 futures d...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Ken Norton; I guess I should say Ken Norton, Sr., 69. I do miss heavyweight boxing; ethics of it aside, and I'm not here to mount a defense, it really was a terrific sport to watch, and t...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 14 hours agoWhen Usain competes, U.S. aid plummets. At Andrew Sullivan's *Daily Beast*, Patrick Appel offers a few hypotheses about why Americans seem to care less about the killing of Sikhs than the killing of movieg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR at a depth of 73.4 km (45.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:36:29 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34.1 miles) Southwest from Son...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Who's watching their waist... and who's not?* The DCCC has all it's eggs in one basket: defeating Republican freshmen. As we've seen all cycle, the DCCC just doesn't go after senior Republicans, Republic...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoJust as Peter Kent is the Anti-Environment Minister, Lisa Raitt is the Anti-Labour Minister. Her job has been to legislate Canada Post, Air Canada and Canadian Pacific workers back to their workplaces b...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” - Mr. Spock, “Star Trek”, "Amok Time"
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 7.8 km (4.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:09:32 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) NNW from Goldstone Lake...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck NORTHERN COLOMBIA at a depth of 27.9 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:00:58 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) West of Tame, Colombia ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"The Bird And The Cage"* by Paulo Coelho "Once upon a time, there was a bird. He was adorned with two perfect wings and with glossy, colorful, marvelous feathers. One day, a woman saw this bird and ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 15 hours ago** *OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says he is willing to blow the whistle on banks that break international norms or don't comply with reforms designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financi...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 15 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Prior to the arrival of the Bush crime family in Texas, the state had been progressive and liberal; it was still possible to get a good education. That is true in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?” - Will Rogers
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago*No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantage is to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the ne...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoI was driving to work this morning listening to a rebroadcast of Democracy Now when they started talking about Chevron. Good old ALEC member Chevron. Chevron Corporation[14], "Director" level sponsor of 2...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“If You Wonder Why Medical CURES Are So Rare...”* by Karl Denninger "Type 1 Diabetes is a nasty disease in which the islet cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the body. This renders the sufferer u...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoThis is a recent photo from the Mars Rover -- explanations abound but to my mind it is obviously the shadow of Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews spying on the mission... . *I mean, he is everywhere isn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* DAMASCUS, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian army has started a ground operation and entered several key districts in the northern Aleppo province, local media reported Thursday. * The Syrian troops started a...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoIncreasing the detachment in Kimmirut makes sense. That said, this new incident is atypical and merely a sad suicidal man acting out. Yes, it could have ended very badly but it does not reflect a larger pr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours agoSeal, “Crazy” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VClKuaehZY
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Note: We have found and shown footage of rebels executing unarmed people during past few months, but no footage of actual Military Executing people...Why is that?* * * *Before anyone comments that we don...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* (CNN) -- Despite weakening, Tropical Storm Ernesto poured heavy rains Wednesday on Mexico and portions of Central America, the National Hurricane Center said.* Ernesto, once a Category 1 hurricane, was ...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"The Journey"* "One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice - though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the LOMBOK REGION, INDONESIA at a depth of 117 km (72.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:04:25 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) NNE from Mat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear moves are becoming harder for Israeli and U.S. intelligence to assess, making Teheran's suspected atomic weapons drive an even more urgent matter, Defence Minister Ehud Barak s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAug. 9 - Rescuers race to move thousands of residents trapped in floods across Manila and nearby provinces. Sarah Charlton reports.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"There Is Time Left"* “Well, there is time left – fields everywhere invite you into them. And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul? Quickl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAug. 9 - Japan remembers victims of the Nagasaki atomic bombing as nuclear energy continues to concern residents. Sarah Charlton reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*(Reuters) - As she was ushered into surgery eight years ago, Paula was confident that doctors at Washington's Howard University Hospital would find the cancer that had been growing in her right breast for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* (Reuters) - Egyptian police fought gunmen in northern Sinai's main town of al-Arish on Thursday, state television reported, a day after security forces began a crackdown on Islamist militants in the regi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago* (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces a cloudy return from his short summer break as his expected request for European aid in September will spur protests on the street and deepen cracks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice investigating the disappearance of Carole Waugh have re-arrested Rakesh Bhayani on suspicion of murder. More follows...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Police hunting for Tia Sharp are liaising with officers who investigated the fake kidnap of Shannon Matthews as the search of bins outside Tia's grandmother's house continues. * Officers say they are tal...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 17 hours agoSince governments, national and local, often cite environmental protection, or ensuring a clean environment for the people, as among their important functions, I started the "Dirty Creeks" series here, and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to kill Imran Khan if the cricket player turned politician holds a planned march to their tribal stronghold to protest against US drone attacks. * Although the Pakis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* The EU is to hold urgent talks on Friday over the diplomatic row between Belarus and Sweden, which followed a political stunt involving teddy bears. * Belarus effectively expelled Swedish diplomats after ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSyrian rebels seized a busload of 48 Iranians in Damascus on August 4 on suspicion of being military personnel. Iran, an ally of Assad, says they are religious pilgrims. All the Iranians kidnapped by Syri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Iran will today try to hijack international diplomacy as peace broker in Syria by stepping into the vacuum created by the resignation of Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab envoy, last week.* Tehran will today host...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* (Reuters) - The Philippines began a massive clean-up on Thursday after floods swept the capital and nearby provinces, forcing residents to wade through shoulder-deep waters in some places after nearly tw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Fresh fighting has broken out between gunmen and police in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, according to state TV. * The clashes near a police station in the town of al-Arish come a day after the Egyptian milita...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* A convicted murderer has been executed by lethal injection in Texas after the US Supreme Court rejected claims he was too mentally impaired to qualify for the death penalty. * Marvin Wilson’s lawyers arg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Police are searching bins outside Tia Sharp's grandmother's house as the hunt for the missing schoolgirl continues. * The 12-year-old has not been seen since last Friday when she left her grandmother Chr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* Reports of a man seen hanging from a noose along a Las Vegas interstate prompted an uproar in 911 calls by horrified drivers this morning.* Teetering in a black suit and tie, officials say the first 'man...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* It was a desperate bid for freedom that, perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, was always going to be described as rubbish. * Two inmates tried to escape from a Brazilian prison by disguising themselves...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* A suspected Basque terrorist who was on the run for 12 years has been arrested in Britain.* Kemen Uranga, 43, was detained on an international arrest warrant today in London and is wanted for the murder...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago* A jury in Jefferson County has convicted a 29-year-old mother of murder after leaving her two-year-old son to die in a sweltering car while she was unconscious through drug abuse in her apartment.* Desp...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours agoThis fast translation from klaus.cz shows what kind of legislative junk is flowing from Brussels to Czechia these days... *Click the picture for an older (2010) TRF article on EU bans of heated houses.*...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* A young man who told police he was beaten up in a would-be hate crime appeared in court today admitting that he made the entire incident up.* The story of Joseph Baken travelled from Missoula, Montana ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* A housemate of the victim testified on the sixth day of Drew Peterson's murder trial that former Illinois policeman once broke into their shared home in SWAT gear and threatened his ex-wife at knife poin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in California with its looming mountains and hanging haze, scientists said on Wednesday.* 'The f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*The most brutal political ad of the 2012 election has blown up in the Obama campaign's face after blatant deceptions were revealed in the story of a woman who died of cancer following the closure of a s...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 18 hours agoMy first posting on this subject was last January 18, 2011, Dirty creeks 1: Makati. Here are two of the six photos that I showed there. This is on a creek in front of Makati Medical Center (MMC), a known ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* The victim of a cannibal attack has spoken for the first time about his horrific injuries which left him blind and with severe wounds after flesh was torn from his face.* Ronald Poppo, 65, barely surviv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* A convicted killer begged a shocked jury to sentence him to death, saying he'd rather die than spend the rest of his life in prison*. William Davis, 34, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:59:23 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 970 km (602 miles) ENE of Fer...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 18 hours ago*London 2012 officials are keen to keep secret details of Sunday's Olympic closing ceremony, refusing to validate announcements from Muse and George Michael that they will take part.* According to Muse,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 49.3 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:10:57 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 201 km (124 miles) East of Kuril'sk, Rus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago* The trial of Gu Kailai for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood has ended in the Chinese city of Hefei, after one day. * A court official told reporters Ms Gu had not contested the charge that s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* A Catholic priest could head from the pulpit to prison after he was discovered drunk driving and naked, police said.* Reverend Peter Petroske, the 57-year-old ex-pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Dearbor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Fukushima Hangs by the Devil’s Thread"* by Harvey Wasserman "Our lives still hang by a Devil’s thread at Fukushima. The molten cores at Units 1, 2 & 3 have threatened all life on Earth. The flood ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* Mexican archaeologists have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman is surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones. * Researchers found the burial about five meters (15 fee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* Scientists today released a groundbreaking 3D flythrough of the universe, revealing massive galaxies and distant black holes.* The largest map of its kind ever created, researchers hope it can help the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* Police were today investigating after the charred remains of a woman in her 40s were found under a pile of burning debris following a fire in a supermarket car park.* A police dog handler on a routine p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* A respected Tennessee doctor who was nominated for a national award has been accused of poisoning his wife for at least five months by putting Barium into her morning cup of coffee without her knowledge....
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 19 hours ago*by Len Hart, the Existentialist Cowboy* Ayn Rand is not a serious 'philosopher' and those who idolize her may not be taken seriously as responsible politicians. Below are Rand quotes numbered and followe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago* Failures by two councils led to a homeless 16-year-old boy being forced to spend nine months living in a tent and having to sell his belongings to survive, an inquiry has found.* Kent County Council and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago* The son of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai has broken his silence and submitted a witness statement to the murder trial of his mother.* An e-mail from Bo Guagua, 24, to CNN confirms that he has made a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago* A young girl was brutally killed by her father because she never smiled at him, a court in New Zealand has been told.* Angered by what thought was the 'spoilt behaviour' of his two-year-old daughter, th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:09:46 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 2803 km (1742 miles) ESE f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck EASTERN XIZANG at a depth of 31.3 km (19.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:49:57 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) South of Domartang, China ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agohttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9463529/Rioter-jailed-for-looting-shop-lived-in-3m-flat.html So much of what's wrong with UK in this one news story. Not just the £3m flat but also the pathet...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 20 hours agoI'm traveling to Wyoming about 70 miles from Yellowstone Park for Mom's 90th birthday. The dear lady has created quite a brood of children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. If you include cous...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoThe www.idnes.cz server, a center-right outlet that I consider the most powerful one on the Czech Internet news market and that almost certainly belongs to the top 3, published a controversial "main stor...
- posted by Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 21 hours agoThe vast majority of the U.S. $727 billion trade deficit in goods for 2011 is due to "intra-firm" or "related party" trade, that is, trade between two units of the same corporation, according to the U.S. C...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoDoing something to support the immune system response has always been indicated in cancer research, while mastering the art, quite another story. This appears to be promising although the first cl...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is at least a threat that we can be legitimately concerned about. It is real and there is a good one chance in ten we will be unpleasantly inconvenienced. Yet there is plenty of good news...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis item is of course short on details, but addresses the serious need for high speed connectors between population centers. Can an air based system do the trick? I do not think so. The air ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoConsider that this article was written before the internet. Read it and you will discover just how prescient that it is. Also make the effort to grasp some of the mathematics described here. Th...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 22 hours agotheoretically, what John Lennon wanted is what we all want, TRUTH. But this turns out not to be true, as laid out in this meandering song (above), "All I want is the Truth, just gimme some Truth." Who? ...
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 22 hours agoBy Manifesto Joe We live in a time in which ordinary people are being told to expect far, far less. Social Security isn't even a given, nor is Medicare. And yet, now we hear this: *Super Rich Holding $21...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoTransparency, Alberta style, with Gloria Stuart as Alison Redford, William Harrigan as Dr. Chris Eagle and Claude Rains as Fred Horne. Below: Don Scott, yesterday’s Invisible Man. Alberta’s mainstream medi...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agoDaniel Silverman at Seedy Road believes so and has vreated a marvelous post to illustrate the point. Here are a few extracts: '"*The settlements are the main obstacle to peace.*" No, they're not. The sett...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoToad Suck, AK sign post. Photo courtesy: Wiki Commons I have been accused of having a very twisted sense of humour; and, this blog just may remove any doubts that may still be out there. I am publishing t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* A thug plunged a hypodermic needle into the neck of a woman as she stood at her front door in a gruesome but apparently random attack.* After knocking at the front door, the attacker issued a sinister th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Government-Sponsored Poverty"* by Jeffrey Tucker "Growing up in the Cold War, we tended to look at Russia as a nightmare slave society that was utterly and completely foreign to anything Americans...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 22 hours agoFrom The New York Times on September 8, 2002: From Ha'aretz on August 9, 2012: *****
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* An accountant turned himself into a human fireball after learning he was about to be exposed for stealing £70,000 to fund a luxury lifestyle for his girlfriend.* Anthony Roden, 56, died in a car blaze a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* Prisoners are being paid £15 a day to work in a call centre selling ‘green’ solar panels and home insulation to the public. * The inmates reportedly include a killer and a fraudster, and customers will h...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours agoWebsite for this image Syria captures Turkish and Saudi Officers commanding death squads. Washington Post sees Saudi Arabia on the brink as Qatif demonstrations grow. *Al Qaeda: Pride of the USA's Coun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago* A hitman has made fresh claims that honeymooner Anni Dewani’s murder was ordered by her husband.* Mziwamadoda Qwabe said the killing in his native South Africa was designed to appear like ‘a random crim...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago*Boko Haram emir Abubakar Shekau * On 7 August 2012, it was reported that gunmen had fired on worshippers in a church in central Nigeria, killing at least 19 people. The terror group Boko Haram may have ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNorth Korea has the capability to conduct a third nuclear test within two weeks, U.S. nuclear experts claimed Monday. "North Korea appears to have an underground tunnel ready for testing," write Siegfried...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* He claimed to be so poor that he joined the riots to steal money for food. * But in reality Nasir Muhsen, 18, was living in a £3million apartment, funded by British taxpayers. He and his family were hous...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Preparing To Fail"* by Bill Bonner "Gore Vidal, veteran of WWII, died last week. Here’s something he wrote in 2003. "I can recall thinking, when I got out of the Army in 1946, Well, that’s that. W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* The public is more disillusioned with banks than ever, with seven in ten Britons believing that the greed culture has not improved since the start of the credit crunch.* Some 71 per cent think banks hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck OFF THE COAST OF OREGON at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:18:18 UTC Thursday 9th August 2012 The epicenter was 437 km (271 miles) West from Yachats,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* British taxpayers are paying to make jails in Jamaica and Nigeria more comfortable in a desperate bid to persuade foreign criminals to serve their sentences at home.* Ministers have resorted to the tact...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAug. 8 - Chilean students take to the streets, setting buses ablaze and clashing with police as they continue their demands for education reform.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago* Right-wing American patriots are good. But Washington wants to paint them as bad. * The financial collapse of the United States is about to become a reality. The federal government and the military e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAug. 8 - Amateur video purports to show a mortar shell exploding during a funeral procession in Deraa. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAug. 9 - Security is tight at a Chinese court ahead of the opening a trial against Gu Kailai, accused of murdering a British businessman.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* (Reuters) - The United States and Vietnam on Thursday began cleaning up the toxic chemical defoliant Agent Orange on part of Danang International Airport, marking the first time Washington has been invol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* BAGHDAD — A car bomb targeting Shiite Muslims in Iraq and the shooting of a lawyer and his family left 21 people dead on Wednesday, after Al-Qaeda warned it would target lawyers and retake territory in a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* Two soldiers have been shot dead at a mosque in Nigeria, a day after 19 worshippers were killed in an attack on a church, an army official has said. * Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Olorunyomi said three gun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* A fresh deluge forced more evacuations along fast-rising rivers in the Philippine capital Thursday, as the city and surrounding areas struggled to deal with widespread flooding triggered by nearly two we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago* IT may have an army 48,000 strong and 350 surface to air missiles, but no one in authority seems to have noticed when Belarus was invaded by hundreds of parachuting democracy teddy bears. * Now, Alexande...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoRecording Casualties and the Protection of Civilians from Oxford Research Group (ORG) on Vimeo. As the lone social scientist in a room of lawyers, philosophers and technicians last week, I was struck by...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day 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 day agoJoe South, “Games People Play” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGyENr3_44
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
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