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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

26 September - Blogs I'm Following II

Euro zone worries sends shares lower

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*(Reuters) - European shares fell sharply and the single currency hit a two-week low on Wednesday as popular opposition within the euro zone to budget austerity measures unnerved investors already worried about a weak global growth outlook.* The market's focus was on Spain and Greece: protesters clashed with police in Madrid on Tuesday as the government prepared to unveil its 2013 budget on Thursday; and Greeks held a general strike as ministers sought to renegotiate a bailout. The worries over a worsening in the euro zone's financial crisis have contributed to a sharp rise in vol... more »

Spanish tango sparks late sell-off

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*Sept 25 - Summary of business headlines: Wall Street falls as Spanish protesters clash with police, overlooking U.S. housing, consumer data; Google touches lifetime high; Barnes and Noble turns to video; Amazon and Nasdaq team-up in the cloud. Conway G. Gittens reports.*

Nook , Nook, Please Let Me In

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 13 hours ago
We have already asked the question about Barnes and Noble’s international grand venture and whether it will even hit the consciousness of the UK consumer, let alone pass the ‘so what’ test? As Frankfurt and the Christmas season nears we seen some more of their approach top the UK which is as far as we know still the limit of their ‘international’ programme today. They have announced two further stores Dixons, which is the High Street little brother of yes, PC World, which is out of town shed outlet of the same group Dixons Retail. So some would suggest they have not two but one a... more »

Greece faces first big anti-austerity strike

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*(Reuters) - Flights and trains were suspended, shops pulled down their shutters and hospitals worked on emergency staff on Wednesday in Greece's first big anti-austerity strike since a coalition government took power in June.* Called by the country's two biggest unions representing half the four-million-strong work force, the walkout is expected to bring out thousands of Greeks to the streets to protest at a new round of belt-tightening demanded by EU and IMF lenders. "The new measures are unbearable, unfair and only worsen the crisis. We are determined to fight until we win," sa... more »

EU lawmakers to vote for sweeping markets reforms

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*(Reuters) - Curbs on firms that trade shares faster than the blink of an eye move a step nearer in the European Union on Wednesday when the bloc's parliament votes to introduce sweeping reforms of securities markets.* High-frequency trading has been singled out by regulators and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic for favoring speculators and adding to volatility. High-frequency trading by Optiver, IMC Trading and other firms involves posting orders for milliseconds at a time to exploit tiny differences in share prices. The firms involved say they are courted by exchanges t... more »

Mona Eltahawy Arrested for spray painting graffiti over anti-jihad NY subway ad

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*An Egyptian-born U.S. columnist was arrested Tuesday for spray painting an advertisement equating Muslim radicals with savages at a New York City subway station.* Mona Eltahawy, 45, of New York, was arrested on charges including criminal mischief and making graffiti, police said. Eltahawy is a women's rights defender and lecturer on the role of social media in the Arab world. She calls herself a liberal Muslim who's spoken publicly against violent Islamic groups. The incident was captured on video, which shows Eltahawy spraying pink paint on the ad while another woman tries to b... more »

X-37B: U.S. Air Force readying third launch for top-secret spy plane, which analysts say can see through clouds and bad weather

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*The U.S. Air Force is preparing to send its super-secret spy plane into orbit for a third time, but details of the mission will once again be kept under wraps.* The X-37B, an unmanned and reusable spacecraft built by Boeing, will launch sometime in October. Next month’s blast-off will reportedly test the X-37B’s reusability, it’s instruments and just how feasible it is for future missions. Major Tracy Bunko at the Pentagon’s Air Force press desk, told Space.com: 'One of the most promising aspects of the X-37B is it enables us to examine a payload system or technology in the envir... more »

Russia suspends import and use of American GM corn after study revealed cancer risk

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*Russia has suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage.* Separately, the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA), has ordered its own review in to the research, which was conducted at a French university. The decision by Russia could be followed by other nations in what would be a severe blow to the take-up of the controversial technology. Historically, biotech companies have proved the safety of GM crops based on trials involving feeding rats for a period of 90 days. However, experts at the University of C... more »

Nasa reveals massive halo of hot gas that envelops our universe

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*It is an astonishing reminder of just how large the universe is.* Nasa today revealed this incredible image showing our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The estimated mass of the halo is comparable to the mass of all the stars in the galaxy. Read More

Scientists back theory that life was brought to Earth by space microbes

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*Extraterrestrial microbes might have brought life to Earth after travelling through space for millions of years, say scientists.* The theory is based on calculations showing a high likelihood of rock fragments from planets in other star systems landing on Earth long ago. Some of them could have carried embedded micro-organisms, according to experts writing in the journal Astrobiology. The research suggests the dormant bugs could easily have survived the long journey through space, despite high levels of cosmic radiation. Simple life may equally well have travelled from Earth to pl... more »

Obama tells United Nations it is 'time to heed the words of Gandhi', condemns 'disgusting' anti-Islam video and insists 'Muslims have suffered the most at the hands of extremism'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*President Barack Obama delivered an extensive denunciation of a 'crude and disgusting' anti-Islam video made in California, telling the United Nations that 'it is time to heed the words of Gandhi' and declaring: 'The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.'* Obama strongly condemned the protests that spread across the Middle East and the murder of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, branding them 'an assault on America'. But he stated that the unrest and murderous attacks were the result of the low-budget video, which had 'sparked outrage through... more »

Bagel head Trend: Japan's most extreme beauty trend yet?

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*The extraordinary look, which is created by injecting saline into the forehead, then pressing in the centre of the swollen area with a thumb, is a hit on the country's underground body modification scene.* The dramatic results of the two-hour treatment last just 16-24 hours, after which the saline is absorbed by the body and the forehead reduces back to its normal size. Read More

VOTE SÍ A LA PROPUESTA 37!

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
VOTE SÍ A LA PROPUESTA 37 - porque usted debería tener el derecho a saber qué contienen sus alimentos. El voto sí a la Propuesta 37 significa tres cosas: USTED TENDRÁ DERECHO A SABER LO QUE CONTIENEN SUS ALIMENTOS, y si éstos se producen mediante la manipulación genética. LOS ALIMENTOS SE ETIQUETARÁN CORRECTAMENTE. Las etiquetas de alimentos tendrán que divulgar si el producto se elaboró mediante la manipulación genética. PROTEGER LA SALUD DE SU FAMILIA SERÁ MÁS FÁCIL. Usted tendrá la información que necesita acerca de los alimentos que algunos médicos y científicos dicen están v... more »

Vote Yes on Proposition 37 - We Have The Right To Know

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
Vote Yes on Proposition 37 for our right to know what's in our food. Join our campaign: Because Food is Love... Food is Life -- Food is Family. We all have the right to know what's in our food. That's why so many consumers say YES to Proposition 37. It gives us the right to know if there are genetically engineered ingredients in our food ¬ -- with clear information on package labels. That's the very same right consumers in nearly 50 other countries already enjoy. Yes on 37 -- We have the right to know what's in our food. *Source:* *http://www.carighttoknow.org*

Chinese protester opposing government takeover of village land 'is crushed to death by state-controlled road-flattening truck'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*This is the horrifying moment a Chinese protester was allegedly brutally crushed to death by a government road flattening truck over a land dispute.* The demonstrator had apparently resisted a government relocation when he appeared to be crushed by the huge vehicle on the orders of a Chinese government official. The victim, named as He Zhi Hua, had refused to accept a small sum to relocate from Changsha Village in Hunan Province, where government officials want to claim land for commercial use. Instead, when Hua began lying down on the land in protest, a construction vehicle repo... more »

Vasili Arkhipoy the submariner who single-handedly averted World War Three at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*He was the man who saved the world by single-handedly averting World War Three five decades ago, yet he died humiliated, outcast and an unknown. Only now has his story has come to light.* A documentary shown tonight told how for 13 days during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the world held its breath as the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. stood on the brink of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, when paranoia on both sides meant the slightest provocation could spark nuclear war, four submarines secretly set sail from Russia to communist Cuba. Only a handful of the submari... more »

Mitt Romney's Unintentionally Hilarious Tax Return FAQ

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 14 hours ago
Unless you've been in a coma, you have certainly heard about Mitt Romney's release of his 2011 tax returns last Friday. You no doubt now that he and his wife did not claim all the charitable tax deductions they were due, so their tax rate would not go below 13% of adjusted gross income. If you read Bloomberg or a newspaper that picked up the Bloomberg story, you know that Rafalca, the Romneys' dressage horse, has disappeared from their 2011 tax deductions. This, of course, raises the question of whether it was a legitimate deduction in 2010 (or earlier?). After all, being in the Oly... more »

Yom Kippur 39 years on

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago
I remember Yom Kippur 1973, I was but a child and did not stay at synagogue all day with my father. I was at home sitting in front of the television when I saw the reports of war in the Middle East. For some reason I didn't say anything to my mum. Shortly thereafter we were all back at synagogue for the Neilah service. The congregation was shocked from its prayer by the phone in the rabbi's office ringing. Someone ran to answer it and admonish the caller for daring to call a synagogue on Yom Kippur. A minute or so later the news was broken to the congregation that Israel had been att... more » 

UK Floods, Foam & Delays

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
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'Democracy Has Been Kidnapped!' Clashes in Madrid; Spain

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
25 September 2012 Riot police have ringed the Spanish parliament in Madrid after clashing with demonstrators as thousands of protesters gather for a march against austerity tagged "Surround Congress". Nine people have been injured and 15 arrested, local media report. Spain On Sale

Block of flats evacuated after floods wash away its foundations after worst storm to hit Britain in 30 years

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*This terrifying sight brings home the full horror of the floods that have hit areas of Britain after a mighty deluge brought a month's rainfall in just 24 hours - and led forecasters to declare it the worst storm to hit Britain in 30 years. * A block of flats is precariously perched on stilts on an estate in Newburn, Newcastle, its foundations washed away by the waterfall which formed after the road outside turned into a river. The torrential downpours have caused more than 300 homes to flood across the country since Sunday, including in Morpeth, Durham, Chester-le-Street and Stoc... more »

NEW Swine Flu: Ontario spots case of new swine flu; not one linked to U.S. fairs this summer

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*TORONTO - Ontario has found a case of an infection with a new swine flu virus, in a man who worked with pigs. * The infection was caused by an H1N1-variant virus, which is not the swine flu virus that has been jumping from pigs to people in the United States this summer. That virus, an H3N2-variant, has caused 305 infections this year in the U.S. but has not been spotted in Canada to date. Most infections with the H3N2-variant flu have been in people who visited pig barns at state and county fairs. Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, said the man is being ... more »

Militants' attack kills 2 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*KABUL, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) lost their lives as they came under militants' attack in Afghanistan's eastern region on Wednesday, the alliance confirmed in a statement released here. * "Two International Security Assistance Force service members died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan today," the statement added. However, it did not reveal the nationalities of the victims and the exact place of the incident, saying it is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the releva... more »

West turns up heat on Iran and Syria at UN

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*WESTERN and Arab leaders have ramped up the pressure on Syria and Iran at the United Nations, as US President Barack Obama vowed to keep Tehran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons.* The United States, France and Qatar led the charge on Tuesday as the West and its allies attempted to use the UN General Assembly to win support for tougher international action against the Middle East's twin pariah regimes. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon set the tone, condemning the bloodshed in Syria, where the beleaguered regime is battling an armed revolt and subjecting its citizens to what... more »

Spain to seek bailout if yields too high for too long

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*(Reuters) - Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday said he was ready to seek a new rescue package for his troubled country but only if its debt financing costs remain too high for too long.* Investors have been jittery that Spain's apparent reluctance to seek a bailout - a condition for European Central Bank action to cut the country's borrowing costs - could propel the euro zone into even deeper trouble. Rajoy had said previously that a reduction in Spanish bond yields after the announcement of a bold bond-buying plan by the ECB could allow Spain to put off seeking fur... more »

Japan-China ministers in 'severe' meeting over islands row

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
*The Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers have held talks on a bitter row over disputed islands. * The meeting came on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The Japanese minister described the atmosphere as severe, Kyodo News agency said, while his Chinese opposite number restated Beijing's sovereignty over the islands, Xinhua news agency said. The islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are controlled by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan. Tension in the region has been high since Japan's purchase of the islands from their private Japanese owner.... more »

Rebel bombers 'hit Syria military HQ' in Demascus

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
*Two large explosions have shaken the centre of Syria's capital Damascus, near the military general staff headquarters.* The blasts happened just before 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT) in an area dominated by government buildings. Information Minister Omran Zoabi said two roadside bombs caused the blasts, and said one might have been inside the main military compound. Witnesses said the main building of the compound was on fire. State media said only that fires had broken out near the military headquarters and while reports said there had been several injuries, officials said there h... more »

4.4 Magnitude Earthquake OFF THE COAST OF OREGON - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck OFF THE COAST OF OREGON at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:42:42 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 161 km (100 miles) West of Bandon, Oregon No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

5.2 Magnitude Earthquake TONGA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 162.1 km (100.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:45:18 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (97 miles) West from Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.0 Magnitude Earthquake GULF OF CALIFORNIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:02:17 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) NNE of La Paz, Mexico No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

3.6 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 7.8 km (4.8 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 05:53:31 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (66 miles) West from Trinidad, California No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

5.2 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTH OF KERMADEC ISLANDS - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF KERMADEC ISLANDS at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:24:31 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 847 km (525.1 miles) Northeast of Gisborne, New Zealand No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

Kucinich Calls Out Monsanto: Americans Demand GMO Labeling

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
19 September 2012 "In 1992 the Food and Drug Administration decided that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are the functional equivalent of conventional foods. They arrived at this decision without testing GMOs for allergenicity, toxicity, anti-biotic resistance and functional characteristics. As a result hundreds of millions of acres of GMO crops were planted in America without the knowledge or consent of the American people: no safety testing and no long term health studies. "The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. Ninety perc... more »

4.9 Magnitude Earthquake OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:49:13 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (95.8 miles) East of Hasaki, Honshu, Japan No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

Witten's new trilogy on RNS diagrams

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours ago
Witten is such a big guy in physics that I will probably not attempt to write a single article attempting to cover all his important contributions to physics, something I did and I plan with other inaugural Milner Prize winners. Instead, we may talk about specific new papers. I have already mentioned Edward Witten's work on technical issues of RNS Feynman diagrams but because the full trilogy is now out, it may be appropriate to summarize the links and add a few comments. There are three papers Short (review of the long one), medium (background on manifolds), long (the bulk). Thi... more »

Energy Econ 8: More Intolerance by the Anti-Coal Camp

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 15 hours ago
The construction of a coal terminal leading to a coal power plant in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental continues to evoke debates and emotionalism. There are two main protagonists there. One is the City government itself which supported and helped facilitate the entry of the power plant. The other is the Cadiznon Kontra Coal (CKZ). Both have facebook groups below. Based on my engagement with them, I can say that both groups have the latter has shown high intolerance when you question them or you show non-alliance with them. I have proof for saying this. On the CKZ, there is that attitu... more »

War Healer

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
This is extraordinary good news. With military funding, medical restoration research is advancing now in real time. If it works, it is used ASAP and the results guide further application. The rest of medical science needs a sharp dose of this mentality for two good reasons. The first is that our knowledge base is deep enough to respond well to failure and to track lessons learned properly. Thus a protocol failure instructs immediately and real losses balance well against assured losses from continued failure to successfully treat and resolve health issues. The second is ... more »

Risk Reduction of Ninety Percent for Heat Attacks

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
This is good news in that we are informed what the key factors are that demand attention and their real strength statistically. It is great guidance that assists every trainer in shaping programs. Of course, we all sort of knew this, but the scope was never properly quantified and this yanks it out of the nether world of general opinion. The bottom line is that addressing these issues successfully and that is obviously the rub, one reduces ones general risk by 90%. By the way, the shortest straight line to success is to go vegan with almost no wheat. It is a tough trick... more » 

Pre Agricultural Ceramics

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
The only thing that exploded ten thousand years ago was the population as it responded to the conversion to agriculture. This also brought fixed communal living and the inevitable accumulation of pottery wherever it was possible. Recall though that the alternative was wood which was just as handy if not more so. Unsurprisingly the evidence of pottery cultures appear generally were carvable wood resources would have soon been eliminated. Thus by inference, huge agricultural populations could well have thrived using wood alone. That is certainly the evidence of the Amazon and... more »

Japan Tooth Patch Could End Decay

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
What this means is that the outright replacement of enamel is now plausible and in fact outright likely. While we wait for someone to figure out how to regenerate fresh teeth, this will do nicely for most everyone. If we can also figure out how to prevent abscesses and the death of nerves, then teeth preservation will become the norm into serious old age as wear itself becomes completely repairable. For my generation who have lived with an ongoing struggle to preserve our teeth after our parent's generation generally gave it up quite early and switched to false teeth th... more »

ROTHSCHILDS, BANKS, CIA, CHEMTRAILS, LOCKERBIE, DRONES, MALAYSIA, 9 11...

Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago
*1. ROTHSCHILDS* Nat Rothschild's big investment in 'Bumi' in Indonesia has gone wrong. *Bumi woes dent Rothschild fortune – and reputation* *2. BANKS* "A low degree of exposure to the international banking system has helped economies such as Australia, Canada, India and Malaysia to avoid the worst effects of the global financial crisis... India and Malaysia have restricted entry by foreign banks. Malaysia, India avert crisis due to less exposure to international banking ... *2. THE CIA IN MALAYSIA* Malaysiakini, a Malaysian media organization, has just admitted receiving ... more »

Motion 312 and reproductive rights: pay attention to what Tories do, not to what they say

david at Alberta Diary - 16 hours ago
What? What? I’m pro-choice and pro-life, Edmonton St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber seems to say in this shot grabbed from his website. Below: Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth. In this era of routine political deceit, wise voters are advised to pay attention to what their elected representatives actually do, not what they say. So when ... more »

King of Norway Knights a Penquin

Photo courtesy: Wikipedia And now for something completely different...The Norwegian King and and Royal Guard have a great sense of humor. Nils Olav is a King Penguin (there's definitely a royal connection there) living in the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. In the summer of 2008, soldiers from the Norwegian Royal Guard visited him at the zoo, and while the story doesn't say, I'll guess that some fine single-malt Scotch was involved, because the next thing that happened is that the soldiers awarded the penguin a knighthood. Screen capture courtesy Edinburgh Zoo. It could all have stopp... more »

Japan's New Nuclear Regulatory Body Discontinues Use of Stress Tests

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours ago
New nuclear regulatory body not to continue 'stress tests' The Mainichi Sep 25, 2012 http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120925p2g00m0dm030000c.html [excerpted] (Kyodo) -- Japan's new nuclear regulatory authority will not continue the current procedure to assess the safety of reactors for their reactivation because it plans to create fresh criteria, the authority's head Shunichi Tanaka said Monday. "We will not use 'stress tests' as our judgment criteria," Tanaka said in an interview with Kyodo News, referring to the two-stage safety examination process that th... more »

Points to Ponder

If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Apologizing doesn't always mean that you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value the relationship more than you value your ego. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards.

Injection Wells and Salt Dome Collapse

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours ago
Majia here: Currently Enenews has been following the collapse of a salt dome that had served as a storage place for waste in Assumption Parish. The emergence of a massive sink hole at the location of the salt dome was the first signal to local residents that a problem existed. Enenews: CONFIRMED: Salt cavern below sinkhole has failed http://enenews.com/confirmed-salt-cavern-below-sinkhole-has-failed Majia here: ProPublica recently ran a very interesting story about this practice of injecting all kinds of toxic waste into underground caverns. Salt domes, as I understand it, are one k... more »

Quotable Quotes

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. - Joanna Macy All that we are is the result of what we have thought: It is founded on our thoughts and is made up of our thoughts. - the Dhammapada Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

Obama "kicks it" into high gear during final campaign stretch

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago
*Thoughts: I wonder, is he dancing because he's coming? Or because he's going? Nevertheless, if only all the worlds' ills could be settled with some fancy feet and a novelty rubber mask. An editor can dream.*

Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes near Mexico's Baja Peninsula

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
*(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the southern tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, on Tuesday and caused panic, but local officials said there were no reports of damage or injuries.* The quake's epicenter was located 46 miles north of La Paz, Mexico, and was centered in the Gulf of California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. "It felt pretty strong," said Ivan Calderon, a Baja California Sur state civil protection official, adding there were no reports of damages or injuries. "So far there have just been some reports of people panicking, but nothing serious," ... more »

Thousands Rage Against Cutbacks In Spain

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
*Thousands of protesters have marched on Madrid's parliament building as anger over austerity measures and tax hikes increases in Spain.* More than 1,000 riot police blocked off access to the building in the centre of the capital. Officers used batons to push back some protesters at the front of the march and fired rubber bullets as they charged crowds in central Madrid, according to reports. The demonstration, with an "Occupy Congress" slogan, drew protesters weary of nine months of painful cutbacks imposed by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Spain is struggling with its second rece... more »

CT Images Reveal 300 Million-Year-Old Cockroach

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
*Images in 3D of 300 million-year-old insects have been revealed by scientists at a British university.* By placing fossils in a CT scanner, and taking over 3,000 X-rays from different angles, the scientists were able to create 2,000 slices showing the creatures in cross section. From these slices, the researchers created 3D digital reconstructions of the fossils which allowed them to learn more about their lifestyle, biology and diet. One of the insects, characterised by a large number of sharp spines, is a new species and genus which no longer exists. The other is an early pred... more »

Britain Braced For A Second Day Of Flooding

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
*Swathes of Britain are braced for more flooding with heavy rain and strong winds forecast for a second day.* The Environment Agency (EA) has issued 83 flood warnings and 139 less serious flood alerts with up to 1.6 inches of rain set to fall in the next 24 hours. On Tuesday, some areas saw more than a month's rainfall as downpours and winds battered parts of Wales, northern England and Scotland. Around 300 homes were flooded after low pressure moved north across the country from the Bay of Biscay to the north east coast. The low pressure is now heading south west, which will brin... more »

4.3 Magnitude Earthquake NORTHERN COLOMBIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck NORTHERN COLOMBIA at a depth of 152.4 km (94.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:22:24 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) North of Aratoca, Colombia No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 19 hours ago
Welcome 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 information in this post and I encourage you to read through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might find the following quick links helpful: - The #CTWW Gang - The Honor Society - My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge - This Week's Challenge How did you do with the SWOT analysis last week? I found it interesting! Thinking about green living in a sli... more »

What Does Steve Israel Have Against West Virginia?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
This afternoon we took a look at DCCC math and the committee's patently false claims about targeting. I promised we'd take a look at one of the races they spent heavily on in 2010 and see what they're doing there this cycle. Come with me to beautiful northern West Virginia, WV-01, a traditionally Democratic district that covers a third of the state, including Wheeling, Parkersburg and Morgantown. But first a couple words about the state of the state's political culture. The West Virginia Democratic Party Establishment, home of arch-conservatives Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Sen... more »

5.1 Magnitude Earthquake TONGA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 42.7 km (26.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:41:43 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) East of `Ohonua, Tonga No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA at a depth of 29.1 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 01:28:32 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) SSE of Kas, Turkey No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time 

NATO Terrorists Bomb School in Syria

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours ago
France seeks no-fly zone over Syria to repeat Al Qaeda Benghazi-blowback. *by Tony Cartalucci* *September 26, 2012* - As NATO desperately attempts to coverup a botched false flag operation in Benghazi, Libya which left a high ranking US diplomat dead, France has urged a repeat performance in Syria. That is, arming and providing air support for the very terrorist battalions now operating in Syria that have ravaged and overrun Libya, leaving it a perpetually wrecked, destabilized terrorist epicenter. The announcement made by French President Francois Hollande came on the heels of a ... more » 
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Censored News celebrates six years of publishing the warriors!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 25 minutes ago
*Celebrating six years of publishing!* *By Brenda Norrell, publisher* brendanorrell@gmail.com *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Censored News bolts into its seventh year of publishing in October 2012. It has been a bumpy ride to keep it going. But always there are those who have no other place to post their news for a global audience. The worst offenders, like the US Border Patrol, Canadian mining corporations, the US government, and other human rights abusers are able to either co-op, or silence, most of the media. The news reporters that can not be squelched are ... more »

The Aeneid

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 27 minutes ago
YouTube video description [Channel - Gottfried Leibniz]: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'The Aeneid', Virgil's great epic poem about Rome. Guests include Catherine Edwards, Edith Hall and Philip Hardie.

State court ruling deals blow to U.S. bank mortgage system

Intercept at The Intercept - 39 minutes ago
Reuters Michelle Conlin The highest court in the state of Washington recently ruled that a company that has foreclosed on millions of mortgages nationwide can be sued for fraud, a decision that could cause a new round of trouble for the nation's banks. The ruling is one of the first to allow consumers to seek damages from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, a company set up by the nation's major banks, if they can prove they were harmed. Legal experts said last month's decision from the Washington Supreme Court could become a precedent for courts in other states. The case ... more »

[Video] Reverse Defections: Ex-FSA Members Defect Again to Rejoin Syrian Army

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 43 minutes ago
YouTube video description [Channel - Eretz Zen]: Al Mayadeen TV has shown a group of Syrians who had defected earlier from the Syrian Army to join the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) before realizing that what they were doing was wrong, so they decided to rejoin the legal Syrian Arab Army, while stating that their weapons should only be used for the liberation of Palestine rather than fighting their own citizens. The name of the speaker is: Khaled Abdul-Rahman al-Zalem.

Health Spending 6: DOH's Proposed 2013 Budget

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 58 minutes ago
Government healthcare spending is among the biggest items in the national budget. Such spending is not limited to the budget of the (a) Department of Health (DOH) but also to (b) state universities like the PGH under the UP budget, (c) DND and DILG for the AFP and PNP Hospitals, (d) PCSO, PAGCOR which give away ambulances and provide hospitalization coverage to some poor people, (e) other Departments and national government agencies, (f) local governments with their respective city/district/provincial hospitals, (g) charity groups, corporate foundations, company spending, and so on. ... more »

Organs taken from patients that doctors were pressured to declare brain dead: suit

Intercept at The Intercept - 1 hour ago
Washington Post Jamie Schram The New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could be harvested — and even hired “coaches” to train staffers how to be more persuasive, a bombshell lawsuit charged yesterday. The federally funded nonprofit used a “quota” system, and leaned heavily on the next of kin to sign consent forms when patients were not registered as organ donors, the suit charged. “They’re playing God,” said plaintiff Patrick McMahon, 50, an Air Force combat veteran and nurse practitioner who claims he was fired... more »

Rocket from Syria lands in northern Israel, Damascus official denies reports of misplaced army shelling

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A top Syrian government official speaking to KleinOnline denied that a rocket launched from Syria that landed in northern Israeli territory today was misplaced Syrian army firing, as has been widely reported. “I am not aware of any clashes between the Syrian Army and the rebels taking place so close to the Israeli border,” added the Syrian official. “In any case, the Syrian army does not fire rockets against the rebels.” The official further said that mortars launched from Syria that landed in Israel yesterday were not related to any fighting between the rebels and the Syrian army.... more »

North Korean fishing boat incursions mysteriously start to begin at night

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Yet another North Korean fishing vessel has crossed the Northern Limit Line in the West Sea and been ordered to return to North Korean waters by the ROK Navy. According to the military official who released the news this lunchtime, “A single North Korean fishing vessel crossed the NLL to the east of Yeonpyeong Island at 9:38PM last night and travelled 0.4 nautical miles south. One of our naval speedboats was immediately dispatched, and the vessel retreated as soon as it was issued with a warning.” Seven similar violations of the NLL by fishing vessels have occurred this month alon... more »

"I'm Lovin' It": Fast-Food Logos 'Imprinted' in Children's Brains, Study Says

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Childhood obesity is a growing health concern in the public sphere, but for many of us, it also hits close to home. But while public health campaigns have singled in on parents providing children with unhealthy nutrition options and with poor examples of healthy eating, new research indicates that some of the problem may lie with fast food companies and their overly effective marketing campaigns. A study has found that fast-food logos are branded into the minds of children from an early age. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more tha... more »

In The Watergate Affair, Bernstein And Woodward Were The Bad Guys, Not Nixon

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
*New evidence shows that President Nixon was not the monster that he was made out to be. History has vindicated him, and revealed his attackers in the press to be nothing but CIA lapdogs who deceived America.* *"You can't be having a driving dream when you are in the midst of a nightmare." - A profound statement by President Richard Nixon.* Watergate in a nutshell: Richard Nixon's reputation was unfairly attacked by two young "journalist" hacks who wanted to make a name for themselves by bringing down an independently minded American president, with the CIA's blessing. Today, on... more »

The DotCom

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour ago
Q: What’s the similarity between Kim DotCom and Tame Iti? A: The NZ police and security services did their level best to make them look good. I wonder if incompetence can be measured. Perhaps, if it could, the unit could be called “The DotCom.” The Dot Com could be defined as the ability of one govt agency to blow one case sky high by one piece of rank incompetence.* Every now and then we get a clear peek into the inside of the government machine—a look behind the scenes into that ever-growing armed bureaucracy that asserts its power to run our lives, and to attempt to run this c... more »

Why Hasn't Anyone Done A Reality Show About Congress Yet? Or Did I Miss It?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
I had a wonderful dinner last night with a former Republican congressman. He's still a Republican-- a relatively enlightened one--but he's no longer a congressman, although he could be again someday. What a delightful and erudite guy... and so chock full of stories that I hope I can remember and relate to everyone as time passes. Like this one... It's late summer, 1998. Clinton is presidente and Newt in Speaker. Clinton has signed a not very substantive bill prohibiting discriminating against federal workers because of their sexual orientation. (Remember Joe McCarthy is long dead ... more »

Judges must consider the trial evidence in its entirety

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours ago
Judges must consider all the evidence at trial - they do not have to recite it all in their reasons but they must consider it. See today's decision in R. v. Clouthier, 2012 ONCA 636: While trial judges are not required to make reference to every piece of evidence, there is a duty to consider the evidence in its entirety, not simply the evidence that inculpates the accused

NYT: In Prosecutors, Debt Collectors Find a Partner

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 3 hours ago
*Angela Yartz with debt collection notices on **district **attorney* *letterhead. She was threatened **with **conviction over a $47.95* *check to Walmart.* http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/business/in-prosecutors-debt-collectors-find-a-partner.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www *In Prosecutors, Debt Collectors Find a Partner* Noah Berger for The New York Times By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Published: September 15, 2012 The letters are sent by the thousands to people across the country who have written bad checks, threatening them with jail if they do not pay up. Collection noti... more »

Obama accused of 'sitting with Iran'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
*A group critical of the president's foreign policy has unleased an ad in key swing states accusing President Obama of favoring Iran over Israel, highlighting how U.S. officials didn't storm out of the United Nations this week when Iranian President Ahmadinejad said the Jewish state would be eliminated.* The group Let Freedom Ring sent the ads to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin as part of a $7 million campaign to question Obama's support for Israel. The ad uses visuals to make their case, noting that the U.S. delegation did not storm out of the chamber as did Israel's ... more »

Angela Merkel: Europe must stay the course with painful reform

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
*Angela Merkel issued a blunt warning to Germany's ailing eurozone neighbours yesterday, telling them that pressing ahead with painful reforms and tough budget policies was the only way of resolving Europe's intractable and deepening economic crisis. * The Chancellor made her remarks in a speech to the Federation of German Industries on another day of turmoil in the currency bloc. The Spanish government faced mass anti-austerity protests in Madrid, while Greece was reported to be billions of euro off-track in meeting the terms of its bailout. Meanwhile, the ratings agency Standard a... more »

DON'T DO IT JUSTIN!!

leftdog at Buckdog - 3 hours ago
*Many Liberals believe in what can only be described as 'political alchemy'. They adhere religiously to the belief that if they can simply find the 'right' leader, they will in short order be returned to the halls of power - the political equivalent of turning base metal into gold.* * **But Justin Trudeau, himself. verified this alchemical belief in 2011 when he said:* *"There has been an expectation that if we just pick the right person at the top, everything is going to be fixed. Because of the history packaged into my name, a lot of people are turning to me in a way that actually,... more »

"Iranian officers reshape Assad’s Shabbiha militia into a second al-Qods", Iranian forces on border with Israel and are ready to strike

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has leapt into the Syrian battle arena, undertaking the task of transforming the Alawite Shabbiha militia, which has carried the brunt of Bashar Assad’s brutal suppression of the Syrian opposition for 18 months, into a new corps, retrained and reorganized on the model of the elite Al Qods Brigade. Al Qods is the IRGC’s arm of clandestine and terrorist operations in Iran's foreign arenas. debkafile’s military sources report exclusively that when the Shabbiha is slapped into its new military shape, Bashar Assad will have at his disposal an ext... more »

More Evidence Financial Markets Compromised by Lack of Transparency

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours ago
Lucchetti, A. (2012, Sep 26). Facebook's Next Fight: Suits and More Suits" The Wall Street Journal pp. C1, C2: "Facebook Inc's botched initial public offering is turning into a potential legal morass for the social networking firm, its investment bankers and the exchange on which it went public. Almost 50 lawsuits have been filed against Facebook, Nasdaq OMX Group and underwriters of Facebook's May IPO.. ." Majia here: Additionally, securities lawyers say they anticipate hundreds of arbitration claims against brokers and securities companies that promoted Facebook shares. Over $... more »

Second Recent Emergency Nuclear Plant Shutdown in US

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours ago
RSOE EDIS [Excerted] Xcel Energy says its Monticello nuclear power plant automatically shut down Tuesday, Sept. 25, for unknown reasons. The shutdown occurred at 11:07 a.m. and all plant safety systems were functioning, the Minneapolis-based utility said Tuesday. The shutdown posed no danger to the public or the plant's workers, Xcel officials said. The cause of the shutdown is under investigation. http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=NC-20120926-36687-USA Enenews Sep 21: CBS: Big, loud boom heard then steam vented — “It reminded him of the 1979 Three Mile ... more »

Greek police dodge Molotov cocktails

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
*Sept. 26 - Greek police kicked away flaming Molotov cocktails thrown by angry demonstrators during an anti-austerity protest in Athens.*

Iran under military threat by "uncivilized Zionists": Ahmadinejad

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
*Sept. 26 - Iran is under threat of military action from ''uncivilized Zionists,'' a clear reference to Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells the U.N. General Assembly, saying that such threats are designed to force nations into submission.*

Syrian rebels claim Damascus blasts

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
*Sept. 26 - The Free Syrian Army say they are behind two explosions at a top military command building in the capital, Damascus. Simon Hanna reports. *

WHO warns of SARS-like virus before haj

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
*(Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Wednesday urged health workers everywhere to report patients with acute respiratory infection who may have been in Saudi Arabia or Qatar, following the discovery of a new virus from the same family as SARS.* Saudi Arabia said it had taken precautions to prevent disease spreading next month, when it expects over 2 million Muslims to flock to the annual haj pilgrimage, then return home. WHO put out a global alert on Sunday saying a new virus had infected a 49-year-old Qatari who had recently travelled to Saudi Arabia, where another man w... more »

Pakistan Islamist accuses Obama of religious war on Muslims

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
*(Reuters) - One of Pakistan's most feared Islamists accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of starting a religious war against Muslims over his handling of a video that mocked the Prophet Mohammad. * Hafiz Saeed, accused by India of masterminding the 2008 attack by Pakistani gunmen on India's financial capital Mumbai, said Obama should have ordered steps to remove the film from the Internet instead of defending freedom of expression in America. "Obama's statements have caused a religious war," Saeed told Reuters in an interview. "This is a very sensitive issue. This is not goi... more »

Anti-austerity protests erupt on streets of Athens, Madrid

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
*(Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with police on the streets of Athens and Madrid on Wednesday in an upsurge of popular anger at new austerity measures being imposed on two of the euro zone's most vulnerable economies.* In some of the most violent confrontations, Greek police fired tear gas at hooded rioters hurling petrol bombs as thousands joined the country's biggest protest in more than a year. The unrest erupted after nearly 70,000 people marched to the Greek parliament chanting "EU, IMF Out!" on the day of a general strike against further cuts demanded by foreign lenders. "... more »

Ion Miu, Marcel & Alexandre Cellier - most exceptional sounds...

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/HSdIsSKQtnw More here and there. John

5.3 Magnitude Earthquake ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 17:44:59 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23.6 miles) East of Calama, Chile No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS?

Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours ago
Website for this image... Crooked elites and 'deep states' have existed for thousands of years. (The Guy Fawkes plot of 1605 provides one example: GUY FAWKES - INSIDE JOB) *1.* *9 11 looks like a repeat of the CIA terror operations carried out in Italy*, which included the Bologna Bombing of 1980. (Professor Peter Dale Scott, September 24, 2012, Systemic Destabilization as “A Strategy of Tension”) It wasn't just Italy, of course. Other countries hit by the CIA, around the same time, include Iran, Turkey, Vietnam and Afghanistan - all countries linked to the trade in narcotics. ... more »

AN ANGELIC GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 4 hours ago
AN ANGELIC GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE By Joe Crane September 25 th, 2012 Just when you want to kick back and relax October arrives. Talk about one busy month, here it comes. Starting on the 5th of the month I will be in Spokane WA for a Meet & Greet to be held at 3430 South Grand Boulevard Spokane WA 99203. At Integrated Medicine Associates , from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. It should be a whole lot of fun because I haven’t been in Spokane for some years now. I am really looking forward to seeing some of my old friends and meeting some new ones. Besides me filling the room with laughte... more »

5.0 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS at a depth of 110.2 km (68.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:15:53 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 360 km (223 miles) North of Raoul Island, New Zealand No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.4 Magnitude Earthquake PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 51.6 km (32.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:27:39 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.5 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTHERN IRAN - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN IRAN at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:14:20 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) NNW of Msanga, Tanzania No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.2 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTHERN IRAN - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN IRAN at a depth of 39.6 km (24.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:52:53 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles) WSW of Gerash, Iran No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

TransCanada encouraged torture of peaceful protestors Day 3 Texas

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
TransCanada Actively Encouraged Torture Tactics to be Used on Peaceful Protestors (Day 3) Photo Tarsands Blockade http://tarsandsblockade.org/transcanada-torture/ yesterday two Texans, Shannon Bebe and Benjamin Franklin, were subjected to torture tactics at the hands of police under the active encouragement of TransCanada senior supervisors. Bebe and Franklin were exercising their constitutional rights to nonviolent protest when they locked themselves to Keystone XL construction machinery outside Winnsboro, Texas and delayed construction for most of the day. Police began using aggr... more »

SOA Watch: Two human rights lawyers assassinated in Honduras

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
Two human rights lawyers assassinated in Honduras: take action! *This past Sunday and Monday, two human rights lawyers, Antonio Trejo and Eduardo Diaz, were brutally murdered in Honduras, bringing to over 60 the number of victims caught in the struggle for life and land in the Bajo Aguan in Honduras. The debate over the production of food for families versus bio-fuels for corporations has reached a high note* After the 2009 coup that was led by SOA graduates, massive privatization has become the order of the day for Honduras, with almost everything, from land to entire cities, on t... more »

Battle for Syria: View from the Frontline

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours ago
Our film crew has spent 2 months on the frontline with the soldiers of Syrian army and civilians trying to answer these hard questions: Who is the Syrian army fighting? What is the armed opposition fighting for? And why are there so many interested parties in this conflict? This film was made in field conditions to better tell the story of what's happening here. Not for the faint of heart Also, if you have the time LVB has a relevant documentary linked a@* LVB Research* The Weight of Chains (Full movie)It covers a theme that should be familiar to us all.

The US delists MEK terror group, how timely and convenient

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours ago
For the US/Israel NATO terror agenda- In case you missed this news. The US delisted their handy dandy terrorist group the MEK *From the Arabist* *Years of hard work by the MEK, their lobbyists, parts of the Israel lobby *(esp. when it overlaps with the anti-Iran lobby and the neocons) have finally borne fruit. A rather strange, cultish organization that once bombed Iran's parliament is no longer on the US list of designated terrorist organizations. It comes at the time of the most concerted effort to put pressure on the Iranian republican regime since its creation, and with much ta... more »

Tom Hayden : U.S. Special Forces are Back in Iraq

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours ago
Special Forces patrol in Iraq, 2005. U.S. Army photo. U.S. Special Forces Deployed in Iraq, again The irony is that the U.S. is protecting a pro-Iran Shiite regime in Baghdad against a Sunni-based insurgency while at the same time supporting a Sunni-led movement against the Iran-backed dictatorship in Syria By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / September 26, 2012 Despite the official U.S. military

The Tide Turns: Monsanto's GM Corn Suspended In Russia

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 6 hours ago
Sayer Ji, *Contributor* In a bold and encouraging move on Tuesday, Russian authorities suspended the import of Monsanto's genetically-modified corn over cancer fears spurred by an alarming long-term animal feeding study performed by French researchers at the University of Caen and published in the journal*Food and Chemical Toxicology* this month. According to Russia Today: The Russia's consumer-rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor asked scientists at the country's Institute of Nutrition to review the study. The watchdog has also contacted to European Commission's Directorate Gener... more »

Speed of ocean acidification concerns scientists – ‘Our current acidification rates are unparalleled in Earth history’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago
[image: Idealized diversity trajectories of the calcareous and organic fossil lineages discussed in the text. Extinction and radiation suggest events of major environmental change throughout the past 300 My. Calcareous plankton is shown in black, calcareous benthos in blue, and organic fossils in green, and the line thickness indicates relative and smoothed species richness. Highlighted events (vertical red lines) have been associated with potential ocean acidification events. Hönisch, et al., 2012] 26 September 2012 (University of Bristol) – Speaking at the Third International Sy... more »

Hold All, Including Self, In Love And Light

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 6 hours ago
* * * * *Hold all, including self, in love and light.* Michael as channeled by Ron Head September 26, 2012 in Michael, Ron's Channeled Messages We believe it is time to devote a conversation to your understanding of oneness. What we will discuss is not new to you, but, apart from your intellects, you have not yet integrated it into your consciousness. It has been over one hundred years since your science discovered that everything you see consists solely of energy. You have proved over and over again that what you speak of as matter does, in fact, not actually exist as ‘solid s... more »

The Remaining Conflicts Now In Progress Are The Last To Arise On The Planet

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 6 hours ago
The remaining conflicts now in progress are the last to arise on the planet September 26, 2012 by John Smallman Love is the antidote to the contagion of pain and suffering in which so many are engaged. For eons you have tried to bring peace forcefully into being – by authoritarian legislation backed by penalties and punishments, by criminal violence against one another, by conflict between groups, and by wars between nations – and you know from your history and from personal experience that it simply does not work. The remaining conflicts that are now in progress, even though... more »

Romney Plays The Percentages... Comes Up A Big Loser

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
If you're following the news, you're probably watching the jaw-dropping, seemingly unstoppable real-time collapse of Mitt Romney's campaign. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and adding Wall Street darling Paul Ryan to the ticket has only exacerbated it. The GOP base, of course loves it all-- but what Romney is discovering, or re-discovering, since he knew this when he was a Massachusetts politician-- is that the GOP base, outside of the Confederacy and the Mormon states, is NOT the electorate. He has failed-- and failed miserably-- to pivot to the mainstream after ha... more »

You Will Begin To Experience Strange Thoughts Or Intimations

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 6 hours ago
You will begin to experience strange thoughts or intimations 09/26/2012 by John Smallman The field of divine Love enveloping Planet Earth is having an enormous effect on humanity. Its influence is irresistible and irreversible, and because of it you are all moving towards Love and away from fear. Wars, terrorist attacks, criminal activity, and political activity in every field – international affairs, corporate, local, educational, health, religious, etc. – are all driven by fear, and have been for eons. Fear is so ingrained in humanity, in every nation, race, and culture, that... more »

SaLuSa, September 26, 2012

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 6 hours ago
SaLuSa, September 26, 2012 As you are finding time is speeding by, and the prophesies of massive earthquakes and other physical happenings have in no way occurred quite as was envisioned. You can certainly take some credit for the outcome, as by bringing the Light to Earth, you have also brought calmness. It does not however mean that there will not be physical changes, as some are inevitable. By keeping the vibrations high through the coming weeks, you can ensure that you have a fairly smooth finish to the cycle. We are of course part of the reason for the way it is working ou... more »

Outsourcing Love

Sophia at American Kabuki - 7 hours ago
Audio Version Love is a truth. You can throw things at it, yell at it, call it names, hide it, cover it, refuse to acknowledge it, deny it or ignore it; it will remain. Love is the foundation of each interaction, every relationship and all of life. None of this would be here if not for love. We exist in a world of form; birthed from Agape. You are the outsourcing of God’s love. The acceptance of oneness is a gradual process. As you look into your own eyes and find your inner light, you simultaneously discover the light in each other. We are ever seeking beings, p... more »

Margaret Wente "Wrote" Three Columns a Week?

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 7 hours ago
There's a howler! Oh my! Such a workload! Writing 3 rambling and stupid diatribes a week, based on cutting and pasting other people's work and pulling facts out of your ass? Sounds like BLOGGING motherfuckers!! Except when I write a post as long as one of Wente's columns I feel guilty because I've got a job to do. Wente's shit-assed blogging WAS her fucking job! Payback's a bitch, ain't it Maggie?

Spain seethes as country inches toward aid

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
*(Reuters) - Violent protests in Madrid and growing talk of secession in Catalonia are piling pressure on Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as he moves closer to asking Europe for rescue money.* In public, Rajoy has been resisting calls from bankers at home and the leaders of France and Italy to move quickly to request assistance, but behind the scenes he is putting together the pieces to meet the stringent conditions for aid. With protesters stepping up anti-austerity demonstrations, Rajoy presents painful economic reforms and a tough 2013 budget on Thursday, aiming to persuad... more »

Protest Turns Violent In Athens

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
*A fire bomb explodes behind a riot police squad in Athens during clashes with demonstrators at a 24-hour general strike. * * * Violence has flared in the Greek capital after workers started a general strike in protest against the new government's implementation of eurozone austerity cuts. The demonstration in Athens kicked off on Wednesday morning, led by families pushing prams, protesting against the social reforms. But it quickly descended into running battles between a hard-core of activists and riot police, with firebombs thrown and police baton charges in response. Dozens of... more »

Abu Hamza In High Court Extradition Challenge

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
* Abu Hamza has launched a last-minute challenge in the High Court in a bid to prevent his extradition to the US. * A spokeswoman for the Judicial Office confirmed that the radical Muslim cleric and four other terror-suspects are "seeking injunctions preventing their removal from the UK". She said: "A High Court judge has considered the applications on the papers and adjourned the cases to a hearing in open court. "The judge has issued interim injunctions preventing their removal prior to those hearings. The judge has directed the hearings to be fixed urgently." It is possible th... more »

粉碎像一个错误

Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 7 hours ago
残酷的:一个人脚一双可以看到下面一个中国的装甲车辆 但这里是个好消息. 这是一个奇妙的书

PBS ombudsman on climate science segment: ‘Not the PBS NewsHour’s finest 10 minutes’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago
By Michael Getler 21 September 2012 It was not the PBS NewsHour's finest 10 minutes. In my view, and that of hundreds, even thousands of others, the program stumbled badly. On the other hand, it was not the end of the world, so to speak. A segment on climate change last Monday evening produced a storm of protest from critics who felt the program mislead viewers — by a faulty application of journalistic balance — about the very real threat of global warming and man's contribution to it, as well as a sprinkling of support from those who think that threat is overstated and that ba... more »

Maureen Dowd can’t bottle it up!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2012* *Typing like cats and dogs:* For more than a decade, Maureen Dowd has built her weird political vision around a particular notion: Democratic men are a big bunch of girls. Dem women act like men! Dowd was fixed on this view by early in Campaign 2000. This was its most famous expression: DOWD (6/16/99): Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct, he's practically lactating. As the years rolled by, Democratic men kept acting like girls, Dem women kept seeming like men. And sure enough! In early 2008, Candidate Obama didn’t fail ... more »

Diet for Your Country

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 7 hours ago
The Global War on Terror cannot be effectively fought with our young people becoming too globular themselves. Corpulent Millennials just end up bloating the corporate defense budget. Fat people can't fight. So, the military industrial complex has a message for all you critics of government programs which fight childhood obesity. Forget about the terrible toll that a bad diet is taking on our increasingly impoverished population. We get that you don't care about people living longer, healthier lives just for the sake of living longer, healthier lives. But have you ever stopped to thi... more »

Romney personifies economic parasitism.

Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 7 hours ago
*American Scofflaw* We could call it Romnesia: the ability of the very rich to forget the context in which they made their money. To forget their education, inheritance, family networks, contacts and introductions. To forget the workers whose labour enriched them. To forget the infrastructure and security, the educated workforce, the contracts, subsidies and bail-outs the government provided. Every political system requires a justifying myth. The Soviet Union had Alexey Stakhanov, the miner reputed to have extracted 100 tonnes of coal in six hours. The United States had Richard Hun... more »

Incredibly Effective Protection from Fukushima Nuclear Radiation

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 7 hours ago
Paul Fassa A special study conducted by Dr. Atsuo Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D., from the Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) took a group of men working on the Fukushima site and administered 25,000 mg (milligrams) or 25 grams of vitamin C as a pretreatment prior to half of the men entering the area. What you’re about to learn is that this measure of protection may be one of the best when dealing with nuclear radiation effects. *A Solution to Fukushima’s Nuclear Radiation Effects* After their hazardous work, thorough medical evaluations determined they were clear of DNA d... more »

Researchers Link BPA to Reproductive Problems, Abnormal Egg Development

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 8 hours ago
Lisa Garber A new animal study links bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure in females in utero with reproductive problems later in life, including abnormal egg development. “All the eggs that a female is going to have in her lifetime are formed before birth,” says researcher Catherine VandeVoort of University of California, Davis. “Anything that disrupts that process is going to have an impact later in life.” *Impaired Follicles and Division* For the study (which will be published next week in the journal* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*), scientists put fetal monkeys in... more »

Reading Thomas L. Friedman today!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2012* *While thinking of Maddow from Monday:* For our money, Thomas L. Friedman’s new column is quite intriguing. He cites a wave of reaction in the Middle East—reaction against the recent rioting. “Backlash to the Backlash,” his headline says. This is Friedman’s first example. All deletions by him: FRIEDMAN (9/26/12): *On Monday, the Middle East Media Research Institute, or Memri, which tracks the Arab/Muslim press, translated a searing critique written by Imad al-Din Hussein, a columnist for Al Shorouk, Cairo’s best daily newspaper:* “We curse the West d... more »

Dutch "Volks-Weapons" or how to chase away evil...

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 8 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/fRfuo-LfgUk These churns (milk tanks) and slurry tanks are used in parts of The Netherlands against the end of the year. As "Volks-Weapons" they only serve (so far) the tradition of "chasing away evil spirits". One wonders these days who those "evil spirits" are? John

100,000,000 To Die by 2030 from Climate Change

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
And that's if we're lucky. A study commissioned by 20-governments finds that, unless our leaders reverse course on climate change, it will claim the lives of 100-million people by 2030. And, for those like our own miscreant government, that argue it would be economically unwarranted to move quickly to decarbonize our economy and our society, the report finds that, in addition to those 100-million dead, the world economy will take a 3.2 per cent hit in GDP as well. As David Suzuki was reported to have quipped in Toronto recently, you simply can't have a healthy economy without a he... more »

NATO Terrorists Bomb School in Syria

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 8 hours ago
*France seeks no-fly zone over Syria to repeat Al Qaeda Benghazi-blowback.* image: Zen Gardner Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor* As NATO desperately attempts to cover up a botched false flag operation in Benghazi, Libya which left a high-ranking US diplomat dead, France has urged a repeat performance in Syria. That is, arming and providing air support for the very terrorist battalions now operating in Syria that have ravaged and overrun Libya, leaving it a perpetually wrecked, destabilized terrorist epicenter. The announcement made by French President Francois Hollande came on the ... more »

Albert Einstein 1911-12, 1922-23

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
Several events related to Albert Einstein's life occurred in recent days and months. If you consider yourself a sort of Einstein fan, you may let me mention some of them. First, you may finally buy Einstein's brain for $9.99 (or $13.99 now?), no strings or hair attached. See Google News or go to the iTunes AppStore. Second, Caltech and Princeton University Presses teamed up and released the 13th volume of Einstein papers. They cover January 1922-March 1923 and you may already buy the book for $125 at the PUP website: it has over 900 pages. Einstein is travelling a lot, is ahead ... more »

Proof Smart Meters Are Being Used to Spy On Us

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 8 hours ago
Stop Smart Meters Andrew Puhanic, *Contributor* * *If you have ever wondered if your smart meter is being used to spy on you, well now there is proof that governments and private organisations are using data collected from smart meters. Information about power usage, which can be used to identify when a home is being occupied, is being shared with third parties including government agencies, private organisations and off-shore data processing centres. This unethical breach of privacy was discovered on the website of one of Australia’s largest electricity retailer, Origin Energy. El... more »

God and Man at Kale

PM at The Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
Governor Romney's Nutrition Czar-DesignateA small part of my portfolio at the *Duck* is wading into the shallow end of the conservative pool of ideas, and in that spirit I bring to you the latest contretemps over Imam Obama and his *jihad* against loyal, God- and YHWH-fearing Americans. If I were to walk up to you and say that control of our nation's school lunches is a key part of the Communist plot to control our precious bodily fluids, you would probably leave, or at least think about calling the police. And if I were to tell you that our nation's *First Lady*--the only one of Ba... more »

Urban Violence Web Seminar

Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
Especially considering that I recently criticized the human security community for failing to pay enough attention to urban violence, I'm delighted to hear of this upcoming web seminar on the topic at Harvard's Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. These are open to the public but you must register in advance. I've done a few on topics in humanitarian law and find the format and substance quite intellectually compelling. Here's the excerpted description: More than half of the world’s population is concentrated in urban areas. According to UNFPA, this number is expe... more »

ADHD drugs "suspected" of hurting children

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 8 hours ago
The article I am linking deals specifically with Canadian children and the absolute uselessness of Health Canada in protecting children. Not really a surprise, Health Canada, like the FDA in the US, are really servile orconsorts to the pharmaceutical corporations. They are not working to support or protect the citizens of the US or Canada they legitimize pharmaceutical claims and back the industry. *Article excerpted below-* A growing number of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and parents are reporting that they believe attention deficit drugs are causing major health problems in pat... more »

Tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea have intensified due to earlier monsoon onset

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago
[image: Tropical Cyclone Benilde in the Indian Ocean, December 2011. Image courtesy Goddard Space Flight Center]Contact: Gisela Speidel, gspeidel@hawaii.edu, 808-956-9252, University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST 21 September 2012 The tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea during the pre-monsoon season (May – June) have intensified since 1997 compared to 1979 - 1997. This has been attributed to decreased vertical wind shear due to the dimming effects of increased anthropogenic black carbon and sulfate emissions in the region. The decrease in vertical wind shear, however, is not the result of t... more »

DISAGGREGATION NATION: Gail Collins [HEART] disaggregation!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2012* *Part 1—What does that mean:* Gail Collins [HEART] disaggregation! Collins makes her feelings clear in her unfortunate new book, As Texas Goes. We reported on her book all last week. For a quick review of those posts, see THE DAILY HOWLER, 9/24/12. That said, what *is* disaggregation? And why doesn’t Collins employ the practice she loves? Those are excellent questions! In truth, you can’t begin to analyze public school test scores unless you understand “disaggregation,” the practice Collins admires. How much does Collins [HEART] disaggregation? L... more »

Why Organic Food Is Better For You -The Benefits of Organic Food

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours ago
Video by leading Nutrionalist Professor Adam Carey on the subject : 'Benefits of Organic Food' *Adam Carey* Professor Adam Carey is a doctor and nutritionist working on all areas of sports nutrition and human performance. After Oxford, he became an accredited specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with sub-specialist interests in endocrinology and nutrition. He left the NHS in 1998 to actively develop the use of nutritional and lifestyle strategies to improve human performance and reduce the risk of disease through proactive preventative medical management. He is now Visiting... more »

Define Irony

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 9 hours ago
Obama tells U.N. new democracies need free speech while across town our old democracy cracks down on #OWS. nyti.ms/SuDv4g #p2 #p21 — Robert Crawford (@jurassicpork59) September 26, 2012

Drought killed 300 million trees in Texas in 2011

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago
[image: Tree mortality in Texas due to the 2011 drought. 301 million trees were killed as a result of the devastating 2011 drought. txforestservice.tamu.edu] Contact: Chris Edgar, Forest Resource Analyst, cedgar@tfs.tamu.edu, 979-458-6630 25 September 2012 COLLEGE STATION, Texas, 25 September 2012 – A Texas A&M Forest Service survey of hundreds of forested plots scattered across the state shows 301 million trees were killed as a result of the devastating 2011 drought. The number was determined by a study of both on-the-ground tree health assessments collected during a three-mont... more »

Organic Consumers Organization - The Connecting the Dots Video

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours ago
Join us in a fight for consumers right to know what is in the food they are buying and feeding their families- http://organicconsumersfund.org/donate/david-goliath.cfm The Goliaths of the biotech and processed-food industries have raised $27.2 million to defeat Prop 37, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, and keep you from knowing what's in your food. We can win with much less money. But we do need to raise another $1 million by Sept. 30th to educate voters, distribute leaflets, print signs, saturate the media with the truth about GMOs, and get out the vo... more »

Interpreting Commercial Documents

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours ago
Bank of Montreal v. Barber Glass Industries Inc., 2012 ONCA 630 has a brief but useful passage on the interpretation on commercial agreements: [16] Negotiated commercial documents are to be interpreted "so as to accord with sound commercial principles and good business sense and avoid commercial absurdity": Salah v. Timothy's Coffees of the World Inc., 2010 ONCA 673, para. 16

Wednesday Morning Linkage

Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 10 hours ago
- The civil war continues in Syra. As does the one in Mali. - Two posts at *Political Violence @ a Glance*. First, Ron Hassner compares "blasphemy and political violence" in 2006 and 2012. Second, Steve Saideman discusses the *New York Times* graphic on future border changes. - Glenn Grenwald's take on the NYU/Stanford drone study. - Chris Clary also tackles anti-Americanism in the Muslim world, but via a critique of the Blaydes and Lindser piece recently published in the *American Political Science Review*. - What "classics" should US military acade... more »

Let's Pack Up Zionist AGENTS Rush Limbaugh, Mike Savage, & Pam Geller and send them permanently to the country they're loyal to: ISRAEL!!!

Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 10 hours ago
I have the greatest idea in the world...or at least the U.S.: since Mossad AGENTS Rush Limbaugh, Mike Savage, & Pam Geller just can't stop pushing for more war for Israel with their constant pro-Israel/anti-Muslim ranting, let's pack them all up and send them these traitors to the country where their REAL allegiance lies: ISRAEL!!! Because of the internet, people are bypassing the U.S. & western mainstream media and can clearly see what's really going on. This would never be pointed out by ANBCBSNNX, the NYTimes, Washington Post, etc... Above: traitors to a foreign country; don't ... more »

Tesla Motors Launches Revolutionary Supercharger Enabling Free Long Distance Travel

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 10 hours ago
J.G. Vibes Today Tesla Motors unveiled its highly anticipated Supercharger network, which is said to make long distance travel in cars totally free thanks to the use of solar energy and electricity. So far the network is made up of six Supercharger stations stretching across California, as well as parts of Nevada and Arizona. These stations will allow the Tesla Model S to recharge for free, and each charge is said to last for an extremely long distance. This is so groundbreaking because until now one of the major drawbacks to electric cars was their inability to travel long dist... more »

The U.S. military’s mysterious space drone preparing for another launch, mission still unknown

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 10 hours ago
U.S. Air Force photo/Michael Stonecypher Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* The highly mysterious X-37B OTV-3 (Orbital Test Vehicle) – which is, essentially, a drone boosted into orbital spaceflight – is being prepared for its third top secret space flight in October. The previous X-37B remained in space for over a year, all while engaging in a mission which was never revealed to the public. It is hardly surprising to learn that countries like China are concerned about the program along with the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) plans for an even more massive and advanced arra... more »

WotW: What Do You Do On Facebook?

Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours ago
What do you do on Facebook? Sounds like a dumb question, right? You probably post status updates, follow what's going on in the lives of your friends and do a bunch of liking and commenting. But what do you really do? Do you know how many posts you've done? Who's your biggest fan? Which countries are your friends from? How long is your average post and what words do you use the most? You could lock yourself in a room for a month with a spreadsheet and crunch the numbers, or you can harness the power of WolframAlpha and let it do the work for you. We've talked about WolframAlpha on ... more »

Appeals court: expect DHS to begin public comment process for body scanners by end of March 2013

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 10 hours ago
Madison Ruppert,* Contributor* In yet another ludicrous decision from a U.S. Court of Appeals, in this case the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the court issued a laughable ruling on an Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) petition regarding the flagrant disregard of the July 2011 court order on the part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Keep in mind, the DHS and their child agency, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), have completely ignored the court ruling with seeming immunity even when a Congressional report has called on the TSA to review t... more »

The Sixth Estate » Canada’s Print Media: Democracy Couldn’t Ask for Finer Keystone Kops

Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 10 hours ago
The Sixth Estate » Canada’s Print Media: Democracy Couldn’t Ask for Finer Keystone Kops: This country has real issues to worry about. In the last year alone, we have been presented with documented evidence of large-scale electoral fraud, our environmental protection and climate change regimes have been ripped to shreds, and the federal government has laid aside the Canada Health Act and thus ended, at least in principle, universal healthcare. More evidence continues to emerge that it plotted a systematic course of deception with regard to the cost of a multi-billion dollar military ... more »

Jeffrey Smith Exposes the Threat of GMOs

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 10 hours ago
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Clueless

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 10 hours ago
One of the best pieces of advice I was given growing was simply this: When you're in a hole, stop digging. As if things couldn't get any more bizarre, Ron Bradley, hapless principal of Ross Sheppard High School has grabbed his proverbial shovel in an attempt to deal with the blow-back. Apparently immune to logic and common sense, he is trying to defend his school's "no zero" policy. Actually, it would be more accurate to call it HIS "no zero" policy as we see more and more teachers speaking out on the issue. The part I find most ludicrous is his assertion that while the school ... more »

Elizabeth Warren... The Best Political Leader In America?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago
Scott Brown and the Republicans are desperate to find a way to stop Elizabeth Warren, someone who has never been elected to any office but who is already being talked about as a contender for president. She connects with people, something the far right fears. If they can't smear her effectively enough to shut her down, there's no telling what they'll do. Most Americans have been confused by Brown's nasty caterwauling about something to do with her American Indian heritage. It's not a real issue, just something for dittoheads to feign righteous indignation over. The kinds of low-in... more »

How Do Charter Schools Compare to “Schools with Students Like Ours” in South Carolina?

P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
*How Do Charter Schools Compare to “Schools with Students Like Ours” in South Carolina?* Using the South Carolina School Report Card system and the state Poverty Index, the tables below identify charter schools within the SC Public School Charter District and 5 additional selected charter schools to identify how charter schools in SC compare with “Schools with Students Like Ours” (a metric established by the SC Department of Education, see notes). The data show that charter schools in SC perform (based on test data drawn from the state assessment system and AYP) BELOW typical in 8/8... more »

Anti-Government Spanish Protesters Fight Back Against Police

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 10 hours ago
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Spain prepares yet more austerity measures , protesters battle police

Intercept at The Intercept - 10 hours ago
The Daily Herald Protesters clashed with police in Spain's capital on Tuesday as the government prepared a new round of unpopular austerity measures for the 2013 budget to be announced on Thursday. Thousands gathered in Neptune plaza, a few metres from El Prado museum in central Madrid, where they formed a human chain around parliament, surrounded by barricades, police trucks and more than 1,500 police in riot gear. Police fired rubber bullets and beat protesters with truncheons, first as protesters were trying to tear down barriers and later to clear the square. The police said... more »

NEW ID LAWS COULD DELAY OUTCOME OF CLOSE ELECTION

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
*WASHINGTON (AP) -- The presidential election is Nov. 6, but it could take days to figure out the winner if the vote is close. New voting laws are likely to increase the number of people who have to cast provisional ballots in key states.* Tight races for Congress, governor and local offices also could be stuck in limbo while election officials scrutinize ballots, a scenario that would surely attract legions of campaign lawyers from both parties. "It's a possibility of a complete meltdown for the election," said Daniel Smith, a political scientist at the University of Florida. Vot... more »

DIRTY: Military Voters in Wisc. Told to Submit Ballots -- Week After Deadline!

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
*The Federal Voting Assistance Program website published an incorrect deadline for the return of returning military ballots in Wisconsin. Had this error not been corrected, thousands of Wisconsin servicemen and women could have been disenfranchised in this key swing state this November.* The FVAB website incorrectly stated ballots must be returned by November 16. The actual deadline is 4 p.m. November 9. Any military ballots received in that intervening week would not have been counted by local and state election officials. MacIver News Service contacted the Wisconsin Government Ac... more »

Debate Questions For Joe Biden From An Employment Attorney

Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 10 hours ago
This is part of the continuing series of debate questions being posted by employee- and management-side employment lawyers. These are my questions for Vice President Joe Biden. * Your opponents have supported efforts to roll back union rights and the strength of unions. You said this to the AFL-CIO: "We don't see the value of collective bargaining, we see the absolute positive necessity of collective bargaining. Let's get something straight: The only people who have the capacity -- organizational capacity and muscle -- to keep, as they say, the barbarians from the gate, is organized ... more »

Wall Street, Pro-Israel Groups Support Malaysian Opposition

Intercept at The Intercept - 10 hours ago
Land Destroyer Tony Cartalucci *Editor's Note*: Nile Bowie had written this piece exposing the Malaysian opposition's foreign funding and the duplicitous implications involved, in the midst of what is an increasing public awareness of the role foreign-funded NGOs play in destabilizing and destroying the sovereignty of a nation targeted by Wall Street and London corporate-financier interests. In response to this increasing awareness, these very Wall Street-funded NGOs have published a ridiculous rebuttal featured in the image below. *Image: An absurd demand for an "apology" aim... more »

Israel Lobbyist - We Need a False Flag to Start War with Iran!

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 10 hours ago
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4.2 Magnitude Earthquake COSTA RICA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck COSTA RICA at a depth of 53.2 km (32.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:37:26 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) SSE from Liberia, Costa Rica No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

Insane Clown Posse Sues FBI over Gang Classificatio

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours ago
J.G. Vibes Every year the FBI releases their annual National Gang Threat Assessment, an official memo that lists and describes the gangs and terrorist organizations that the agency has their eye on. The list is usually a mix of legitimately violent gangs, as well as nonviolent activist groups, local community militias and generally anyone who the government doesnt like. Last November the most recent edition of this list caught the attention of the alternative rap group The Insane Clown Posse because their fans were actually featured on this list. The Insane Clown Posse has a la... more »

The Holographic Universe (Full Movie)

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours ago
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Thousands protest 'extreme sacrifices' in Greece

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
*(CNN) -- Thousands of Greeks took to the streets Wednesday to protest new austerity measures that critics described as draconian. * The protests -- the first general strike since Greece's new coalition government was formed in June -- come amid the nation's struggling economy and soaring debt. Greece has agreed to a harsh austerity program and labor market reforms, which have led to violent street demonstrations and crippling unemployment in the past. Read More

Ralph Nader Says Obama Is A 'War Criminal' Who Has Been 'More Aggressive' Than George W. Bush

Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours ago
Huffington Post Ralph Nader has called whose military and foreign policies have been worse than that of his predecessor George W. Bush. In an interview with Politico, the former presidential candidate and leftist political activist said that compared to Bush's. “He’s gone beyond George W. Bush in drones, for example. He thinks the world is his plate, that national sovereignties mean nothing, drones can go anywhere,” Nader told Politico. But what seems to be even more lamentable to Nader is that Obama has been capable of so much more than he has managed to achieve. " What exp... more »

Street View: Antarctica, deep ocean, Alps, Mars, etc.

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago
If you haven't played with Google Maps for some time, you may want to try some of the wonderful links below. Note that the Street View always allows you to "drag" and change your point of view – or press \(\langle\) and \(\rangle\) arrows on the photograph itself and walk a little bit further. You may think that Street View doesn't allow you to enter the living rooms but at least in some cases, this opinion is wrong. So try these links near the Antarctica: South Pole Telescope Shackleton's Hut Ceremonial South Pole Scott's Hut Cape Royds Adélie Penguin Rookery Now, the ocean. A ... more »

“On Psywar against the Innocent”

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours ago
J.B. Gerald, Global Research When freedom of expression is used to incite the public to hatred of a national, religious, racial or ethnic group it becomes a crime. According to Article 20 of the U.N.’s “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” : 1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law. 2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law. This doesn’t contradict rights of freedom of expression. It attempts to constrain agendas of hatred. I... more »

Argentina: Five Goats Mutilated in Santiago del Estero

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 11 hours ago
*Source: Nuevo Diario and VISION OVNI Date: September 26, 2012* *Argentina: Five Goats Mutilated in Santiago del Estero* ***Event took place in Paraje Sarmiento, Alberdi District** **Five goats born under normal conditions; found with injuries on their heads and missing organs*** Report From: Teresa Papalardo in Santiago del Estero Place Discovered: Paraje Sarmiento, Alberdi District, Santiago del Estero Date Discovered: 20 September Type of Animal: Goat Quantity: Five (5) Property Of: Veliz Santillán *Account of the Facts* ALBERDI – Five goats were found dead in the Sarmiento ... more »

Karl Rove's Long Game Isn't Over, It May Have Barely Begun

If it has seemed to be about anything other than the accumulation of wealth and power for decades, I have to admit that it's escaped my grasp. The braying about "democracy," "personal choice," and "freedom" from those who immediately move to restrict each when given the power has never been particularly compelling to my understanding of what Empire builders really want (and pretend to have as

YOUNG GIRLS

Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago
*1.* 'Manhattan Madam' Anna Gristina reportedly arranged underage girl prostitutes for wealthy clients. Anna Gristina will be ordered to serve five months' probation when she is sentenced on 20 November 2012. Allegedly she was heard bragging that she had connections in law enforcement who were protecting her. She has pleaded guilty to running a posh prostitution service from her New York apartment. Scots madam pleads guilty to prostitution charge in New York court Gristina, 44, originally known as Anne Tennant, comes from Scotland. She was brought up by a couple who adopted h... more »

Taxation Without Representation

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 11 hours ago
Carol Goar writes that Stephen Harper has violated the first principle of democracy: a government only rules with the consent of the governed. That principle is most apparent when it comes to the question of taxes. Citizens have the right to know how their money is being spent -- and they must agree to the government's fiscal plans. But Stephen Harper has established a new set of rules: His rules strike at the heart of responsible government. He has decided to tax Canadians without allowing their elected representatives a chance to speak for them. They violate a fundamental tene... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours ago
*American Taxpayer: "Somebody has to be accountable"*~The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is off the hook when it comes to the billions of dollars in damages from Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic flooding. A day after that decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, flood victims in St. Bernard Parish and the 9th Ward, and those who represent them, are trying to make sense of it all. *Drew Brees Says New Orleans Saints are Still Trying to Find Their Rhythm * *Agency rejects appeal on Miss. gas and oil leasing ~Clarion Ledger*~Hat tweet @Slabbed *I have sources that are insisting F... more »

“On Psywar against the Innocent”

Intercept at The Intercept - 11 hours ago
Global Research J. B. Gerald When freedom of expression is used to incite the public to hatred of a national, religious, racial or ethnic group it becomes a crime. According to Article 20 of the U.N.’s “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” : 1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law. 2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law. This doesn’t contradict rights of freedom of expression. It attempts to constrain agendas of hatred. It i... more »

RSA Films - Lady Gaga - Fame perfume commercial

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 11 hours ago
yeah, this *five minutes* short film (or advertisement (or commercial)) for Lady Gaga's new perfume *FAME* was done by Steven Klein of Ridley Scott's company RSA Films. I hadn't seen it on terrestrial TV, but it's a corker - that means, "I like it a lot."

The Taxation of Capital Income

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 11 hours ago
Many economists believe capital income should be taxed at a lower rate than labor income, perhaps even at a zero rate. Matthew Yglesias explains why.

Army Corps not liable for Katrina damage: court

Intercept at The Intercept - 12 hours ago
Reuters Nate Raymond A U.S. appeals court has reversed itself and found that the Army Corps of Engineers cannot be held liable in property owners' lawsuits over flood damage during Hurricane Katrina. More than 400 property owners had filed lawsuits after the August 2005 hurricane, many targeting the Corps of Engineers. The plaintiffs had said the Corps of Engineers had delayed armoring the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet shipping channel against flood damage due to incorrect scientific decisions rather than public policy considerations. In an unusual move, a three-judge panel of th... more »

Madonna endorses Barack Obama and makes a peculiar comment - NSFW language

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
Madonna tells her fans that they'd "better vote for f***ing Obama, OK?=" and then refers approvingly to the fact that with this President there "is a black Muslim in the White House". How odd...

Water Meters: Fleecing the People

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 12 hours ago
The British Isles are home to the wettest weather in all of Europe. For the last four days, the rain has poured, with barely a moment of respite. This is normal, and what one would expect. Considering the usual weather pattern in the Isles, it would be ludicrous for a collection of nations, literally drenched in water, to have restrictions on water usage. However, that is precisely the position we find ourselves in. All new built homes legally have to have Water Meters installed. The excuse for this imposition is that the massive increase in population over recent years, has p... more »

Iran Test-Fires Missiles Designed To Hit Warships...

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
* TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian military leaders gave details of a new long-range drone and test fired four anti-ship missiles Tuesday in a prelude to upcoming naval war games planned in an apparent response to U.S.-led warship drills in the Persian Gulf.* The show of Iranian military readiness and its latest tool -- a domestically made drone capable of reaching Israel and most of the Middle East -- also came as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepared to address the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday amid a deepening impasse with the West over Tehran's disputed nuclear program. Ahmadineja... more »

AHMADINEJAD PUSHES NEW WORLD ORDER

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
* NEW YORK (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that a new world order needs to emerge, away from years of what he called American bullying and domination*. Ahmadinejad spoke to The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly - his last as president of Iran. He was to address the assembly Wednesday morning. The Iranian leader also discussed solutions for the Syrian civil war, dismissed the question of Iran's nuclear ambition and claimed that despite Western sanctions his country is better off than it was when he t... more »

GREEK DEBT: under-reported in 2007, over-reported in 2009, and indeterminate in 2012'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*A couple of days ago, Der Spiegel gave the Greeks something of a hammering by sensationally alleging that the country’s deficit isn’t €12.5bn at all, but in fact €20bn. But from Day One, the real size of the country’s problem has been the subject of wildly differing views.* The Spiegel piece is interesting in that it is Wolfgang Schäuble’s systemic leak aperture of choice, and would thus suggest that Berlin’s FinMin at least has decided an onslaught of “they’re useless” is called for prior to summary Greek ejection from the eurozone. As always, the situation in Germany is confused... more »

Obama’s Benghazi moment

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*The “Benghazi moment” is likely engendering a rethink in the United States’ regional strategies in the Middle East. One is inclined to agree with the Time magazine’s assessment that a Libya-style intervention by the US in Syria now becomes highly unlikely. * A curious aspect of Tony Karon’s analysis is that he tosses the Syrian ball into the court of the Arab governments. This is also in sync with the White House “readout” of President Barack Obama’s latest telecon with Turkish PM Recep Erdogan. The tone is restrained despite Erdogan’s deep frustration (which he openly voiced in ... more »

The Summer of Muslim Discontent: It’s Not “The Amateur Film” Stupid

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*Introduction: The so-called “Arab Spring:” is a distant and bitter memory to those who fought and struggled for a better world, not to speak of the thousands who lost, life and limb.* In its place, throughout the Muslim world, a new wave of reactionaries, corrupt and servile politicians have taken the reins of power buttressed by the same military, secret police and judicial power who sustained the previous rulers[2]. Death and destruction is rampant, poverty and misery has multiplied, law and order has broken down, retrograde thugs have seized political power, where previously th... more »

Euro zone worries sends shares lower

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*(Reuters) - European shares fell sharply and the single currency hit a two-week low on Wednesday as popular opposition within the euro zone to budget austerity measures unnerved investors already worried about a weak global growth outlook.* The market's focus was on Spain and Greece: protesters clashed with police in Madrid on Tuesday as the government prepared to unveil its 2013 budget on Thursday; and Greeks held a general strike as ministers sought to renegotiate a bailout. The worries over a worsening in the euro zone's financial crisis have contributed to a sharp rise in vol... more »

Spanish tango sparks late sell-off

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*Sept 25 - Summary of business headlines: Wall Street falls as Spanish protesters clash with police, overlooking U.S. housing, consumer data; Google touches lifetime high; Barnes and Noble turns to video; Amazon and Nasdaq team-up in the cloud. Conway G. Gittens reports.*

Nook , Nook, Please Let Me In

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 13 hours ago
We have already asked the question about Barnes and Noble’s international grand venture and whether it will even hit the consciousness of the UK consumer, let alone pass the ‘so what’ test? As Frankfurt and the Christmas season nears we seen some more of their approach top the UK which is as far as we know still the limit of their ‘international’ programme today. They have announced two further stores Dixons, which is the High Street little brother of yes, PC World, which is out of town shed outlet of the same group Dixons Retail. So some would suggest they have not two but one a... more »

Greece faces first big anti-austerity strike

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*(Reuters) - Flights and trains were suspended, shops pulled down their shutters and hospitals worked on emergency staff on Wednesday in Greece's first big anti-austerity strike since a coalition government took power in June.* Called by the country's two biggest unions representing half the four-million-strong work force, the walkout is expected to bring out thousands of Greeks to the streets to protest at a new round of belt-tightening demanded by EU and IMF lenders. "The new measures are unbearable, unfair and only worsen the crisis. We are determined to fight until we win," sa... more »

EU lawmakers to vote for sweeping markets reforms

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
*(Reuters) - Curbs on firms that trade shares faster than the blink of an eye move a step nearer in the European Union on Wednesday when the bloc's parliament votes to introduce sweeping reforms of securities markets.* High-frequency trading has been singled out by regulators and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic for favoring speculators and adding to volatility. High-frequency trading by Optiver, IMC Trading and other firms involves posting orders for milliseconds at a time to exploit tiny differences in share prices. The firms involved say they are courted by exchanges t... more »

Mona Eltahawy Arrested for spray painting graffiti over anti-jihad NY subway ad

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*An Egyptian-born U.S. columnist was arrested Tuesday for spray painting an advertisement equating Muslim radicals with savages at a New York City subway station.* Mona Eltahawy, 45, of New York, was arrested on charges including criminal mischief and making graffiti, police said. Eltahawy is a women's rights defender and lecturer on the role of social media in the Arab world. She calls herself a liberal Muslim who's spoken publicly against violent Islamic groups. The incident was captured on video, which shows Eltahawy spraying pink paint on the ad while another woman tries to b... more »

X-37B: U.S. Air Force readying third launch for top-secret spy plane, which analysts say can see through clouds and bad weather

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*The U.S. Air Force is preparing to send its super-secret spy plane into orbit for a third time, but details of the mission will once again be kept under wraps.* The X-37B, an unmanned and reusable spacecraft built by Boeing, will launch sometime in October. Next month’s blast-off will reportedly test the X-37B’s reusability, it’s instruments and just how feasible it is for future missions. Major Tracy Bunko at the Pentagon’s Air Force press desk, told Space.com: 'One of the most promising aspects of the X-37B is it enables us to examine a payload system or technology in the envir... more »

Russia suspends import and use of American GM corn after study revealed cancer risk

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*Russia has suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage.* Separately, the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA), has ordered its own review in to the research, which was conducted at a French university. The decision by Russia could be followed by other nations in what would be a severe blow to the take-up of the controversial technology. Historically, biotech companies have proved the safety of GM crops based on trials involving feeding rats for a period of 90 days. However, experts at the University of C... more »

Nasa reveals massive halo of hot gas that envelops our universe

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*It is an astonishing reminder of just how large the universe is.* Nasa today revealed this incredible image showing our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The estimated mass of the halo is comparable to the mass of all the stars in the galaxy. Read More

Scientists back theory that life was brought to Earth by space microbes

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*Extraterrestrial microbes might have brought life to Earth after travelling through space for millions of years, say scientists.* The theory is based on calculations showing a high likelihood of rock fragments from planets in other star systems landing on Earth long ago. Some of them could have carried embedded micro-organisms, according to experts writing in the journal Astrobiology. The research suggests the dormant bugs could easily have survived the long journey through space, despite high levels of cosmic radiation. Simple life may equally well have travelled from Earth to pl... more »

Obama tells United Nations it is 'time to heed the words of Gandhi', condemns 'disgusting' anti-Islam video and insists 'Muslims have suffered the most at the hands of extremism'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*President Barack Obama delivered an extensive denunciation of a 'crude and disgusting' anti-Islam video made in California, telling the United Nations that 'it is time to heed the words of Gandhi' and declaring: 'The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.'* Obama strongly condemned the protests that spread across the Middle East and the murder of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, branding them 'an assault on America'. But he stated that the unrest and murderous attacks were the result of the low-budget video, which had 'sparked outrage through... more »

Bagel head Trend: Japan's most extreme beauty trend yet?

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*The extraordinary look, which is created by injecting saline into the forehead, then pressing in the centre of the swollen area with a thumb, is a hit on the country's underground body modification scene.* The dramatic results of the two-hour treatment last just 16-24 hours, after which the saline is absorbed by the body and the forehead reduces back to its normal size. Read More

VOTE SÍ A LA PROPUESTA 37!

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
VOTE SÍ A LA PROPUESTA 37 - porque usted debería tener el derecho a saber qué contienen sus alimentos. El voto sí a la Propuesta 37 significa tres cosas: USTED TENDRÁ DERECHO A SABER LO QUE CONTIENEN SUS ALIMENTOS, y si éstos se producen mediante la manipulación genética. LOS ALIMENTOS SE ETIQUETARÁN CORRECTAMENTE. Las etiquetas de alimentos tendrán que divulgar si el producto se elaboró mediante la manipulación genética. PROTEGER LA SALUD DE SU FAMILIA SERÁ MÁS FÁCIL. Usted tendrá la información que necesita acerca de los alimentos que algunos médicos y científicos dicen están v... more »

Vote Yes on Proposition 37 - We Have The Right To Know

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
Vote Yes on Proposition 37 for our right to know what's in our food. Join our campaign: Because Food is Love... Food is Life -- Food is Family. We all have the right to know what's in our food. That's why so many consumers say YES to Proposition 37. It gives us the right to know if there are genetically engineered ingredients in our food ¬ -- with clear information on package labels. That's the very same right consumers in nearly 50 other countries already enjoy. Yes on 37 -- We have the right to know what's in our food. *Source:* *http://www.carighttoknow.org*

Chinese protester opposing government takeover of village land 'is crushed to death by state-controlled road-flattening truck'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*This is the horrifying moment a Chinese protester was allegedly brutally crushed to death by a government road flattening truck over a land dispute.* The demonstrator had apparently resisted a government relocation when he appeared to be crushed by the huge vehicle on the orders of a Chinese government official. The victim, named as He Zhi Hua, had refused to accept a small sum to relocate from Changsha Village in Hunan Province, where government officials want to claim land for commercial use. Instead, when Hua began lying down on the land in protest, a construction vehicle repo... more »

Vasili Arkhipoy the submariner who single-handedly averted World War Three at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*He was the man who saved the world by single-handedly averting World War Three five decades ago, yet he died humiliated, outcast and an unknown. Only now has his story has come to light.* A documentary shown tonight told how for 13 days during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the world held its breath as the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. stood on the brink of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, when paranoia on both sides meant the slightest provocation could spark nuclear war, four submarines secretly set sail from Russia to communist Cuba. Only a handful of the submari... more »

Mitt Romney's Unintentionally Hilarious Tax Return FAQ

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 14 hours ago
Unless you've been in a coma, you have certainly heard about Mitt Romney's release of his 2011 tax returns last Friday. You no doubt now that he and his wife did not claim all the charitable tax deductions they were due, so their tax rate would not go below 13% of adjusted gross income. If you read Bloomberg or a newspaper that picked up the Bloomberg story, you know that Rafalca, the Romneys' dressage horse, has disappeared from their 2011 tax deductions. This, of course, raises the question of whether it was a legitimate deduction in 2010 (or earlier?). After all, being in the Oly... more »

Yom Kippur 39 years on

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago
I remember Yom Kippur 1973, I was but a child and did not stay at synagogue all day with my father. I was at home sitting in front of the television when I saw the reports of war in the Middle East. For some reason I didn't say anything to my mum. Shortly thereafter we were all back at synagogue for the Neilah service. The congregation was shocked from its prayer by the phone in the rabbi's office ringing. Someone ran to answer it and admonish the caller for daring to call a synagogue on Yom Kippur. A minute or so later the news was broken to the congregation that Israel had been att... more »

UK Floods, Foam & Delays

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
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'Democracy Has Been Kidnapped!' Clashes in Madrid; Spain

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
25 September 2012 Riot police have ringed the Spanish parliament in Madrid after clashing with demonstrators as thousands of protesters gather for a march against austerity tagged "Surround Congress". Nine people have been injured and 15 arrested, local media report. Spain On Sale

Block of flats evacuated after floods wash away its foundations after worst storm to hit Britain in 30 years

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*This terrifying sight brings home the full horror of the floods that have hit areas of Britain after a mighty deluge brought a month's rainfall in just 24 hours - and led forecasters to declare it the worst storm to hit Britain in 30 years. * A block of flats is precariously perched on stilts on an estate in Newburn, Newcastle, its foundations washed away by the waterfall which formed after the road outside turned into a river. The torrential downpours have caused more than 300 homes to flood across the country since Sunday, including in Morpeth, Durham, Chester-le-Street and Stoc... more »

NEW Swine Flu: Ontario spots case of new swine flu; not one linked to U.S. fairs this summer

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*TORONTO - Ontario has found a case of an infection with a new swine flu virus, in a man who worked with pigs. * The infection was caused by an H1N1-variant virus, which is not the swine flu virus that has been jumping from pigs to people in the United States this summer. That virus, an H3N2-variant, has caused 305 infections this year in the U.S. but has not been spotted in Canada to date. Most infections with the H3N2-variant flu have been in people who visited pig barns at state and county fairs. Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, said the man is being ... more »

Militants' attack kills 2 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*KABUL, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) lost their lives as they came under militants' attack in Afghanistan's eastern region on Wednesday, the alliance confirmed in a statement released here. * "Two International Security Assistance Force service members died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan today," the statement added. However, it did not reveal the nationalities of the victims and the exact place of the incident, saying it is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the releva... more »

West turns up heat on Iran and Syria at UN

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*WESTERN and Arab leaders have ramped up the pressure on Syria and Iran at the United Nations, as US President Barack Obama vowed to keep Tehran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons.* The United States, France and Qatar led the charge on Tuesday as the West and its allies attempted to use the UN General Assembly to win support for tougher international action against the Middle East's twin pariah regimes. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon set the tone, condemning the bloodshed in Syria, where the beleaguered regime is battling an armed revolt and subjecting its citizens to what... more »

Spain to seek bailout if yields too high for too long

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
*(Reuters) - Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday said he was ready to seek a new rescue package for his troubled country but only if its debt financing costs remain too high for too long.* Investors have been jittery that Spain's apparent reluctance to seek a bailout - a condition for European Central Bank action to cut the country's borrowing costs - could propel the euro zone into even deeper trouble. Rajoy had said previously that a reduction in Spanish bond yields after the announcement of a bold bond-buying plan by the ECB could allow Spain to put off seeking fur... more »

Japan-China ministers in 'severe' meeting over islands row

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
*The Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers have held talks on a bitter row over disputed islands. * The meeting came on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The Japanese minister described the atmosphere as severe, Kyodo News agency said, while his Chinese opposite number restated Beijing's sovereignty over the islands, Xinhua news agency said. The islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are controlled by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan. Tension in the region has been high since Japan's purchase of the islands from their private Japanese owner.... more »

Rebel bombers 'hit Syria military HQ' in Demascus

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
*Two large explosions have shaken the centre of Syria's capital Damascus, near the military general staff headquarters.* The blasts happened just before 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT) in an area dominated by government buildings. Information Minister Omran Zoabi said two roadside bombs caused the blasts, and said one might have been inside the main military compound. Witnesses said the main building of the compound was on fire. State media said only that fires had broken out near the military headquarters and while reports said there had been several injuries, officials said there h... more »

4.4 Magnitude Earthquake OFF THE COAST OF OREGON - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck OFF THE COAST OF OREGON at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:42:42 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 161 km (100 miles) West of Bandon, Oregon No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

5.2 Magnitude Earthquake TONGA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 162.1 km (100.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:45:18 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (97 miles) West from Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.0 Magnitude Earthquake GULF OF CALIFORNIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:02:17 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) NNE of La Paz, Mexico No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

3.6 Magnitude Earthquake OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA at a depth of 7.8 km (4.8 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 05:53:31 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (66 miles) West from Trinidad, California No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

5.2 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTH OF KERMADEC ISLANDS - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF KERMADEC ISLANDS at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:24:31 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 847 km (525.1 miles) Northeast of Gisborne, New Zealand No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

Kucinich Calls Out Monsanto: Americans Demand GMO Labeling

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
19 September 2012 "In 1992 the Food and Drug Administration decided that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are the functional equivalent of conventional foods. They arrived at this decision without testing GMOs for allergenicity, toxicity, anti-biotic resistance and functional characteristics. As a result hundreds of millions of acres of GMO crops were planted in America without the knowledge or consent of the American people: no safety testing and no long term health studies. "The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. Ninety perc... more »

4.9 Magnitude Earthquake OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:49:13 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (95.8 miles) East of Hasaki, Honshu, Japan No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

Witten's new trilogy on RNS diagrams

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours ago
Witten is such a big guy in physics that I will probably not attempt to write a single article attempting to cover all his important contributions to physics, something I did and I plan with other inaugural Milner Prize winners. Instead, we may talk about specific new papers. I have already mentioned Edward Witten's work on technical issues of RNS Feynman diagrams but because the full trilogy is now out, it may be appropriate to summarize the links and add a few comments. There are three papers Short (review of the long one), medium (background on manifolds), long (the bulk). Thi... more »

Energy Econ 8: More Intolerance by the Anti-Coal Camp

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 15 hours ago
The construction of a coal terminal leading to a coal power plant in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental continues to evoke debates and emotionalism. There are two main protagonists there. One is the City government itself which supported and helped facilitate the entry of the power plant. The other is the Cadiznon Kontra Coal (CKZ). Both have facebook groups below. Based on my engagement with them, I can say that both groups have the latter has shown high intolerance when you question them or you show non-alliance with them. I have proof for saying this. On the CKZ, there is that attitu... more »

War Healer

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
This is extraordinary good news. With military funding, medical restoration research is advancing now in real time. If it works, it is used ASAP and the results guide further application. The rest of medical science needs a sharp dose of this mentality for two good reasons. The first is that our knowledge base is deep enough to respond well to failure and to track lessons learned properly. Thus a protocol failure instructs immediately and real losses balance well against assured losses from continued failure to successfully treat and resolve health issues. The second is ... more »

Risk Reduction of Ninety Percent for Heat Attacks

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
This is good news in that we are informed what the key factors are that demand attention and their real strength statistically. It is great guidance that assists every trainer in shaping programs. Of course, we all sort of knew this, but the scope was never properly quantified and this yanks it out of the nether world of general opinion. The bottom line is that addressing these issues successfully and that is obviously the rub, one reduces ones general risk by 90%. By the way, the shortest straight line to success is to go vegan with almost no wheat. It is a tough trick... more »

Pre Agricultural Ceramics

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
The only thing that exploded ten thousand years ago was the population as it responded to the conversion to agriculture. This also brought fixed communal living and the inevitable accumulation of pottery wherever it was possible. Recall though that the alternative was wood which was just as handy if not more so. Unsurprisingly the evidence of pottery cultures appear generally were carvable wood resources would have soon been eliminated. Thus by inference, huge agricultural populations could well have thrived using wood alone. That is certainly the evidence of the Amazon and... more »

Japan Tooth Patch Could End Decay

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
What this means is that the outright replacement of enamel is now plausible and in fact outright likely. While we wait for someone to figure out how to regenerate fresh teeth, this will do nicely for most everyone. If we can also figure out how to prevent abscesses and the death of nerves, then teeth preservation will become the norm into serious old age as wear itself becomes completely repairable. For my generation who have lived with an ongoing struggle to preserve our teeth after our parent's generation generally gave it up quite early and switched to false teeth th... more »

ROTHSCHILDS, BANKS, CIA, CHEMTRAILS, LOCKERBIE, DRONES, MALAYSIA, 9 11...

Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago
*1. ROTHSCHILDS* Nat Rothschild's big investment in 'Bumi' in Indonesia has gone wrong. *Bumi woes dent Rothschild fortune – and reputation* *2. BANKS* "A low degree of exposure to the international banking system has helped economies such as Australia, Canada, India and Malaysia to avoid the worst effects of the global financial crisis... India and Malaysia have restricted entry by foreign banks. Malaysia, India avert crisis due to less exposure to international banking ... *2. THE CIA IN MALAYSIA* Malaysiakini, a Malaysian media organization, has just admitted receiving ... more »

Motion 312 and reproductive rights: pay attention to what Tories do, not to what they say

david at Alberta Diary - 16 hours ago
What? What? I’m pro-choice and pro-life, Edmonton St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber seems to say in this shot grabbed from his website. Below: Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth. In this era of routine political deceit, wise voters are advised to pay attention to what their elected representatives actually do, not what they say. So when ... more »

King of Norway Knights a Penquin

Photo courtesy: Wikipedia And now for something completely different...The Norwegian King and and Royal Guard have a great sense of humor. Nils Olav is a King Penguin (there's definitely a royal connection there) living in the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. In the summer of 2008, soldiers from the Norwegian Royal Guard visited him at the zoo, and while the story doesn't say, I'll guess that some fine single-malt Scotch was involved, because the next thing that happened is that the soldiers awarded the penguin a knighthood. Screen capture courtesy Edinburgh Zoo. It could all have stopp... more »

Japan's New Nuclear Regulatory Body Discontinues Use of Stress Tests

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours ago
New nuclear regulatory body not to continue 'stress tests' The Mainichi Sep 25, 2012 http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120925p2g00m0dm030000c.html [excerpted] (Kyodo) -- Japan's new nuclear regulatory authority will not continue the current procedure to assess the safety of reactors for their reactivation because it plans to create fresh criteria, the authority's head Shunichi Tanaka said Monday. "We will not use 'stress tests' as our judgment criteria," Tanaka said in an interview with Kyodo News, referring to the two-stage safety examination process that th... more »

Points to Ponder

If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Apologizing doesn't always mean that you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value the relationship more than you value your ego. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards.

Injection Wells and Salt Dome Collapse

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours ago
Majia here: Currently Enenews has been following the collapse of a salt dome that had served as a storage place for waste in Assumption Parish. The emergence of a massive sink hole at the location of the salt dome was the first signal to local residents that a problem existed. Enenews: CONFIRMED: Salt cavern below sinkhole has failed http://enenews.com/confirmed-salt-cavern-below-sinkhole-has-failed Majia here: ProPublica recently ran a very interesting story about this practice of injecting all kinds of toxic waste into underground caverns. Salt domes, as I understand it, are one k... more »

Quotable Quotes

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. - Joanna Macy All that we are is the result of what we have thought: It is founded on our thoughts and is made up of our thoughts. - the Dhammapada Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

Obama "kicks it" into high gear during final campaign stretch

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago
*Thoughts: I wonder, is he dancing because he's coming? Or because he's going? Nevertheless, if only all the worlds' ills could be settled with some fancy feet and a novelty rubber mask. An editor can dream.*

Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes near Mexico's Baja Peninsula

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
*(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the southern tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, on Tuesday and caused panic, but local officials said there were no reports of damage or injuries.* The quake's epicenter was located 46 miles north of La Paz, Mexico, and was centered in the Gulf of California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. "It felt pretty strong," said Ivan Calderon, a Baja California Sur state civil protection official, adding there were no reports of damages or injuries. "So far there have just been some reports of people panicking, but nothing serious," ... more »

Thousands Rage Against Cutbacks In Spain

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
*Thousands of protesters have marched on Madrid's parliament building as anger over austerity measures and tax hikes increases in Spain.* More than 1,000 riot police blocked off access to the building in the centre of the capital. Officers used batons to push back some protesters at the front of the march and fired rubber bullets as they charged crowds in central Madrid, according to reports. The demonstration, with an "Occupy Congress" slogan, drew protesters weary of nine months of painful cutbacks imposed by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Spain is struggling with its second rece... more »

CT Images Reveal 300 Million-Year-Old Cockroach

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
*Images in 3D of 300 million-year-old insects have been revealed by scientists at a British university.* By placing fossils in a CT scanner, and taking over 3,000 X-rays from different angles, the scientists were able to create 2,000 slices showing the creatures in cross section. From these slices, the researchers created 3D digital reconstructions of the fossils which allowed them to learn more about their lifestyle, biology and diet. One of the insects, characterised by a large number of sharp spines, is a new species and genus which no longer exists. The other is an early pred... more »

Britain Braced For A Second Day Of Flooding

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
*Swathes of Britain are braced for more flooding with heavy rain and strong winds forecast for a second day.* The Environment Agency (EA) has issued 83 flood warnings and 139 less serious flood alerts with up to 1.6 inches of rain set to fall in the next 24 hours. On Tuesday, some areas saw more than a month's rainfall as downpours and winds battered parts of Wales, northern England and Scotland. Around 300 homes were flooded after low pressure moved north across the country from the Bay of Biscay to the north east coast. The low pressure is now heading south west, which will brin... more »

4.3 Magnitude Earthquake NORTHERN COLOMBIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck NORTHERN COLOMBIA at a depth of 152.4 km (94.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:22:24 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) North of Aratoca, Colombia No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 19 hours ago
Welcome 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 information in this post and I encourage you to read through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might find the following quick links helpful: - The #CTWW Gang - The Honor Society - My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge - This Week's Challenge How did you do with the SWOT analysis last week? I found it interesting! Thinking about green living in a sli... more »

What Does Steve Israel Have Against West Virginia?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
This afternoon we took a look at DCCC math and the committee's patently false claims about targeting. I promised we'd take a look at one of the races they spent heavily on in 2010 and see what they're doing there this cycle. Come with me to beautiful northern West Virginia, WV-01, a traditionally Democratic district that covers a third of the state, including Wheeling, Parkersburg and Morgantown. But first a couple words about the state of the state's political culture. The West Virginia Democratic Party Establishment, home of arch-conservatives Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Sen... more »

5.1 Magnitude Earthquake TONGA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 42.7 km (26.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:41:43 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) East of `Ohonua, Tonga No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA at a depth of 29.1 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 01:28:32 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) SSE of Kas, Turkey No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.3 Magnitude Earthquake GULF OF CALIFORNIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:21:16 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) North of La Paz, Mexico No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

NATO Terrorists Bomb School in Syria

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours ago
France seeks no-fly zone over Syria to repeat Al Qaeda Benghazi-blowback. *by Tony Cartalucci* *September 26, 2012* - As NATO desperately attempts to coverup a botched false flag operation in Benghazi, Libya which left a high ranking US diplomat dead, France has urged a repeat performance in Syria. That is, arming and providing air support for the very terrorist battalions now operating in Syria that have ravaged and overrun Libya, leaving it a perpetually wrecked, destabilized terrorist epicenter. The announcement made by French President Francois Hollande came on the heels of a ... more »

4.0 Magnitude Earthquake GULF OF CALIFORNIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:59:46 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) NNE of La Paz, Mexico No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.8 Magnitude Earthquake GULF OF CALIFORNIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:17:54 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) North of La Paz, Mexico No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake GULF OF CALIFORNIA - 26th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:05:29 UTC Wednesday 26th September 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of La Paz, Mexico No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

6.2 Magnitude Earthquake GULF OF CALIFORNIA - 25th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the GULF OF CALIFORNIA at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:26 UTC Tuesday 25th September 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) NNE of La Paz, Mexico No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time 

RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Singer-Songwriters Bob Cheevers & Noëlle Hampton and André Moran

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 hours ago
Above, from left, musicians André Moran, Bob Cheevers, and Noëlle Hampton, with Rag Radio's Thorne Dreyer and Tracey Schulz. Inset photos below of Bob Cheevers, Noëlle Hampton, and André Moran. All photos were taken in the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 21, 2012. Photos by Sharon Kay Berger / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio Podcast: Singer-songwriters Bob Cheevers, Noëlle Hampton, and

You don’t get richer by making yourself poorer

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 21 hours ago
A “DEBATE” IS SUPPOSEDLY under way about monetary policy in New Zealand. A “debate” begun by economic ignoramuses calling for the Reserve Bank to redirect its efforts from “stabilising prices” to lowering our exchange rate. What this amounts to is a call to use the printing press to lower our exchange rate—and hence to lower real wages. Revealingly, however, neither of the politicians promoting this call to lower wages by means of the printing press give this as their method. Instead, they like to use metaphors, Russel Norman, who has all the economic credentials of an organic te... more »

Wall Street, Pro-Israel Groups Support Malaysian Opposition

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours ago
*Editor's Note*: Nile Bowie had written this piece exposing the Malaysian opposition's foreign funding and the duplicitous implications involved, in the midst of what is an increasing public awareness of the role foreign-funded NGOs play in destabilizing and destroying the sovereignty of a nation targeted by Wall Street and London corporate-financier interests. In response to this increasing awareness, these very Wall Street-funded NGOs have published a ridiculous rebuttal featured in the image below. *Image: An absurd demand for an "apology" aimed at Malaysian journalists simply ... more »

Western Narrative on Syria is Crumbling

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours ago
Land Destroyer interview by Kourosh Ziabaria, published by Tehran Times. Tehran Times Kourosh Ziabari September 26, 2012 *A U.S. journalist says the United States and its allies are taking serious steps to launch a military strike against Syria.* *“We can expect to see the mechanisms at play in undermining, dividing, and destroying Syria next turned on Lebanon and Iran if and when critical mass can be reached to topple Syria's government,” said Tony Cartalucci in a recent interview with the Tehran Times.* *Cartalucci, who is based in Bangkok, Thailand, writes for different news ... more »

The Upcoming War On Iran: Is A False Flag Definitely Coming? Watch This Revealing Video!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 21 hours ago
The Israelis are definitely at the point of desperation in getting their war on Iran off and running. Their diabolical plan has always been to launch a false flag attack on an American target, have it blamed on Iran, and as a result get their American puppet slaves to launch the war themselves, and in the process do the fighting and the dying for them. I came across this very revealing, and yet very disturbing video, entitled: "Breaking!! Israel Lobbyist- We Need A False Flag To Start War With Iran!", that shows how the psychotic pro-Israel lobby groups in America are now openly ta... more »

Sheldan Nidle - September 25, 2012

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 21 hours ago
*Sheldan Nidle - September 25, 2012 * September 25, 2012 5 Ben, 1 Tzotz, 9 Eb Dratzo! We return with more to discuss with you. At present, your ongoing body ascension programs are being temporarily suspended by divine decree, while a series of time collapse points goes into effect in the run-up to the end of your Gregorian year. These time-collapse points represent the juncture at which alternative timelines are integrated into your present ascending reality, because this is the sole reality which is to go forward into 2013. This collapse process can cause fluctuations in the E... more »

My Money is Now Speech (Kinda)

2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours ago
Ran into something interesting tonight on Common Dreams. Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, talks to “Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer about the need to get money out of politics. As “head stamper” for the StampStampede Campaign, Cohen shows Spitzer how he’s been stamping dollar bills with pro–campaign finance reform messages, something he hopes to inspire others to do. There he was on Current TV stamping slogans on the backs of dollar bills. So I went to the StampStampede webpage and did some looking around on the webpage at the statistics which are pretty amazing. The... more »

Aftermath of Spain Protests: At This Point, The Syrian Government Is More Popular Than European Governments

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
The dictatorial Spanish government is using violence against the Spanish people and crushing their demands for reform, freedom, and justice. Will the "international community" intervene in Spain to stop this oppression? Will Western governments demand the end of the violence against peaceful protesters in Spain? Will President Obama get on his high horse and spout nonsense about dropping bombs on the Spanish government in order to defend "human rights" and "democracy"? Will the U.S. media cry "Murder! Murder!" and demand a humanitarian intervention in Spain? Will the progressive... more »

Is A False Fa

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours ago

Manufactured Fear - 15 minutes that will change your life

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 22 hours ago
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Event Calls For Cultural Shift In News Media

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 22 hours ago
The Good News for the Media panel (L-R): Martyn Lewis, Seán Dagan Wood, Jeremy Wickremer and Jodie Jackson http://enablethelight.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=144&p=675#p675 * * *Event calls for cultural shift in news media* Journalists and members of the public came together in London on Wednesday to debate the need for more good news in the media. Kathleen Cassidy reviews the event A landmark meeting of citizens, journalists and advocates of positive news took place at the British Museum on Wednesday, reflecting an increasing demand for a more realistic balance of good and bad new... more »

One question, Richard Cohen: Did Republicans really WANT a better candidate than the 2012 field offered them?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago
*Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker -- now that's talent?* *"None of these candidates [i.e., the 2012 Republican presidential field] were remotely qualified for the highest office in the land. Arguably, Romney was the exception -- and that’s the whole point. He won just by showing up."* *-- Richard Cohen, in his WaPo column today,* "The Republican brain drain" *by Ken* Before we proceed with today's lesson from Brother Richard Cohen, a couple of caveats: * About Richard Cohen himself, it's the usual: Although he normally seems to me a Village hack, he hasn't lost all his m... more »

GAIA PORTAL: Stargate Gaia has become “Star Gaia”

Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 22 hours ago
*Stargate Gaia has become “Star Gaia”* September 25, 2012 We are Seeing Beings of Great Stature… Tall, standing in strength, hands together, on a Grand Sphere of Light. We have not seen this until this moment. We are seeing it now. The Sphere is Gaia. The Beings of Great Stature are Awakened Hue-manity. Illuminescence of Gaia has tripled since the 9-9 Portal. We speak of the Inner Illuminescence, which many may also have awareness of in the so-called outer. “Gaia” became “Stargate Gaia” as of the 9-9. As of this moment, “Stargate Gaia” has become “Star Gaia”. Fullness of Il... more » 

don quijote

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 23 hours ago

How to Get A Higher SAT Score: Get Wealthier Parents

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
From WaPo. Also see Valerie Strauss's blog post here.

Elsewhere, and Housekeeping

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Over at PP today, I did a bit of evening out; I've been mostly hitting Republicans for ignoring reasonable expectations for the election this cycle, but this time I was able to take a shot at a Democrat who is doing the same thing. Of course, the incentives are if anything even stronger for Democrats: if they believe that the economy should make Obama a big loser, then they can believe, as Robert Reich does in the piece I quote over there, that Americans have suddenly woken up and become convinced that Democrats are correct about everything and Republicans are wrong about everything... more »

Harry Targ : The 'Unfinished Revolution' of the Emancipation Proclamation

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Emancipation from Freedmen's viewpoint. Illustration from Harper's Weekly, 1865. Image from Wikimedia Commons. The Emancipation Proclamation: The 'Unfinished Revolution' The candidacy of President Obama in 2012 offers a continuation of the struggle for political rights against the most sustained racist assaults by neoliberals, conservatives, and tea party activists since the days of

BOOKS / Lamar W. Hankins : America's 'Gunfight' over Gun Control

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Gunfights: America’s conflicts over gun control Winkler’s research demonstrates clearly that Americans have always had the right to bear arms and the government has always had the right to regulate guns. By Lamar W. Hankins /The Rag Blog / September 25, 2012 [Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler (2011: W.W. Norton & Company); 361 pp.; $27.95.]

Texans lockdown again to halt Keystone tarsands pipeline

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
BREAKING: Day 2–Two People Lock Themselves to Keystone XL Machinery to Defend Eight People in Tree Village *Day Two: Blockaders Stop All Work At Keystone XL Construction Site* *All work has been halted at a Keystone XL construction site outside Winnsboro, Texas. Two Texas-born blockaders have locked themselves to construction machinery, effectively halting all construction until further notice. * ** *By Global Justice Ecology Project* *Climate Connections* http://climate-connections.org/2012/09/25/breaking-day-2-two-people-lock-themselves-to-keystone-xl-machinery-to-defend-eight-peopl... more »

FSA Terrorists = Scum of The Earth

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
YouTube video description [Channel - Eretz Zen]: The Wahhabi Salafi "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) terrorists believe that stealing is OK. One of their countless acts of robbing civilians' homes and stores was caught on tape by a security camera placed inside a convenience store in Yabroud, Syria. FSA Terrorists Caught Robbing Convenience Store on Security Camera

The 1980s: A Distant, Distant Era

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
I don't have time before sunset to do a proper takedown of Marc Theissen's incredibly weak defense of his idea that it's very, very, important that Barack Obama mostly uses written instead of oral daily security briefings, following fact-checker Glenn Kessler's thorough demolishing of the Theissen's original piece, which has been updated to reflect the latest from Theissen. Kessler was, shall we say, not impressed. Nor was Alex Pareene. See, the problem for Theissen is that it turns out that most presidents preferred written to oral briefings, including Ronald Reagan. Which is a bit... more »

Appellant review of discretionary decisions

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Hinke v. Thermal Energy International Inc., 2012 ONCA 635 provides: [31] Absent a conclusion that the motion judge was clearly wrong or made an error in law, this court will not interfere with a discretionary decision: *R. v. Chiasson*, 2009 ONCA 789, 258 O.A.C. 50.

Inside China, with Russell Watkins

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: image] [image: image]*After my request yesterday for inside information on China, and the protests ostensibly about the nationality of those rocks in the picture above, I spoke to Russell Watkins (right) who’s spent the last few years living there. Unlike others there who might be afraid to speak out, Russell doesn’t h0ld back. “I've discovered that criticism is okay,” he says, “as long as you don't do it with others in groups of more than the authorities consider dangerous.”* *Here’s our interview:* *Q: How long have you been there now?* I've been here almost two year... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Saints Alone: Fighting Roger Goodell’s Illegitimate Dystopia ~Black and Gold Review*

UK: Hundreds of homes flooded as downpours continue

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
*More than 300 homes have been flooded and train services disrupted as heavy rain continues across parts of the UK.* Hundreds of people are facing a night in temporary accommodation as 80 Environment Agency flood warnings remain in place. Some areas were expected to see 50mm (2in) of rain - an average fortnight's worth - in a day, the Met Office said. Transport was disrupted with part of the A1 closed in North Yorkshire and the East Coast mainline hit. More than 100 vehicles were trapped on a 30-mile stretch of the A1 between junction 49 (Dishforth) and junction 60 (Bradbury), whi... more »

5.2 Magnitude Earthquake SOLOMON ISLANDS - 25th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the SOLOMON ISLANDS at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:42:32 UTC Tuesday 25th September 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) SSW from HONIARA, Solomon Islands No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time 

Saudi Poet: Saudi Arabia Insults the Prophet Muhammad on a Daily Basis

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
YouTube video description: "Although this footage is from late 2010 regarding the Danish cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad negatively, it is very relevant to the recent "Innocence of Muslims" movie and the French cartoons in Charlie Hebdo. The poet says plainly that Wahhabi version of Islam is responsible for insulting the prophet Muhammad as well as the antagonistic behavior displayed by those adhering to Wahhabism, such as those protesting those cartoons."

DCCC Targeting And Expediture Strategies Just Do Not Add Up

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Chances are slim that you saw Shira Toeplitz's *Roll Call* post yesterday, Triage Looms Over Campaigns. Pure Beltway hackishness... from someone who can do better. The idea is that the all-knowing and all-powerful heads of the NRCC and DCCC take on their shoulders the onerous task of deciding who's going to win and who's going to lose and then make the tough decisions about who to back financially. Like so much of *Roll Call* it sounds like it was put together by the publicists of the DCCC and NRCC. Very large sums of money are already being allocated and reallocated but, according... more »

Spain - patience is running out?

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
Link: http://youtu.be/CDcRpCHfRgs These images keep me wondering... To my opinion either everybody in Spain for the time of 365 days firmly joins and backs minister-president *Mariano Rajoy* and his governing team to have them complete the overhaul of the Spanish State institutions and banks, modernizing Spain. Or alternatively join Greece and create a huge politico-economic mess with loss of much precious time to bring the house in order once and for all. That is at stake. The sooner the groundwork is laid, corruption and over-spending dealt with, lean institutions established tha... more »

Woz Exiting US for Australia (Can You Empathize?)

Not exactly hard to understand, is it? Apple Co-Founder Wants to Be Australian Citizen CNBC Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, would like to become an Australian citizen, The Australian Financial Review reported on Tuesday, citing the rollout of Australia's national broadband network as one of the reasons for the move. Steve Wozniak The idea behind Australia's $38 billion National

Israeli Lobbyist Proposing Covert Actions to "Get the U.S. Into War with Iran"

Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day ago
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty BEGS Corporate Sector To Create Some Jobs With The BILLIONS In Tax Cuts They Have Received

leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago
*Is Finance Minister Jim Flaherty about to discover one of the most fatal flaws in Conservative Party ideology?* *Those not afflicted with rabid conservatism know that the flaw is giving billions in no strings attached corporate tax cuts AND ASSUMING that these will equate into the creation of new jobs for Canada's economy. * *Finance Minister Jim Flaherty sounds like he is flogging a dead horse and is leaving job creation up to his corporate brethren: * *“Our country’s long-term prosperity is linked to reaching beyond our borders for economic opportunities that serve to grow Cana... more »

Fear of Engagement

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day ago
As it turns out, there is no reason to fear engagement. We are not destroyed when patients suffer or die, but rather deepened, becoming better able to open ourselves to the complex lives of the distressed and infirm next time around. Over time, there comes a natural but mysterious adjustment toward equanimity, in which we can hold onto both worlds, that of safety and that of danger, simultaneously, without calamity. David Watts, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine September 27, 2012

Economics Teaching Conference

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
You can still register for the economics teaching conference on November 8 and 9 in Orlando, Florida. Early bird registration is open until October 10. Click here for more information. FYI, I am among the keynote speakers.

5.4 Magnitude Earthquake TONGA - 25th September 2012

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 18:33:05 UTC Tuesday 25th September 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) East from NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga No Tsunami Warning Issued - No Reports of Damage or Injuries at this time

'US drone attacks are counter-productive and terrorise civilians'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
*Civilians are being "terrorised" 24 hours a day by CIA drone attacks that target mainly low-level militants in north-west Pakistan, a report by Stanford and New York Universities says.* It claims that follow-up strikes are also killing rescuers who set out to treat the injured. The report, made up of interviews with victims, witnesses and experts, pins blame on US President Barack Obama for the recent increase in "signature strikes" which target groups selected through "pattern of life analysis" and which have resulted in large, innocent groups attending weddings and funerals bein... more »

Israel Lobbyist in US: We Need a False Flag to Start War with Iran

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
At a recent talk at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a neocon think tank, an Israeli lobbyist said that either America or Israel should stage a false flag event in the Persian Gulf to initiate a full-scale war against Iran. What a disgusting coward. Read more about his remarks *here*. [YouTube Channel Eretz Zen] Israel Lobbyist in US: We Need a False Flag to Start War with Iran:

Defending ALEC - The Wrong Thing to Do

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
*It amazes me* that with all the bad publicity that ALEC is getting - they are doing nothing! Why are they doing nothing? Because there is no way in hell any person could justify what the American Legislative Exchange Council has been doing for almost 40 years to the AMerican democracy. So -------- ALEC's good buddies are stepping to the forefront trying to help out their freind. While other rats are jumping dfrom the ALEC sinking ship - some of their buddies are congratulating those companies who are refusing to #DumpALEC. The right thing to do - is to dump ALEC. The wrong thing ... more »

10 Ways Christie and Cerf Promote Privatizing NJ Schools

Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
*Thank you to Stan Karp and the Education Law Center for keeping a close watch on the liars and thieves who profit at the expense of the poorest children and communities in New Jersey. The privatizers and profiteers can no longer hide behind "no excuses" and "no child left behind" because thanks to the brave teachers in Chicago the conversation has changed and the genie is out of the bottle. I suppose they aren't privatizing in Philadelphia either where they just gave the Boston Consulting Group* the green light to line up private vendors willing to replace the School District’s u... more »

Danny Schechter : When is a Terrorist No Longer a Terrorist?

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Mujahedeen Khalq. Image from Institute for the Study of Violent Groups. Strange story of the Mujahedeen Khalq: When is a terrorist no longer a terrorist? The 'bad guys' became 'good guys' with the swipe of a pen. By Danny Schechter / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2012 Question: When is a terrorist a terrorist? Answer: When the U.S. government says so. When the Mujhadeen in Afghanistan were

Yawn At This Pawn

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago

Greek unions set to strike

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
*Sept. 25 - A look at Wednesday's key events including French consumer confidence and a general strike in Greece*

Obama: U.S. will "do what we must" on Iran

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
*(Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday the United States will "do what we must" to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon and said time was running short for diplomacy but ignored the Israeli prime minister's demand to set a "red line" for Tehran. * Taking the podium at the United Nations six weeks before the U.S. presidential election, Obama sought to counter criticism of his foreign record by Republican rival Mitt Romney, who has accused him of mishandling the Arab Spring uprisings, damaging ties with Israel and not being tough enough on Iran. Obama also c... more »

China carrier a show of force as Japan tension festers

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
*(Reuters) - China sent its first aircraft carrier into formal service on Tuesday amid a tense maritime dispute with Japan in a show of force that could worry its neighbors. * China's Ministry of Defence said the newly named Liaoning aircraft carrier would "raise the overall operational strength of the Chinese navy" and help Beijing to "effectively protect national sovereignty, security and development interests". In fact, the aircraft carrier, refitted from a ship bought from Ukraine, will have a limited role, mostly for training and testing ahead of the possible launch of China's... more »

Passing (Or Failing) the June Test

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
The thing to remember about Eddie Haskell is that he never, ever, not even for a second, fooled June Cleaver. We all knew that; Wally knew it, too. Which brings us too the latest adventures of Paul Ryan -- and of (some members of) a press corps, Dave Weigel reports, who entirely fail the "June test" and are reporting that Ryan is an uberWonk because he uses...wait for it...PowerPoint. And because he included a few pie charts. Weigel passes the June test. So does Kevin Drum. Paul Krugman, too. Sort of. Krugman says that Ryan "very clearly doesn’t know what his numbers actually mean,"... more »
  
  
  
 

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