Photo of 2nd Blue Water Bridge From the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Excellence in Highway Design 1998 Biennial Awards: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/eihd/2bluewb.htm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The Blue Water Bridge from the South along the St. Clair River (Port Huron, MI to Sarnia, ON) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Postcard of the west end St. Clair River Tunnel in Port Huron, Michigan, United States. The east end is in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. The tunnel was designated a Civil Engineering Landmark by both the Canadian and the American Societies of Civil Engineers (CSCE and ASCE) in 1991. The tunnel is a designated US National Historic Landmark, and is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). NRHP reference number 70000684 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The Fort Gratiot Lighthouse in Port Huron, Michigan, United States, is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). NRHP reference number 76001975 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Huron Light Ship Museum in the St. Clair River, Port Huron, Michigan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 minutes agoTom Hayden speaks on "The Drug War, the Peace Movement, and the Legacy of Port Huron" at the 5604 Manor Community Center in Austin, Saturday, August 25, sponsored by The Rag Blog and Rag Radio. Video produce...
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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 41 minutes ago*He took the Globe's advice (or were they simply given a heads-up?)*: "Paul Ryan deserves serious consideration for VP" August 11, 2012 A contest centered on Paul Ryan’s budget promises to be fierce, but a...
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- posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 1 hour agoThad Daly lied "no hole" on DWH helideck, just a burnt mark. Thu May 24, 2012 8:38 PM CDT environment, bp, gulf-oil-spill, macondo, corexit, gom, environmental-impact , sea-food, schills By BK Lim This arti...
- posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 1 hour agoThad Daly unwittingly implicate Lubchenco NOAA role in Gulf Disaster Thu May 24, 2012 10:49 PM CDT environment, bp, gulf-oil-spill, mms, macondo, lubchenco, gom, thad-daly By BK Lim This article has been re...
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- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 1 hour agoThe campaign truly began for me last night. Ideally these things would only run from convention through debates to the election--a tight two month arc. Michelle Obama and several others have delivered phen...
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- posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 1 hour ago- 12 Votes - 2 Comments - E-mail This - Clip To: - Print - ! [image: Edit] Thad Daly's insatiable demand for answers to his lies confirms high level collusion & Inside Job. Sat Jun 9, 2...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*Sep. 06 - More than half of the 60 people killed are children after a boat sinks near the coast of western Turkey. Tara Cleary reports.*
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- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 2 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* In Louisiana, remnants of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill is washing up on shore in the form of tarballs that are heavily laced with Corexit. A representative fro...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago*The father-of-two shot dead along with his wife and daughters in France was an engineer and computer design expert who lived in Surrey, according to reports.* Saad al Hilli, 50, was originally from Bagh...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*Sept. 6 - Eloy Alonso’s photos show mining communities taking to the streets with homemade rockets and slingshots to defend their way of life, as government cuts threaten to close mines in Northern Spain....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*World stock markets have rallied after the European Central Bank president outlined bond-buying plans to support struggling eurozone countries, saying "the euro is irreversible".* ECB president Mario Dr...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 hours agoThe dial on the cognitive dissonance meter just went haywire and exploded into the stratosphere. Hordes of otherwise intelligent people have suddenly decided to take political conventions seriously. A reli...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoIf you didn't see Clinton last night you missed out. His 48 minute speech was an amazing re-affirmation about how Obama was a success and should be our next POTUS. If you have any disbelievers in your lif...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoR. v. Turner, 2012 ONCA 570 deals with the test to be applied by a preliminary hearing judge and jurisdiction of a reviewing court on an application to quash the decision of a preliminary inquiry judge: ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*The wife of the male cyclist, shot dead as bullets sprayed into the car of a British family, went to police to report him missing, unaware of the mass killing.* The man, named locally as Sylvain Mollier...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago*A British husband and wife murdered in a shooting in the French Alps have been named by neighbours as Saad and Iqbal al Hilli.* Their two children, who survived the bloody attack, were named as eight-ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 14:16:18 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (91.2 miles) Southwest of Nuk...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012* *Gush about brilliant Bill Clinton:* Last night, after Bill Clinton’s address, Lawrence and Chris started gushing. Before we recall what they’ve said in the past, let’s revi...
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- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 5 hours agoHollywood legend Clint Eastwood's strange and somewhat senile looking speech with a chair has practically handed Barack Obama his re-election. The speech even overshadowed Mitt Romney's nomination accepta...
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- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 5 hours ago[image: North Korea 2012 349] *There is KJI in the middle – he was even born in uniform* ** Actually, he was probably born in the USSR during the war. Here are parts one and two of this series. 5. *Py...
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- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago*Coastal plan lacks a ‘local sponsor’ ~Amy Wold* *Dead nutria, other creatures wash ashore in Mandeville* *Post-Isaac Aerial Survey Photography Now Available From NOAA ~Sky Truth*
- let them stay: action alert: what you can do to help stop the deportation of war resister kim riveraposted by laura k at wmtc - 5 hours ago*See below for actions you can take to help US war resister Kimberly Rivera. * We had an amazing community meeting in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto last night. More than 200 people crowded into ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 6 hours ago*THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012* *Part 3—The press corps has had some bad luck:* In fairness, the press corps has had a lot of bad luck over the last twenty years. Childishly, the press corps has typecast v...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago*Proposed barrier could help victims of Isaac's flooding ~WVUE* *Isaac's cost to state government tops $100 million * *Entergy Corp. CEO to retire, Entergy Louisiana official shifts to new post ~WDSU* *S...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 6 hours agoThe fat bedbugs that run the online diploma mill business are unrelenting. They write lengthy friendly comments to blog posts, and just underneath some of the verbiage, they attach their swollen transpa...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 6 hours agoThose of us who are decades into our careers as educators and educational scholars/historians are likely more than exhausted by and deeply skeptical of (if not cynical about) international comparisons. Mo...
- posted by Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 6 hours agoRemember back in January when you set some New Year's Resolutions (can you even remember them)? How are you doing with your goals? Chances are, if you're like most Americans, you've abandoned at least a fe...
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- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours ago- #DNC2012, days 1-2 -- Biography as politics: 1, Arithmetic: 1, Foreign Policy: 0. - Jim Baggott explains how the "Higgs mechanism creates mass." - The rise of beer culture in Asia. - Haye...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoHappy Birthday to Idris Elba, 40. Hoping to get to Luther sometime in the next few months. I'd get to it quicker if there wasn't so much good stuff: 1. Ezra Klein on Bill Clinton: The "Wonk-in-Chief." I ...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 7 hours agoOn the Orlando Sentinel Education blog, Sentinel reporter Leslie Postal responded to a letter to the editor of the Sentinel that I submitted but that wasn’t published, at least not yet. Her post is below a...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 7 hours agoThere's no doubt that Bill Clinton's masterful 50 minute nominating speech yesterday was the highpoint, at least so far, of the American electoral cycle. He made the case for a second term for Barack Oba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*PARIS (AP) — Europe's debt crisis is pushing the 17-country eurozone toward recession and dragging down the global economy, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday.* Even...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours agoThis is the concrete blog home for the Arizona desert designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his son, David, and recently sold to, shall we say, an unsympathetic buyer. So it may not be with us for much long...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan- 7 hours ago[image: Penghu_2_12] *Singers in Chiayi city. * The government's latest calculations... The consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.42 percent last month from a year ago, following a 2.46 percent increase in Ju...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 7 hours agoNext Tuesday I'll be giving a seminar at the University of Missouri on some of my work in progress related to innovation, with a focus on the so-called "green revolution." If you are in the vicinity plea...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*If Romney loses the rig he can blame Dirty Harry.... * "Romney tours storm-ravaged Louisiana, ahead of Obama" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff, August 31, 2012 TAMPA — In the aftermath of Mitt Romney’s spee...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 7 hours agoWhatever your politics, you have to admire Bill Clinton's ability to give a stem winding speech at a critical moment. He did it again last night at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Clinton...
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- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours agoNow for something very different and yet interesting and relevant- We were presented the clash of civilizations as a struggle between East and West, between Islamist terrorism and Judeo-Christian ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*MADRID — Spain's borrowing costs plummeted Thursday as markets awaited imminent news of a European Central Bank plan to help stricken eurozone states by purchasing their bonds.* The Treasury raised 3.5 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*The outlook for Britain has deteriorated severely in the past few months, which raises major questions for the Chancellor.* You’d be a fool to ignore what the OECD says about the state of the economy. W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* (Reuters) - The European Central Bank held its main interest rate at a record low of 0.75 percent on Thursday, holding fire after a pick-up in inflation last month offset pressure to breathe life into t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR at a depth of 24.5 km (15.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:38:56 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) South from Usul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*(Reuters) - The number of people who died after a boat carrying migrants sank off western Turkey's Aegean coast has risen to 58, Turkish news channels reported on Thursday.* Tahsin Kurtbeyoglu, the gove...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*The father of a British family murdered in a shooting in the French Alps has been named as Saad al Hilli, according to reports.* A French police source told AFP news agency that the 50-year-old Iraqi-bor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoSusanne Posel, *Contributor* The Ebola virus mysteriously appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1976 and has sporadically reappeared in the area without explanation ever since. Mai...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 8 hours agoHere's the latest outrage from the Convention Center in Charlotte, NC: Democrats Ignore 'No' Vote, Adopt 'God and Jerusalem' Platform Amendments Anyway By Brad Friedman on 9/5/2012, 4:42pm PT Unlike the ...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoAnthony Freda Art Michael Snyder, *Contributor* Most people just assume that since things have always been a certain way that they will always be that way in the future. Most people just have blind fait...
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- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoJulie Beal, *Contributor* Animal and product tagging is becoming the norm – this could lead to a tipping point where tagging everything with a microchip will become necessary. Surveillance becomes tru...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*David Cameron has insisted that burglars are cowards, in response to a judge who reportedly told one thief that his raids took courage.* The Prime Minister, who revealed he had been burgled twice, brande...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago** *Debt union? Banking union? Political union? The desire for a radical overhaul of Europe is understandable. But in spite of the calls for changes that are needed to resolve the ongoing political and eco...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoOuroboros The serpent that eateth his own tail Richard William Posner Ouroboros would seem to be an apt symbol for the self-destructive nature of the human species. *samsara*: n. Hinduism & Buddhism Th...
- posted by Brian C Rathbun at The Duck of Minerva- 8 hours agoA lot of people seem to have been offended by my fake post on APSA’s decision to hold its annual meeting in the Congo (although, as usual, a lot of people found it funny). That doesn’t bother me. What irks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*The world's richest woman has provoked a furious backlash for criticising the work ethic of Australians, saying her country is bad for business.* In a magazine column, mining magnate Gina Rinehart said A...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoimage source Michael Snyder, *Contributor* The fastest way to go broke in America is to go to the hospital. These days it seems like almost everyone has an outrageous hospital bill story to share. It is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*The United States has slipped further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released on Wednesday.* The world's largest econom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*TORONTO (Reuters) - A suitcase containing human remains was found floating in Lake Ontario near Toronto on Wednesday, the latest in a series of grisly discoveries by residents of Canada's largest city.* ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoMadison Ruppert, *Contributor* Mayor Ed Lee of San Francisco has given the green light to a plan which could allow chronic drunks to be sentenced to locked treatment for up to a whopping six months, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*An explosive mix of dysfunction, miscommunication, and misunderstandings inside and outside the White House led to the collapse of a historic spending and debt deal that President Obama and House Speaker...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*As reported on TheBlaze, Democrats returned the words “God” and “Jersusalem” to their DNC platform on Wednesday afternoon. The vote was controversial and actually booed by many in the hall.* Shortly aft...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 8 hours agoCredit: MilborneOne/Wikipedia Commons Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* The Camcopter, a drone developed for military use by Austria’s Schiebel Corporation, could very well be used by television stations an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago* * *A convention-goer stands on the convention floor on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 4, 2012.* Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Detectives are investigating after three people, who appeared to be British holidaymakers, were shot dead in a car in the French Alps. Here is what we know so far, and the questions police will attempt t...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 9 hours agoCredit: Extremetech Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* In a federal court Tuesday, the Obama administration claimed that Americans have absolutely no “reasonable expectation of privacy” concerning cellphone ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CBSNewYork) — A big flip flop by the Democratic Party has replaced what was perceived as a big snub to Israel.* It was a stunning development. The party had dropped the assertion that J...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 9 hours agoOfficial Web Site: http://www.atlasshruggedmovie.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AtlasShruggedMovie Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, said Monday that any Israeli strike against Iran would “turn against Israel” and called for stronger sanctions to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*The Sinai Peninsula, famed as a leading tourist destination given its natural landscape, dazzling coral reefs and biblical history, is witnessing increasing volatility in post-revolution Egypt.* A blood...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*September, 2012* * **Al-Qaeda is often trotted out as a bogey to justify US aggression against others. Al-Qaeda is an American creation and a handy tool. The noxus alliance has become fully exposed in Sy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*VLADIVOSTOK, Russia: Russia, which hosts its first annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this week, is seeking to assert its presence in the fast-growing region during troubled European economi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*At a conference last week for clients of Aberdeen Asset Management the audience was asked at one point whether or not it thought one or more member countries of the euro would drop out of the single curre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*The father of a family murdered in a shooting in the French Alps has been named as London man Saad al Hilli.* French police said a father, mother and grandmother from the same family were found dead in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*The government has decided to empower the nuclear regulatory commission to survey potential active faults beneath the premises of nuclear power plants, requesting some 1 billion yen in budget for fiscal 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*DATE, Fukushima -- A group of residents here are demanding damages from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, over "mental distress" caused by patc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*At least 37 more workers at printing companies across the country were confirmed to have developed bile duct cancer and 23 of them died, bringing the total number of workers at printing companies who deve...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(CNN) -- Officials in Bermuda urged residents to "prepare for the worst " as Hurricane Leslie headed towards the British territory bringing with it powerful winds and heavy rains.* Bermuda has closed pu...
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- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoFurther to this post, I have complained to the BBC, not that I expect it will do me much good.
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* London (CNN) -- Europe's leaders are battling to keep the eurozone and the wider European Union together in the face of a financial crisis that threatens to split partnerships forged over more than half ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - Russia has starkly warned Israel and the United States against attacking Iran, saying Moscow sees no evidence that Tehran's nuclear program is aimed at developing weapons, the Interfax news a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - The euro edged up versus the dollar on Thursday but looked fragile on concerns the European Central Bank's latest plan to tackle the region's debt crisis, expected to be announced later, coul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - France's unemployment rate rose to its highest level in 13 years in the second quarter, official data showed on Thursday, in a setback to the Socialist government, which was elected on a pled...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - Investors and governments from Beijing to Berlin regard France's 2013 budget this month as the acid test of President Francois Hollande's credibility but those hoping for long-overdue reforms...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - A human rights organization says it has collected evidence of two previously unreported cases in which U.S. agents used waterboarding or a similar harsh interrogation technique on Libyan mili...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi faces the most decisive moment of his presidency on Thursday when he tries to heal divisions among policymakers and deliver on his promise to save the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:13:28 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) ESE fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck NICARAGUA at a depth of 228.6 km (142.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:07:44 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) SSE from Granada, Nicaragu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has slashed its forecast for UK growth more than for any other major country in its latest economic forecasts.* The Paris-based organisation re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Israeli soldiers are refusing to allow entry to a group of about 20 Eritrean refugees trapped for six days between Egyptian land and a high steel fence that Israel has erected along its southern border. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago* WASHINGTON—Libyan fighters opposed to Moammar Gadhafi's regime were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques while in U.S. custody overseas during the administration of George W. Bush, including one ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*(Reuters) - Turkish fighter planes and attack helicopters struck suspected Kurdish militant positions in south-eastern Turkey and northern Iraq late on Wednesday in a major air-and-ground operation, secur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*ANKARA — Twenty-five soldiers were killed and four others were lightly wounded in an explosion at a military arms depot in western Turkey which officials said Thursday was most probably an accident.* Th...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 10 hours agoCONTRAILED SKIES, that's what I'm calling this blogpost in honour of the Oxford sky situation this morning that was PRIMARILY congested-to-fuck with these persistent contrails some have called CHEMTRAILS. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*SAN JOSE, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed in a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that jolted the western coast of Costa Rica on Wednesday. * Two women were frightened to death due to heart at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*(Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday and the Israeli military said they were trying to plant explosives near a border fence when they were ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*Vladimir Putin has said Russia can work with Mitt Romney if he is elected US president - even though the Republican candidate has called Russia the United States's "number one geopolitical foe". * In an ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoSome people wanted American politicians to explicitly address scientific questions. Whether it's important or not, the project has become a reality. Your humble correspondent and Slate are among those ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 11 hours ago*Chart Of The Day: 803 Years Of Global Inflation*** ** ***Spot the point in this 803 year timeline of world inflation, when the Fed was created.* ** **** ** ***The chart above comes courtesy of Jim Reid's f...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours agoFurther to my previous post, the BBC have updated their report as below: 'Gaza Strip: Israeli strikes 'kill six militants' [image: map] At least six Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli strikes in ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours agoSeptember 2, 2012 *MMS Autism:* *http://mmsautism.com* What is MMS? *http://jimhumble.biz/files/Basic_Science_of_MMS_Chlorine_Dioxide.doc* Did you know that families all over the world are using MMS f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*A man dressed as The Joker entered a Florida movie theater on Wednesday, sending a chill down the spine of moviegoers in the wake of the deadly Aurora, Colorado shootings.* The 21-year-old, Christoper S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*There's a 50/50 chance of another catastrophic 9/11-style attack in the next ten years, and an even greater chance if the world become less stable. * The startling figure was floated by a pair of resear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Researchers have successfully manipulated rat dreams, and soon they could be manipulating what runs through humans' minds at night. * In an extremely creepy breakthrough, scientists at the Massachusetts ...
- posted by Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 12 hours agoAccording to news reports over the last couple of days, the ‘Israeli war drums have been muted on Iran’. The threat of military action against Iran by Israel, according to Julian Borger at the *UK Guardian...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours agoOver recent weeks I have tweeted the BBC asking them why they have not reported the regular rocket attacks on Israel from Hamas and other terrorists operating from Gaza, I wondered if they were waiting for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*A chemical accident today resulted in a 'number of casualties' at the biggest nuclear power plant in France. * * *Fire engines were called to the incident at Fessenheim, which is in the Alsace region whic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*A new super-earth has been discovered in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.* Astronomers found it using the European Southern Observatory HARPS telescope (or High Accuracy Radial V...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR at a depth of 25.5 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:47:33 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62.6 miles) South of Puer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck PAPUA, INDONESIA at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:46:33 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) SSW of Abepura, Indone...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck REGION METROPOLITANA, CHILE at a depth of 104.3 km (64.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:45:57 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles) ESE of P...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours agoSeptember 5, 2012 *Source:* *Organic Consumer Videos* *Or visit:* *http://www.organicconsumers.org/*
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoStill, I suppose a bear is a bear is a bear "Mom, why am I not black and white too???"
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours agoIn the West, the mainstream media appears to be very anti-Putin. Putin's perks: Nice work Just as the mainstream media has often attacked Erdogan of Turkey. Turkish politics: Erdogan’s counterproductive...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoThese reports from Illinois are thirty years old but they are also important. Now that we know that we are looking for the giant sloth, these old reports are invaluable. 1 The creature i...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoWhat this telling us loudly is that carbs never trigger hunger satiety at all. For that we must rely on proteins. This is an important insight that has been obscured to date. My approach to so...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoIf the world's poor were to be properly monetized with real lending support this all goes away. It is nonsense even without a sudden bout of good sense. Water only needs to be managed and besid...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 13 hours ago*Will AB 2530 Unshackle Childbirth in California? * *--An interview with Tina Reynolds and Vikki Law* *By Angola 3 News* A bill opposing the shackling of pregnant prisoners, AB 2530, has been passed un...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 14 hours agoUsain Bolt, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Lance Armstrong, Serena Williams, Oscar Pistorius ... and Bill Clinton. He is unarguably he most talented US politician of his generation. Whether you agree with h...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours agoThis week's award goes to Jihad Watch for the headline - 'Victimization of Egypt's Christians Worse After Revolution' How surprising? In fact, as I am sure Jihad Watch would agree, "No shit, Sherlock".
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoI already did one item about Bill Clinton's speech over at PP, but I probably have more to say about it. Beyond that: I missed a couple of hours there, but from my twitter feed, it doesn't seem that I miss...
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- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoPulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Chris Hedges spoke with Alex Jones on Wednesday, September 5, about the threat posed by President Obama and the corporate oligarchy to the basic ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*The public are fed up with mass immigration. That was the message of the public petition on the Downing Street website launched last autumn. * Only 11 of the 36,000 petitions on that site have reached th...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 15 hours ago*Nokia has unveiled its initial handsets powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS. Nokia's loss deepened to 1.41bn euros in its last income quarter subsequent to it lost market share. *Their New York pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Economic protests in the West Bank are gaining steam: Thousands of people demonstrated throughout the territory on W*ednesday to protest the high cost of living, and especially the recent increase in fue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*Police are hunting two gunmen who strapped a "bomb" to a bank manager's stomach as part of a raid.* Authorities in Los Angeles say the pair kidnapped the woman and held her overnight before attaching a ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoI bet Romney would LOVE to prove Harry Reid was a liar... if he could. But everyone knows the Romneys didn't pay any taxes in, at least, 2009. That's the inconvenient year he'll never turn over. But mayb...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“What's that in front of Orion? Forty kilometers north of Kahta, Turkey, lies Mount Nemrut, a mountain adorned with the fragments of vast statues built over 2000 years ago. The stone sculptures once stood...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours agoAugustus (September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD). YouTube video description [Channel - Monads have no windows]: "Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Augustan Age in Rome. Guests include Catharine Edw...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago*What happened when traditional Brazilian leaders and chiefs, without expense accounts, arrived at RIO+20? * *Rebecca Sommer tells the story* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot....
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"General Sherman's Final Solution"* by Thomas J. DiLorenzo "In a recent issue of "The American Enterprise" magazine devoted to the War between the States, Victor Hanson, a visiting professor at the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*A four-year-old girl has been found alive hidden in a car under the bodies of the victims of a shooting in the French Alps.* Public prosecutor Eric Maillaud told AFP the child was only discovered when i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*CANGREJAL, Costa Rica (AP) — A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and neighboring countries Wednesday, sending panicked people into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami alert, but...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA at a depth of 58.2 km (36.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:22:18 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 184 km (114 miles) ESE of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN IRAN at a depth of 39.6 km (24.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:57:14 UTC Thursday 6th September 2012 The epicenter was 224 km (139 miles) West from Bandar-e Abb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 3.7 earthquake has struck YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING at a depth of 7.3 km (4.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:52:51 UTC Wednesday 5th September 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) Nor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the GULF OF ADEN at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:36:33 UTC Wednesday 5th September 2012 The epicenter was 152 km (94 miles) Southeast of Zinjibar,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours agoRio Linda, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"The Standing Chill"* by Chet Raymo "A headline in a 'Scientific American' story about the evolution of galaxies: "The universe has run out of steam since half its current age. Mergers have ceased, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientist crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's always changing, morphing, merging, growing...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 17 hours agoHalf the West Antarctic ice sheet and a quarter of the East Antarctic sheet lie on pre-glacial sedimentary basins containing around 21,000bn tonnes of carbon, said the scientists. Photo courtesy: Nasa A v...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 17 hours ago[image: A record number of Americans are using this food stamp card to purchase groceries these days. Christian Science Monitor / Getty Images]By Jeff Cox, cnbc.com 5 September 2012 The number of Amer...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 17 hours agoClimate change will drive up prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally, Oxfam warns. Photo courtesy: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Climate change's impact on future food prices is ...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 18 hours agoGavrilo Princip under arrest in Sarajevo in 1914. But a speedy arrest wasn’t enough to avert a long war. Below, Quebec Premier Designate Pauline Marois. If you think about it – and you can bet on it that t...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoNot so long ago there was a widespread belief that the United States was the world’s best destination for achieving upward mobility–an aspiration that became known as “the American dream.” For most of th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“How To Forgive, And Why You Should” * By Angela Haupt “The deepest wounds feel like they'll last a lifetime: The absent mother who robbed you of the mother-daughter bond you craved and deserved. The ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 19 hours agoI'm pretty much caught up in the speeches. May update longer thoughts here, or not. You can read the ticker on the sidebar, or you can check my twitter page. [graphic via Andrew] Jake Tapper: Arena is...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: Farmers in North Korea work in a corn field in August 2012 which was damaged by floods in July. Typhoons Bolaven and Tembin have renewed fears of a humanitarian crisis in the impoverished country...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 hours agoJack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson, New York City, late '50s. Image from The Duluoz Legend. Inset below: Joyce Johnson. Joyce Johnson: A portrait of the biographer as ex-lover By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog /...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoMade a little teary too, but for a different reason. Catching up on yesterday's DNC festivities, one of the most powerful moments was when they aired this video tribute to Ted Kennedy. I got weepy because ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 20 hours ago“The president of the Council of Trade Unions says the Government has broken a pledge to create more jobs.” What rot. Look, its clear that political opponents are going to use rising, nagging, seemingl...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 20 hours agoAs an apostle of altruism, Barack is going to give you what you deserve*:* your neighbor's money. Barack feels your pain. Well, not pain, since you're not really struggling. [Not in the sense, say,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"The Six Stages of Climate Grief"* by Daphne Wysham "Now that the hottest summer on record is drawing to a close, are we any closer to admitting that climate change is upon us? If not, why not? It mig...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours ago. . . something is seriously wrong with your cause. LifeShite reports that an old pal of DJ's and father (snerk) of the current BAD (biased, agenda-driven) Abortion Science campaign, David Reardon, is at i...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoYouTube video description [Channel - Monads have no windows]: Melvyn Bragg explores the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid's work Metamorphoses. With A.S. Byatt and A. Catherine Bates.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours agoBobby1 posted this find at his blog http://optimalprediction.com/wp/too-tired-for-links-why-do-trusted-pundits-lowball-fuku/#comments 950 MICRO SIEVERT PER HOUR IN MINAMISOMA, FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, BLACK ...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 20 hours agoCorn-field clearcuts around Santa Rita, CopanWhat would bring 20 busy coffee producers out to a mid-day meeting on watersheds? The realization that if there's a solution for what's happening to the water s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"Common Fears: Choosing a New Response"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "Our minds are powerful and moving into fear is a common experience that we can each look at and change. Everyone has fears—it i...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 21 hours agoOf all energy sources, coal power plants are the most demonized by the Greenies or environmentalist groups. See my previous discussion here, Climate Tricks 11: Coal and James Hansen, RE Law and the WWF. A...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago*Siléí Community Empowerment Project - CALL FOR SUPPORT!* *By Klee Benally Siléí Community Empowerment Project* *Posted at Censored News* *http//www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* ** Ya'at'eeh! We are very excit...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 21 hours agoThere are several revolutions in building on the horizon*. Here’s one: [Hat tip Julian P.] * * * * * * Presuming any of them can sneak through the bureaucracy… Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © P...
- posted by Mike Flannigan at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 21 hours ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari) * (T)he question, I think, that people have got to ask themselves when they get into that booth is not what Obama has become, but what have we become...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 21 hours ago
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe authorities failed to arrest the suspects in more than 9,000 cases of sexual assault between 2007 and 2011, data showed Wednesday. According to National Police Agency data, 81,860 sex crimes including...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoChief Oliver Red Cloud *Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council gathering Sept 19 -20, 2012* ** *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com ** *Chiefs, Headsmen, Elders, People of the Lakota Oyate, Re...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours agoThe beginning is a piece from a post I wrote awhile ago - but because of a piece of tape that came out today - I think it needs a rewind (tape to follow) First of all - I'm not a big fan of Durbin right n...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours agoThis the not the first time the crazy cons have been caught hijacking somebody's creative work and tweaking it to pretend it's entirely their own product. Actually have to give them a little credit for put...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoThis is actually reassuring. The coastal regions have effectively maxed themselves out and are simply maturing into ultimately a steady slower growth. The rest are still into a max growth scenario...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 22 hours agoSome ask why ebooks are so cheap to buy today. Some will point to the fact you don’t actually buy them and therefore you are just paying a perpetual rental charge for something you can’t give away, sell ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago*by Ken* In a Naked Capitalism post called "The Fake Election: 10 Arguments The Republicans Aren't Making," Matt Stoller starts out with a pretty plausible answer to the question a lot of us have been po...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoWhen I asked for suggestions for interview subjects for the NBinSFF podcast, Alastair Reynolds was high on the list (albeit mostly over email channels). Well, he agreed, and I'm scheduled to interview him ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 23 hours agoMy colleague, Charles King, has a great piece (gated) in *Foreign Affairs*on what the success of the Scottish National Party says about secesssionist movements everywhere. Opinion polls suggest that the Sc...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 23 hours agoFarsNews** * * *Al-Qaeda, backed by Turkey, the US and its regional Arab allies, has set up a new camp in Northern Waziristan in Pakistan to train Salafi and Jihadi terrorists and dispatches them to Syria...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 23 hours agoFirst I ever knew of now-Congressman Michael Grimm (AKA, "Mikey Suits") was when he was still a two-bit hoodlum playing both sides of the fence between the FBI and Organized Crime. We only discovered him ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*“They’re Going to Depopulate or Bankrupt the Rest of Us”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Catherine Austin Fitts calls what happened to the U.S since the market meltdown of 2008 a “fiscal coup d’état...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012* *Where was the rest of his story:* In this morning’s New York Times, Tom Friedman lodged a complaint about Mitt Romney’s intentions. Friedman is a determined centrist. Perha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*A new strain of avian flu virus that was found in China two months ago has appeared in Vietnam, health experts have confirmed.* Localities warned against new bird flu outbreaks The new strain, 2.3.2.1 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*A Chinese visitor to a gem exhibition in Sri Lanka has been arrested for swallowing a diamond said to be worth $13,000 (about £8,200), police say*. The 32-year-old man swallowed the gem after taking it f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*The fog of war has fallen so densely over Iran and the Middle East that it is hard to say for certain whether the latest developments are a sign that one is imminent (in the form of an Israeli strike in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*NEW DELHI (AP) — A massive blaze raged for hours at a fireworks factory in southern India, killing at least 40 workers and injuring 60 Wednesday, police said.* Large amounts of firecrackers and raw mate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*A powerful earthquake has shaken the north-west of Costa Rica killing at least one person.* A 55-year-old woman died of a heart attack near the epicentre of the quake, the Red Cross said. The US Geolog...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours agoDagestan by masta.name Violence has errupted in parts of Russia - Tartarstan, Dagestan and Ingushetia. The chief suspect is the CIA? Tartarstan, in Russia, had been a peaceful, moderate Moslem area....
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoHe will not be removed. That's all there is to it -- the amounts in question are not material and the Mayor did not receive or give any benefit that could be seen as influencing City spending. Arguably t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*MONTREAL (AP) — Police on Wednesday interrogated a man accused of opening fire at a midnight victory rally for Quebec's new separatist premier, but police said the suspect's rambling statements in French...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Four people have been shot dead in the French Alps - with three of them found inside a British-registered BMW four-wheel drive.* The suspected assassination happened in a forest car park near the village...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*Son of Isaac: Invest 90L emerges in the Gulf of Mexico ~Weather Underground * *'Free Payton' plane to buzz NYC before NFL opener!* *SIZE MATTERS: No High Rise in Marigny! Photo Gallery & Your LAST CHANCE ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoYesterday Debbie Wasserman Schultz said this: "I didn’t say he said that,” Wasserman Schultz insisted. “And unfortunately, that comment was reported by a conservative newspaper. It’s not surprising they...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day agoRob Ford is a fucking dunce.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoAn *Ookpik* (sometimes spelled Ukpik), the Inuktitut word for Snowy Owl, is a popular Inuit handicraft toy. It is a small, souvenir owl with large head and big eyes, a beak, and small black talons. They ar...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoMunich memorial for 1972 Olympic attacks *by reuters* Boris Johnson rembered and cared...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*Canada (Superintendent of Bankruptcy) v. 407 ETR Concession Company Limited *, 2012 ONCA 569 has a useful summary regarding when an extension of time will be allowed: [39] In my view, the extension...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day agoSayer Ji, *Contributor* You've heard for decades about the dangers of high cholesterol, but did you know that LOW cholesterol can lead to violence towards self and others, and has been linked to prema...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day ago*British Politician Speaks Up Against UK Syrian Policy.* * *Tony Cartalucci, *Contributor* Foreign Secretary William Hague to the British House of Commons (at around 28:00) stated that more "death and suf...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 1 day agoMichael Snyder, *Contributor* Barack Obama cares about Barack Obama far more than he does about either Israel or Iran. And as far as Barack Obama is concerned, delaying the coming war between Israel an...
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