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- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 minutes agoWith Watergate fully under control as far as they can see and the election in excellent shape, it's time to think about what comes next. Nixon and Haldeman in the Oval Office: -- President Nixon: I want ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 9 minutes agoPortrait, Robert Reich, 08/16/09. (photo: Perian Flaherty) The Jobs Report and the Election By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 08 September 12 resident Obama's speech to the Democratic National Con...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 24 minutes ago(Shouldn't Fox News be using this version? I mean, considering the audience...) I guess this is the season for snakes. I hike in the hills behind my house every day and lately we keep running into rattl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 25 minutes agoVangelis, “Alpha” Scenes from "2001, A Space Odyssey" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT5zCHn0tsg&feature=related
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes agoAt 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 noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 56 minutes ago“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. We are a part of the earth and...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 57 minutes agoThis is significant. The Western Arctic has had limited carving because of a lack of high quality stone: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/09/08/north-nunavut-carving-stone.html A Nunav...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"Only 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy, also known as NGC 5128, is featured in this s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours agoRansom Canyon, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or ...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 3 hours agoA little bit of on-line searching finally lead to me figure out what kind of tree I have in my backyard. It had always been a mystery to me and last night it dawned on me to pluck a leaf and use it as a re...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Two Parties for the One-Percent: * *Disposable America"* by Paul Craig Roberts "If political conventions are ranked on a one to ten scale for intelligence, I give the Republican Convention zero and ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo* *by Ken* So you've heard about the pride of Maryland's House of Delegates, Baptist minister (and psychotic homophobe) Emmett C. Burns Jr., right? The wack...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Oh Look, Infinite Leverage!”* by Karl Denninger “Here we go again! If you saw any of the Republican convention last week, or its garland of talk shows, you may be aware that President Barack Obama has...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agot was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of American casualties, and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict whose hallmark is its grinding inconclusiveness. Afte...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours agoPick your poison folks... - CP
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 3 hours agoThe lengths to which the thugs in Beijing will go are truly amazing....China consulate harasses mural owner. Citing “strong resentment from the local Chinese community,” the Chinese government has asked ...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 4 hours ago*The Atlantic* is championing the self-aggrandizing agenda of non-educator Michelle Rhee: How Michelle Rhee Is Taking Over the Democratic Party The writer of the article needs to hear from the progressive...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 5 hours agoI have long said that America is finished as a nation. There once was a time when the once great American democracy was pictured as the "shining beacon on the top of the hill" that all nations should stri...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe gun business is booming. The question is, why? Smith & Wesson stock Friday was zooming, thanks to a stellar earnings report. The firearms maker also boosted its outlook for the rest of the year. Beca...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 5 hours agoToday, I am truly ashamed to be a Canadian citizen. I have always believed in growing up here in Canada that I lived in one of the most "Free" nations on the face of this planet. But considering how much...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA tornado swept out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood in New York City on Saturday, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midw...
- posted by Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 6 hours agoBy Manifesto Joe Someone I know urged me to watch this, so I did, all 76 minutes of it: The bottom line seems to be the insistence of one Verna Lee, 95, that neither she nor her office could ever have m...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA young Taiwanese girl’s rampage inside a FamilyMart chain convenience store has been making the rounds on the Chinese language internet this week. Originally uploaded and viewed by Taiwanese 500,000 tim...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal"* by Bill McKibben "Just as the baseball season now stretches nearly into November, and the National Football League keeps adding games, so the summer se...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 6 hours agoAugust 31, 2012, 11:27 PM SGT *Thai Group Says Steve Jobs Reincarnated as Warrior-Philosopher* By James Hookway KHLONG LUANG, Thailand – When Apple Inc AAPL +0.62%. founder Steve Jobs died afte...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Notes from a Bygone Future"* by Joel Bowman "Actually, that’s not entirely true. As you’re reading this, we’re in Spain’s capital…but when we were writing it, we were in a makeshift office in the d...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 7 hours agoAt a campaign event Mitt Romney sat with a Vietnam veteran at a New Hampshire restaurant (h/t *Dependable Renegade*). The man, Bob Garon of Ebson, N.H., asked Romney about gay marriage. Romney gives him th...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 7 hours agoTWENTYNINE PALMS (CBSLA.com) — The owners of a modest home near Twentynine Palms lost their cherished possessions after a bank mistakenly foreclosed their residence. A crew broke into Alvin and Pat T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck COSTA RICA at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:29:32 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) ENE of Hojancha, Costa Ric...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBirthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every Am...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoChina sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy on Saturday and urged countries gathering at an Asia-Pacific summit to protect themselves by forging deeper regional economic ties. Chinese ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoArtur Davis finally got a job. Romney named him to his (brand new) Black Leadership Council. [The chairs are notorious unhinged war-criminal Allen West (R-FL), Black teabagger Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rick Sc...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours agoRobert Golan-Viella reflects on a tectonic shift in partisan foreign-policy debate, i.e., the fact that the Democrats have the upper hand. He chalks this up to campaign politics: the key to a Republican vi...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWith a yell of “God is here, I’m going to repent,” a woman swung a butcher knife Wednesday afternoon at someone inside Teen Challenge at 3333 Philips Highway, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Offic...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 8 hours ago*The following announcement was paid for by the New World Order ~moosedenied *
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*More than 30,000 computer hard drives belonging to the world's biggest oil company have been damaged in a cyber attack, an investigation has revealed.* According to sources, Saudi Arabia's national oil c...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours agoGetting another late start today. The twitter is telling me President Obama is enjoying a healthy bump in the polls, post DNC while it's been officially declared Rmoney ended up with a negative bump down, ...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 8 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*(Reuters) - Nicaragua's tallest volcano belched an ash plume up to 2 1/2 miles into the atmosphere on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents who heard eruptions emanating from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*Sept. 8 - Nearly 17 years after O.J. Simpson walked away from his murder trial a free man, a prosecutor alleges that the defense tampered with evidence. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago*(Reuters) - Rescuers in southwestern China tried on Saturday to reach remote communities rocked by earthquakes that killed at least 80 people and damaged thousands of buildings, state media reported.* S...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoYouTube video description [Channel - Monads have no windows]: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria. Guests include Simon Goldhill, Matthew Nicholls and Serafina Cuomo.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - Lufthansa's cabin crew union UFO threatened further strikes if mediation talks scheduled for next week fail to yield a result, German weekly magazine Focus said on Saturday. * Lufthansa and u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - Syrian government troops stormed an area of Damascus populated by Palestinian refugees on Saturday after a four-day artillery assault on the southern suburb where rebels have been sheltering,...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours agoPaul Craig RobertsUnited States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy*In office* 1981–1982 On 7 September 2012, *Paul Craig Roberts* made the following points about the Democrat and Repu...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 9 hours agoThis was posted at: http://the2012scenario.com/2012/09/ufo-over-tokyo-sept-7-2012/
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*(Reuters) - European Union officials pushed on Saturday to accelerate moves to stem the bloc's long debt crisis as Italian premier Mario Monti warned that economic suffering was fuelling divisive nationa...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoThe Democrats had a successful convention. Was it better than reasonable expectations? Mostly, I think no, but still, in a close race it helps to do the things that you should be able to do. I don't know ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 9 hours agoI have decided after years of doing this blog solo, to permit a fellow REAL seeker of truth, my friend Whitewraithe, the "Pragmatic Witness" to my writing team. Her own site is a fabulous one, at www.pra...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*How do you plead?* On Thursday, September 6, Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, wrote an article called, *"White House Terror Czar Richard Clarke and Admiral Cosgiff Named."* Here are key ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoWe had ten, maybe fifteen, years to find the sort of common resolve to mobilize our resources and focus them on the maladies that afflict us collectively. We did nothing. We had our "To Do" list from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:27:39 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) WNW of Tobelo, Indonesi...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoI"m guessing that everyone's seen this already? Nice to finally have a reporter do his/her job, isn"t it? Who's still thinking that no side deals ever existed politically for those oil contracts? Not me. B...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoSo there Obama stood behind the podium at a place named after a massive corporation, at "a peoples' convention" entirely underwritten by other massive corporations, on the heels of his Super PAC proudly a...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 11 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoLong before I ever met Howard Dean, my grandfather was my political mentor. An old style socialist, he told me I might have to vote for Democrats to thwart fascists-- he was from Europe and unlike the pol...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours agoFrancesco Hayez (1791-1882) Lot and His Daughters Oil on canvas, 1833 Public collection The story of Lot is told in the Book of Genesis. Lot is mentioned in chapters 11-14 and 19. Lot was the son of Ab...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe first US-Turkish backed steps for creating safe havens in Syria and possible strategic bombardment of the Syrian army have brought the Middle East close to two dangerous junctures: The Syrian army’s u...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours agoBy John Blackstone 7 September 2012 SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS, California (CBS News) – Summer is nearly over, but the wildfire season in the West is still going strong. Forty wildfires are burning from S...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFirefighters are responding to a beachfront neighborhood in New York City after reports of a possible tornado strike. A Fire Department spokesman said there were reports of power lines down and possibly ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Diseased coral reef, stressed by global warming, pollution, and overfishing. NBC News] By Miguel Llanos 7 September 2012 (NBC News) – Reefs in the Caribbean and Florida Keys have lost most of th...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 12 hours agoWhat with all the hoopla of the campaigns and party conventions, September 11th kind of snuck up on me. I am ashamed to admit that before President Obama reminded me about the looming celebration of mass m...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Increase in Total Annual Precipitation in the U.S. versus Storm Size, 1948-2011. This figure shows that the very largest storms are getting bigger, faster, than other storms. PennEnvironment Rese...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoJason Rush sent me a link to a new insane anti-quantum article spread by the BBC: Quantum test pricks uncertainty ------------------------------ *Subtitle:* Pioneering experiments have cast doubt on a fo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: The Marcone company of St. Louis, which distributes appliance parts, was implicated in a coolant smuggling scheme. Under an international treaty, the gas, HCFC-22, has been phased out of new equi...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoNo matter your view on the case, it seems pretty thin to wait 17 years to blame someone who is dead and cannot respond; my view is the allegation is just bogus: Story Nearly 17 years after O.J. Simpson ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours agoThe Myth That Japan Is Broke By Ellen Brown The Myth That Japan Is Broke: The World’s Largest “Debtor” Is Now the World’s Largest Creditor *Japan’s massive government debt conceals massive benefits for t...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) logo]7 September 2012 (AFP) – New Zealand's High Court on Friday dismissed a challenge launched by climate change sceptics ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 12 hours agoThere are three categories of preferred fetus fetishist imagery: cute children, gory dead fetuses, and featureless and/or headless heavily pregnant bodies. (By the way, the media is also MASSIVELY guilty...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Rain clouds move over the remnants of parched corn stalks near Wiley, on the plains of eastern Colorado, on 22 August 2012. A summer storm came too late to help farmers whose crops were decimated...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: NASA's Terra satellite captured this image today of Hurricane Isaac in the Gulf of Mexico on 28 August 2012. NASA] By Becky Oskin 7 September 2012 (LiveScience) – Global warming may fuel stron...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 12 hours agoImage credit: ACQ.OSD.mil Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* In a recently released report made publicly available by Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientistsentitled, “The Role of Autonomy ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 12 hours agoEnter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours agoBy Tami Luhby 5 September 2012 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – More than 50 million Americans couldn't afford to buy food at some point in 2011, according to federal data. Children in some 3.9 million household...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*The race to elect a new leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is officially underway.* * **First to toss his hat into the ring was Saskatoon NDP MLA Cam Broten.Broten is the Member of the Legis...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours agoArctic ice cover just reached its lowest point in recorded history. Pippa goes off script and drops some science. For more, check out Deep Rogue Ram ( Facebook, Twitter). Filmed at Strut Studios in Vanc...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours ago*Activist Post* The largest swarm of synchronized drones to date was organized by Ars Electronica Futurelab to take flight in the evening skies of Linz, Austria. The fleet of 49 quadrocopters demonstrate...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours agoDees Illustration Janet Phelan Actually, in the doublespeak of conservatorship lingo, the conservator doesn’t actually “kill” or “murder” the conservatee. What she does is make an “end of life decision”...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours agoimage source Nicholas West Unlike most areas of the country, Washington D.C. is experiencing a booming economy due to the massive growth of government, which is enriching a well-connected portion of the ...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours agoRussell Brand is clearly an enlightened fellow. He destroys the thuggish drug war proponent, Peter Hitchens, not with facts, but with LOVE. It is one of the starkest examples of an advanced human debating...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago- Hayes Brown discusses the Armenia-Azerbaijan state of play. - Robert's been giving you the ground-level view of Pyongyang. Here's the satellite-eye view (via Kelsey Atherton). - Henry Farrel...
- posted by Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 13 hours ago*Gray State is an independent pre-apocalyptic dystopian film that chronicles the collapse of society. It is coming - by consent or conquest.* *Indiegogo* The world reels with the turmoil of war, geolog...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago*Saints suspensions: How long with the reprieve last?* *We Saints Fans Thrive on Embracing the Horror ~Brett Michael Dykes* *Officials aided by past storm lessons ~Amy Wold, The Advocate* *Isaac causes da...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*A mixed-martial artist who cut out his friend's heart and removed his tongue while the two were on hallucinogenic drugs faces 50 years behind bars.* Jarrod Wyatt, 29, attacked his sparring partner Taylo...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoChris Busby's latest interview can be viewed here: http://enenews.com/busby-plutonium-reached-critical-mass-reactor-3-caused-explosion-video/comment-page-1#comment-286364 I agree with Busby and I disagr...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago*A Former KIPP Teacher Shares Her Story* *Jim Horn* * * Ever since KIPP students were recruited to do a skit at the National Republican Convention in 2000, KIPP has been the darling of venture philanthrop...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours agoCommonwealth Magazine has an interesting article on a growing trend in Taiwan: plant factories in urban areas: Chang has cleared out pricey commercial space to raise vegetables and is using the plant fac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*A suicide bomber has blown himself up near Nato's headquarters in Kabul, killing at least six children, according to police in Afghanistan.* The blast happened in the city's diplomatic quarter, where the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*A Christian girl accused of blasphemy in Pakistan has been released on bail after more than three weeks in prison.* Rimsha Masih, 14, was arrested on August 16 for allegedly burning pages containing ver...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*British police have begun examining the home of the Alps murder victims and have been joined by French officers in the hunt for clues.* Police placed a tent in the driveway of Saad al Hilli's house in Cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck PAPUA, INDONESIA at a depth of 14.1 km (8.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:51:43 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 153 km (95 miles) WNW from Enarotali, I...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 14 hours agoI've been staying with my mom on Cape Cod since Doc had heart surgery. He was finally discharged Wednesday from the hospital for at least a week of physical therapy at a rehabilitation facility. I'm not...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 14 hours agoTony Burman writes in this morning's *Toronto Star* that Canada has a new Foreign Affairs Minister: His name is Benjamin Netanyahu. His day job may be prime minister of Israel, but Canada’s abrupt acti...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoI assume Boehner has the same flunky tweeting for him on each of his Twitter accounts. Whomever it was, was busy after the convention in Charlotte attempting to change the subject as fast as possible to ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 16 hours ago*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012* *What Professor Gardner said about ambitious youngsters:* Howard Gardner is a Harvard professor of long tenure. In Friday's Washington Post, Gardner wrote a fascinating prof...
- posted by Intercept at The Intercept - 17 hours agoGlobal Research John Pilger What is the world’s most powerful and violent “ism”? The question will summon the usual demons, such as Islamism, now that communism has left the stage. The answer, wrote Haro...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoWatch and learn... The history of the first seven Doctors.
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 17 hours agoOne indicator of the presence of a bureaucracy is long lines of people. People cannot move or they cannot proceed to where they want to go, unless they get a permit first from a certain bureaucracy. The i...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 19 hours ago*Fried food vendor in a Chiayi night market. * Change.org petition to the Central Secretariat of the ISO to change its ridiculous "Taiwan, Province of China" designation to Taiwan. Go thou and sign! ____...
- posted by Megan H. MacKenzie at The Duck of Minerva - 19 hours agoIn a recent article by Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Mohamed Sesay and myself, we explore broad-based claimed that transitional justice mechanisms are a necessary ingredient in successful peace processes. More...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the MARIANA ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 29.1 km (18.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:54:22 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) Northeast...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 20 hours agoChinese farmers work at hybrid rice planting field on June 20, 2006 in Changsha city, Hunan Province. Headlines in the Chinese media have been screaming about an American university conducting experiments ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago*Just 96,000 American jobs were added in August in a bleak monthly jobs report as 368,000 left the workforce, bringing labour market participation down to its lowest level for 31 years and dealing a blow ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWe have been treated to the anti egg argument now for decades. All the science churned out says at best is that our modern diet generates a poor cholesterol profile. To say more than than is ser...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis item is a refresher on the positive benefits of basil and just how well it performs inside a salad. It is thus becoming much more readily available and with the additional handy availabili...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis item somewhat discusses the daunting engineering challenge involved in destroying a sun. It takes the idea of impossible to a new dimension. However, if one could create a black hole, alm...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis item represents an excellent advance in the thinking around a practical space elevator. We have woken up to the reality that while rigging one to get us into Earth Orbit may simply simply ex...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*UK Green Party Leader, Natalie Bennett, who is from Sydney, Australia.* Do all the political parties secretly work for the corrupt elite? To its credit, the* Green Party in the UK*: *1.* Opposed the bom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago*New Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt became the third cabinet member to be booed by the Paralympic crowd today.* The former Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport was met with loud jeers when he presented B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago*STOCKHOLM, Sweden—The Swedish province of Blekinge has been the site of a curious and unexplained disease that has killed multiple moose over the past months.* The mysterious disease has left the iconic...
- posted by david at Alberta Diary - 21 hours agoPremier Alison Redford with her winning PC machine. Below: Opposition Leader Danielle Smith with her less successful Wildrose machine. Below Ms. Smith: Alberta Scan publisher Paul McLoughlin and pollster J...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoCamels. Photo courtesy: jasejc/CC BY-SA 2.0 My sympathies go out to Dr. Frank N. Stein's horse. The poor thing must be completely knackered constantly transporting the doctor's genetically-modified experi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*Sudan's army and rebels say they have clashed on two fronts, reportedly leaving dozens of people dead.* The army says it killed 32 insurgents who attacked a village in the western Darfur region. The reb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*(Reuters) - China sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy on Saturday and urged countries gathering at an Asia-Pacific summit to protect themselves by forging deeper regional economic tie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*The European Central Bank’s decision to relax bank funding rules to mirror conditions last seen after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s collapse signals hard times for lenders.* “The soup kitchen for impo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*TEHRAN: Iran hit out at Canada's decision to break off diplomatic ties, with foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast accusing the Canadian government of being "under the influence of the Zionist re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*BEIJING (AP) — Authorities poured aid into a remote mountainous area of southwestern China and rescue workers with sniffer dogs searched for survivors Saturday after twin earthquakes killed at least 80 p...
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- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 22 hours ago*Taking a break in Chiayi City in front of the Municipal Museum. * Bill Gertz had two pieces of interesting news this week in the Wash Times. First, he wrote about the Romney advisors and their strange vi...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 22 hours agoI am preparing to leave for a week to conduct participant-observation research at the The Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) in Oslo. As I prepare my remark...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*Police have shot dead an unarmed shop worker during a botched armed robbery in New York.* Reynaldo Cuevas, 20, was said to have been accidentally shot by officers as he fled the shop. Surveillance vid...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoMorning meeting in the Oval Office: The President of the United States, his chief of staff, and his chief domestic policy staffer, are considering the request for Secret Service protection from Senator Edw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the SOLOMON ISLANDS at a depth of 48.7 km (30.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:11:48 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) Southeast of Honi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck TURKMENISTAN at a depth of 12.5 km (7.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:17:37 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) Southwest of Gyzylarbat, T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:27:21 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) South of Puerto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck SHIKOKU, JAPAN at a depth of 55.7 km (34.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:41:25 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) SSE of Yanai, Japan No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck JUJUY, ARGENTINA at a depth of 204.8 km (127.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:57:41 UTC Friday 7th September 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) West of Abra Pampa, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:11:50 UTC Friday 7th September 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) East of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR at a depth of 52.6 km (32.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:12:24 UTC Friday 7th September 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles)South of Puerto El ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the MARIANA ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 263.6 km (163.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:44:00 UTC Friday 7th September 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) Northwes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck OREGON at a depth of 22.6 km (14 miles), the quake hit at 04:57:45 UTC Saturday 8th September 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5.3 miles) NNW from Scotts Mills, Oregon No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*French detectives are in the UK as they widen their investigation into the shooting of a British family in the Alps.* Police from the Haute-Savoie region will work with British officers as they search f...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 23 hours agohttp://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression?cat=world&type=article Why didn't CNN's international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's A...
- posted by Obi-Wan Kabuki at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoI think this interviewer got Benjamin out of bed for this interview...ahh the life between time zones!
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoOn Friday, September 7, filmmakers David Crowley and Danny Mason spoke with free speech champion Alex Jones about their new film, Gray State. "This is a film you're going to want to see because it is ev...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz from Act II of Yevgeny Onegin, Op. 24* *Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay, cond. DG, recorded Sept. 10-12, 1957* *by Ken* So I was looking at this DG CD reissue of the 1...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoI have been saying for a very long time that the situation with the failed nuclear reactor cores at Fukushima Japan is still very grim. We have had the liars in both our governments and our Jewish control...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“South of Antares, in the tail of the nebula-rich constellation Scorpius, lies emission nebula IC 4628. Nearby hot, massive stars, millions of years young, radiate the nebula with invisible ultraviolet li...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Cultivating Amazement"* by Chet Raymo "There is only one question, says the poet Mary Oliver: "How to love this world." So here I am scanning a recent copy of the journal "Nature," with articles tit...
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- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago*Associated Press*Although he doesn't get the European Phased Adapted Approach (EPAA) quite right, Mark Adomanis at *Forbes* makes the right pointabout the BMD portion of the Romney foreign-policy memo: I...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Details forthcoming. * *The Coming Crisis is closely monitoring this situation and may issue an alert at any time should events escalate.*
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTurkish army officers have assumed direct command of the first two Syrian rebel brigades fighting Bashar Assad’s government forces, according to debkafile’s exclusive sources. This step has sent military ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoOneonta, Alabama, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoREALLY. According to Andrew Moran at DIGITAL JOURNAL, in an article, "Ottawa investing $826,000 to protect us from exploding sausages" — It was announced earlier this month in a news release that Prime ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran is intensifying its support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad by sending 150 senior Revolutionary Guards commanders to Syria to help repel opposition attempts to overthrow the government. Western i...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe first instinct of any bank robber is to head for the hills, but few stay there for as long as Chen Jianxue, a former deputy branch manager of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC). Mr Chen, 42, was al...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoThe seventh episode of the Duck of Minerva Podcast just went live. In it, I interview Alex Cooley about his books on hierarchy, basing, incomplete contracting, and his new book -- Great Games, Local Rules...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoFrom Sean Feeney and Carol Burris: We thank you for your support and would like to provide you with an update on activities since the end of the 2011-12 school year. As always, the most recent version of ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Judge Lamberth in 2009 (spelling doesn't seem to be C-SPAN's strong suit) -- he didn't sound like a happy camper yesterday.* *"It is a sad reality that in the ten years since the first detainees were brou...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day agoI think I figured out why the party planners decided to move the big bash indoors last night -- and it had nothing to do with the weather. The venue of a football stadium is usually reserved for rock conce...
- posted by Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 1 day agoI have said at this blog many times before that the purpose of any war against Iran is not about Iran’s ‘nuclear weapons program’ but about providing an opportunity for Israel to attack, invade and occupy ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoI was pretty much glued to the CSPAN livestream through the DNC. So much so, I didn't have the time or energy to post about it until now. I have more to say about it than this silly side story which isn't ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoSeptember 7, 2012 Posted by kp40 http://aquariuschannelings.com/2012/09/07/konstantinos-some-significant-signs-a-parable-from-my-arcturian-family-the-experiment/ *Konstantinos: Some significant signs...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoR. v. Murphy, 2012 ONCA 573 deals with calling evidence in a criminal defence that someone other than the accused is the guilty party. In order for such evidence to be admitted there must be some nexus t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* “Food Inflation, Shortages And Riots Are Coming”* by Michael Snyder "A devastating global food crisis unlike anything we have ever seen in modern times is coming. Crippling drought and bizarre wea...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day agoI come from a land where you get a parking ticket if your tires are deemed to be too far from the curb. For a while it was illegal to make balloon animals in downtown Victoria, and just this summer the ci...
- posted by Americani Kabuki at American Kabuki - 1 day agohttp://gaiaportal.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/preparations-for-gaia-planetary-ascension-activation-of-world-wide-portals-is-complete/ September 7, 2012 Preparations for Gaia planetary ascension activati...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoNope, nothing here. Why? Google and its doodle. We need to say no more but to make sure you press on the various characters and realize that you need to go out and read Redshirts by John Scalzi.
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