HST Orion nebula image composited with a Spitzer image for something a little different. Français : Vue de la nébuleuse d'Orion composée à partir d'une image du télescope Spitzer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Syria (Photo credit: ewixx)
Enchanted Park - April 26, 2012 (Photo credit: russellmcneil)
The postage stamp of United Nations, Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (1981) Русский: Почтовая марка Организации Объединённых Наций, неотъемлемые права палестинского народа (1981) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
VISTA exposes high-speed antics of young stars in the Orion Nebula (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
M42 - Orion Nebula and Surrounding Nebulosity including M43 and Running Man Nebula (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Region of the Horsehead Nebula south of star Alnitak in Orion. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 minutes ago"Russia said violations of the cease-fire were still being committed by both sides, but blamed the opposition overall. “Most often this occurs because of *provocative actions* from the *armed opposition*,...
- Very good article April 26, 2012: The Limerick Incident Wasn't an "EPPI": Relax, It’s Just a Run-of-the-Mill Nuke Spill by DAVE LINDORFF http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/26/relax-its-just-a-run-of-the-...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 minutes ago
*STEPHEN FOSTER: "Beautiful Child of Song"* *That unique mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani (1933-1989) sings, and frequent collaborator Gil Kalish accompanies, this haunting Foster song, from their Nonesuch CD ... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 25 minutes ago*She would have to have been to say this*: "After the vote Saturday, Susan E. Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, attempted to keep up the pressure on Israel, saying, “The Palestinian people, l...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 25 minutes ago"France raises prospect of military action in Syria; Frustration builds at UN as cease-fire remains elusive" by Ben Hubbard and Jamey Keaten | Associated Press, April 26, 2012 BEIRUT - France raised the...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 37 minutes agoToday there are so many articles out there that make general statements about the goal of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to privatize everything. Many of us that have researched ALEC tak...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 49 minutes ago"The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite cor...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 hour ago
Three links to start off with: one from the CBC and two from the Star. Excerpts follow. New homicide chief on fighting 'code of silence' Staff Insp. Greg McLane told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning that a la... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoTangerang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAs tensions between Tehran, Washington and Tel Aviv continue to mount over Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons technologies, the U.S. has quietly begun a deployment of its premier stealthy fighter, the twin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The Department of Defense has confirmed various foreign and alternative media reports that claimed Russia troops will be conducting unprecedented anti terrorism drills inside the United States. In an ema... - posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour agoAnd in other news… … Monday evening will see the second meeting for this semester of the Auckland Uni Economics Group. Here’s their note advertising the show: *ECONOMIC HARMONIES, IV: Planning Without C...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“The Seat of the Soul” * by Chet Raymo "It was not my first visit. I had been there once before to talk with the great man, to the Castle of Cloux, near Amboise, in the valley of the Loire. He had been...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago"There is a lot of tension in society between the great exploring soul, and the assembly line citizen. . . The grand exploring soul is marginalized as an eccentric, or, if necessary, more seriously marg...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 hour agoWorking in the environment that I do I've certainly become more safety conscious over that past few months. Every day you come home safe is a good day. I've had a couple close calls in the past year but ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*They saw through the **false flag, huh?* "French Cabinet proposes new antiterrorism measures; Opponents say measures a ploy to boost Sarkozy" by Sylvie Corbet | Associated Press, April 12, 2012 PARIS ...
- The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Interesting New Video: Officials Inspect Reactor #4 At Fukushima (!)posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours agoThe situation at Fukushima Japan, especially with the dire circumstances surrounding the spent fuel rod pool above reactor #4, has not changed. It is truly amazing that much of our media, and the crimina...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoApril 27, 2012 Potrblog finds rain 40X background in St. Louis. The Potrblog team plans on monitoring the decay pattern and subsequently reporting their findings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0U4wICYTh4...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 2 hours agoWhen not doing anything else, haunt used book stores and free boxes for old how-to manuals and garden guides. Google Books has it down and I know you love your Kindle, but there could come a time when neit...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Racist reaction to finale tarnishes Bruins’ run; Comments flood Twitter after playoff loss" by Bob Hohler | Globe Staff, April 27, 2012 In an *episode that has renewed the conversation about racism in s...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours agoYes, it is amusing the Stephen Harper accuses the NDP of being soft on Hitler -- one wonders where Harper was when Canadians hit the beach at Dieppe -- but the truth is the Conservatives through their madc...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"The truth is that like many liberal American Jews -- and most American Jews are still liberal -- I basically avoid thinking about where Israel is going. It seems obvious from here that the narrow-minded...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 3 hours ago** *... to help him out of a tight spot* *Contributor: "YYC"* Why is Harper’s team invoking Hitler to debate New Democrats? *When Christine Moore, a Quebec New Democrat, asked during Friday’s Question Pe...
- posted by ProfPTJ at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours agoThis post started off as a reply to a comment under Robert Kelly's post on historical institutionalism, but it got so long I thought it deserved its own post. There is a great deal of ambiguity in how we ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoDebbie Lesko (ALEC - AZ) “leaked emails” have been a problem for her, and I dare guess, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) this past year. First there was the leaked email inviting Arizona le...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours agoThis crop circle represents the Star Gate in the Antares System. How we got this image is pretty strange. My friend has a protege who had a red thumb drive (USB Flash Drive) disappear from a locked ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoTake 45 seconds to listen to one of my favorite people Jim Hightower. >>>>Click Here<<<< For the transciptALEC'S Comeuppance *Tuesday, April 24, 2012* | Posted by Jim Hightower
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoThis is a good article that was posted on Common Dreams Here’s a snip – Please read the whole thing >>>>here<<<< Published on Friday, April 27, 2012 by Dissent ALEC Retreats, the Right Wing Freaks by Ma...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours agoThis is *so* helpful. Willard Romney tells the young foks how to succeed in life: If you’re young and you want to start your own business, Mitt Romney’s has some advice from you: Borrow money from your p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTwo armed North Korean border guards are on the run in China after killing a number of others from the same unit and escaping across the border from Hyesan into Changbai, it has been reported. “I don’t k...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 6 hours agoNobody deserves it more than he does, and nobody is better equiped to smack down dickheads than @kady is. This, of course, is all about the PMSHithead MASSIVELY mispoken observation that triggered the #H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Taiwan at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:08:19 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) Southeast of Meinung, Taiwan No Report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 58.2 km (36.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:22:22 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Libertador O'Higgins, Chile at a depth of 50.2 km (31.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:34:37 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) Northwest of C...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Raul & Wenona, 2 champions of working families* Breaking yet another promise to stay neutral in active primaries, the DCCC came lumbering into AZ-1 this week, in favor of conservative loser Ann Kirkpatri...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoTom Mann and Norm Ornstein, political scientists and (I hope they wouldn't object to the characterization) quintessential center-loving establishment types, take full aim at the Republican Party in a colum...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 7 hours agoI wrote a number of essays on what they were not telling us about the disaster at Fukushima based on some pretty easy research that I had done out of concern that industry was minimizing the reporting. I a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours agoOh, we *so* deserve everything they're doing to us... - CP
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 7 hours agoI don't know which is worse: the fact that the Obama Administration has scrapped protections for child farm workers, or the fact that this craven act has engendered so little outrage. Human Rights Watch, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Who Takes the Gold for Tax Avoidance in 2011?"* by Paul Buchheit "This is tax time, or in the case of many big businesses, just another time without taxes. These companies deserve to be recognized. W...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoThere was some surprise yesterday in Parliament when Government Whip Gordon O'Connor rose to give the CON response to Woodworth's Wank. After all, the purpose of the Party Whip is to ensure party disciplin...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoI found this on Kauilapele's blog today, its interesting how so many pieces are coming together at the same time to make a whole picture of what is about to transpire. -AK ----------------------------...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Bank Bailouts Explained" * by Omid Malekan "The story of the bank bailouts, and what we've gotten so far in return." www.omidmalekan.com - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yipV_pK6HXw&feature=youtu.be
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"The Too Big To Fail Banks: * *Much Bigger And Much More Powerful Than Ever"* by The Economic Collapse Blog “The Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA schoolboy was snatched off the street as he walked to school in Malaysia yesterday - triggering an international appeal for information from his frantic parents. Nayati Moodliar, 12, was about to enter ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoVIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea, believed to be preparing for a third nuclear test, would probably be able to make and explode a uranium device for the first time after earlier relying on plutonium, a form...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours agoThe space shuttle Enterprise is taking the long way home. Last week it flew over DC. Today it was Manhattan's turn for the show. Saw lots of photos of it. This one was the best. [click to embigger] Lots...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 8 hours agoAllen Sanderson reminisces about the great economist.
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoWindow of Opportunity posted at Portal 2012 Window of Opportunity for divine intervention is about to open on planet Earth. The entry point of that window is World Liberation Day on May 5th. The t...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agothis'll be quick, and angry. DINOSAURS. Let's say some birds can be traced to dinosaurs. That means bird song (may have) existed since just after the Jurassic period. And we're convinced bird song is noth...
- Link: http://youtu.be/JgnM63Xc-Q0 Enjoy your weekend undisturbed, if you can... John
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBlind campaigner evades close to 100 guards to escape from six-year detention but fears grow for family and supporters. A blind Chinese rights activist who made a daring escape from extrajudicial detenti...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoGoes to David S. Bernstein, longtime GOP Women in Congress chronicler, who notes that of the 71 House districts to hold primaries so far, only six have been won by women. What's more, of the three women wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. The soldier was serving as part of Combined Force Nahr-e-Saraj (North), on a patrol to disrupt ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Maule, Chile at a depth of 41.6 km (25.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:58:23 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) NNW of Talca, Maule, Chile No ...
- posted by The White Hat Reporters at The White Hats Report - 9 hours ago*Dr. Michael Herzog Arrested By German Authorities – Has Great Voice, Sings Like A Pro.* *THE PAST FOURTEEN DAYS* Please recall the winner-takes-all media confrontation between the White Hats Reports #3...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.27.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “The mainstream media is constantly pushing the so-called “recovery” story, and this week was no exception. On Wednesday, Federal Reserv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIf H5N1 bird flu, which has a 60-percent fatality rate, were engineered to spread like seasonal flu, hundreds of millions of lives would be at risk, a scientist told the Senate Homeland Security Committee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTHE HAGUE — The Dutch government on Friday gave a top scientist the green light to publish a research paper in the United States on a mutant killer flu virus, following approval by a US panel of experts. ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoI referred to the Larry Bartels general election model yesterday, but I think it's worth revisiting it, because probably my biggest question about 2012 is whether Bartels is right or not. At least, that's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe controversial national cybersecurity bill known as CISPA was passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday night, a full day ahead of when the vote was expected and despite the fact that it had r...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThere are two realities that must be considered here. The first is that seamanship was well developed and boat building was already quite skillful and certainly good enough to consider a summer tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLONDON - A mystery serial cat killer is suspected of claiming their 48th victim after another 14 pets died from anti-freeze poisoning in the same area. It is feared that the recent spate of slayings may ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (KTLA) -- A dead bat found at Laguna Niguel Regional Park has tested positive for rabies, Orange County health officials said. The bat was found by a park ranger on a walkway near La...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLocust is spreading at two million hectares of Kazakhstan territory this year. Chairman of the Committee for State Inspection in Agro-Industry (Agroprom) of the Agriculture Ministry of Kazakhstan Saktash ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMILWAUKEE (AP) — The city of Milwaukee has issued a health alert after a cab driver was diagnosed with rubella. Health officials want to get in touch with anyone who took a taxi with American United betw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - Putting the son of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi on trial on their own soil is a matter of national pride for Libya's leaders, but the lack of a properly functioning state is making it hard for...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoAs the man said on the twitter machine, an early candidate for picture of the year: Apparently taken by some student who was in the right place in the right time. Already crashed the server at the schoo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDAMASCUS, Syria — A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding nearly 30, state TV said. Thousands of Syrians prot...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours agoDAMMIT JANET! has learned that Monsanto International is currently in the process of seeking approval from Health Canada to proceed with the wide agricultural exploitation and industrial application of g...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoThis has been coming for years. Science is speaking out. It's time to redistribute the wealth, globally. *The world's most renowned population analyst has called for a massive reduction in the number o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoOur Barenaked Ladies guitar fun for Norman Solomon and David Gill has been working out so well that we decided to launch another one. This time we have a sleek, black Squier Telecaster autographed-- in 20...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA man suspected of killing two people in their own homes is a known drug user who had been released on court bail, the detective leading the manhunt has said. James Allen has previous convictions for vio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:22:34 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 154 km (95 miles) West of Port ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 71.5 km (44.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:22:58 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (65 miles) North of Luganville, Espiritu Sant...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago#HarperHistory You really have to go read Kady's account of Harper's history. Like now. Just don't have any food or drink in your mouth. There's a reason this guy doesn't do unscripted. Harebell has ano...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ *THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 * Permalink *CISPA Critics Warn Cybersecurity Bill W...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoIn this new political ad by the Obama camp, former Pres. Bill Clinton reinforces the popular myth that the president of the United States is the "Decider in Chief." If Obama is really the "Decider in Chie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Taiwan at a depth of 46.9 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:48:35 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) Southeast of Hualien, Taiwan No Tsun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA man has been arrested by police and led away from a building in Tottenham Court Road in central London, following a siege that sparked a major alert. Hundreds of people were evacuated and one of the ca...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 11 hours ago*Since launching this website in 2008 I have been committed to providing timely recommendations to my readers when extraordinary value is presented in the financial market. The following video illustrates ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago#AnatomyEdouardBeaupre #Canlit #book For all you Canadian and prairie fiction aficionados who happen to read this blog, my wondrous and brilliant marvel of a friend has just published her first novel. The ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoECONOMICS MARKET DISTORTIONS AND PROFIT DRIVEN FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: 84% of All Stock Trades are by High-Frequency Computer Algorithms by Washington's Blog http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoHow does the F-35 stack up against the competition today? That depends on who you ask and how badly they want to buy/sell it. First off, let's leave the stealth business out of this. Like most emergin...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 12 hours agoht to Stan Karp: *Opting Out of NJ ASK* *NJ Spotlight* *Reilly, a former literacy director in Newark and then assistant superintendent in Hackensack as well as Morristown, said it has clearly led to a na...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*Stephen Harper is not going to be Prime Minister for ever. The sooner Canadians see him out of office, the better the whole nation will be. This country is starting to wake up to the reality of Mr. Harpe...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoIt is quite reasonable to conclude the the Greenland ice sheet is generally stable. It has stood up to far worse for far longer and not collapsed. Yet a rapid collapse is possible and this ice ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoThis has been a long time coming. It was possible at least a decade ago when several developers identified the opportunity and created software and tools. I suspect that it has simply become che...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoI'm convinced that, badly as the air force boys want the F-35, even if they got it they would soon be back, begging bowl in hand. Everyone, especially those air force guys boosting the F-35 option at the ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours ago*Are you supporting ALEC with the financial decisions you are making?* *PLEASE say NO to ALEC and NO to ALEC Corporate profit sector members - use your money wisely.* As I write this the stock market is ...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 13 hours agoDo you want to know what's really pathetic? Understand, Canada's Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms is apparently a popular model for other countries when they write their constitutions. This ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Compacting trucks assemble the latest delivery to L.A.'s Puente Hills Landfill, the largest rubbish dump in America. Despite surface appearances, Puente Hills is considered one of the most state-...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours ago*EPISODE FOUR: FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL PROTECTION* * *Sylvia and I take a walk around the perimeter of Menwith Hill and find ourselves accused of forming an unlicensed procession! Coinciding with a small ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Global temperature anomalies for March 2012, based on an ongoing analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. It shows changes from the norm for each region, not absolute...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: The Colorado River Aqueduct, a lifeline to Southern California. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, via Associated Press] By ADAM NAGOURNEY and FELICITY BARRINGER 23 April 2012 ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 14 hours agoNot as celebrated was Kafka's short story in which his character wakes up as Donald Duck.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 14 hours agoThe answer to that question is "not very many of us". More than 190 people entered the joint daveberta.ca and CalgaryGrit Great Alberta Election Pool, but like nearly all the pollsters and pundits, most e...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*Congroovient Butt~Nola Smokehouse* ~Hat Tweet @*NOLAsmokehouse* Butts after a long night of smoke #*porkcandy* #*bark* *Proposed gasoline pipeline under Lake Pontchartrain draws few questions in Mandevi...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago"Technically, we might still call it a democracy," Lawrence Martin writes this morning. But, "in practice it's a democracy in name alone." Martin, perhaps more than any other Canadian journalist, has tr...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours ago#F35 #Cdnpoli - Michael Ferguson repeated the points he made in his report to Parliament on the F-35 boondoggle at the public accounts committee and then added this: So far, the government has talked abou...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Jack Klugman, 90. As for the good stuff: 1. Sarah Posner remembers Chuck Colson's latter years. 2. The decline of Tucker Carlson, by Alex Pareene. Brutal. 3.Super PACs might matter a l...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 14 hours agoThe assassination of Osama bin Laden by US special forces certainly has created a political problem for the Republican party. They spent years demagoguing the war on terror, but now the symbol of that stru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:47 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) West of Port...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours ago*Tunisian beggars* Tunisia, which greatly prospered before the Arab Spring, is now a typical African basket case. Tunisians have become beggars. In April 2012, The Globe and Mail reports: http://www....
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoSo the first hour of debate on the not-so-stealth abortion motion did not go well for Mr. Woodworth. The Opposition parties came out strongly in favour of the 21st century and rationality. And as you know,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSnipers, explosive experts and a police negotiator are attending a potential hostage situation at Tottenham Court Road in central London. There are reports that four people have been taken hostage at a bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - More than 1 million Americans who have taken out mortgages in the past two years now owe more on their loans than their homes are worth, and Federal Housing Administration loans that require o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - An elite Afghan soldier shot dead an American mentor and his translator at a U.S. base, Afghan officials said on Friday, in the first rogue shooting blamed on the country's new and closely vett...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- A top European Union official expressed concern Thursday about the condition of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, saying she was roughed up in prison. Tymoshenko is serving a sev...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoLast cycle we talked a lot about how the DCCC adamantly refused to even recognize the campaign against John Boehner by a valiant young progressive Democratic veteran, Justin Coussoule. They would go out ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- A U.K. businessman whose death is at the center of a huge political scandal in China was not a spy working for Britain, the foreign secretary said. Neil Heywood was found dead in a hotel in the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPolice have been called to a potential hostage situation after one of the country's busiest shopping streets was closed. Businesses and shoppers were evacuated from Tottenham Court Road in central London...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 15 hours agoDr Cintli: ARIZONA'S SALT OF THE EARTH MOMENT: ARIZONA'S SALT OF THE EARTH MOMENT By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez During the miner’s strike in Grants County, New Mexico in 1951, d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Three people were arrested in Copenhagen Friday on suspicion of planning a terror attack, Denmark's Security and Intelligence Service said. The three are a 22-year-old Jordanian citizen, a 23-yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoFour explosions that rocked an eastern Ukrainian city on Friday have prompted a terror probe, the Ukrainian News agency reported. A regional prosecutor's office has started a "terrorist case" into the bl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- A suicide bombing in a Damascus neighborhood killed nine and injured tens of people, Syrian state media said Friday. It was the second bomb blast to rock the Syrian capital Friday. The deadly att...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012* *Two columnists and those new clothes:* We’ve been called away from our sprawling campus on a mission of national import. We expect to finish our current, award-wining series on M...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoI have to be honest – I have no idea what this article says. (I only speak Minnesotan.) BUT – I did use a translator site and input a couple of phrases and it seems legit and since it is from the Nation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoOffices on Tottenham Court Road have been evacuated after a man reportedly walked into a Starbucks wearing a gas canister and threatened to blow himself up. Photo: @benturner83 A man alleged to be carryi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTWO CREEKS — Point Beach Nuclear Plant declared an alert Wednesday night when carbon monoxide built up in a room near where a diesel generator was being worked on. The alert was declared at 9:06 p.m. Air...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoOKLAHOMA CITY - Putnam City High School's baseball fields were shut down Wednesday after a swarm of bees attacked the grounds crew. The school says the fields are safe tonight, experts warn Oklahoma resi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA police officer at the scene asking members of the public to move away from Tottenham Court Road (Pic: Twitter/Stephen Hull) Offices on Tottenham Court Road have been evacuated after a man reportedly wa...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoThe Miami Marlins suspended new Manager Ozzie Guillen for saying: “I love Fidel Castro,” and "I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, b...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 15 hours agoABC News from Australia has featured a video so harshly blunt about the dismal prospects for the fate of trees, I wouldn't expect to see it compete for a time slot on an American channel against Dancing W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTwo men have been jailed for five years each for sending nail bombs to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and high-profile Celtic supporters. Neil McKenzie and Trevor Muirhead were convicted of conspiracy to assa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoCleveland police are involved in an "ongoing operation" at a Middlesbrough housing estate as they search for double murder suspect James Allen. Detectives are searching a house in the Pallister Park area...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago[image: Link]Police have closed part of Tottenham Court Road in central London because a man is causing a disturbance. There are reports that it is a hostage incident. Police have confirmed it is not rela...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA deadly fungus is rapidly killing off frogs around the globe by making them died of thirst. The fungus attacks the skin of the creatures, leaving them unable to absorb water - essential for any amphibia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species' territory. The shrimp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA six-year-old boy was arrested and carted to a police station in the back of a cop car after he assaulted his elementary school teachers. The kindergartener, from Shelbyville, Indiana, was arrested on al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA teenager has undergone surgery after being beaten unconscious by a fellow student in an incident of school bullying. The argument between Preston Hodge and a classmate reportedly broke out on Tuesday d...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago*The author is a top Israeli astrophysicist and cosmoclimatologist, blogging at sciencebits.com* *Does the global temperature lag \(CO_2\)? More flaws in the Shakun et al. paper in Nature.* Over the pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA woman returning home from Africa caused a monkeypox scare aboard her flight after she broke out in a rash, sparking a massive quarantine among the passengers. The Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAnxious Russians have been bombarding Twitter today with fears about an ominous green cloud looming over Moscow. Having awoken to the bizarrely tinged skies talk of chemical spills and ash clouds soon do...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 16 hours ago*The Argentine government's fraudulent nationalisation of YPF* *by Cunctator * The so-called nationalisation [of YPF] by Jewess [President] Kirchner is just another swindle by our favourite culture-disto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA company behind a new range of Afro style washing up sponges has been slammed for being racist. Campaigners have attacked British makers Paladone for its latest range of dish cleaning products which cari...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoIn fairness, the focus is on the accused and not the police -- and what may superficially look like a lie can be true in fact. But but but the brushing aside of the issue by Chief Blair's office is not enc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoProtesters have hurled petrol bombs at a police station in Bahrain and riot police have responded with teargas and stun grenades. The violence flared after a funeral march for a man killed in clashes dur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA large black bear who wandered up into a tree at the University of Colorado - Boulder, is again safe after wildlife department officials managed to get him out of a sticky situation. The 200-pound male ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMET forecasters are predicting the wettest April since records began after days of tornados and constant downpours have left many parts of the country under water - with one driver needing to be rescued a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 49.2 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:32:45 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) North from Kulob (Kulyab), Tajik...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 55.4 km (34.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:29:43 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 157 km (97 miles) NNW of Kendari, Sulawe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA benefit fraudster treated herself to exotic holidays and then posted pictures of the trips on Facebook - while falsely claiming handouts worth £37,000. Andrea Raftis, 24, claimed she was a single mothe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA bus driver who bludgeoned a young British student to death in Poland last year has begged for leniency because he 'had a wife and family to care for'. The battered body of Kate Zaks, 21, an art student...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDebt collection agencies are chasing a staggering £58billion – equivalent to £1,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. The total has shot up by £6billion in just six months and demonstrates ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:01:05 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) Southwest of Changji...
- posted by Megan H. MacKenzie at The Duck of Minerva - 18 hours agoAfter reading the FP special 'sex' issue this week I had the strangest feeling. It was like I woke up and it was 1991 and I was 13 again reading teen magazines. After reading Charli's excellent post on th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - Spain's sickly economy faces a "crisis of huge proportions", a minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level in two decades and Standard and Poor's weighed in with a two-notch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Reconstruction Agency announced on April 27 that as of March 31 this year, there had been 1,618 indirect deaths related to the Great East Japan Earthquake disasters in Tokyo and nine prefectures. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced April 26 that it will recalculate the height of a potential tsunami that may strike its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture. The move w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSome 9,000 U.S. Marines will be moved out of Okinawa Prefecture under a revamped roadmap for the realignment of United States military forces in Japan, the governments of both countries announced on April...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago“THEY can’t be Japanese!” a journalist from Tokyo whispered caustically into your correspondent’s ear on hearing the uncharacteristic volume of shouting and heckling at a well-attended town-hall meeting. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoKauai, Hawaii - As Noam Chomsky wrote in this two-part essay, America's "pivot" toward the Asia-Pacific region is in response to what it calls "classic security dilemmas" posed by the rising influence of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIN OUR common narrative, the modern era of global finance—what we call the Old Order—begins with the Great Depression and New Deal of the 1930s. The economic model put in place by President Franklin D. Ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoI went to Lille in northern France a few days before the first round of the French presidential election to attend a rally held by the socialist candidate Francois Hollande. It was a depressing experience...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe European Union (EU), we have long been told, is an uncompromising champion of human rights, supporting them with all possible means, from diplomatic measures to military action against sovereign state...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Taliban clearly has broad support from Afghan people. Conscientious objection is a right and obligation in a failed war. Recent attacks in Kabul confirm the occupation is falling to pieces. Claims abo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoChina warns of risk of confrontation but says committed to diplomacy * Recent South China Sea gas find may stoke China's claims * Vietnam, Taiwan re-stake their claims (Recasts) ULUGAN BAY, Philippines, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 reversed a process that had been under way since the Russian Empire’s emergence in the 17th century. It was ultimately to incorporate four general elements: Easte...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 18 hours agoaround this time last year, as shown by the video below, the Royal West of England Academy, in Bristol, ran a retrospective of the work of radical figurative artist Robert Lenkiewicz (31 December 1941 – Au...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom has been further solidified following recent talks between Turkish and Chinese leaders. The first steps are being constructed with a number of little...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMADRID – The latest round of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program between Iran and the so-called “5+1” group (the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members – the United States, the United...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTehran's efforts to expand its circle of influence in South America is tantamount to exporting state-sponsored terrorism into the region, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. "We always have a concern a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe so-called Global Financial Crisis is a term so widely used that it has earned its own acronym of GFC. When first seen, it seemed like girl friend club or some such, since many friends use GF loosely t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThere has been a great deal of chatter recently about too-big-to-fail. The presidents of two regional Federal Reserve banks – in Dallas and Kansas City – are calling for the end of government support for a...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*Asquith* Herbert Asquith, the British Prime Minister who took Britain into World War I, was a Liberal. During World War I, Asquith's energies were devoted to a mistress 35 years his junior - Venetia St...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoExamples of Just Rulers: George Washington and Cyrus The Great. "Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law." - Sene...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWith NATO members meeting soon to discuss the future of the alliance's nuclear weapons, and next-door neighbor Iran threatening to get nuclear weapons itself, it's a volatile time for Turkey and nukes. Cu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Tuesday that he would direct the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan to follow the implementation of agreements conc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - China will send its envoy for Africa to Sudan and South Sudan to urge talks as it works with the United States to bring an end to border fighting that has raised fears of a full-scale war, Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAustralian economist Steve Keen is amongst a growing group of economic renegades who believe things are so far gone with the global economy that a debt jubilee and a total reset of the financial system is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoJERUSALEM -- The burgeoning relationship between Israel and Azerbaijan is raising eyebrows throughout the Middle East, not least of all because Azerbaijan is Iran’s neighbor to the north and shares close ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDaniel Stid is a partner in The Bridgespan Group, a non-profit organization that provides advisory and consultancy services to philanthropists and non-profits. Stid leads Bridgespan’s performance measure...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Northern California at a depth of 5.6 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:38:37 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) West from Petro...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 19 hours agoEarly adopters to the Free Planet ideology, where you don't have to pay and pay and pay for life-basics like food, water, shelter, got this knowledge for FREE. People are beginning to see the sense of e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoCleveland police are checking two possible sightings in Middlesbrough of James Allen, who is wanted in connection with two murders. Detectives say they are urgently trying to find Allen, 35, over the dea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoChen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese lawyer who won global acclaim for uncovering rights abuses under China's "one child" policy, has escaped from house arrest, according to his supporters. Chen had been u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoI often wonder who is worse: George W. Bush — the man who turned a projected trillion dollar surplus into the greatest deficits in world history, who bailed out the profligate Wall Street algos and arbitra...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoI've received a lot of unusual information today. I feel like I am in the eye of an information hurricane that is about to hit in May. Got this from a somewhat obscure source, claims to be ex-Illumin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the North Coast New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 123.1 km (76.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:49:43 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (5...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAntarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMobile Police made their first arrest in the mob beating of Matthew Owens. 44-year-old Terry Rawls surrendered Wednesday on assault charges. "This here is an ongoing dispute with neighbors, that's what thi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours ago*The author is a retired Greek experimental particle physicist and a frequent TRF commenter* *The story with the huge author list high energy experiments* What follows is my experience of participating in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoU.S. Secret Service agents brag they routinely use third-world prostitutes while conducting out-of-country security detail for Presidential visits. Seattle-based Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne (KIROT...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport said Wednesday that the child was forced to undergo a pat-down after hugging...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFour current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine, methamphetamine...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSwiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports that a woman starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off sunlight alone. The Zurich newspaper repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoHere’s what we do know about student loan debt: it’s roughly $1 trillion in size, greater than either auto or credit-card debt and second only to mortgage debt in the U.S. Borrowers in their 30s today o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe United States has begun launching drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under new authority approved by President Obama that allows the CIA and the military to fire even when th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNew U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week but a trend reading rose to its highest since January, the latest sign of a weaker pace of healing in the still-struggling labor market. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMore Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week and consumer confidence declined by the most in a year, signaling that a cooling labor market may restrain household spe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice now reaching out to the public, asking witnesses and victims to come forward. MONTREAL - Montreal is waking up to a morning of smashed windows, vandalized cars and questions about how a protest d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLess than half of Europe's development aid budget goes to the neediest, low-income countries, MPs have warned. A report by a House of Commons Committee has challenged the Government, which provided £1.23...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.3 km (18.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:16 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 188 km (116 miles) East...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours agoMajor New Issues with Vaccines Are Surfacing By Greg Davidson Food Freedom News, April 26, 2012 Bill Gates spoke to Sanjay Gupta on CNN in February 2011, saying that skeptics of vaccines are killin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 224.5 km (139.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:49:30 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.9 km (21.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:37:10 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 163 km (101 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 161 km (99.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:17:19 UTC Fruday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34.1 miles) Southwest of Kuril'sk, K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:37:08 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (37.8 miles) Northeast of S...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 20 hours ago*Weekly find: Flatbread Company* Last week when I was back in the Boston area visiting my family for my sisters birthday surprise we came across the amazing, limited eater friendly, Flatbread Company. Bui...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 21 hours agonot only is world war three ON, it's BEEN ON for the last two hundred years: Let me (try to) explain. WHAT IS AN OVERT WAR? most 'overt wars' are publicly advertised and publicly organised events betwe...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoMendacious attacks on Israeli water policy has been going on forevermore. I caught a whiff of it even as a high school student. Ongoing investment in water by Israel has succeeded in providing n...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoSome folks cannot resist a press release. On top of that the economics of the material is only hinted at and as on earth, all that glitters does not pay. If every other aspect of this adventure ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 21 hours agoYour blogger with Robin Campbell, Ken Kowalski’s possible replacement as Speaker of the Alberta Legislature. Below: Laurie Blakeman, Gene Zwozdesky, and Wayne Cao with you-know-who. JASPER, Alberta Just ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoBill Zajc sent me a link to this 1-hour panel discussion about the God particle at the Columbia University. It was moderated by Amber Miller, a physicist and a science dean of Columbia's FAS. Brian Greene ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agoSir Alan Sugar has reportedly said: "I don’t care if Ed Miliband is backing Livingstone. I seriously suggest NO-ONE votes for Livingstone in the Mayoral elections." Sensible chap... on this matter anyway.
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 22 hours agoLooks like the BC Liberals are attempting again to alter society, more social engineering, Gordon Campbell`s and Rich Coleman`s smart meters, it was in BC Hydro`s service plan, real time billing, meaning...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours ago#M312 #Cdnpoli - Who woulda thunk it? The Harperist government whip stood better ground against Woodworth and his anti-abortion crusade than Liberal leader Bob Rae. Rae's decision not to whip his party's...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 23 hours agoRIP. These are probably my two favorite songs by The Band. Both clips are from Martin Scorsese's doc, The Last Waltz. Levon Helm was quite a talent. (Side note: I played trumpet on a version of "The Weig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAn Oklahoma City woman is facing a felony charge after she allegedly called in a bomb threat to Oklahoma Gas & Electric. Her motive? She received a bill for $14. "I remember flipping out, but I don't re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoState troopers blew the cover off an illegal street race in Northwest Miami-Dade Wednesday night after someone tipped them off. Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Nelvys Hernandez says more than a thousan...
- "Bombing Sudan’s air bases only way to protect innocents" — Because America surely needs another warposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoI have seen what happens when the world turns its back and looks the other way. For 20 years I have worked in Sudan, helping its people struggle through the horrors of starvation and murderous attacks. Du...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is reporting a major surge in New York City subway crime. The agency said pick pockets and other thieves are bumping up the crime rate by...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago“Drifting through the one-horned constellation Monoceros, these dusty streamers and new born stars are part of the active Monoceros R2 star-forming region, embedded in a giant molecular cloud. The cosmic ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSong Dae-sung, the president of the Seoul-based Sejong Institute, is one of many security analysts who agree with the president’s stance. He sees the current limitation’s on Seoul’s arsenal to be a major ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo nuclear power plants in Japan are located right on top of a seismically unstable region, raising the possibility of an earthquake-induced disaster, according to a report on Wednesday. Tomari plant in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Splat!"* by Chet Raymo "In Stephen Crane's American classic, "The Red Badge of Courage," young Henry Fleming goes off to war fired by dreams of heroic sweep and grandeur. "He had read of marches, s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWhen Obama bundlers get special government subsidies they didn't deserve, I don't see the main lesson as being one of corruption in the Obama administration. I think the main lesson is the nature of gover...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoDepartment of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that "no one knows" if gasoline prices in the United States will reach $9 per gallon, and acknowledged that the possibility is outside his control. "I do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIran is recruiting a hacker army to target the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vital infrastructure for cyberattack in a future confrontation with the United States, security specialists will war...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago"We're headed in the right direction. Unemployment continues to drop and those people who are unemployed, they're not going to be voting for the party who wants to cut their benefits, cut access to food st...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agohttp://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120427_08.html Majia here: The article states that the EU started conducting stress tests on Japan's nuclear reactors over a year ago.The stress test results are not ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Transportation Security Administration is once again the subject of national scrutiny, this time after aggressively screening a 7-year-old female passenger with cerebral palsy whi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnalysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Suicide car bombers targeted the offices of Nigerian newspaper This Day in the capital Abuja and northern city of Kaduna on Thursday, killing at least four people in apparently coordinated...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday denied a request to release photos and video taken of Usama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos last year. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIf you've been reading this blog lately you probably have come to the conclusion that we were more than a little obsessed with defeating corrupt Blue Dog Tim Holden in northeast Pennsylvania, where I used...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago* Brainwashed soldiers in America and Russia are training to suppress popular revolts against the new authoritarian global government.* A new *report* by the Xinhua news agency says that, "Airborne troo...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoCorrelations They Hope You Never Make. *by Tony Cartalucci * *Image: While the UN demands that Syria not only allow admittedly armed terrorists to roam freely through its cities, but that they also capitu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Treasuries prices rose in Asia on Friday, after Standard & Poor's cut of Spain's credit ratings added to fears about the ability of some European countries to continue financing their debt. *...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck The North Indian Ocean at a depth of 15.6 km (9.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:40:53 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 725 km (450 miles) WSW of Banda Aceh, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:16:59 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 723 km (449 miles) SSW of Ba...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoAsahi: Radioactive cesium spread 600 km in waters off Fukushima http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201204260447.html "...scientists said, in amounts that reached 100 times pre-accident levels." Background:...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 5.8 km (3.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:35 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey No Repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 26. km (16.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:21:45 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 329 km (...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoToday the Kaiser Foundation released This brief was prepared by Cynthia Cox, Larry Levitt, and Gary Claxton of the Kaiser Family Foundation as part of the Kaiser Initiative on Health Reform and Private Ins...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago** *... through the back door.* *Contributor: "YYC"* MPs denounce motion to study when life begins *Most Canadians don't agree with the 400-year old definition, and don't accept the notion that "birth is ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Music and Moonlight"* "We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone seabreakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moo...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day agoSURPRISE! *A judge just ruled that pictures of Osama Bin Laden, killed by Team 6, cannot be released.* Still think courts aren't RIGGED? Still saying, "9/11 and the Team 6/Bin Laden story are true, other...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoPine River, Minnesota, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoClaudia in St. Catherine's Emergency Room, Cite Soleil--April 26, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) We lost our beautiful mother two years ago today. The last two years I have lived with a deep ache in my ches...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. No...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day agoI heard myself saying I was happy to be “home” on Tuesday when we dragged back from eight long days in Tegucigalpa. Home. I’ve always known I have quite a fluid definition of that word, having lived in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Internal Revenue Service Laying Claim To $18 Trillion* * Sitting In 401(k) Accounts?”* by the NY Post "The cat just stuck his head into the canary cage and is eyeing his next feathered meal. I keep wa...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoWe can't pretend to be surprised at the Harper Regime's appeal to the socon mouth breathers. That's part of their playbook, and we've known that all along. But when you read that Bob's not going to whip t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions." - Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield, "Pulp Fiction"
- posted by Vikash Yadav at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoDrogo as angry brown man. Source: dothraki.org*Graddakh!* We the brown people of Vaes Dothrak collectively curse the producers of HBO and the slanderous "creator" of our world, which you call the *Game of ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoBluestem Prairie – Breaking News In 2011, Denny McNamara & Amy Koch were ALEC Natural Resources Task Force members American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents released to the public today by...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI've just returned from a lovely brief trip to New York City and points nearby. Apologies to friends who I didn't notify that I was coming in; I was in dire need of less running around and more downtime....
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Plus NY Transit Museum news and other NYC gadabout notes, including big MAS news* *From obscuraday.com (click to enlarge)* *by Ken* I sure hope you're not depending for information on the now-certified L...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoVisions of Kerouac: Gerald Nicosia. Photo illustration by James Retherford / The Rag Blog. Beats are back bigger than before: A Rag Blog interview with Kerouac scholar Gerald Nicosia By Jonah Raskin / The ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago*It’s Friday. It’s the ramble. You know the drill. **But first, the quote for the week. * *No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*The surprise would be if we didn't get it and actually got a free and fair election. * "Americans Elect falters in bid to ignite third-party fever; Online voting plan postponed, Web traffic light" by Ned...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*The check is in the mail. * "Senate proposals seek to delay Postal Service closings" April 25, 2012 WASHINGTON - “Individual congressmen can try to save their post office this year or next year and get s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*What is sad is they **missed the original scoop**** to the National Enquirer.* "Judge says Edwards case witness contacted others" by Michael Biesecker | Associated Press, April 24, 2012 GREENSBORO, N....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Obama advisers asking unions for convention aid *After he selected a city in a right-to-work state? * WASHINGTON - President *Obama’s political advisers are pressing labor unions * to *underwrite *Septem...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe War Stories of Three Nations: Israel Is Fighting For Its Survival, America Is Fighting Terrorism, And Iran Is Fighting Tyranny *Related: 9/11 And Karbala: The Stories We Tell Ourselves To Give ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago* **(typo corrected)** * *Prime Minister Stephen Harper was shouted down during a debate in question period Thursday on the Afghanistan mission for suggesting the NDP – not yet in existence – didn’t even ...
- posted by Cantoral at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day agoThe Federal Reserve Turns Left | The Nation: 'via Blog this'
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoJust one item today: over at Post Partisan, I have a post on Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and representation; in particular, about the nature of "promises." I'm arguing that the reason (former) supporters a...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 1 day agoThree months ago, when I was new in Honduras, I probably would have dismissed the 'charter cities' idea pitched in a column in today's Globe and Mail as undemocratic and dangerous. Now I'm not sure the Hon...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoThursday, April 26, 2012 Message from the Galactic Federation of Light 4/26/12 As channeled through Greg Giles One day we would like to furnish you with a list of all the worlds and the races of be...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoDear Bishop Daniel Jenky- I've read in the news of you calling President Barack Obama both Hitler *and * Stalin. This has unfortunately resulted in a typically liberal online petition that seeks to force ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Epic Fail- Part One”* by Jim Quinn, “The Burning Platform” “Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.” – Edmund Burke "No wonder one third of Americans are obese. The crap we are shoveling i...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoExcellent Essay: Lessons of Chernobyl and Fukushima: Nuclear Safety is an Oxymoron. by Prof.T.Shivaji Rao, Director of Center for Environmental Studies,GITAM University, Visakhapatnam (India) http://www....
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