Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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English: Screenshot of Dr. Aniru Conteh from the CDC documentary, "Lassa" (1989). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: Artist impression of Boeing 787-3 Dreamliner. Français : Boeing 787-3 Dreamliner. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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CO-06 Shaping Up As A Pivotal Congressional Race For 2014-- Primary Could Pit Ex-Speaker Andrew Romanoff Against Senate Majority Leader Morgan Carroll

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 minutes ago
Rep. Su Ryden, Sen. Morgan Carroll, Rep. Rhonda Fields Memorial Day Ceremony in Aurora Campaign strategists in both political parties agree that-- all things being equal-- the most endangered incumbents are the ones who win reelection with less than 50% of the vote, despite all the advantages of incumbency. It's usually just a matter of the right opponent coming along before they're history. Every congressional incumbent in Colorado was reelected in November, despite President Obama's 51-46% win over Romney in the closely fought swing state. Obama took 26 counties-- including all the ... more »

Warning high street store closures will double

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
EXPERTS have warned there could soon be as many as 40,000 empty shops on Scotland's high streets as the collapse of major chains and retailers shows no sign of ending. The decline of top brands continued with DVD rental store Blockbuster following HMV into administration, with the potential loss of 4190 jobs – 300 of them in Scotland. Last week camera chain Jessops closed its stores. Now some retail analysts say the number of empty shops could double as chains and independent stores go out of business without fresh ventures to replace them. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-n... more »

France, Germany and Italy: Terrorists in Mali must go

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
Europe's largest powers appeared Wednesday to be united in their goal of removing al Qaeda-linked militants from the West African nation of Mali, where Islamist rebels are fighting to overthrow Mali's government. A quarter-million people have fled Mali -- twice the number who have fled fighting in Syria -- and stirred international fears that Mali will become Africa's next haven for terrorists. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/16/world/mali-unrest/

U.S., others ground Boeing Dreamliner indefinitely

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
Europe, Japan and India on Thursday joined the United States in grounding Boeing Co's 787, a day after a second incident involving battery failure caused one of the Dreamliner passenger jets to make an emergency landing. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Wednesday it would temporarily ground Boeing's newest commercial airliner and insisted airlines would have to demonstrate the lithium ion batteries were safe before they could resume flying. It gave no details on when that might happen. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/17/us-boeing-dreamliner-idUSBRE90F1N8... more »

Algeria troops 'in face-off' with militant hostage-takers

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes ago
Algerian troops have surrounded a gas facility in the east of the country where some 20 foreign workers are being held hostage by Islamist militants. The kidnappers attacked and occupied the complex at In Amenas on Wednesday, after killing a Briton and an Algerian. The captives include British, Japanese, US, French and Norwegian nationals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21054521

Lassa fever kills three in Benue, Nigeria

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
AT least three persons, including a medical doctor, were said to have died of Lassa fever at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Orduen Abunku, who disclosed this to journalists in Makurdi yesterday, said the deceased were referred to the teaching hospital from another hospital, maintaining that clinical suspicion indicated that the ailment might be Lassa fever. http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110686:lassa-fever-kills-three-in-benue&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Family Jailed In Egypt For Becoming Christian and changed their names

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
A mother and her seven children have been jailed for 15 years in Egypt for converting back to Christianity. Nadia Mohamed Ali and her children Mohab, Maged, Sherif, Amira, Amir and Nancy were sentenced at the criminal court in Beni Suef, 70 miles south of Cairo. Another seven people involved in the case were also sentenced to five years in prison, according to reports. http://news.sky.com/story/1039122/family-jailed-in-egypt-for-becoming-christian

Manti Te'o Lied about Dead Girlfriend

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
The heart-breaking story of a college football star who helped his team battle to the championship game after his girlfriend died of leukaemia has been unveiled as a hoax. The story of linebacker Manti Te'o captured national attention and has been described as "the inspiring story of the college football season". http://news.sky.com/story/1039110/college-football-star-in-dead-girlfriend-hoax

Jordan Cobb Missing From Ferry: Police Find Body

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
Police searching for a missing teenager who leapt from a ferry on his way to a New Year's Eve party have found a body. Jordan Cobb is believed to have jumped from the front of the vessel for a £100 bet. The 16-year-old was travelling from Plymouth to a party in Torpoint, Cornwall, with a group of friends. http://news.sky.com/story/1039085/teen-missing-from-ferry-police-find-body

Boeing Dreamliners Grounded By US and Japan

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
US federal officials have ordered American airlines to ground Boeing's 787 Dreamliners over safety fears after an emergency landing in Japan. The decision by the Federal Aviation Administration follows the announcement by two Japanese airlines that they have grounded all of their 787s after a sixth problem with the aircraft in less than two weeks. The planes will be grounded until the risk of possible battery fires is addressed, the US official has said. http://news.sky.com/story/1038642/boeing-dreamliners-grounded-by-us-and-japan

Horse Meat Burgers: FSA Threatens Legal Action

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
The UK food watchdog is considering whether legal action should be taken against companies at the centre of the scandal over horse meat found in beef burgers. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said it would consult relevant local authorities and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) before making a decision to take action. http://news.sky.com/story/1039115/horse-meat-burgers-fsa-threatens-legal-action

Algeria: 'Several Brits Held Hostage, One Killed'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
Several Britons have been taken hostage - and one UK national killed - in a terrorist attack at a gas field in Algeria, according to Sky sources. An Islamist militant group has claimed to have kidnapped up to 41 foreign nationals - including seven Americans and an Irishman - in a dawn raid on the gas facility part-operated by BP, Algerian state oil company Sonatrach, and Norway's Statoil in Algeria. It claims to have repelled an attempt by Algerian soldiers to enter the facility, forcing them to retreat after an exchange of gunfire. http://news.sky.com/story/1038832/algeria-several... more »

4.5 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTHERN PERU - 17th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
Magnitude 4.5 Date-Time Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 02:04:37 UTC Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 09:04:37 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 15.021°S, 70.871°W Depth 21.6 km (13.4 miles) Region SOUTHERN PERU Distances 33 km (20 miles) WSW of Ayaviri, Peru

4.7 Magnitude Earthquake HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
Magnitude 4.7 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 23:32:47 UTC Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 08:32:47 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 42.313°N, 144.706°E Depth 25.7 km (16.0 miles) Region HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION Distances 78 km (48 miles) SSE of Kushiro, Japan

4.2 Magnitude Earthquake NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes ago
Magnitude 4.2 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 23:25:03 UTC Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 09:25:03 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 5.047°S, 144.715°E Depth 87.1 km (54.1 miles) Region NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Distances 101 km (63 miles) NNE (31°) from Mount Hagen, New Guinea, PNG

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes ago
Magnitude 4.6 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 22:41:35 UTC Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 05:41:35 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 11.583°S, 112.464°E Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program Region SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA Distances 352 km (218 miles) S of Krajan Tambakrejo, Indonesia

4.9 Magnitude Earthquake MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes ago
Magnitude 4.9 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 21:44:48 UTC Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 05:44:48 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 6.514°N, 126.536°E Depth 52 km (32.3 miles) Region MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES Distances 43 km (26 miles) ENE of Pondaguitan, Philippines

4.7 Magnitude Earthquake NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes ago
Magnitude 4.7 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 21:22:40 UTC Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 07:22:40 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 5.780°S, 149.041°E Depth 149.8 km (93.1 miles) Region NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Distances 74 km (45 miles) NW of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea

Citing academic literature, NRA calls for proliferation of weapons for children of all ages

Brian Rathbun at Duck of Minerva - 38 minutes ago
The Canard “All the fake news that’s fit to print” I feel the need to make a disclaimer here. If you think I am trying to get a tasteless laugh out of a tragic situation, you are incorrect. I have made my views about the gun lobby known here. In light of recent NRA proposals Continue reading

Bruce Melton : World Bank on Climate: 'Turn Down the Heat'

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 50 minutes ago
Glacier melt. Photo by Dave Appleby / Flickr / Truthout. Is it really this bad? World Bank on climate: 'Turn down the heat' Instead of working on climate pollution emissions reductions, we are now emitting more than was imagined in the 1998 worst-case scenario. By Bruce Melton / Truthout / January 17, 2013See Bruce Melton's writing about climate change on The Rag Blog. Mega reports on

Here Are The Changes That The Harper Conservatives Hid In Their Huge 'Ominubus Bill' That Spawned 'Idle No More'

leftdog at Buckdog - 53 minutes ago
One of the first questions that people ask about the *Idle No More movement*is what the movement is all about. While the historical injustices experienced by First Nations are too many to list, activists say the current government is pushing through a range of new bills that violate treaty rights. "Never in history has there been so many bills regarding and impacting First Nations been pushed through the House of Commons at one time," *Idle No More Bill Breakdown, *a document released by activists, reads. Below is an excerpt adapted from the document, outlining the eight bills and ... more »

Zander Still Making Sweet Music

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 57 minutes ago
After discord, harmonious encore for Benjamin Zander Benjamin Zander, one of Boston’s most prominent classical music figures, is back leading a youth orchestra. Watching him now, one could find it hard to imagine that less than a year ago, his four-plus decades at New England Conservatory came to an ugly end. * **Also see: **Boston Globe Lullaby* * **Good night, readers. I thought we could just skip the* *bedtime stories, but if you want me to would you like me to **read you one** I will. *

Iran Navy to Deploy to Mediterranean

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Iran will deploy a fleet of warships to the Mediterranean Sea, Navy chief Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on Wednesday. “The Navy’s 24th fleet of warships will patrol the north of the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden, Bab-el-Mandeb, the Red Sea, Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea for three months and will even sail as far as southeastern Asian countries,” Sayyari was quoted by Press TV as saying. http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130116/178824364.html

Rupert Sheldrake - The Rise of Shamanism

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
"The Shamanic impulse and the Shamanic experience is probably far older than that of institutional or organized religions. And it's this direct experience which I think is at the heart of all religion and all religious insight. And that's the starting point I think for all kinds of religion and it can be continually renewed through personal experience. And it's being renewed again today." - Rupert Sheldrake. [5:25 - 5:57 in the video below]. YouTube Video Description [Channel - heartofthehealer]: Rupert Sheldrake, one of the worlds most innovative biologists, is best known for h... more »

Gregg Kalina On Charles Giuliani's Truth Hertz Radio, Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
My friend, Gregg Kalina, also known as Youtube user, "pt1gard", appeared on Charles Giuliani's Truth Hertz internet radio show this morning (www.oraclebroadcasting.com), to discuss his latest findings on the Apollo moon hoax, his book he is writing, and the Sandy Hook hoax. I have the link to that show right here for everyone to listen for themselves: http://mp3.oraclebroadcasting.com/Truth_Hertz/Truth_Hertz.2013-01-16_16k.mp3 NTS Notes: Yes, that was me that called in during the first hour of the show to give my own assertions and views on the entire Sandy Hook shooting fraud. ... more »

U.S. MILITARY CHIEF CONFIRMS ISRAEL UNABLE TO STRIKE ISRAEL ‘UNILATERALLY’

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said that it would be impossible for Israel to unilaterally attack Iran. Any such attack would require the full support of the US. Israel needs America’s resources to supply fuel for such a raid as well as ordnance, intelligence and back-up support to counter any Iranian retaliation given that, unlike Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007, Iran will not accept an attack by Israel on its nuclear facilities lying down. *Arutz Sheva*, a right-wing Israeli newspaper, reported that former US military chief Admiral William Fallon has confirmed that Israel w... more »

The Realist Report Hosted By John Friend, For Monday, January 14th, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
I want to present the latest edition of the Realist Report over the Truth Militia Radio Network (www.truthmilitia.com) hosted by John Friend ( www.johnfriendsblog.blogspot.com) for Monday, January 14th, 2013 for everyone to listen for themselves. On this edition, John has DC Dave Martin as his special guest, and it is indeed very informative listening... Here is the link to that show right here: http://blogtalk.vo.llnwd.net/o23/show/4/265/show_4265967.mp3 NTS Notes: A great show overall, and I am glad to see that Buelahman from "Buelahman's Revolt" (www.buelahman.wordpress.com) was... more »

Scientists Get Too Honest About Methods on Twitter

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago
Source: Newsy.

By Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours ago
*January 17, 2013* (LD-Tony Cartalucci) - Exactly as predicted, the ongoing French "intervention" in the North African nation of Mali has spilled into Algeria - the next most likely objective of Western geopolitical interests in the region since the successful destabilization of Libya in 2011. In last week's "France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali" report, it was stated specifically that: "As far back as August of 2011, Bruce Riedel out of the corporate-financier funded think-tank, the Brookings Institution, wrote "Algeria will be next to fall," where he gleeful... more »

Kayaking Away From the Boston Globe

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago
"Priceline makes a $1.8 billion deal for Kayak" by Katie Johnston and Michael B. Farrell | Globe Staff, November 08, 2012 Kayak Software Corp., the New England company known for its *quirky ­office culture and colorful executives* as well as its speedy travel searches, will be *acquired* by Priceline.com Inc. *for $1.8 billion* in cash and stock, the companies said Thursday. The merger, if approved by shareholders, would join two of the best-known brands for booking hotels, rental cars, and airline tickets over the ­Internet. The deal would help Priceline build its US market, anal... more »

Musical Interlude: 2002, “Where the Stars and Moon Play”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
2002, “Where the Stars and Moon Play” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWa26yCRIlI

"The First Principle..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself- and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman

"A Look to the Heavens, With Chet Raymo"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
"Now is a good time to go looking for the constellation Fornax, the Furnace, especially if you are as far south as I am, here on the Tropic of Cancer. Except there's not much to go looking for. Two or three stars of the 4th or 5th magnitude, which means you won't see anything at all unless you have a clear, dark night, just a bare bend in the river Eridanus, which itself is nothing much to look at. When we peer into Fornax, we are looking down out of the pancake-shaped Milky Way Galaxy, away from the most exciting star-rich parts of the sky for visual observers. But if you have a... more »

President Obama lays down the gun law

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours ago
[Charles Dharapak photo] Quite a day at the White House. Our President schooled Congress on how governance is done. Barack Obama showed some breathtaking leadership in a presser where he made very clear he is tired of trying to reason with high stakes grifters who callously misinform gullible people for their own profit. Obama even pointedly quoted Ronald Reagan before he laid out his executive actions to reduce gun violence. Think Progress translates the legalese into the real world effects of Obama's executive actions. And provides the best quote: The President referenced one... more »

Closing the Book on the Boston Globe

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago
*Doing my best catching up*: "Image drove Red Sox owners, Terry Francona laments; Former Sox manager says marketing trumped winning" by Peter Abraham | Globe Staff, January 16, 2013 Red Sox owners John Henry and Tom Werner wanted *“sexy” players* to boost the team’s waning television ratings after its disappointing third-place finish in 2010, according to former manager Terry Francona, a desire that led to the acquisition of new stars, huge contracts, and ultimately the *historic collapse* of September 2011. The ownership group commissioned a *$100,000 study* by an outside consu... more »

Crazy Horse, "I See A Time..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago

Mohawk Nation News 'Awakening, 150 Million Murdered Indigenous'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago
MNN: AWAKENING, 150 MILLION MURDERED INDIGENOUS Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com   Posted on January 16, 2013 MNN:  AWAKENING, 150 MILLION MURDERED INDIGENOUS  MNN. Jan. 16, 2013. Calling out from the earth to us Indigenous people are 150 million of our men, women, children and babies who were murdered by the white race for our lands.

Did Justice Thomas shed some light on why he may have been such an unappealing hire?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*In court or out, Justice Thomas enjoys a good laugh*: *It's possible that, as the justice has always insisted, disdain for beneficiaries of affirmative action made him such a difficult hire coming out of Yale Law School. Or it's possible that there were other factors.* *by Ken* This is why it's so valuable to have media surrogates who patrol their beats. I expect that, like me, you heard the story of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas breaking his famous open-court silence the other day, allowing his voice to be heard, albeit briefly, for the first time since 2006. And I'll b... more »

"To Endure Oneself..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see." - Frank Herbert

63% of GOP Think Congressional GOP Sucks.

2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago
First of all it is important to point this out: By JOHN FUND San Diego, Calif. You can tell it's a volatile political year when a balding, middle-aged pollster gets a standing ovation from hundreds of state legislators after delivering the news that only 23% of the people in this country believe today's federal government has the consent of the governed. "Americans don't want to be governed from the left or the right," Scott Rasmussen tells the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conference of 1,500 conservative and moderate legislators. "They want, like the Founding Fathers... more »

Obama The Father

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
In the *tradition of all dictators*, Obama is taking rights away *for the children*. The sweet, innocent children. What a caring and wonderful man he is. He can't be evil, right? I mean, look at him sitting beside the children as if they were his own. He is the father of not just two girls but of all of America's children. He just wants to protect America, that's all.

“’The Better Angels Of Our Nature’: How Charles Dickens Influenced Abraham Lincoln”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*“’The Better Angels Of Our Nature’: * *How Charles Dickens Influenced Abraham Lincoln” * by Gene Griessman, Ph.D. "Here’s the story of an obscure but beautiful quotation from Charles Dickens that found its way into the First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln. In 1861, before his inauguration, Lincoln showed a draft of what he intended to say to William Seward, his Secretary of State. Seward recommended that Lincoln conclude with conciliatory words, and sketched out a few sentences for Lincoln to consider. Seward’s rough draft, which has been preserved, contains the ex... more »

Alex Himelfarb on #IdleNoMore

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours ago
This Alex.

Manti Te'o: Stupid victim of a hoax? Or deranged perpetrator of a hoax?

Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 3 hours ago
Following the publication of a story on Deadspin.com, the national media is taking a serious look at the character and intellect of Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame linebacker who, before he played poorly in the national championship game against Alabama, was thought to be a top 5-caliber pick in this year's NFL draft. Here is what the Chicago Tribune story on the hoax involving Mr. Te'o says: Manti Te'o's ascendancy to national star and Heisman Trophy candidate was jet-propelled by the personal backdrop of a girlfriend tragically lost to leukemia in September. Except *that girlfriend ... more »

Hear it from a thinking Democrat: "Throughout his tenure, Obama's done what supporters thought impossible. He's governed to the right of George Bush. He mocks rule of law principles and other democratic values. He prioritizes wars on humanity. He's waging multiple direct and proxy ones. War on terror subterfuge disguises them."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago
------------------------------ *Headlined to H3 1/16/13* *Obama: Money Power's Point Man* *By Stephen Lendman (about the author)* *Permalink* *OpEdNews Op Eds 1/16/2013 at 01:29:21* opednews.com *Obama: Money Power's Point Man* *Obama menaces humanity.* by Stephen Lendman Throughout his tenure, Obama's done what supporters thought impossible. He's governed to the right of George Bush. He mocks rule of law principles and other democratic values. He prioritizes wars on humanity. He's waging multiple direct and proxy ones. War on terror subterfuge disguise... more »

Hear it from a thinking Republican: "Those concerned about 'The New World Order' speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. "Washington has demonstrated that it has no respect for its own laws and Constitution, much less any respect for international law and the law and sovereignty of other countries."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago
------------------------------ *Attack On Sovereignty — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ January 15, 2013 | Original Here Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, about which China, Russia, and Iran complain, is all about. Washington has demonstrated that it has no respect for its own laws and Constitution, much less any respect for international law and the law and sovereignty ... more »

RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Black Feminist Author Beth E. Richie on Gender Violence and 'Arrested Justice'

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours ago
Rag Radio podcast: Black feminist academic and activist Beth E. Richie, author of 'Arrested Justice' By Rag Radio / The Rag Blog / January 16, 2013 Black feminist academic and author Beth E. Richie was Thorne Dreyer's guest Friday, January 11, 2013, on Rag Radio,  a syndicated radio show produced at the studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas. Listen to the interview, here: Beth E. Richie

Still Shopping at Whole Foods? - STOP

2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
Whole Foods CEO says Obama healthcare law is 'more like fascism' The CEO of Whole Foods Market said President Obama's healthcare law is more like "fascism" than "socialism," a parallel he drew in 2009, to some backlash. Whole Foods CEO says Obama healthcare law is 'more like fascism' The CEO of Whole Foods Market said President Obama's healthcare law is more like "fascism" than "socialism," a parallel he drew in 2009, to some backlash. 2009 John Mackey is a right wing libertarian. He’s a union buster. He believes that corporations should not be criminally prosecuted for their ... more »

Freedomwonks - Dementia

2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
Saw this on The Hill tonight and had to laugh *Conservative group sues to block White House gun control recommendations* By Ben Goad - 01/16/13 10:52 AM ET A conservative activist group is suing the White House’s gun violence task force in an effort to block a sweeping set of new restrictions on firearms to be unveiled Wednesday. FreedomWatch, founded by attorney Larry Klayman, argues that the task force held illegal meetings with lobbyists and did not give proper public notice. The group filed a lawsuit in a Florida federal court, seeking to shut down the task force and block any... more »

“Student Apocalypse: A Brainless Future”

Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 4 hours ago
Here's a glimpse into what is going on in Philadelphia and all over the country, from coast to coast, state to state, in urban and suburban neighborhoods, You would never know it if you don't follow Ken's list of Pennsylvania Education Crisis Highlights or read a blog called The Notebook and perhaps this one. Students protest school closings as zombie flash mobby thenotebook on Jan 16 2013 Posted in Latest news *From The Notebook by Charlotte Pope* Under a gloomy gray sky, members of Philadelphia Student Union (PSU), many dressed in torn clothing and with grimly painted faces, ga... more »

Canadian Weblog Awards 2012

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 4 hours ago
[image: 2012 Canadian Weblog Awards nominee] Thanks to whoever nominated DJ! for a Canadian Weblog Award in two categories -- feminism and politics. Yesterday we were informed that we'd made it through to the short list in both. It's a juried competition so there's no need for unseemly begging for votes. There are a lot of categories and a lot of blogs. Here are all the nominees. I was thinking of doing something ruminative about the current state and future of blogging, but . . . naw. Just thanks to the nominator and to all our readers.

The NRA answer to Obama...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago
*powerful.* *More:* Stranded in Sonoma: *Executive Odors* Texas Conservative News: * Obama Announces List of 23 Gun Control Executive Orders – Lawmakers and Lawmen React* * *

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Disaster MapNet at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago
*Creationism spreading in schools, thanks to vouchers ~Zack Kopplin, MSNBC* *Zack Kopplin to Louisiana Creationists: FYYFF ~CenLamar *

Alan Waldman : Chef! is One of the Funniest Sitcoms Ever

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours ago
Waldman's film and TV treasures you may have missed: Lenny Henry is astonishingly good as the overbearing chef on a classic BBC comedy. By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / January 16, 2013 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas, mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England, Ireland, and Scotland.

Beelzebub's Minions Have Done His Bidding.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 5 hours ago
By Beelzebub I mean the Prince of Darkness himself, Stephen Harper. His minions are today's corporate media cartel outlets - the warlords of information messaging - Sun News, G&M, PostMedia, CTV and Global News. While it may take a while to discover what new favours they've earned from their benefactor, the media cartel has waged a highly successful campaign to attack and undermine public support for the Idle No More movement. They wasted no time in ganging on, resorting to rank sensationalism and distraction to incite anger and resentment against Canada's First Nations. *Protest... more »

The MOOC Top Ten

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 5 hours ago
I should probably be wary of taunting the coming moopocalypse, but, as everyone knows, I laugh in the face of obsolescence. So, without further explanation, here are my top ten reasons for MOOCs: 10. The “sage on a stage” isn’t just dead… she’s undead and in high-definition. 9. Web 1.0 monetized those eyeballs like nobody’s Continue reading

Magical Thinking in the Sahel

Adrienne LeBas at Duck of Minerva - 5 hours ago
This time last week, international intervention plans in Mali consisted of a rather under-powered African (ECOWAS) force, which was expected to arrive no earlier than September. This force was not backed by overpowering consensus. Nigeria and Mauritania, the two best-equipped militaries in the region, were reluctant to pledge serious troops. The United States insisted that Continue reading

Musical Interlude: Yanni et al, “Magical Concluding Performance”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
Yanni et al, “Magical Concluding Performance” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbBAlUnNKjM

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

In southern India, relatives sometimes quietly kill their elders

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Michael headed for work at a textile mill, leaving his wife, children and infirm mother at home in this impoverished part of southern India. When he returned a few hours later, his mother's body was propped up in a chair surrounded by villagers and decorated with flowers, poisoned by his wife with a potion in a local form of mercy killing known as thalaikoothal. Three decades later, he harbors no ill will toward his wife. "My mother had been sick and in pain for 20 days and wasn't eating properly," said Michael, 62, who like many southern Indians uses one name. "I was thinking of do... more »

NATO's hired guns attacked Aleppo University in Syria & much, much more.....

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
Claims by the 'opposition' are nonsense. We are going to look at the Aleppo University attack by NATO mercs. Read about the offensive Syrian Army launched . Peruse the Russia/India report. *Learn about another UN Security Council meeting set to take place near the end of January/13 *including the possibility of a team of International Observers. Going Long. Sit a spell and take it all in! Thanks for reading :) *Recall this?* * NATO backed fighters harbour disdain for the people of Aleppo* *"While relations grow testier between the rebels and Aleppines, for whom many fighters harbor ... more »

"Divided No More"

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 6 hours ago
Divided No More is an #IdleNoMore inspired blog by Indigenous scholars and activists and is full of thoughtful and inspired commentary. I highly recommend paying a visit.

The Wise Old Man exposes Sandy Hook "shooting" hoax!

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 6 hours ago
My good friend Zan Overall, better known as the *Wise Old Man*, recently took to the streets with a message to the American people: Keep your guns! The Sandy Hook "shooting" was a gigantic hoax meant to facilitate the promotion of all the anti-gun, pro-"mental health" legislation and memes coming from the criminal government and media! Here are a few photos of Zan's demonstration, along with some excerpts of a report he wrote of his experience: *ZAN'S BIG ADVENTURE IN HOLLYWOOD TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE SANDY HOOK HOAX* On Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, I spent 3 1/2 hours in front of Gra... more »

New Met Office Botch?

Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 6 hours ago
Share this newsletter: [image: Facebook] [image: Twitter] [image: Digg] [image: Reddit] [image: StumbleUpon] Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. HOME WHO WE ARE LATEST POSTINGS GWPF REPORTS PRESS RELEASES VIDEOS CONTACT CCNet 16/01/13New Met Office Botch*Climate Scientists Get The Stratosphere Wrong* How did the Met Office get their data so wrong? Well there’s the rub. You see, the methodology used to develop the Met Office SSU product was never published in the peer-reviewed literature, and certain aspects of the original processing “remain unknown.” Evidently t... more »

GAIA PORTAL: All Gaia “intention” lines converge to Unity

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
* * * * *All Gaia “intention” lines converge to Unity* by ÉirePort All Gaia "intention" lines converge to Unity horizon point. As convergence occurs, undulations from these lines are removed, and the paths are made straight. As Higher Vision is held, convergence to the Unity point is assured. Gaia assists in this process by aligning Cosmic Solar Energies with Gaia Light Body frequencies. Galactic Citizenship is the intent of Gaia. This process has begun, and will continue until completion. Dates cannot be given, as these events are above the existing timeline. Be at Peace. Be wi... more »

"Seek First..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
"Seek first to understand and then to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives." - Stephen R. Covey

Psychology: “Happiness Lies In Wanting, Not Having”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*“Happiness Lies In Wanting, Not Having”* by Jedidiah Becker “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” - Mr. Spock, “Star Trek”, "Amok Time" "According to a new research report, it turns out that money really can buy happiness after all. Sort of. This week, the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) released the findings of a study indicating that society's most materialistic consumers appear to get more happiness from wanting the products of their desires than they actually get from owni... more »

OPPT: WIKIPEDIA ENTRY

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Peoples_Public_Trust The One Peoples Public Trust From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The One People's Public Trust (TOPPT) has created and filed legal documents based on The Law of One, Universal Law, and the UCC that affect every human living in the territories of North America, and therefore, all living creature on Earth. It states, in effect, each Human is a manifestation of the Creator Source, and as such is a Creator, and is NOT subordinate to any artificial principality or corporate fiction. Initially, there was “We the People”; th... more »

Q Day 5: Presidential Persuasion

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours ago
Bill Harshaw asks: Okay, you aren't on board with shmoozing as being important for a President, how about good ole Texas style arm-twisting a la LBJ? Or has that gone out the window with the pork barrel? Presidents should attempt to use whatever they can to persuade, whether their targets are interest groups, Members of Congress, bureaucrats, leaders of foreign nations, party leaders, whoever. What Neustadt says, more or less, is that substance mostly trumps style. Presidents usually don't persuade by badgering, bullying, sweet-talking, or befriending. Yes, those things can help. P... more »

Spain Struggles With The Same Right-wing Austerity Agenda The GOP Is Advancing In Congress

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
As congressional Republicans threaten to tank the economic well being of America unless they get to introduce failed European Austerity here, two very different indicators were released, one in the U.S. and one in Spain. Yesterday the Commerce Department released data showing that U.S. retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in December, an indication that consumers were at least partially ignoring conservatives caterwauling about the so-called "fiscal cliff" they had created to terrorize the country. The results were significantly higher than expectations. The polling in Spa... more »

VIA Rail has been forced to stop passenger trains between Toronto and Montreal and Toronto and Ottawa because of a blockade on the tracks near Marysville, Ont.

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago
VIA Rail says ground transportation will get passengers through the site of the blockade, which is one of several protests across the country as part of a national day of action in the Idle No More movement

Dinner time

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago

Poisoned Fruit of The Arab Spring: Jews Are "Descendants of Apes and Pigs"

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
The Muslim Brotherhood has a long and secret relationship with the U.S. and British governments. Mohamed Morsi, leader of the powerful group and current President of Egypt, was hailed by the Obama administration as the fruit of the Arab Spring. This fruit has turned sour, *as expected*. Morsi made very disgusting and racist comments about Jewish people. He said they are "descendants of apes and pigs." He *says* the comments must be put into the context of Israel's illegal assault on Gaza, but nothing can justify his racism and ignorance. There is a right way to resist Israeli op... more »

“The biggest shake-up since the end of six ‘o’clock closing…”

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
Bars, restaurants and alcohol shops fear new licensing restrictions will send them out of business in a shake-up billed as the biggest since the end of six o'clock closing. [AUDIO, RADIO NZ] But advocates for the new licensing restrictions are cock-a-hoop at the new powers it gives them that the new licensing gives locals a say in when and where liquor outlets can open. What the report linked to above doesn’t say—and neither do the advocates for restriction recognise this—but locals already have a say in when and where liquor outlets can open. In fact, they have virtually complete... more »

The Death of the High Street

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 7 hours ago
To lose one household name during a period of supposed economic recovery is unfortunate, but to lose *three* is careless. With the collapse of Jessops, HMV, and Blockbuster approximately 10,000 people face a very uncertain future. So what's going on? If you read the BBC's reporting, it's all just a case of bad management and outmoded business plans. For example, Ajay Bhalia of Cass Business School, City University London says: The company, like HMV, failed to transform its business model early enough. When it did, it found a fundamentally altered competitive landscape where the p... more »

JEWISH HERO AARON SWARTZ; EXPOSING ELITE CHILD ABUSE

Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
Aaron Swartz, founder of the Reddit website. Aaron Swartz may be a hero, who was murdered for trying to expose dangerous elite pedophiles. *Yoichi Shimatsu*, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly, asks: *"Was Aaron Swartz killed by a *Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Satanic Child Porn Ring?"* * *Reportedly, MIT is linked to an elite child abuse ring, and Aaron Swartz was trying to expose this ring. *According to:* *http://rense.com/general95/swartz.html * *1.* Swartz was a risk to the people at MIT who produce child porn for "a clientele that includes the highest eche... more »

Algeria Hostage Drama: Several Brits Involved

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
At least five British nationals are caught up in a terrorist attack at a gas field in Algeria where workers have been taken hostage, according to Sky sources. An Islamist militant group has claimed to have kidnapped up to 41 foreign nationals - including seven Americans and an Irishman - in a dawn raid on the gas facility part-operated by BP, Algerian state oil company Sonatrach, and Norway's Statoil in Algeria. They are said to be demanding the release of 100 Islamists held in Algeria, in exchange for those being held at the gas field. http://news.sky.com/story/1038832/algeria-ho... more »

US blames Assad regime for 'despicable' campus blasts

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
The United States on Wednesday condemned the "despicable attack" on university buildings in the Syrian city of Aleppo, blaming the regime for unleashing air strikes that killed at least 82 people. "The United States is appalled and saddened by the Syrian regime's deadly attack yesterday on the University of Aleppo," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, adding most of the victims were students and refugees. "According to eyewitnesses at the scene, regime planes launched aerial strikes on university facilities," she told journalists. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/... more »

A holiday in Cambodia

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours ago
[image: image]*Guest post by our roving Asian correspondent Suzuki Samurai* As some of you may know, I’ve now moved in from China to Cambodia—to a place about 2 hours north of Phnom Penh though only 40km away, which tells you something about infrastructure here. It’s a very dusty and poor little village straddling a highway that’s been still-in-progress since progress first began. I’m here for two months. I’m working for a German NGO that contributes funds to a school for the poor; the only subject being ‘taught’ is English. The students, all 400 of them, come from desperately po... more »

MEMRI: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Caught Lying about Working for NASA

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago
*Morsi Lied About Working For NASA. Obama Lied About Not Working For The CIA. Conclusion: Only Liars Succeed In Politics. * From the article, *"14 Things You Didn't Know About Mohamed Morsi and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood"*: "In the early 1980s, Mohamed Morsi helped NASA develop space shuttle engines." This has turned out to be false. If Morsi is lying about this, what else is he lying about? Title: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Caught Lying about Working for Nasa. Source: MEMRI.

Zen and permaculture

risa bear at A Way to Live - 8 hours ago
Just doing a little thinking out loud, 'k? If it wanders all over the map, that's an indicator of my present internal condition. We all have our journeys. Interest: first principles. *Subsistence*. Now that we are here, we must eat, drink, breathe the air, find shelter, and sometimes move from place to place. As cleaner air, water, food and shelter are more beneficial than air, water, food and shelter that cause cancer or destabilize the climate, it is not enough to seek these things but to seek them "rightly." (Let me know if there is a better word for that.) Hence homesteading... more »

ALEC - This Jeffersonian Principle???

2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours ago
Thomas Jeffersons was a complex human being. ALEC is always throwing Thomas Jefferson's name around and guiding them through the darkness they call reality. In reality I have only found five Jefferson quotes in the ALEC literature that I have reviewed - pretty skimpy if he is your "guiding light" of darkness. From ALEC’s History page – accessed today For more than 35 years, ALEC has been the ideal means of creating and delivering public policy ideas aimed at protecting and expanding our free society. Thanks to ALEC’s membership, the duly elected leaders of their state legislature... more »

ALEC - The Go-to Org for Right-Wing Extremists

2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours ago
A Kansas state official is looking to ALEC for help. He is very interested in ALEC’s “copy and paste” legislation. He is terrified that the Federal government is going to overtake Kansas. He need help to stop that Kansas is in peril The federal government is poised to SWALLOW up Kansas – and Kansas will exist NO MORE. The Koch’s are in peril He needs ALEC to ride to the rescue of the state of Kansas and the entire prairie state area. You see – this state official appears to have a crazy whacked out idea – based on some sort of delusional paranoia and he wants ALEC to help him. The ... more »

Toady time: Jonathan Capehart would be the worst!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013* *If it weren’t for everyone else:* What is the Washington “press corps” like? Let us introduce Jonathan Capehart as he discusses the issue of diversity in the White House. Capehart’s blog post starts as follows. Yes, this is written in English: CAPEHART (1/16/13): Yes, President Obama has an image problem, literally. *As the now infamous White House photo illustrated, so many men—all but one of whom is white—seemingly dominate his inner circle.* But one photograph does not an administration make. I’m not saying the lack of women in his latest appoint... more »

Q Day 4: Springsteen and the Dems

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago
Cobly asked three great questions about parties, and I wish I could get to them all, but he hooked me for sure with this one: I know how he would answer this, but is Bruce Springsteen a member of the Democratic Party? I don't mean what his political beliefs are, those are clear. I mean does he fit into the broad definition of political parties, the networks and coalitions of people invested in the party's success even if they don't hold an office or a staffing job? OK, first of all, there's the question of whether he's a Democrat in the old sense of "party in the electorate." For th... more »

Robert Jensen : Jim Koplin: Living Your Life Honestly

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 9 hours ago
James Henry Koplin, 1933-2012. Image from JimKoplin.com. Jim Koplin: Living your life honestly By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / January 16, 2013 “Good teaching is living your life honestly in front of students.” I don’t recall exactly when Jim Koplin first told me that, but I know that he had to say it several times before I began to understand what he meant. Koplin was that kind of

Records Upon Records

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
In 2011 the United States set a record for record-breaking weather-related events. Record rainfall, record snowfall, record temperatures, record FEMA-declared natural disasters, record wildfires, and record drought. There were 3,251 records smashed in all, itself an all time record. And then came 2012. Last year there were 3,527 monthly records broken, a new record number of broken records. If you want to see what that many records looks like, the Natural Resources Defense Council has published a lovely interactive map. Now hurry up and eat your bitumen before it gets cold.

Removing the Shackles: Heather of OPPT answers some of your questions from yesterday

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/01/heather-of-oppt-answers-some-of-your.html WEDNESDAY, 16 JANUARY 2013 Heather of OPPT answers some of your questions from yesterday Good morning everyone! Last night/early this morning Heather of OPPT went through many of the comments that were written on the article I posted yesterday. Below are some of the questions and her replies. I've put philavox's question first, because IMO it is the most important of them all- read the comment and Heather's reply and you'll understand the HOW things are to roll out. philavox15 January 201... more »

Christy Clark To Keep John Doyle

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 9 hours ago
Christy Clark Gets Shanked By Conservative Flank Of Her Own Party Breaking news, in Christy Clark`s first presser of 2013, Christy Clark wants John Doyle`s term extended to 8 years, and, it`s obvious that Clark must be giving the legislative committee direct orders to extend Doyle`s term for 2 more years.. ________________ D*eveloping: Premier hopes Auditor General will stay on ** VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980) Jordan Armstrong | Email news tips to jarmstrong@cknw.com 1/16/2013 * *Premier Christy Clark says the current process for selecting the Auditor General is flawed and needs to be ... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago

Winnie pooh y sus amigos festejando el día de la amistad

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 9 hours ago
[image: Winnie pooh y sus amigos festejando el día de la amistad] *Nota:* Click aquí para ver más *imágenes de winnie pooh* Por favor visite nuestra página oficial: www.fotofrontera.com

Postales para los amigos y enamorados

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 9 hours ago
[image: Postal para los enamorados] *Nota:* Click aquí para ver más *imágenes de postales* Por favor visite nuestra página oficial: www.fotofrontera.com

Does a single judge have jurisdiction to determine leave to appeal a summary conviction matter? Yes

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours ago
R. v. Metin, 2013 ONCA 21 holds: [10] Does a single judge of this court have jurisdiction to determine an application for leave to appeal? The starting point for answering this question is s. 839(1) of the*Criminal Code* which provides: 839(1) ...an appeal to the court of appeal as defined in section 673 may, *with leave of* that court or *a judge thereof*, be taken on any ground that involves a question of law alone, against (a) a decision of a court in respect of an appeal under section 822; or (b) a decision of an appeal court under section 834, except where that court i... more »

The Atlantic's Brush with Scientology

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
In an age in which messaging has quietly replaced information as the backbone of a corporate media cartel the opportunities for perverting public awareness could just be limitless. Take the venerable American magazine, *The Atlantic*, for example. Yesterday the magazine ran an advertorial for the Church of Scientology on its website. It praised leader David Miscavige and congratulated him for opening 12 new "Ideal" churches in the past year. The online puffery prompted a lot of anger and outrage. Yet, on *The Atlantic's* web site the comments seemed oddly supportive of Scientol... more »

Pareja de enamorados bajo la luz de la luna

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 10 hours ago
[image: Paraja de enamorados bajo la luz de la luna] *Nota:* Click aquí para ver más *imágenes de enamorados* Por favor visite nuestra página oficial: www.fotofrontera.com

"It's Frightening..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
"It's frightening that some people literally prefer ignorance because it's comforting and easier to comprehend." - Paul LaClair

White House slams 'repugnant' gun lobby ad calling President 'elitist hypocrite' for enjoying armed guards for HIS kids while opposing them in schools

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
The National Rifle Association has launched a preemptive attack against President Obama's unveiling of his gun control plan Wednesday with a new ad that calls him an 'elitist hypocrite.' The 30-second ad, released on a website for the NRA's new 'Stand and Fight' campaign, criticizes Obama for using Secret Service protection for his two daughters while he opposes the deployment of armed guards in schools. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263348/New-NRA-ad-attacks-Obamas-use-Secret-Service-protection-daughters-calls-elitist-hypocrite-opposing-armed-guards-schools.html

DISCLOSURE: Ending The TRUTH EMBARGO

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
Reposted from: http://nesaranews.blogspot.ca/2013/01/breaking-news-very-urgent-please-share.html Tuesday, January 15, 2013 ( BREAKING NEWS)) Very Urgent Please Share Widely *Ending The TRUTH EMBARGO* 01/15/13 For Immediate Release January 15, 2013 Los Angeles, CA - CHD2 Productions will hold a media event at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah to launch a major event/documentary project. At the press conference *Apollo14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell*, the sixth person to walk on the Moon, will be introduced as the international spokesperson for the Citiz... more »

America's flu epidemic: TWENTY children killed as death toll hits highest level since 2004

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Flu has already killed 20 children in America this winter in the worst death toll since the government began keeping track in 2004, it was revealed today. The deaths include a 6-year-old girl in Maine, a 15-year Michigan student who loved robotics, and six-foot-four Texas high school senior Max Schwolert, who grew sick in Wisconsin while visiting his grandparents for the holidays. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263210/America-flu-epidemic-TWENTY-children-including-6-year-olds-healthy-high-school-athlete-killed.html

"Paradigm Shift For The Healthcare Expense Monster"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*"Paradigm Shift For The Healthcare Expense Monster"* by Wolf Richter "A sadly familiar theme in the US—the growing ranks of the working poor—was fleshed out by the report, “Low-Income Working Families: The Growing Economic Gap.” But it did something else: it added graphic details to the conundrum of US healthcare spending. While it ballooned to $2.7 trillion, 17.9% of GDP, or $8,680 per capita, households have lowered their share. And so have businesses. What gives? Despite improvements in the unemployment rate, *32.1% of all working households “may not have enough money ... more »

The hunt for Red October: The astonishing hacking ring that has infiltrated over 1,000 high level government computers around the world

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
A major cyber-attack that has been stealing information from high level government computers around the world since 2007 has been discovered. Kaspersky Labs, which made the discovery, said in addition to diplomatic and governmental agencies of various countries across the world, Red October also targeted research institutions, energy and nuclear groups, and trade and aerospace targets. The firm even said the malware was used to infiltrate smartphones of government workers to electronically steal information. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2263322/Operation-Red-Octob... more »

World's strongest man-made whirlwind attract record crowds

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
A German car museum has visitors flocking to an unlikely attraction within its walls - the world’s strongest man-made tornado. The Mercedes-Benz museum’s state-of-the-art fire safety system was created to effectively dispel smoke in case of a fire, but has tourists lined up to watch it go. The ‘indoor storm’ is created by 144 jet motors which align the walls up to the ceiling, 112ft above the central atrium. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263436/The-tornado-thats-causing-real-indoor-storm-Worlds-strongest-man-whirlwind-attract-record-crowds--just-safety-device.html

Mawks & Hawks

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 10 hours ago
Everybody knows that the Republicans are phony deficit hawks, pretending to care about spending only when they are out of power. (see: two unfunded wars, unpaid-for Medicare prescription drug benefit.) They hilariously paint President Obama as a big-spending socialist leading us down the road to financial ruin, even as he accurately points out that he has actually slowed down the rate of government growth. But despite the fact that only about 15% of Americans point to The Deficit as their primary worry (most sane people declaring that the real national emergency is unemployment) Oba... more »

SANDY HOOK: CIA MONARCH BRAINWASHING

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*Hockleys and a butterfly.* Dylan Hockley's mum wrote: "I wanted a smallish, multi-coloured butterfly at the base of my back." *Sunday mornings* The Butterfly is the key symbol in CIA Monarch Brainwashing. Note the Butterfly, the CIA Monarch Brainwashing symbol, used in the above Sandy Hook TV interview. 'Over the Rainbow' is the key song used in CIA Monarch Brainwashing. Sandy Hook kids have now made a record of the song. The song was played at Dylan Hockley's funeral. Website for this image *sandy hook - dylan hockley - butterfly, wizard of oz, purple - Aangirfan*

A Warning Straight from the Horse's Mouth. We're In For a High-Carbon Fossil Fuel Future

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
If you were counting on "peak oil" to curb our fossil fuel addiction, forget it. BP CEO Bob Dudley says the peak oil theory is "increasingly groundless." It's not that we aren't running out of the relatively clean, conventional crude oil. We are. It's that we're finding ever new and larger sources of unconventional crude oil, the dirtiest stuff. *Bob Dudley's remarks came as the company published a study predicting oil production will increase substantially, and that unconventional and high-carbon oil will make up all of the increase in global oil supply to the end of this de... more »

What is Germany scared of? Bundesbank to retrieve $200bn of gold reserves from central banks in Paris and New York

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Germany is set to retrieve its gold reserves held abroad, in a move critics fear could trigger a contagion of mistrust among the world’s central banks. The country’s Bundesbank is set to repatriate a large hoard from its holding in New York and all of its bullion from Paris, the German newspaper Handelsblatt has reported. Germany's Bundesbank owns nearly 3,400 tonnes of gold – only the US has a bigger reserve. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2263254/Bundesbank-retrieve-200bn-gold-Paris-New-York.html

EU clamps down on credit ratings agencies

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Credit rating agencies will have to be more transparent about how they assess a country’s sovereign debt under changes agreed by MEPs on Wednesday. The changes will force agencies to indicate when they publish assessments, publishing ratings only after close of business and at least an hour before EU trading desks open. http://www.euronews.com/2013/01/16/eu-clamps-down-on-credit-ratings-agencies/

Merkel Says Mali Mission Protects Europe, Sends Transport Planes

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that security in northern Africa is also Europe’s security after her government offered two transport aircraft to assist the military operation combating insurgents in Mali. The two Transall transport planes will fly African troops from the Economic Community of West African States to the Malian capital Bamako as French ground forces start operations to repel insurgents controlling northern Mali, Merkel told reporters today in Berlin. “Germany views security in the region also as a part of its own security,” Merkel said after meeting with Ivory C... more »

White House petitions will now require 100000 signatures before response

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
The White House has quadrupled the number of signatures required to receive an official response to petitions submitted on its We the People website, after a surge in its popularity. The Obama administration will now only be required to respond when a petition gathers 100,000 signatures, up from the previous 25,000. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/16/white-house-petitions-100000-signatures

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Magnitude 4.6 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 16:24:44 UTC Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 09:24:44 AM at epicenter Location 35.901°S, 102.839°W Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program Region SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND Distances 2623 km (1630 miles) W (270°) from Valdivia, Chile

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Magnitude 4.6 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 15:52:49 UTC Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 01:52:49 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 36.268°N, 142.881°E Depth 10.4 km (6.5 miles) (poorly constrained) Region OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN Distances 193 km (119 miles) ENE of Hasaki, Japan

Rail Blockades underway across Canada Jan. 16, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
Centennial Bridge march in Miramichi, NB. Photo by @lilypad3516 aka Rachel Daigle CP Rail police walk away from Tyendinaga Mohawks blockading Ontario rails. Rail Blockade protester said he is laying on the tracks for his grandchildren. ------------------ Hundreds attended an Idle No More protest that took place near the Nipigon River Bridge today, Jan. 16. BLOCKADES SHUT DOWN RAIL

Read the Executive Actions...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 10 hours ago
*and plan on ignoring them.* *Here is a list of the 23 Executive Actions* President Obama signed today to impose further restrictions on the 2nd Amendment with my comments: *Today, the President is announcing that he and the administration will:* 1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system. *What "relevant" information? Your medical records perhaps? * 2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent sta... more »

Congressional Republicans Have A Philosophy Of Governance: Unyielding Opposition To EVERYTHING

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
The video above is part of a *Frontline* political exposé that aired on PBS last night. It documents a meeting that happened in Washington 4 years ago-- a meeting to undermine smooth governance in this country and put party above country in every single instance for the next four years. The stated purpose for undermining the economy and the government back then was to defeat Obama in 2012. Since Obama's very substantial reelection in November-- and the concurrent Democratic gains in the Senate and House-- Republican obstructionists have only redoubled their efforts in blocking ... more »

Los tortolitos andan en las nubes de tanto amor

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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Russian mobster 'Grandpa Khasan' shot dead in Moscow

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
One of Russia's top crime bosses has been murdered in Moscow in a war between two mobs over lucrative construction projects, including ones for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. A sniper fired seven shots at Aslan Usoyan near a restaurant, the third attack on him since the late 1990s. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-mobster-grandpa-khasan-shot-dead-in-moscow-8454410.html

Syrian Terro....Rebels set off Coordinated car bombs kill 24 in northwest Syria

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Three car bombs exploded within minutes of each other in northwest Syria on Wednesday, killing at least two dozen people in a coordinated assault on government positions, a monitoring group said. Fighting has spread throughout much of Syria and upended civilian life in many areas as rebels have pushed to uproot President Bashar al-Assad's better-equipped forces and tip the balance of the 22-month-old conflict. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/uk-syria-crisis-idUKBRE90E0VF20130116

'Briton killed' and '40 BP workers held hostage' in Algeria attack

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Algeria's official APS news agency cited provincial officials for news of the death, which came after an early morning attack by Islamists. The militants say they are holding seven Americans and an unspecified number of British, Japanese and French amongst other nationalities, a spokesman is cited as saying by two Mauritanian news agencies - Agence Nouakchott information et Sahara Medias. A security source quoted by Algeria's El Watan newspaper quoted the same figure. "A second person, a British national, died in the terrorist attack carried out early on Wednesday morning in Tiganto... more »

Obama's possible election dig against Netanyahu could backfire

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
President Obama's possible attempt to pay back Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for praising his rival during the last election could be backfiring. Obama, who was reportedly peeved by Netanyahu’s perceived endorsement of Mitt Romney leading up to November’s election, was recently quoted saying, “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/16/obama-election-dig-against-netanyahu-could-backfire/

City heavyweights back Cameron to demand an in/out referendum on membership of the EU

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Senior City allies of George Osborne will tomorrow dramatically back David Cameron’s pledge to stage a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. In what is thought to be the start of a concerted campaign, MailOnline has learned that a group of leading business heavyweights will use a letter to a newspaper to demand voters are able to make an ‘informed decision’ about whether to sever ties with Brussels. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263441/City-heavyweights-Cameron-demand-referendum-membership-EU.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Q Day 3: Massachusetts Romney?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago
Another anonymous commenter asks: What do you think would have been the result of the 2012 presidential election if Romney had campaigned on his record? * Said that he did his job of creating wealth for stock holders at Bain even though people lost jobs and that he would do his job of president to get more people working. * Stood behind Romneycare. * I think he was for cap-and-trade before running for president. * Proposed tax policies that actually added up. It's an important question because it has a clear, certain answer: that Romney could not have been nominated by the 2012 Republ... more »

Lindo regalo para el día del amor y la amistad

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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America's Eastern Seaboard Now a Sitting Duck

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
The outgoing director of the U.S. Geological Survey says Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that cities along America's eastern seaboard are now sitting ducks. *Marcia McNutt, who last week announced her resignation as director of the US Geological Survey, told a conference that Sandy had left coastal communities dangerously exposed to future storms of any size.* *"Superstorm Sandy was a threshold for the north-east and we have already crossed it," McNutt told the National Council for Science and the Environment conference in Washington. "For the next storm, not even a super storm, even ... more »

Obama signed 23 executive actions

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
The president said he would announce 23 executive actions today, but said they are not a substitute for action in Congress. He said he is calling on federal lawmakers to pass several proposals "right away", including universal background checks for anyone trying to buy a gun. Right now, some 40% of US gun purchases are done without background checks. As part of his $500m (£311m) plan, Mr Obama also called on Congress to restore the expired ban on military-style assault weapons and to enact a 10-bullet limit on high-capacity ammunition magazines. http://news.sky.com/story/1038974/... more »

Pareja de enamorados mirando el cielo estrellado

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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Cupido trabajando el 14 de febrero

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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While You're Blowing Out Your Candles, Blow Me, Too

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago
By Cyril Blubberpuss, Esq. So, the proprietor of this liberal sewer of a blog turns 54 at 9:50 tonight. When you blow out the candles on the cake bought with food stamps, blow me, while you're at it. Instead of exploiting another meaningless birthday for the purposes of begging his dwindling readership for more income redistribution, your latter-day George Bailey decided to give me the mic and let me have my say. I remember when I turned 54. I had just made my first billion when I cashed in my stock in an adult video wholesaler that specialized in gay porn and ho... more »

Gitwangak Warriors CN Rail Blockade Today, Jan. 16, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Photo Rail Blockade Aamjiwnaang First Nation Gitwangak Warriors regarding the CN Rail Blockade by Dini Ze Toghestiy on Wednesday Press statement Posted at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Gitwangak, BC – The Gitxsan of Gitwangak announce that there will be a CN Rail Blockade happening on January 16, 2013, between the times of 10:00 am and 6:00 pm. As Idle No More moves

It's Hard to See Any Other Way Forward

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
We are going to have to accept substantially higher costs for liquid-carbon fuel. There are some uses, such as aviation, that just don't suit alternative energy options, at least not those available today. Why should petroleum-based fuels cost two, three, four times what they do today? Two reasons: we need to price fossil carbon realistically to reflect the true environmental costs it imposes and we need to use that revenue to support non-fossil fuels. There are new technologies that enable us to use surface carbon assets instead of fossil carbon to produce the gasoline and oil ... more »

Corazón de rosas para el día del amor y la amistad

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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Angelitos bebés entre las nubes del cielo

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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Fuel Rods Blasted in 2011, Cancers and Disease in 2013

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours ago
April 5, 2011 U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant By JAMES GLANZ and WILLIAM J. BROAD The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06nuclear.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 [Excerpted] United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by th... more »

The Surveillance State Update

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours ago
Op-Ed Columnist Invasion of the Data Snatchers y Bill Keller January 13, 2013 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/opinion/keller-invasion-of-the-data-snatchers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130114&_r=0[Excerpted] Last month Julia Angwin of The Wall Street Journal disclosed that Attorney General Eric Holder had authorized the National Counterterrorism Center to copy and examine pretty much any information the government has collected about you. In the past, the agency couldn’t store information about ordinary Americans unless they were suspects in or party to ... more »

The Economy: "Bernanke Playing With Fire"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
*"Bernanke Playing With Fire"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Boston University Economics Professor Laurence Kotlikoff is worried about America’s dire financial situation. Dr. Kotlikoff says, “The situation is getting worse and worse and worse. We are running a massive six decade Ponzi scheme, and it’s coming to a real threatening point.” Dr.Kotlikoff calculates the real government deficit is enormous and it’s growing exponentially. “It’s *$222 trillion*. Last year it was $211 trillion. We grew the deficit by $11 trillion in one year,” charges Dr. Kotlikoff. He also says, “We... more »

How the South Kept Slavery Alive for Generations After the Civil War

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
Slavery, we were taught, was ended in America by Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Southern blacks continued to suffer persecution of almost any sort for decades afterwards but at least they were free. Apparently not. Apparently slavery was very much alive and well in the southern States right up until WWII. America's National Archives and the archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are said to hold thousands of letters and official documents attesting to many decades of slavery in the post-Civil War south. *As dumbfounding as the story to... more »

Amor entre la arena y las olas del mar azul

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours ago
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Drum versus dumb: Why can’t Barry socialize out in the Wind Rivers more!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013* *Maureen Dowd, definition of dumb:* All week long, we’ve asked you to notice a difference in culture—a difference in *intellectual* culture. On the one hand, we have Kevin Drum’s recent report about lead abatement and violent crime. It’s a very serious look at some very serious topics. Yesterday, Drum continued to add to the piece, offering links to the various updates he has penned in recent weeks. Later, he offered a post about lead and high school graduation rates, in which he says the following: “When I was doing research for my lead article, I stay... more »

Q Day 2: Major Change Coming?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
Ron E. asks: What do you think the prospects are for major changes to our Constitutional system? For instance term limits for (Supreme Court) judges, abolition of the electoral college, an Amendment to overturn Citizens United and allow campaign finance legislation, the ERA, etc.? You don't have to comment on each of these individual items, but I'm interested in if you think there is any possibility of changes at least as radical as these taking place anytime soon. Thanks to partisan polarization, it's very, very difficult to see any changes by Constitutional amendment happening an... more »

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake NEAR N COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Magnitude M 4.6 Region NEAR N COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA Date time 2013-01-16 14:14:18.6 UTC Location 2.49 S ; 139.40 E Depth 87 km Distances 132 km W Aberpura, Indonesia

Bird flu hits 4 places in Pokhara, Nepal

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Belongings being removed from a Cowseghari‚ Pokhara based chicken farm owned by a cooperative after the confirmation of Bird Flu (H5N1) Bird flu (H5N1) has been confirmed at least four places in Pokhara, the sub-metropolitan city on Tuesday. All the chicken, used materials in the farms of all four places have been destroyed during this evening after the Bird Flu confirmation. Regional Director at the Western Regional Animal Health Directorate Dr. Bamsi Sharma said that the officials from the directorate culled over 2200 chickens, destroyed their wastes, grains and medicines from... more »

Collapse of 8-story apartment building in Egypt's port city of Alexandria kills 22 people

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
An eight-story apartment building collapsed Wednesday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing at least 22 people in the second deadly accident to hit the country in as many days. The MENA state news agency said 11 people were also injured and that rescue teams were searching for survivors under the rubble. Military police from a nearby naval base had cordoned off the area to help the rescue operation. The collapse came a day after 19 police conscripts were killed when the last car of the train they were riding in jumped the tracks and smashed into another train just outside Cai... more »

Quantum physics doesn't depend on definitions of observers

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago
Lots of people who are trying to understand quantum mechanics but who don't really want to listen constantly ask the same question: What is an observer really? This question is usually encapsulated in the linguistic mud that is equivalent to the following monologue: I'm sick and tired of explanations of quantum mechanics because they never tell me who is an observer and who isn't. Now, I am the savior of physics who will ask you and you will finally tell me and everyone else what are the ultimate, exact, well-defined criteria that determine who is an observer and who isn't, when th... more »

European car market plunges to lowest since 1995

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Demand for new cars in recession-bound Europe fell to a 17-year low in 2012, leaving mass market manufacturers little hope for this year as they try to cut costly excess factory capacity and aggressive discounting dents their margins. Registrations data released on Wednesday also showed the biggest annual drop since a 16.9 percent downturn in 1993, highlighting the crisis for automakers in Europe. Consumers are fretting over austerity measures, job security and rising living costs, and those who want to buy new cars are struggling to secure credit. http://www.reuters.com/article/20... more »

Six bombers attack Afghan spy agency, kill two

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Six suicide bombers launched a coordinated attack on Afghanistan's spy agency in Kabul on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 30, Afghan officials said. The attack started at around noon (0730 GMT) when a suicide attacker detonated a large car bomb near a gate of one of the National Directorate of Security's (NDS) buildings, the Kabul police chief's office said in a statement. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/us-afghanistan-blast-idUSBRE90F0D620130116

Somali Islamists say French hostage sentenced to death

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Somali militants linked to al Qaeda said on Wednesday they had sentenced a French agent to death after a failed attempt by French armed forces to rescue him at the weekend. It was unclear whether the rebels were saying they had already killed Denis Allex, held hostage in Somalia since 2009. France said it had heard nothing since the military raid to alter its belief that he was killed during the rescue operation. Al Shabaab said in a statement their decision to kill Allex was unanimous and followed three years of what it called "exhaustive attempts at negotiations" over his release... more »

Islamists attack Algerian gas field, kill, kidnap foreigners

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Islamist militants attacked a gas production field in southern Algeria on Wednesday, kidnapping at least nine foreigners and killing two people including a French national during a dawn raid, local and company officials said. The raid, claimed by an al Qaeda affiliate, came after Islamists had vowed to retaliate for France's military intervention in Mali, where its forces have been in action against al Qaeda-linked militants since last week. The attack also raised fears that the French action could prompt further Islamist revenge attacks on Western targets in Africa, where al Qaeda ... more »

UK Government commissions study that conjures SBNR into a disorder

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours ago
*Indoctrination. Submission. Capitulation.* That is what the UK government is going for. However, they dressed it in religious regalia to increase acceptance and prevent recognition that this study is a potential threat to your human freedom and a challenge to your free thoughts I caught this story yesterday, and it compliments the previous post so nicely I just knew it had to be dragged into the light. *“Spiritual but not religious are more likely to have mental illness and health issues”* “A *scholarly study *out of Britain has concluded that people who say they’re spiritual ... more »

France in Mali fights the unfinished Libyan War

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Matt's thoughts: Most important point in all of this? A significant number of fighters, if not the majority of them, are the Taureg, an ethnic group treated like crap by France and now Mali (much like the Algerians and others) that have joined into this fray for independence. If I were to venture a guess, there's probably next to know "Islamic terrorists" at all, although, it provides a good opportunity for Western/Israeli propagandists to strut their stuff.

Brilliant citizens' video: Fighting judges and lawyers harming and exploiting families

Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 13 hours ago
This movement is occurring in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Here is the video: And here is an association trying to help with these citizens' struggles in Ontario: Ontario Civil Liberies Association for Self-Represented Litigants And here are the Facebook groups: Sarnia Group: CFFLR OCLA Group

Pete Barnes Killed when his Helicopter hit a Crane in London

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
The helicopter pilot who was killed when his helicopter hit a crane in central London has been named as Pete Barnes. The helicopter smashed into a crane on St George Wharf Tower, in Vauxhall, amid heavy fog. It cartwheeled out of the sky, smashed into two cars as it hit the ground and exploded into flames. http://news.sky.com/story/1038710/helicopter-crash-in-vauxhall-pilot-named

Study Highlights California Groundwater Contaminants

By: Nathan Lamb Groundwater from the southern California desert has higher-than-average levels of naturally occurring contaminants, according to this story from the Desert Sun newspaper. A recently released study from the U.S. Geological survey found contaminants in 42 percent of aquifers from the Coachella Valley, which is roughly 100 miles west of Los Angeles. The study found high levels of arsenic, boron, fluoride, molybdenum and strontium—all of which have been linked to adverse health impacts by the Environmental Protection Agency. The study did not evaluate samples from wate... more »

Australia town virtually blown off the map after a freak storm – ‘I’ve never been in anything like it before, it was very scary’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago
[image: A freak storm wrought damage in the small Western Australia town of Karlgarin, 15 January 2013. AAP] 16 January 2013 (AAP) – The tiny West Australian town of Karlgarin has been virtually blown off the map after a freak storm blasted through it. The State Emergency Service (SES) and Volunteer Emergency Service (VES) volunteers said they were working to help people in the Wheatbelt town after destructive storms caused damage to up to 12 buildings in the small community last night. Authorities said the storm front hit the town about 5pm (WST), bringing heavy rain and stron... more »

Null Results

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago
Chris Blattman links to a paper (PDF) that finds no relationship between oil production and violence. He comments: Regardless what you believe, however, there’s a striking shortage of null results papers published in top journals, even when later papers overturn the results. I’m more and more sickened by the lack of interest in null results. Continue reading

The year ahead in the Eurozone: lower risks, same problems

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: A journalist compares the new 5 euro note with an old one (top) during a ceremony with Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), in Frankfurt] By Nouriel Roubini 14 January 2013 Financial conditions in the eurozone have significantly improved since the summer, when eurozone risks peaked because of German policymakers’ open consideration of a Greek exit, and the sovereign spreads of Italy and Spain reached new heights. The day before European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s famous speech in London in which he announced that the ECB would do “whatever ... more »

Now Blockbuster Collapses

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
DVD rental chain Blockbuster has called in administrators - becoming the third major retailer to collapse this year - Sky's City Editor has revealed. Mark Kleinman said Deloitte was in the process of being appointed administrators for the company, which has 528 stores across the UK, and employs 4,190 people. Deloitte's Lee Manning said Blockbuster faced increasing competition from internet rivals and the shift to online streaming of movies and games. http://news.sky.com/story/1038898/retail-crisis-now-blockbuster-collapses

PEDDLING RHEE: What the NAEP scores actually say!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013* *Part 3—The Post’s idea of progress:* Last weekend, the Washington Post was engaged in its favorite task. The Post was peddling Rhee. On Sunday, a 2100-word front-page profile introduced the world, for the ten millionth time, to its new “education celebrity.” Meanwhile, an editorial and a separate opinion piece told the world, for the ten millionth time, about the progress Michelle Rhee achieved in just three years as head of DC’s public schools. (For part 2 in this award-winning series, see THE DAILY HOWLER, 1/15/13.) As usual, the Post was peddli... more »

Black soot impact on global warming worse than thought: study

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Soot emissions from sources such as this brick kiln in Karkhla, Pakistan, absorb sunlight and contribute directly to global warming. J. Stanmeyer / VII / Corbis] 16 January 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Black carbon, the soot produced by burning fossil fuels and biomass, is a more potent atmospheric pollutant than previously thought, according to a four-year international study released on Tuesday. Emitted by diesel engines, brick kilns and wood-fired cookstoves, black carbon is second only to carbon dioxide as the most powerful climate pollutant, according to the study ... more »

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Disaster MapNet at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
*Jindal's tax-less, revenue-negative budget proposal discussed at panel ~ Advocate* *Proposal to eliminate income tax has lawmakers looking at new revenue sources ~WWLTV* *Voucher program can continue in Tangipahoa ~WDSU * *Today's must-read: io9 profiles Zack Kopplin ~Charles Maldonado, Gambit* *New Orleans not hindered by low water ~American Shipper * *Is Drew Brees rooting for hated Falcons to get to New Orleans? ~CBS Sports* *White House petition to issue an executive order forcing NFL Commissioner Roger Godhell to return the New Orleans Saints 2nd Round Draft Pick* *Kromer To ... more »

Idle No More-Gulf Coast

Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:00am until 3:00pm in CST Pavilion #1, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana We, the Indigenous peoples of the Gulf Coast, call upon all people to join us in honoring Indigenous sovereignty and the protection of air, land and water in solidarity and support of the grass roots movement, Idle No More. In honor and recognition of Chief Theresa Spence and the Attawapiskat people, Idle No More – Gulf Coast invites you to attend an event set to be held on January 20, in City Park's Pavillion number one, New Orleans, Louisiana, at 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Grand Cail... more »

Q Day 1: The 2016 Nomination Process

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours ago
An anonymous commenter asks: Do you foresee any meaningful rules changes occurring for the 2016 primaries and what impact on the nomination process do you think they would have? I doubt that anything significant will happen with the formal rules. Republicans, I suspect, will follow up on tightening the link between votes and delegates, making them a bit more like the Democrats in that regard; this part of the process has always been a bit murky to me, so I don't want to predict much about how successful the change will be. And it's not likely to matter a whole lot to nomination out... more »

Wednesday Morning Linkage

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
In the spirit of last night’s post, two blogs worth reading: Empirical Legal Studies and The Cultural Cognition Project at Yale. Here’s Carolyn Shapiro at the former talking about two posts by Dan Kahan at the latter. Every once in a while I attempt to goad PTJ by sending him links to pieces that are (1) thoughtful but Continue reading

WotW: Show Off Your Best Self with Vizify

Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 14 hours ago
Here on Wednesdays on the Web, we've shown you some neat ways to show off. When it comes to resumes, there is CVMaker. And if you want to brag about your Facebook usage, you can use Wolfram Alpha's data processing power. Today, I'm going to share with you a site that's a cross between a real-life resume and a social media resume. Are you ready for it? It's called Vizify. As you might guess from the name, it's a visual representation of yourself. But unlike other resume websites, like LinkedIn, this doesn't require you to input any new information. All you have to do is link up you... more »

China Getting Ready for War - A Bluff?

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
A few days ago, Japanese aircraft, above the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands airspace, confronted China's military aircraft for the first time. It was as if a Sino-Japanese War could break out at any moment. China's General Staff Headquarters issued "2013 military training instructions". This requested the military and armed forces to strengthen combat thoughts and good combat preparation. Last year, Xi Jinping not only promised to enhance the entire military situation but also revise awards payouts. A combat bonus can be of several hundred million dollars. But outsiders say that the Chinese Com... more »

Is the Harper government funding christian missionaries abroad?

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 15 hours ago
According to this reportage in La Presse, more and more CIDA funds are being directed towards christian groups and projects that have a mandate to proselytize. Few have solid experiences with humanitarian aid projects as well regarded as Kairos; most have no international credibility. *While reducing financial support to many international cooperation agencies, the Harper government is now providing more subsidies to religious NGOs, especially those that have a mission to spread the faith.* * * *This is what emerges from research conducted by François Audet, Director of the Canadian ... more »

Is "Too Big To Jail" A Sacred Concept In America... Even With A Democrat In The White House?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
The story of Henry Frick, one of the worst monsters of American capitalism, should have ended the idea of "too big to jail" in 1889. But he got off scott free and... it didn't-- nor have any of the other outrages against society done so. This week, after the latest HSBC fiasco, George Miller (D-CA) and a group of other progressives are giving it a try again. They blasted the Justice Department’s decision to “defer prosecution” of bank officials as symptomatic of an unacceptable lack of accountability for large financial institutions. “We believe that the Department of Justice ow... more »

The "IF" That Divides Us

Storm at Schools Matter - 15 hours ago
We watch in children with pathetic interest, the degree in which they possess recuperative force. When they are hurt by us, or by each other, or go to the bottom of the class, or miss the annual prizes, or are beaten in the game, — if they lose heart, and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they have a serious check. But if they have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment, — the wounds cicatrize, and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt. Emerson, "Power," in *The Conduct of Life*.

A Fifteen Year Reign?

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Yesterday, Lawrence Martin floated a depressing thought: We may have to live with Stephen Harper for a long, long time: With still plenty of time in his current term, Mr. Harper will join the group of long-time tenants and it’s even possible he will one day make the 15-year club. Opposition party members will quietly tell you that without amalgamation or a co-operation deal of some kind among progressive parties, the chances of unseating the Conservatives are small. Reducing them to a minority is well possible, they feel, but not throwing them out. Harper, most certainly, has bee... more »

US guns

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago

BP Gas Site Hit By 'Kidnap Terror': possible Revenge motive for French military action in Mali

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
At least eight foreigners, including an Irishman, have been kidnapped from a gas facility part-operated by BP in Algeria. The Foreign Office confirmed a "terrorist" incident was ongoing soon after BP said it had reported a "security incident" to the UK authorities. But the company was yet to confirm a link to reports that Islamist militants, said to be connected to al Qaeda, had seized a number of people in an attack that had a possible revenge motive for French military action in Mali. http://news.sky.com/story/1038832/bp-gas-site-hit-by-kidnap-terror

Taiwan's legislature stirs from its torpor, slashes budget, and other links

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 15 hours ago
*Several of my future dinners in a farm outside of Houli.* Enjoy some delicious links... - A Koxinga Shrine with a Difference - Yes, just what we need in the current era of stagnating economic growth: austerity in the form of slashed budgets. The legislature yesterday decided to whack 1.9% of the budget away. - Oz on the Yonghoshan Reservoir in Miaoli - Wild at Heart: Taroko People vs Asia Cement. - New agreement reduces fees for Pinoy workers in Taiwan by 85% - Under the Radar news from AsiaEye _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! An... more »

10 Holistic Cold & Flu Remedies by Roxanne

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
* Holisitic Cold & Flu Remedies *** by Roxanne The Holistic Mama, 10 December 2012 *1. Garlic Tea * Garlic* **tea* might not sound that tasty but I assure you it’s not that bad and it is definitely worth it. Garlic has been found to have antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal activity which is very helpful when trying to fight something off. Eating a whole clove of garlic would also help but its not easy to eat on its own. You can, however, puree it into dishes like hummus to make it easier to eat. Garlic *tea* offers the same benefits and the warming effect of the tea help... more »

Pigeon Cages

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago
Look around you. They are everywhere, atop buildings, next to homes, in the back of fields. Pigeon cages, housing valuable racing animals. Check out this old piece on pigeon racing to see why they are so important. Click on read more to continue. Freshly painted in rural areas... ...hiding in urban areas where you'd least expect them. This giant green castle is probably the successor to the rusty cage at the right. Tucked away behind bushes. Prize pigeons locked up safely. I'm always amazed by their size. A three story building is not at all unusual. Fenghsing Road outside o... more »

Question Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours ago
Wow, it hasn't been question day around here for ages. Today should be a good day for it, I think (among other things, I have to run over to the airport...the eldest daughter, after a very nice gap semester, is setting off for college. Yikes!). Anyway: it's on. Leave your questions in comments below, or email them, or via twitter, and I'll get to as many as I can. Whatever you have: filibuster, the new Congress, the next round of presidential elections, the HOF vote, anything. Apologies in advance if I don't get to yours -- and while I don't always get to it, I try at the end of the... more »

Anthem, foreigners, and PC: Czech edition

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago
There is some sense in which I personally like Karl Schwarzenberg, the 75-year-old prince who will become Václav Klaus' successor as the Czech president if he beats Miloš Zeman next Saturday. I think that he's been doing good things throughout much of his life, he isn't really obsessed with harming or restricting other people, I have no problems with his links to the late ex-president Havel that he managed to build, I like some of the residual aristocratic manners he still displays, and I acknowledge that he has inherited some good things (in my opinion) from the Czech character. Ma... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Albert Pujols, 33. He's so good that he was able to do something that only the Panda and a couple of other guys could do. And just a little good stuff: 1. Barack Obama doesn't take questions from the press corps very often. Donovan Slack has the story, with numbers from Martha Kumar. 2. Really good reporting and analysis from David S. Bernstein (yeah, I know, but I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true) on field-clearing and the Massachusetts Democrats. 3. An nice slideshow explaining filibusters, from Newsbound. I wish they would put less emphasis on "silent," and a... more »

Universe - is it alive??!

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 16 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/2LKtiR3Y3SE Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? Familiar questions? Let me add one: what are we doing here? Ever arrived to this opinion: how * narcissistic* the gods from Churches must be to need us to praise and worship *their* Creation. As if we were the only living creatures in this Universe of course. Like ancient gods who were preoccupied 24/7 with the fate of this planet. But isn't there in fact *one God*, one incomprehensible metaphysical Force that shaped invisible fields of waves and particles into a holographic virtualization or a... more »

has Blogger stopped Free Planet embed'ing youtube videos?

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 16 hours ago
Look down at any (of the many) embed'd youtube videos here on Free Planet and you'll see that NONE OF THEM ARE WORKING as they should be. I've checked other blogspot blogs just to be sure and their embed'd youtube videos are working. I'll update this post when service is resumed but until then, I gotta opt for "Free Planet Under Attack."

4.7 Magnitude Earthquake D'ENTRECASTEAUX ISLANDS REGION - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Magnitude 4.7 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 11:23:02 UTC Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 09:23:02 PM at epicenter Location 9.679°S, 155.048°E Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) Region D'ENTRECASTEAUX ISLANDS REGION Distances 264 km (164 miles) ESE (105°) from Kulumadau, Woodlark Island, PNG

James Edward Satterfield Arrested for writing letter to judge's wife threatening to kill, cook and eat her children

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
A 58-year-old man is facing terrorism charges after sending a threatening letter to a superior court judge's wife saying that he would kill the couple's children and eat them. James Edward Satterfield, 58, also made the chilling claim that he would 'cook them first to make them more palatable' according to the Cobb County, Georgia arrest warrant that was issued. The letter, sent on December 20th to the home of Judge Reuben Green, states: 'Please give a copy of this letter to the police so that when you are slaughtered the public will know who were really responsible.' http://www.d... more »

BP Admits Security Incident Amid Kidnap Claim

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
BP is setting up a helpline for relatives following reports five Japanese nationals and a French citizen were kidnapped from a facility part-operated by the company in Algeria. The oil firm said it had reported a "security incident" to the UK authorities but was yet to confirm a link to reports that Islamist militants had seized six people. In its statement BP said: "We can confirm that there has been a security incident this morning at the In Amenas gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria. http://news.sky.com/story/1038832/bp-admits-security-incident-amid-kidnap-claim

Fort Bragg: Army will stop 'shooting, stabbing, and blowing up goats to train military medics' following new legislation

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Thousands of goats who were used to train Army medics will now be spared, thanks to legislation that was passed at the beginning of 2013. Goats at Fort Bragg were routinely shot, stabbed, and blown up to simulate injuries soldiers could receive in combat situations, according to animals rights’ activists. As many as 3,600 goats were used in the program last year, government documents show. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263114/Fort-Bragg-stop-using-goats-training-Army-medics--saving-300-goats-MONTH-shot-stabbed-blown-up.html

'Lance Armstrong should be sitting in front of a judge, not Oprah': Anger of former assistant whose life was 'made hell' by the disgraced champion

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
The former assistant who was once Armstrong's right-hand man today damns the disgraced cyclist as a ‘calculating individual’ who should be in jail - not sitting down with Oprah Winfrey. Mike Anderson was so close to Armstrong he was dubbed 'husband number two' by the star's then wife. But the friendship imploded when Mr Anderson claimed he discovered Armstrong's drug-stash in a bathroom cabinet and evidence that he was avoiding random drug tests. Speaking to MailOnline Mr Anderson said: ‘I have a pretty solid understanding of who Lance Armstrong is. He is a very calculating individ... more »

3.6 Magnitude Earthquake CENTRAL CALIFORNIA - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Magnitude 3.6 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 11:25:40 UTC Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 03:25:40 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 35.488°N, 118.284°W Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) Region CENTRAL CALIFORNIA Distances 18 km (11 miles) SSE (165°) from Weldon, CA

Europe: Tory MPs Demand Return Of Powers

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
*EU FACT: Members of the European Commission and other Brussels EU officials are “immune from legal proceedings in respect of acts performed by them in their official capacity, including their words spoken or written.” Moreover, they “continue to enjoy this immunity after they have ceased to hold office.” (Chapter V, article 11; Chapter VII, article 19).* Tory MPs will today demand that David Cameron seizes back powers from Brussels, warning "the status quo is no longer an option". A report called Manifesto for Change backed by Foreign Secretary William Hague calls for a "new and d... more »

4.2 Magnitude Earthquake REYKJANES RIDGE - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Magnitude M 4.2 Region REYKJANES RIDGE Date time 2013-01-16 09:53:03.0 UTC Location 60.99 N ; 28.09 W Depth 10 km Distances 464 km SW Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

4.2 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Magnitude mb 4.2 Region SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA Date time 2013-01-16 06:47:10.1 UTC Location 41.92 N ; 82.48 E Depth 1 km Distances 43 km NW Kuche, China

Panic as gunman opens fire in St. Louis business school shooting one man in the chest before turning the gun on himself

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
A part-time student strode into the office of a longtime administrator at a downtown St. Louis business school Tuesday and shot the man in the chest, creating panic in the school before turning the gun on himself, police said. Both men were in surgery Tuesday afternoon at Saint Louis University Hospital. Police Chief Sam Dotson said he was optimistic both would survive, but a hospital spokesman declined to discuss their conditions. Police did not identify either man, but Dotson said the administrator was a longtime employee in his late 40s. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2... more »

Monotracer goes futuristic in Total Recall

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 17 hours ago
that's a picture of it, in the recent remake of TOTAL RECALL (based on Philip K Dick's We Can Remember It For You Wholesale). What am I talking about? The Monotracer from Swiss cockpit-bike-maker Peraves. The big crime about this film wasn't The Fall coring through the earth's plasma centre on its daily commute, nor the bland action-based storyline that just drummed along at a tedious pace for one and a half hours, nor the flat acting skills displayed by core participants Farrell and the Beckinsale/Beal twins. Though the "two weeks," fat woman customs scene and the triple-breasted... more »

helicopter hits crane on new tower beside Thames and plunges into rush-hour traffic - Two dead - including pilot - and 11 injured

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
The helicopter - which left Gatwick Airport, Sussex, at 7:36am and was heading to Elstree, Hertfordshire, to collect an executive - was using the route of the River Thames and hit a crane at the top of the tower near Vauxhall Bridge in Vauxhall, central London, at 8am. The helicopter, which hit the under-construction St George Wharf Tower, was reported to have been carrying a pilot but no passengers. The aircraft struck the ground just 20 yards from Vauxhall station, which is a major commuting hub in the capital. Eleven people were injured - one critically - and two people died, in... more »

Syrian army on offensive in Aleppo after university blast

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Syrian armed forces launched a renewed offensive in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, state media said, a day after 87 people were killed in explosions at the city's university. The state news agency SANA said the military had killed dozens of "terrorists" - a term Damascus uses for rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad - in the new fighting. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE90E0V820130116

Six bombers attack spy agency in Kabul, kill two

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Six suicide bombers launched a coordinated attack on Afghanistan's spy agency in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least two and wounding 22 others, Afghan officials said. The attack started at around noon (0730 GMT) when the first assailant detonated a large car bomb near the entrance to the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Kabul police chief's office said in a statement. Five others strapped with explosives and driving a minivan were shot dead as they tried to enter the NDS compound, it said. Two NDS guards were killed by the first bomber and 22 others wounded, security a... more »

French, Malian troops encircle Islamist rebels in central Mali

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
French ground troops and Malian army forces encircled Islamist fighters in the central Malian town of Diabaly on Wednesday, military sources said, as France prepared to launch its first ground assault on the rebels. France, which has warned that Islamists' seizure of Mali's desert north last year represented a threat to the security of the West, moved a column of armored vehicles on Tuesday into position at the nearby town of Niono, some 300 km (190 miles) from the dusty riverside capital Bamako. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/us-mali-rebels-idUSBRE90D0FX20130116

London Helicopter Crash: Witnesses Talk Of Shock

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Michael Krumstets and his flatmate were walking to work when "out of the blue, this happened". He told Sky News: "We saw the helicopter hitting the crane at the top of the building and there was a loud crack, and then the helicopter started spinning out of control and incredibly towards us ... I mean directly towards us. "We ran to the side of the road and it then crashed into the road just feet away from us and my flatmate fell over and I had to grab him but it was just awful. "You see a helicopter hurtling out the sky towards you ... it's the last thing you expect on your way t... more »

helicopter smashes into a crane in central London, 2 Killed

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Two people have been killed as a helicopter smashed into a crane in central London, crashing into two cars as it hit the ground. Witnesses said the aircraft cartwheeled out of the sky after hitting the crane on St George Wharf Tower, in Vauxhall, amid heavy fog. It then exploded into flames. http://news.sky.com/story/1038710/two-die-as-helicopter-hits-crane-in-vauxhall

4.3 Magnitude Earthquake NORTHERN PERU - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
Magnitude 4.3 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 07:04:15 UTC Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 02:04:15 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 5.795°S, 76.876°W Depth 26.7 km (16.6 miles) Region NORTHERN PERU Distances 29 km (18 miles) NNE of Moyobamba, Peru

Agri Econ 7: On Rice Price Stabilization

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 18 hours ago
Agriculture is among the sectors with heavy government intervention and subsidy. In some European countries like France, the number of government agri-related bureaucrats could be as many if not plentier, than their farmers. During the Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations (FAEA) conference last November 28-29, 2012 held at the PICC, Manila, one of the panel discussions was on agriculture and food security. I did not attend that panel because I went to the panel on Competition policy. Nonetheless, I have some of the presentations in USB during the conference. One of the paper... more »

US Court Awards Multi-Million Dollar Payouts To Two More US Children With Vaccine Caused Autism

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago
US Court Awards Multi-Million Dollar Payouts To Two More US Children With Vaccine Caused Autism Child Health Safety, 14 January 2013 This breaking news is reported by award winning journalist David Kirby, who in 2008 broke the Hannah Poling story. The two new cases are reported here: * **Vaccine Court Awards Millions to Two Children With Autism* David Kirby Huffington Post 14th January 2013. The children in the successful new cases are Ryan Mojabi aged 10 from Northern California and Emily Moller. Hannah Poling developed an autistic condition after receiving 9 vaccines in one d... more »

Clock: doom arrives in five minutes

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
*...but the sky has already been falling too many times for any credibility to have survived...* You may hear from Fox News and other journalists that the doomsday clock will show 23:55, five minutes before the midnight, as the time indicating the "imminent destruction of humans" for the whole year of 2013 (unless an urgent modification is needed). We are told that the timing – one that has been said many times before – was calculated and announced by "scientists". When you read a few more paragraphs, you will realize that it's some article written in the Bulletin of Atomic Scienti... more »

COLONEL SIR VICTOR BARKER; FASCISTS

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Barker.* Sir Victor Barker worked for the British fascist group called the *National Fascisti*. Barker lived at the group's London headquarters, working as the secretary for the group's leader Henry Rippon Seymour. Barker trained fascist teenage boys in boxing and fencing. Barker became one of the most dedicated defenders of the fascists and often took command of operations. "We had many rows with the Reds," said Barker Barker was involved in rowdy behaviour with the lads in Hyde park. *Barker* One of his neighbours said: "We all looked upon him as... the best type of Army o... more »

Disaster Relief a Disaster With Ellen Brown

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago
Ellen is right on this. In fact it is always better to localize governmental functionality and decision making as much as possible and disaster management in particular. Once again we are suffering from the curse of the King. Central power deludes itself into thinking that only one person is able to make decisions and naturally dis-empowers everyone else with bureaucratic arteriosclerosis. It took me a long time to understand that central banking itself is now stuck the same way. Its power needs to be handed down just as deep as is possible and even beyond. Surprise me ... more »

Toyota and Audi Testing self Driving Protocols

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago
We are not there yet but the competition is clearly heating up as the majors pile on. The first obvious stage is to have an effective system that the driver simply monitors in a hands off position. This may be possible largely even now. Such a transitional will then be natural and quick as confidence also rises. The majority of driving is repetitive and just removing that particular load will popularize its acceptance. From that point, it should take less than a decade to see it all go driver-less to everyone's safety and ease. From then on mankind will be simply cat... more »

Black Hole Burp

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago
The problem that I have with this interpretation is that it is been observed simultaneously across thousands of light years at least. This is either absurd or plausibly, these galaxies are vastly closer to us than we had ever imagined. Recall that our measurement protocol is dependent on one rather iffy assumption that has been producing a number of uncomfortable inferences over the years. For the record, my own work explains the Red shift as an artifact of the age of the universe itself and unrelated to galactic velocity which is in fact generally modest and over the whole... more »

Aging Outright Reversed for First Time

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago
The present reality regarding telomere therapies is one of surprising outright success with zero side effects. All the reported cautions are completely untested and speculative. It is rubbish until shown otherwise by appropriate science. Now we have a stunning age reversal in a nicely prepared animal model. This powerfully indicates that we are way closer to outright success than anyone ever imagined. This surely deserves a high five. In the meantime individuals are out self testing the protocol at serious expense and with little reporting underway. I would like to see mo... more »

Sheldan Nidle’s Update for the Galactic Federation of Light and Spiritual Hierarchy

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 21 hours ago
*Sheldan Nidle’s Update for the Galactic Federation of Light and Spiritual Hierarchy* *A new Age of Light will dawn and the time of the sacred prophets of the Creator will again be seen. Every one of you is a potential prophet and a deliverer of Good News! You are to form a society based upon your great Light, which is to shine in glory and multifarious service to the Creator.* 13 Chicchan, 13 Chicchan, 9 Eb Dratzo! We return! Your world continues to move forward toward the day chosen by Heaven for manifesting your new reality. Our Agarthan family informs us that their part in... more »

Hactivist, Internet innovator Aaron Swartz commits suicide

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 21 hours ago
* * Aaron Swartz *Hactivist, Internet innovator Aaron Swartz commits suicide* Juan Carlos Perez @JuanCPerezIDG Jan 12, 2013 4:47 PM *Aaron Swartz, the brilliant Internet pioneer, passionate political activist and computer programming prodigy, committed suicide on Friday as he faced hacking-related charges that could have landed him in jail for decades, according to published reports.* Swartz, who was 26, killed himself in his New York City apartment, according to The Tech, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) newspaper that first reported his passing on Saturday. Swartz p... more »

The snowball squad: We'll ARREST you if you throw one, police warn children

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
You're picking your way carefully along an icy pavement when suddenly – thwack! – a snowball thrown by an unseen hand hits you on the back of the head. As you stop to dry off, you look round for the pesky little brat who threw it, but there’s no one to be seen. Irritating, of course, but hardly a matter for the police ... unless, that is, you live in County Durham. The force there provoked derision yesterday after threatening to arrest children found throwing snowballs at cars or bystanders. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262876/Police-Facebook-warn-youngsters-throw-snowb... more »

President Assad and his family 'are now living on a warship guarded by the Russians off Syrian coast'

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Syrian president Bashar Assad and his family are living on a warship guarded by the Russian navy, according to reports. The embattled dictator is said to have moved with his family and a select band of aides to the warship off Syria's coast. The move, which is said to have come about after the president lost confidence in his own security detail, sees Assad travel by helicopter to Damascus to attend meetings in his presidential palace. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263110/President-Assad-family-living-warship-guarded-Russians-Syrian-coast.html

Police recruits to be paid less than trainee McDonald's manager after reforms see starting salary cut by £4,000

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Police reacted with anger yesterday after their starting salary was slashed to below that of a trainee manager at McDonald's. Theresa May backed a package of controversial reforms which will see new recruits earn a minimum of £19,000-a-year – a cut of £4,000. The Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said the cut was 'ill-conceived and fails to reflect the dangers and demands inherent in the job'. There was also widespread anger on social media sites used by officers. One wrote on Twitter: 'McDonalds starting salary £21.5k…' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art... more »

Sunni Lawmaker in Iraq Is Killed in a Suicide Bombing

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
An Iraqi Parliament member who was also the leader of a local council of the Awakening movement, an American-backed group of Sunni militias that switched sides to fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Anbar Province on Tuesday, security and government officials said. The lawmaker, Efan al-Essawi, who owned a construction company, had gone to inspect a road that it was building to connect Falluja with the main highway in Anbar, a trade route that leads west to Syria and Jordan. The region has been embroiled in strife since last month, when protests, l... more »

Delhi gang-rape protests to intensify today

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
The ongoing protests demanding stringent punishment for the culprits involved in the gang-rape of the 23-year-old student that had waned over the past couple of weeks are expected to regain momentum on Wednesday as it marks one month since the ghastly crime took place. Several groups including students, activists and informal groups which have been active on social media in mobilising campaign seeking justice for the gang-rape victim have called for a large-scale peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar and different other parts of the Capital. Medical students, residents and nurses of Va... more »

Israeli troops kill teenager near West Bank barrier

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager Tuesday near Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank, Palestinians said, in the latest of several fatal shootings in recent days near fences in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The shooting at Budrus, west of Ramallah, occurred when a group of high school students, out walking after first-semester final exams, approached the fence that runs outside the village, according to reports from the scene. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-troops-kill-teen-near-west-bank-barrier-palestinians-say/2013/01/15/65... more »

Aaron Swartz's 'killed by the government': Father Robert Swartz

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
"He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles," Robert Swartz said at the memorial service in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Swartz, 26, was found dead in his New York apartment on Friday. He was facing a potentially lengthy prison sentence after being indicted in Boston in 2011 for allegedly gaining access to academic articles from a computer archive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The charges carried a maximum penalty of decades in prison. Robert Swartz said his son was "hounded by the governm... more »

White House fury over Morsi description of Israelis as ‘blood-sucking descendants of apes and pigs’

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
The White House last night denounced remarks made by Egypt’s Islamist President in which he described Israelis as “descendants of apes and pigs”. Footage of President Morsi’s video interview with the Lebanon-based Al-Quds channel was recorded in September 2010, but it has only just emerged — on the eve of a visit by a high-ranking American delegation to Cairo. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3658597.ece

Leaked cable claims ‘compelling’ evidence of chemical weapons in Syria

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
There is “compelling” evidence that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against rebels in the city of Homs last month, according to a State Department cable leaked to US media. Foreign Policy, an online magazine, reported that the leaked cable, signed by Scott Kilner, the US Consul General in Turkey, said there was evidence that President Assad’s military had used poison gas during fighting on December 23. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3659004.ece

Syria's UN Ambassador Condemns Aleppo Terrorist Attack

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Syria's ambassador to the United Nations has condemned as a "cowardly terrorist act" an attack at a university in Syria's biggest city, Aleppo. Bashar Ja'afari said the explosions at Aleppo University on January 15 killed 82 students and wounded 162 more. http://www.rferl.org/content/syria-aleppo-attack/24825050.html

Europe: Conservative group demands return of powers to UK

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
A group of Conservative backbench MPs is to publish a report later calling for a substantial return of powers to the UK from the European Union. Fresh Start, which says it is backed by more than 100 Tory MPs, wants the UK to remain in the union, but with "significant revisions" to treaties. Foreign Secretary William Hague has backed the report. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21037590

France launches ground offensive in Mali

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
French army tanks are heading from the Malian capital Bamako under the cover of darkness towards the north of the country, to target areas currently in the hands of militant islamists. It is the first time ground troops have been deployed in the six-day operation. French air strikes against militant strongholds in the north began last Friday and are continuing. http://www.euronews.com/2013/01/16/france-launches-ground-offensive-in-mali/

Mali's Islamist groups united by war threat

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
A powerful southern offensive by Islamists in Mali last week, halted only by French air strikes, showed that a loose alliance of rebels from al Qaeda's North African wing and local groups has been united by the threat of foreign intervention. When the coalition of Islamists swept across northern Mali last year, massacring army troops and carving up the vast desert zone, ties between Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and local groups Ansar Dine and MUJWA had looked opportunistic, and regional mediators believed they could prize them apart. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01... more »

World Bank cuts outlook, recovery frustrates

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
A frustratingly slow economic recovery in developed nations is holding back the global economy, the World Bank said on Tuesday, as it sharply cut its outlook for world growth in 2013. The World Bank forecast that global gross domestic product will inch up 2.4 percent this year, from 2.3 percent in 2012. In its last forecast in June, the bank projected global growth would reach 3.0 percent in 2013. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/us-worldbank-global-idUSBRE90E17G20130116

U.S. pushing for North Korean sanctions at U.N.

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
The United States is pushing hard for tough sanctions against North Korea, one of its top envoys for Asia said on Wednesday, although diplomats at the United Nations said it appeared unlikely that the North's ally, China, would support them. Washington, along with South Korea, Japan and European Union states, want to punish North Korea for its December rocket launch with a United Nations Security Council resolution and tougher sanctions against Pyongyang. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/us-korea-north-sanctions-idUSBRE90F08Z20130116

Syrian Rebels Bomb University as exams begin, killing at least 83 and wounding Dozens More

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Syrian security personnel and civilians gather at the site where two explosions rocked the University of Aleppo in Syria's second largest city, January 15, 2013. Credit: Reuters/George Ourfalian Each side in the 22-month-old conflict blamed the other for Tuesday's blasts at the University of Aleppo, located in a government-held area of Syria's most populous city. Some activists in Aleppo said a government attack caused the explosions, while state television accused "terrorists" - a term they often use to describe the rebels - of firing two rockets at the school. A rebel fighter sa... more »

South Carolina: Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up On Pawleys Island

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Thousands of dead fish washed up on the beach at the south end of Pawleys Island Tuesday afternoon. The fish are menhaden, and the SC Department of Natural Resources have been notified of the incident. http://www.wltx.com/news/article/216791/2/Thousands-of-Dead-Fish-Wash-Up-On-Pawleys-Island-

Hydrocarbon leak prompts Cormorant A evacuation (North Sea, [Cormorant Alpha Oil Platform])

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
A major evacuation of workers is under way from Taqa Bratani’s Cormorant Alpha platform in the UK northern North Sea following a leak involving oil and gas, Upstream can reveal. Hydrocarbons were detected in one of the platform’s concrete legs at 4.15pm UK time on Monday. It is understood that the main release of hydrocarbons into the platform leg involves crude oil but that associated gas from that crude has activated gas detector alarms. The volumes of oil and gas involved are not yet known as the situation is understood to be ongoing. http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article13... more »

Second Bullhead City resident tests positive for hepatitis

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
A second Bullhead City resident has confirmed they have tested positive with hepatitis C after allegedly contracting the infectious disease following a procedure performed by Dr. Terrance Kwiatkowski with the Ear & Sinus Center of the Southwest. The 43-year-old man said he received not one but two letters informing him that he may have been exposed to the disease following the improper sterilization of an endoscopy instrument used to treat his deviated septum. The patient, who was treated by Dr. Kwiotkowski over a period of three months beginning in January 2012, received the letter... more »

Newtown: Obama To Unveil Gun Proposals

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
President Barack Obama will unveil "a package of concrete proposals" to curb gun violence, the White House has said. Vice President Joe Biden, who Mr Obama directed to lead a panel tasked with creating the proposals, will join the president at the White House on Wednesday morning to announce the measures. http://news.sky.com/story/1038520/newtown-obama-to-unveil-gun-proposals

Two people are killed and three injured after gunmen open fire at colleges in Kentucky and Missouri.

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Two people have been shot dead at a community college in eastern Kentucky as a gunman injured himself and an administrator at another college in Missouri. Authorities said a teenager was also wounded during the shooting in the car park at Hazard Community & Technical College in Kentucky. Conor Duff, the college's evening coordinator, said the shootings took place around 4.30pm at the campus 90 miles south east of Lexington. http://news.sky.com/story/1038587/two-dead-after-separate-college-shootings

'NRA Shooting Video' Game Branded Outrageous

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
The National Rifle Association has provoked controversy after apparently releasing a shooting video game aimed at children as young as four. Critics say the sale of the iPhone and iPad app, NRA: Practice Range, weeks after the Sandy Hook school massacre is insensitive. http://news.sky.com/story/1038594/nra-shooting-video-game-branded-outrageous

John McTiernan Facing Jail For Lying To FBI

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Director John McTiernan, second left, with the cast of The Thomas Crown Affair The director of Die Hard and Predator faces a year in jail after losing his bid to have the US Supreme Court review a guilty plea and prison sentence for perjury and lying to the FBI. John McTiernan, who also directed The Hunt For Red October, could now start his prison sentence after months of appeals. Prosecutors accused the 62-year-old of lying about hiring former private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who represented many Hollywood stars, to wiretap a film producer. http://news.sky.com/story/10386... more »

New York Enacts Nation's Toughest Gun Controls

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
The New York state legislature has passed the toughest gun control law in the US and the first since the Newtown school shooting. The bill calls for a tougher assault weapons ban and provisions to try to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill who make threats. Governor Andrew Cuomo, who pushed hard for the legislation, signed the bill within an hour of it being passed by the state assembly. http://news.sky.com/story/1038599/new-york-enacts-nations-toughest-gun-controls

Honduras: British Tourist 'Shot Dead By Robbers'.... for his Camera

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
A British tourist has been shot dead in an apparent mugging in Honduras. The man was taking photos in San Pedro Sula, the Central American nation's second city, when he was attacked by two armed men, police said. Deputy Police Chief Leonel Sauceda said: "It looks like he put up a fight when they stole his camera, so they shot him." http://news.sky.com/story/1038664/honduras-british-tourist-shot-dead-by-robbers

Horsemeat In Beef Burgers: Tesco Removes Product

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Tesco, along with a number of other supermarkets, has removed certain brands of frozen beefburgers from its shelves after they were found to contain horsemeat. A study examining the authenticity of a number of beefburger, beef meal and salami products available from retail outlets in Ireland found that horsemeat accounted for approximately 29% of the content in one sample of Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers. http://news.sky.com/story/1038575/horsemeat-in-burgers-tesco-removes-product

Dreamliners Grounded After Emergency Landing

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Two Japanese airlines have grounded all of their Boeing 787 Dreamliners after a sixth problem in less than two weeks. All Nippon Airlines (ANA) announced it was grounding all 17 of its 787s after one was forced to make an emergency landing in west Japan on Wednesday. Japan Air Lines Co Ltd (JAL) said it would also suspend all Dreamliner flights scheduled to leave Japan on Wednesday over safety concerns. http://news.sky.com/story/1038642/boeing-dreamliners-grounded-by-japan-airlines

3.2 Magnitude Earthquake OKLAHOMA - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Magnitude 3.2 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 06:26:35 UTC Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12:26:35 AM at epicenter Location 35.623°N, 97.368°W Depth 8.7 km (5.4 miles) (poorly constrained) Region OKLAHOMA Distances 6 km (4 miles) SW (219°) from Arcadia, OK

5.5 Magnitude Earthquake ALAMAGAN REG., NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
Magnitude 5.5 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 02:38:24 UTC Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12:38:24 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 17.432°N, 145.988°E Depth 124 km (77.1 miles) Region ALAMAGAN REG., NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Distances 81 km (51 miles) SSE (163°) from Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands

after New York takes action, President Obama to announce national gunlaw changes following Sandy Hook massacre

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 21 hours ago
"Never let a good crisis go to waste," allegedly attributed to Rahm Emanuel, ex-White House Chief of Staff. The following video contains information about EMERGENCY PLANNING during the atrocious events of July 7th 2005 London bombings information, September 11th 2001 WTC demolitions and the Dec 14th 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre. After New York takes action against the sale of 'assault weapons', President Obama to announce national gunlaw changes following Sandy Hook massacre. GUN CONTROL QUESTION, MIKE: *are you for/against these gun control legislations re: the Free Planet ... more »

Misleading with statistics: the Fraser Institute on health care and ‘value for money’

David Climenhaga at Alberta Diary - 21 hours ago
This just in! The latest mainstream media news straight from the Vancouver studios of the Fraser Institute, complete with no fact checking! No sooner noted than illuminated – yesterday morning mainstream media was credulously reporting another “Fraser Factoid,” this one a report by the far-right political lobby group purporting to show Albertans get poor value ... more »

4.7 Magnitude Earthquake SOUTHERN PERU - 16th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
Magnitude 4.7 Date-Time Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 00:07:44 UTC Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 07:07:44 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 15.047°S, 70.686°W Depth 74.4 km (46.2 miles) Region SOUTHERN PERU Distances 21 km (13 miles) SSW of Ayaviri, Peru

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN PERU - 15th January 2013

Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
Magnitude 4.6 Date-Time Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 22:34:49 UTC Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 05:34:49 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 5.760°S, 80.845°W Depth 37.1 km (23.1 miles) Region NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN PERU Distances 22 km (13 miles) S of Sechura, Peru

The Poet: Wendell Berry, "A Warning To My Readers"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*"A Warning To My Readers"* by Wendell Berry "Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is."

David Ulansey: The Principle Feature of Shamanism

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
David Ulansey is a "Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at U.C. Berkeley, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco," and, "a scholar of the history of religions, comparative religion, and cultural history (Ph.D., Princeton Univ.)." [*Source*]. He is the author of *"The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World."* I am several chapters into the book and it is fascinating. Read some of his work *here*. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: rodcmp]: In this excerpt... more »

New Colours Added to Weather Chart to Display Australia's Heat Wave

Image courtesy: Australia's Bureau of Meteorology/Public Domain It's official, 2012 was a record year for heat in the US, and 2013 is already turning out to be historic for Australia, a country that is used to extreme heat, but nothing quite like what they're getting now. A "dome of heat" has settled over the country and caused record-breaking temperatures; so much so that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology actually had to add a new color to its weather maps to show the hottest parts of the country (it's purple, as you can see above). This extends the range up to 54 degrees celsi... more »

The unsmart ones

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours ago
That would be the NRA dragging the president's kids into their little tantrum. It isn't like there life is going to get any easier from here on, but really!

Drought Gives Rise to New Crime

The round hay bales used on larger farms. Photo courtesy: Flickr/CC BY 2.0 Economics 101 says that, all else being equal, when the supply of something goes down, the price should go up. That's exactly what has been happening with hay in drought and wildfire-afflicted areas of the United States. In fact, many aren't ready to fork out the extra cash, or they simply can't locate a seller, because there's been a big resurgence of hay bale thefts. "Sheriffs in rural counties in Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas say the spike in hay thefts is part of a broader rise in agricultural c... more »

Citizens File Articles of Impeachment Against Obama

Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. There can no longer be any doubt – the forces of tyranny are running wild across our once great Republic. The time has come for all good men and women to rally to the aid of their country. We have now entered a historic crossroads that will decide the destiny of the United States. Ar... more »

A Tale Of Two House Republicans-- Justin Amash And Lynn Westmoreland... And The Asshole Factor

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Boehner has something in his eye-- Justin Amash With Ron Paul no longer in Congress, libertarian Justin Amash (R-MI) now has a voting record second only to New Yorker Chris Gibson as the most consistently at odds with the House Republican leadership of anyone in the GOP caucus. Presumably that's why Boehner, Cantor and Ryan kicked him off the Budget Committee-- rather than the stated reason. (Boehner lapdog Lynn Westmoreland, always in a fierce contest with Gohmert for the title of "Dumbest Member of Congress," has told anyone who would listen that Amash was kicked off the committee ... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
Welcome back to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! Have you missed our weekly challenges as much as I have? I'm happy to be back and even happier to see you! Yesterday's POST included the changes we'll be making this year and we started things off with our first poll. If you haven't yet voted and commented, please do ... I'd love to know your thoughts on the subject. Ready to challenge yourself? Let's jump right in! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. The new year seems to beg us to sort th... more »

IDEAS / Bill Meacham : Speaking of Consciousness

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago
Image from TZA's photostream / Flickr. Speaking of consciousness The cardinal sin of philosophy, committed all too often, is to use terms that are ambiguous. By Bill Meacham / The Rag Blog / January 15, 2013 The philosophy club is currently studying Philosophy of Mind, a topic fraught with ambiguity. People use terms such as “mind,” “consciousness,” “awareness,” “experience,” and so forth as

dear god,

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

Musical Interlude: Enya, “Only Time”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Enya, “Only Time” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6g2BoHQGwk

creation

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

Musical Interlude: Enya, Full Album: "The Best Of Enya"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Enya, Full album: "The Best Of Enya" Orinoco Flow 0:00 Caribbean Blue 4:32 Book Of Days 8:30 Anywhere Is 11:29 Only If... 15:16 The Celts 18:38 China Roses 21:38 Shepherd Moons 26:22 Ebudae 30:03 Storms In Africa 32:02 Watermark 36:16 Paint The Sky With Stars 38:44 Marble Halls 43:00 On My Way Home 46:58 The Memory Of Trees 50:38 Boadicea 54:58 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOtQ2vMxOl0

Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam Statement Jan. 15, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Press Statement From Chief Allan Adam regarding Highway 63 Roadblocks January 15, 2013 – Fort McMurray, AB – In the wake of Idle No More and the AFN’s calls for blockades, peaceful protests and a stall of the Canadian economy Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) has made waves with talk of potential long term blockades in Northern Alberta. “At this

HuffPost Live: Going To Tehran

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Source: *HuffPost Live*. Description: "Iran is the most serious U.S. foreign policy challenge. The policy approach is consistently unproductive. So how can the U.S. begin to appeal to its long time enemy?" Link: *Leveretts Discuss Going to Tehran on HuffPost Live*.

Obama Will Use Children as Props for Gun Control Announcement

Intercept at The Intercept - 1 day ago
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Chief Spence's Statement Jan. 14, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

"Bipartisan" House GOP says: Can you really put a price on the defense of ignorance, bigotry, and hatred?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Why, it's the all-Republican "bipartisan" majority of the House's "Bipartisan" Legal Advisory Group ("B"LAG)!* *"In a statement this week, House Democrats said the agreement was reached in secret and they weren't aware of it until late Monday."* *-- Chris Johnson, **reporting for the *Washington Blade* on the* *House GOP's secret doubling of the budget for defending DOMA* *by Ken* In October I wrote a post asking, "Does anyone believe the now-spent $1.5M is all 'Sunny John' Boehner will ram through for the defense of DOMA ignorance and hatred?" The $1.5M, you'll recall, was authori... more »

ALEC - You Do NOT Find This - at an NCSL Meeting

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
I just forced myself to listen to a 10 minute presentation on a radio program sponsored by the extremist right-wing free-market radio station from the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina. They were talking about ALEC. In fact they were whining about how the American Legislative Exchange Council is being picked on by the left -whining, whining, whining. They spent ten minutes trying to get the listener to believe that ALEC is just like NCSL. I get so sick of that argument. While I was listening to it I thought of this quote from a PR Watch articlethat was released today (my em... more »

Berlusconi: Libya's "Revolution" is a FAKE!

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*"We Came, We Saw, He Died."* - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The same could not be said about Osama Bin Laden's departure. In that case, U.S. solders bravely went to Afghanistan, saw, and at the last minute were pulled back and prevented from killing Bin Laden in 2001 by their superiors in D.C. He later died of natural causes, hardly the spectacular ending to his life that is portrayed in "Zero Dark Thirty." There is zero truth in that film. Bin Laden's image as a menacing dragon who has the ability to escape the reach of the United States was central in the selling... more »
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Washington Post
RICHMOND, Va.Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the state's largest electric utilities are proposing to repeal financial incentives for using renewable energy after a report last year found that the millions of dollars in bonuses haven't ...
Middle East Online
Failure to spend in developing renewable energy will increase demand for fossil energy and "make its prices unaffordable," besides increasing risks of global warming, he said. Organisers of the three-day summit, which is held simultaneously with the ...
AOL Energy
The oil industry has taken aim at the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in a self-interested bid to retain dominance over America's transportation fuel sector. Our dependence on oil is stifling consumer choice and jeopardizing our national security. Fixing ...
De Smog Blog (blog)
Renewable energy is under attack in the Tar Heel State. That's the word from Greenpeace USA's Connor Gibson today in a report that implicates King Coal powerhouse, Duke Energy and the fossil fuel industry at-large. The vehicle Duke Energy is utilizing ...
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Human Habitat

The Columbian
The Washington Department of Ecology is seeking public comment on La Center's recently updated Shoreline Master Program. The proposed update to the program will guide construction and development along the city's half-mile of shoreline on the East ...
Bothell/Kenmore Reporter
But regardless of the results of the current tests, the Washington State Department of Ecology (DOE) reminds residents that dioxins adhere to sediment particles and do not affect the water column. The DOE issued a Notice of Violation for sediment ...
Access Washington
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has issued Stage 1 burn bans in Kittitas, Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan counties. The bans take effect immediately. Ecology's Stage 1 burn bans for those counties will continue until further ...
OUPblog (blog)
There is a deep and pervasive hunger for a less fragmented and more integrated way of understanding and inhabiting the world. What must change if we are to live in a sustainable relationship with other organisms? What role do our moral and spiritual ...
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Water Power

Huffington Post
WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) — When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family's drinking water had begun "bubbling" like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural ...
CNN
(CNN) -- If you're running for office, it's best not to make incendiary comments about rape. That appears to be as much the case in Indonesia as it is in the United States. Daming Sanusi, a candidate for the Indonesian Supreme Court, has fueled outrage ...
Los Angeles Times
The proposed fee would be levied on all property owners within the county's flood control district, raising an estimated $290 million a year to help cities and the county deal with widespread water quality issues stemming from polluted storm water and ...
National Geographic
The first drill sample ever collected on Mars will come from a rockbed shot through with unexpected veins of what appears to be the mineral gypsum. Delighted members of the Curiosity science team announced Tuesday that the rover was now in a virtual ...
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