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Al-Jazeera coverage on this is pretty good. Not only they're on the terrain in Gaza (since they're not "western reporters"), they are balancing both sides of the conflict better than regular european coverage (that tends to side to Palestine anyways, and is mostly run by hot air and hearsays since they can't actually be there).
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NHK says China is in no way interested in stopping relations with US. I'm guessing this was triggered automatically (ie. it's the military response plan) rather than a decision related to any sort of current political environment. It's a bit weird this popping up just as Hillary makes an appeal for China to apply sanctions to Iran, however.
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This last page and a half is like a horrible joke. The Glen Beck video... I don't even know how to answer that. There is a slight of hand there, a slithering trick that attempts to conceal concepts that are in plain sight, and his clientèle, dazed by the cheap wine in this cabaret, applauds in unison, believing that have been something wonderful and awaiting the following titillation.

Was literally wide gasped on the whole Vonnegut one.

[Takashi]

Hmm. That's true (and I admit I forgot it myself, mostly because I assumed this to be obvious), but that part has been consistently been removed from all the televised footage, what has lead to even more misinterpretation, namely McCord seeing it on the telly and getting that feeling.

WikiLeaks could have avoided much distress if the "short version" (that I personally think is the source of all the misreadings from the start and would provably had been better delivered as a text description or something) had the people that were likely to be carrying guns signaled - much like when they pointed out that a camera was not a weapon early on.
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On happier news : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8688503.stm

Summary of the PM speech : Better do it fast before this stone raft sinks.
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If the Internet aims to "fix" the Congo situation, we'd love to get some help with the diamonds thing down in Angola.
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http://gawker.com/5581656/jesus-appears-in-portuguese-playboy

immediately followed by

http://gawker.com/5581888/playboy-kills-off-portuguese-edition-over-sexy-jesus-photo-shoot
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Who was it that said that statistics were much like religion? ah.

"The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the art of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service."
Florence Nightingale
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[Takashi]

We celebrate truth as a virtue, but only in the abstract. What we really need in our search for truth is a commodity that used to be at the heart of good journalism: facts - along with a willingness to present those facts without fear or favor.
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Whoop the whoop whoop
For people not in touch with the Euroxplosion, Portugal revealed (after 6 months of hard denial of the facts and Standards and Poor's warnings) that they are actually not being able to plug his national debt with the current measures, leading to an insane State Budget that is near impossible to pass with consensus in the Parliament. Meanwhile Ireland has (suspected to be incredibly large) standing debts in banks and is ignoring calls to get direct European aid, what makes people fear another Greek-like situation where the hole is suddenly deeper than expected.
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How can you make a replica of something you only know the volume of?
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He said that it has so and so "cubits", albeit we don't know if that's the real value, and that it had three decks. What is good enough to make a boat with the same size, but not a replica.
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I was going to suggest the US would just write a new Constitution, but then realized I was suggesting a Civil War.
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For the uninitiated, the articles on The Register are to be taken with a pinch of salt, especially if it's a "Americans got something wrong" article. This is in line with regular UK publishing standards.
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Guys, this is basically a bone marrow transplant, and hence uses the less-edgy and non fetus-y kind of stem cells.

It's not even a "cure" and it's basically a purge - they destr... erm purify your blood and remove all the HIV-infected blood cells, and when the bone marrow starts working, the cells it produces do not propagate HIV even if they should, basically destroying the infection. This is possible because people in Northern Europe were chosen by God are mostly descendants of Black Plague survivors and seem to propagate a deviation to a gene that makes them more resistant to certain types of immune-deficiency sickness.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure someone is already picturing the gays building farms of Christian Americans (via the health care bill) for the unique purpose of extracting their bone marrow and therefore cheat God himself.
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Expecting a small hotel room and a distilled water tap to be found inside.
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He also has videos that claim earthquakes are generated by planetary alignment. So yeah.
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[Takashi]

USA loves some sweet, cold revenge.
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I'll redact myself and say that TV news networks loves some sweet, cold revenge.
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Also, they learned they were leaking highly radioactive water to the sea by accident for at least a couple of weeks. Pretty fucked up.
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Oslo government building target of car bombing.

Norway has no known history of pissing anyone off. Rumors are running wild and seem to point to Polish authors.

There are reports of a gunman in a youth convention. This is very messed up.
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Pretty sad seeing media jumping at the chance of a new, dramatic Al-Qaeda terrorism story over the Oslo bombing, when the link is pretty tenuous.
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