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World Hum (Free subscription) | yesterday
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As many as 5,000 people are feared dead as a result of a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck roughly 60 miles northwest of Chengdu in China’s Sichuan province. Chengdu's international airport has been closed. Among the areas hit is Wenchuan, the Times of London reports , “best-known as the home of the Wolong Nature Reserve, China’s leading research and breeding base for the endangered giant panda.”...
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YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
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Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that the Earth is royally pissed off at us? Earthquake in China Cyclone in Myanmar Florida Wildfires Chilean Volcano (Thanks to Miss Cellania for directing me to the photo above.)...
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Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
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China quake death toll nears 10,000 China’s worst earthquake for 30 years killed nearly 10,000 people in Sichuan province on Monday, with more feared dead in mountainous areas cut off by landslides, power failures and the collapse of telephone networks. At least eight schools were reported to have collapsed, burying hundreds of children under rubble. Chemical-laden factories [...]
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Mark Mardell's Euroblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
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I wonder if a portrait of Tomislav Nikolic will ever stare down on my slumbering form when I visit Belgrade. The thought is prompted by the hotel I am staying in while covering the Serbian elections. It has paintings of...
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PoliGazette (Free subscription) | yesterday
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In what is excellent news for Europe as a whole and the many moderates within Serbia, the coalition of pro-European parties, led by President Boris Tadic, have claimed victory in Serbias elections. Due to the declaration of independence of Kosovo and the fact that the EU officially recognized and supported the declaration, there had been [...]
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Times: US Marines supported by British troops in Afghanistan now command three key locations south of the town of Garmsir, in Helmand province, putting pressure on the main supply routes of the Taleban for arms, opium and reinforcements. For the first time since the Nato campaign expanded to the south in 2006 the Taleban stranglehold in this part of Helmand – stretching from the Pakistan border to...
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
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Sunday Telegraph: The militia brought Mary Nyandoro into the school yard blindfolded and in handcuffs. "Witness the baptism of traitors," Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF thugs told us. In the cold of the early morning, we gathered around as instructed. Mary's crime had been to vote for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe's blighted elections. She was a peasant farmer, about 30 years...
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
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We've written a few times about Robert Malley , an adviser to the Obama campaign who, like several other of his advisers, oozes hostility towards Israel and sympathy for its enemies. The Obama campaign has now sacked Malley after Malley disclosed that he has held meetings with one of those enemies, Hamas. Malley, in fact, has been in regular contact with Hamas, and has never concealed that fact. As...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
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Having spent several of my formative years in another part of Europe and having come to this country with my family, without, so far as I know, a democratic vote being taken on whether we should be taken in as political asylum seekers, I find it hard to take Europe Day seriously. May 9 is Den’ Pobedi , which, as our various Russian experts will know, means Victory Day. Every year there is a military...
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RHRealityCheck.org blogs (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
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Is contraception under attack? McCain's secret language, a new anti-choice campaign and a terrifying ballot initiative all point towards yes.
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Mars Hill (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
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Doesn't it say something about a regime that, as well as having no respect for human rights, the democratic wishes of it's people and a contempt for international opinion, it is reluctant to receive unconditional help and support when it's people are suffering from the result of a cyclone hitting the country.
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The Left Coaster (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
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Last autumn, the Burmese regime once again proved it is comprised of murderous thugs , and the world responded by blithering and blathering, before turning away and letting the bad guys win . Now, we see the consequences. Now, in the aftermath of a monstrously deadly cyclone , the Burmese government is proving monstrously equal to the task of not dealing with it. The world stands ready to help, but...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
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Can you "disappear" a huge natural disaster with the whole world watching? This is the experiment that the government of Burma now seems to be conducting. The generals evidently have two purposes in keeping the country virtually locked down - preventing the population from being exposed to direct contact with foreign aid workers, and keeping the world from hearing too much about its own criminal non-response...
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El Nuevo Pantano (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
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In the two decades after the end of the Second World War dozens of new states came into being in Africa, the Middle East and Asia as the old colonial powers lost the will and means to keep their empires intact. Another wave of state creation occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union in [...]
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normblog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
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Today I'm celebrating the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the state of Israel, and I invite readers of normblog to join me in doing so. Here are six reasons, one for each decade, why Israel's existence is something worth...
