Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Urban Photos has an interesting post on an unsettling indication (for Australian raw material suppliers anyway) that China's infrastructure building boom may be a house of cards - Inner Mongolia's Empty City . In August, I came across an intriguing photo in Tokyo’s Mori Museum — a group of what appeared to be a group of urban sophisticates wandering, seemingly lost, in a desert landscape....
The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The US justice department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide (now Xe Corp) security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, according to court documents. A one-paragraph notice filed on Friday says only that prosecutors have asked that the case against Nicholas Slatten be dropped. The government's detailed request to the court was filed...
War On You (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Shooting the messenger Aljazeera.net November 20, 2009 Shooting the Messenger – Part 1 Shooting the Messenger – Part 2 Shooting the Messenger – Part 3 Shooting the Messenger – Part 4 Shooting the Messenger, Al Jazeera’s documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, has been nominated for a [...]
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
As Iran Stalls on Nuclear Deal, New Sanctions Weighed -- New York Times PARIS — Senior officials from Western powers discussed the possibility of new sanctions on Iran on Friday for flouting the United Nations Security Council’s demands and expressed disappointment that Iran had not yet accepted a draft agreement to export most of its enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. The officials met...
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
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El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Al Arabiya Meanwhile, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei rejected earlier on Friday imposing sanctions on Iran, saying they would make Tehran more hawkish. ElBaradei added that he hoped for an agreement with Iran on an offer to send enriched uranium abroad for further processing before the end of the year. “It is a unique [...]
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Taiwan Matters! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obama's cross-strait conundrum Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) president Dr. Bob Yang (advocating for an independent Taiwan) and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Freeman Chair in China Studies senior fellow and US government consultant Bonnie Glaser (read Michael Turton's eloquent description of her position ) sat down with Al Jazeera's Riz Khan on November 17, 2009...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wow, that's a huge amount: 1.5 million people per day are getting innoculated with the swine flu vaccine. [ AP ] This year's Chinese Blogger Conference was held in an ancient cave in Lianzhou, Guangdon. Why? You'll have to watch this video to find out. [ WSJ ] A government report has said that China's Three Gorges Dam has doubled in cost and has been plagued with multiple problems. Here's a summary...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York Times (John Tierney) I rather like the picture of the Egyptian statue with suitcases. Zahi Hawass regards the Rosetta Stone, like so much else, as stolen property languishing in exile. “We own that stone,” he told Al Jazeera, speaking as the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The British Museum does not agree — at least not yet. But never underestimate...
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Ornery Bastard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Go let your pets out and buckle up, I plan to catch some air on this ride. Let me start with a quote from this senile old bastard, "The problem is that every one of Reid’s comments I’ve noted here has also been reported gleefully by Al Jazeera and other anti-American media," Thompson said at the time. "Whether he means to or not, he’s encouraging our enemies to believe...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
At least 19 people have been killed in a suicide bomb blast outside the main gate of a court building in Peshawar. Thursday's attack was the seventh deadly explosion to hit the northwestern Pakistani city in less than two weeks. Officials said about 30 people were wounded in the attack, which occurred during rush hour when the area is normally crowded with lawyers, administrative personnel and the...
BurlingtonPol.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
From Al Jazeera English .... "A Russian court has effectively outlawed the death penalty in the country, ruling that a moratorium on capital punishment due to expire in January must remain in force." I was wondering just the other day if Russia had the death penalty. This action by the Russian court is very positive. The death penalty is wrong and immoral in all cases and in all forms.
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
They were just five words, but they swept through the Muslim world like a brush fire nearly four years ago, launching a scorching backlash that endures to this day. “Be quiet. It’s my turn,” the Syrian-born American, Wafa Sultan, said in February 2006 to a Muslim cleric she was debating on Al Jazeera. A woman interrupting a man? In public? In Islamic societies, particular in the Arab...
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