Monthly Archives: February 2010

Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls, MSM: It Tolls for Thee (1- bumped)

With a whiff of nostalgia, I can imagine the old time journalist with the smell of coffee and cigarettes wafting through the click and clang of the typewriter. Fifty years ago, a “journalist” had the ring of a dispassionate, creative, … Continue reading

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Wrong! (1)

An unashamed theory abounds in this Olympic city that all the gold medals Canada have won at these Winter Games — 10, as of writing — will not amount to a hill of beans if their men’s ice hockey team … Continue reading

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"Hey Hawaii, are you scared yet?"

(CNN) — Sirens sounded early Saturday morning across Hawaii, warning people of a possible tsunami and telling people to in coastal areas to evacuate, hours after a 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile. The sirens sounded at 6 a.m. local time (11 … Continue reading

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Dubai: the mystery deepens

Like many of us, Ha’aretz finds the mystery of just who assassinated the Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Mabhouh in Dubai ever more bizarre: Twenty-six agents, perhaps even 30, sent to assassinate one person? Granted if they could flee the scene by … Continue reading

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Alien Invasion

As Brin notes, many would-be broadcasters come from an academic area where for decades the standard assumption has been that aliens are peaceful zero-population-growth no-nuke greens, since we all know that any other sort quickly destroy themselves. This seems to … Continue reading

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Murphy: Somehow, we survived

February in Canada has only one mercy: it is short. And this February was far crueller than most, because of the machinations of that artfullest of dodgers, our Beatleplaying Machiavelli, Stephen Harper, who shut the doors on the House of … Continue reading

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British Tea Party Movement to launch on Saturday

The inaugural British Tea Party will take place on Saturday in my home town of Brighton, and I’ll be speaking. Do try to come: here are the details. Labour has raised more than a trillion pounds in additional taxation since … Continue reading

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Here's What We Can Expect

Two months after MPs last met on Parliament Hill, the House of Commons will once again echo to the characteristic sounds of Question Period next week — the opposition asking fatuous questions and the government not answering them. First, though, … Continue reading

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World Feb. 27th, 2010 (10)

#1 — BBC | Massive earthquake strikes Chile A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 has struck central Chile, killing at least 47 people. [...] Fox | Massive Magnitude 8.8 Quake Hits Chile, Killing at Least 47 #2 — … Continue reading

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