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- B-52 down in Guam
Breaking news:
... emergency responders were called to duty around 9:45 a.m. when the B-52 crashed Northwest of Guam. ... The debris site is located approximately 25 nautical miles Northwest of Guam and as of four o’clock this afternoon, officials were still searching for the six crew members believed to be on board.
This is the fourth [...]
- Mutantfrogs in the news
I would like to congratulate the Mutantfrog Travelogue crew — longtime real-life friends of Curzon and I — for a great interview in the JapanTimes. MFT is definitely one of the go-to blogs for Japanophiles, or anyone interested in East Asian culture. Keep up the good work gentlemen!
- Free Tibet! Free the media!
Stuart Brand is credited with saying Information wants to be free. Today we are seeing the internet work its magic in Tibet. Despite the fact that China is blocking YouTube, CNN and the BBC images and videos from the riots in Tibet are still seeping out to the web.
This is all breaking so I don’t [...]
- Jesus defecation poster request
Can anyone who speaks Swedish get me a pic of this poster?
Editor threatened over Jesus defecation poster
The editor of a Swedish newspaper has received death threats for publishing a picture of Jesus being defecated on by the devil. Östgöta Correspondenten editor Ola Sigvardsson has received several death threats since the publication of the picture, which [...]
- Bye bye B-2
A B-2 stealth bomber crashed just after take-off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam. Luckily the two pilots ejected to safety, but that is more than a billion dollars down the drain and as David Axe points out, nearly 5 percent of the B-2 fleet). The US has 21 20 B-2s in total.
It makes [...]
- Kosovo : Serbia :: Quebec : Canada, how?
Ottawa remains silent on the recognition of Kosovo’s self-declared independence. Prime Minister Harper is in a tricky position here. Canada has its own minority that could unilaterally declare its independence. Official recognition of Kosovo could set a precedent for a future Quebec-separatist campaign. The international recognition that Kosovo has received has encouraged the separatist movement [...]
- Paying the Bill
While most of the news about Kenya’s ongoing violence and instability focuses on the human aspect, that is, individual stories of loss and trauma, tragedy will continue to visit the country even after stability and peace return. Kenya has proven that even the so-called success stories in Africa, relative success of course, are hardly as [...]
- War on Scientology takes to the streets
Today is the 10th and we’ll see if Anonymous’s war on Scientology will actually result in protests IRL. I will be adding to this post as I see stuff come in. I will keep only to MSM coverage clips because there is sure to be tons of handheld street-level stuff. If you see anything please [...]
- Who is the enemy?
Well, there goes the fifth one. Over the past week four submarine communications cables have been cut and one damaged leaving more than a billion people throughout the Middle East and Asia Internet-blind.
SeaMeWe-4 near Penang
FLAG near Alexandria
FLAG near the Dubai coast
FALCON near Bandar Abbas
SeaMeWe-4 near AlexandriaNobody seems to know what the hell is going on [...]
- Serbia Chooses
This weekend’s elections in Serbia brought a sigh of relief to those all over the EU. Boris Tadic was victorious over nationalist Tomislav Nikolic. While most news outlets are emphasizing Serbia choosing Europe and pro-Western, it would behoove them to remember that with regard to Kosovo, the entire country is of one mind. Tadic, who [...]
