Republicans: we don’t need no regulation By Thomas Frank, Friday 6 January 2012 13.00 EST … Here are the two contradictory facts you must keep in your mind if you wish to understand American politics today: 1. We are entering the fifth year of a profound economic slump that was brought on, in large part, …
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Jan 06 2012
Newt Gingrich is a big fat idiot
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EItk7TuuV0[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EItk7TuuV0 Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people By Natasha Mozgovaya and Reuters, 01:41 10.12.11 … U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the Palestinians are an “invented” people who want to destroy Israel. The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives predictably sided with Israel …
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Jan 06 2012
We do sleep soundly
The shocking truth that killing can be so casual By Robert Fisk, Saturday 07 January 2012 … More horror arrives in the mail. Clive Burrage wrote to me about his brother-in-law, Harry Leeks, pilot of an RAF Mitchell bomber in the last two years of the Second World War, based in Cologne in the first …
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Jan 06 2012
I wish him to have dignity
Rebel without a state By Evgeny Lebedev, Saturday 07 January 2012 … From Jerusalem, the drive to Gaza passes tidy fields and shops selling locally-produced honey. For the final stretch, conifers line one side of the road. When they part, you catch sight of the wall that marks Gaza’s northern perimeter, its concrete sides topped …
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Jan 05 2012
Among the disputes are…
Romney’s Evangelical Problem Starts With Theology By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service, 1/4/12 06:16 PM ET … The good news for Mitt Romney: he won the Iowa caucuses. The bad news for Romney: evangelicals remain reluctant to support him. Romney bested former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum by a mere eight votes in Tuesday’s (Jan. 3) …
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Jan 05 2012
Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley
Death of Topsy the Elephant (1903) Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 … This morning we will be remembering the sad fate of Topsy the Elephant, who was put to death by electrocution for the murder of three. 1903 was a landmark year for the inventive folk of the USA. The Wright brothers …
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Jan 02 2012
Its own time and place
What Does The Book Of Revelation Really Mean? By Greg Carey, 01/ 2/12 01:25 AM ET … This is the first installment of a three-part series. We’ve survived Harold Camping. We survived Y2K, albeit with less distress than our ancestors survived Y1K. The world has survived end-time predictors as diverse as Billy Graham, William Miller …
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