Breivik and His Enablers By Roger Cohen, July 25, 2011 … LONDON — On one level Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian responsible for the biggest massacre by a single gunman in modern times, is just a particularly murderous psychotic loner: the 32-year-old mama’s boy with no contact with his father, obsessed by video games (Dragon …
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Jul 25 2011
Broadband terrorism
Slaughter was killer’s appetiser. It is the trial that is his main course By Dr. Matthew Feldman, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 … The heart-stopping events of 22 July 2011 appear to be the work of a far-right ideologue acting alone – Anders Behring Breivik, 32, who bombed central Oslo and shot down children for more …
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Jul 25 2011
We’re in a frightening place
The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture By Charlie Brooker, Sunday 24 July 2011 22.07 BST … I went to bed in a terrible world and awoke inside a worse one. At the time of writing, details of the Norwegian atrocity are still emerging, although the identity of the perpetrator has now been …
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Jul 25 2011
Taxes have to go up
How the Deficit Got This Big By Teresa Tritch, July 23, 2011 … With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future …
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Jul 24 2011
A new twinkie defense
Was I Unfair to The Atlantic? By Matt Barganier, July 24, 2011 … On Friday, I included The Atlantic in a list of sources that “ran with the unsubstantiated Muslim-terrorist angle” immediately after the attacks in Norway. I was referring to a they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms piece about an alleged 2010 plot by three Muslims against Norwegian targets. …
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Jul 23 2011
The most meaningless word
The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism” By Glenn Greenwald, Saturday, Jul 23, 2011 07:24 ET … (updated below) For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to definitive statements on …
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Jul 22 2011
Boobs
‘Haboobs’ Stir Critics in Arizona By Marc Lacey, July 21, 2011 … PHOENIX — The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to call them. The blinding waves of brown particles, the most recent of which hit Phoenix on …
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