Unexpected Events
I’ve been offline these last few weeks due to a being a hospital patient but now home again and wil be catching up on events and reading.
Categories: MEDIA
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Reuters
- China families protest mine disaster, toll hits 104 November 23, 2009HEGANG, China (Reuters) - Relatives of victims of a gas blast at a northeast Chinese coal mine scuffled with police and demanded answers from the owners on Monday as state media put the toll from the latest in a series of mine disasters at 104.
Centre for American Progress
- Iran's Crisis of ResistanceFacing heavy domestic criticism, the Iranian regime could seek to recoup lost credibility by causing more trouble in the region, writes Matthew Duss in The American Prospect.
Harry’s Place
- Another Scoop About The New Statesman November 23, 2009This is a guest post by Avicenna Harry’s Place recently noted the New Statesman “scoop” over supposed gaffe by easyJet’s in-flight magazine, which organised a fashion shoot at Berlin’s Holocaust Museum. This from a magazine which recently printed an interview with Khaled Meshal, leader of Hamas, an organisation which describes the Holocaust as a Zionist lie. […]
Peston’s Picks
- The Treasury hedge fund November 3, 2009HM Treasury today becomes perhaps the biggest hedge fund in the UK: it is investing £25.5bn in Royal Bank of Scotland shares and £5.7bn in Lloyds shares, financed almost exclusively by borrowing. It's probably quite good business. If we're past the nadir for the economy and for bank shares - and that's a fair bet - it's not a bad punt to […]
Nick Robinson’s Blog
- Reasons to be careful November 23, 2009Much excited talk of a hung Parliament after one poll in the Observer yesterday. Here are my reasons to be careful (parts one, two and three) before getting carried away: • Polls are interesting because they are surprising. They're usually surprising because they're out of line with other polls. Thus, one needs to be wary of interesting polls. […]
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