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The government has shut a unit which has investigated UFO sightings for more than 50 years, judging its resources better spent on more earthly threats, it said Friday. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) closed down a hotline and an email address to which sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects ...
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My guess is , when pajamas first came to Shanghai, they made a strong impact and were seen as modish, but their correct use was not widely known. Then came the long period of isolation when such information was hard to come by and eventually pajamas on the street were accepted in an entirely ...
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Hey, we’re playing the septics. I wonder who among our Petainist pundit class will counsel us not to take unseemly, anti-American pleasure in the event of victory. Me, I’d like to be the first to say: remember 1812. The troops then turned north down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White ...
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White House
Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel. "I am waiting for my share after I contributed a rocket-propelled grenade for the operation," she said, ...
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I think this is about right. No, I think this is exactly right. This is ultimately my beef with liberal internationalism. I mean, I echo its critics from the left when they accuse its proponents of white-washing America's truly execrable history as an imperial and colonial power, but I think ...
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You can’t keep a dodgy geezer down: Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who successfully promoted the war that Barack Obama opposed as a presidential candidate, has sent the U.S. leader "sincere congratulations" for winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
... The few months of your ...
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Barack Obama
Slightly old but nonetheless amusing roundup of Taiwanese parliamentary rucking: The best Taiwanese parliamentary fights can involve up to 50 people throwing punches, shoes, water, food, and microphones over issues ranging from election procedure to ties with mainland China. In one infamous ...
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They’ve been having a crash currency replacement programme in North Korea, with the apparent aim of scooping up every bit of excess savings in the country: The exchange rate for old and new bills is 100:1, and the ceiling for any given household was 100,000 of the old currency, 1,000 won in ...
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Public Storage
From Adam Zamoyski’s Poland: a History . The year is 1975, and Alexei Kosygin is visiting Warsaw with a shopping list.
The Soviets wanted tribute in the form of a series of amendments to the Polish constitution...[which] was also to contain an insidious clause which made civil rights ...
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Bill Clinton
The Peruvian authorities are rowing back on the Pishtaco story . Now it’s apparently an attempt to distract attention from the activities of a police death squad . It strikes me as the kind of story that might have been used by a Peruvian police death squad at the time as a way of multiplying ...
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The Guardian is trying to crowdsource info on Tony Blair’s opaque financial arrangements, which remind this ignoramus of the bit in Martin Amis’ Money where John Self is induced to sign contracts to and with himself: Windrush Ventures No 3 LP, for example, consists on paper of a partnership ...
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So it goes...
UPDATE: From this thread: The idea that anyone should hold up Switzerland as a libertarian wonderland is a bit ridiculous. Quite apart from the minaret ban there are a host of stupid, pointless, interfering laws covering such vital matters as when you are allowed to mow your ...
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Legions, legions. Here’s the Tory’s Latvian chum from back in October: Thousands of Latvians were conscripted by both Nazi Germany and the Soviets, under threat of imprisonment or death, to fight in the second world war. Members of the Latvian Legion, though carrying the German-imposed ...
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Apple Daily in Taiwan recently started a mobile service, sending podcasts of what probably isn’t describable as “news” out to people’s mobiles. Here’s how they covered Tiger Wood’s car crash. Look out for the imaginative animated reconstructions.
Apple use a lot of computer generated ...
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Apple Inc.
Reporting the news in provincial China: On November 4 this year, the newspaper published the report based upon a hotline tip from a reader. This report involves a consumer rights incident at a certain large supermarket chain in Shejiazhuang. On the day when the report came out, several dozen ...
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I saw William Burroughs giving a reading in the old Heaven nightclub in London back in 1982, hanging over the balcony as the disco boys gyrated on the dancefloor below. Good times, man, good times: and best wishes only a day late to all my readers of the turkey murdering persuasion:
via.
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Bill Clinton
Well here’s a first. Our very own Narcocorrido:
"Its connection to this case and its chilling message were immediately obvious to the officers," Mr Glasgow told the court.
"The video had but one purpose - to threaten any witness to this incident to frighten them to such ...
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It all depends on the something: 61% of the British public believe van Rompuy is preferable to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was strongly linked with the role of President. Just 23% would have preferred Blair to take the role.
Naturally, people would prefer someone they are ...
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British Retail Consortium
This chap’s getting a little overexcited about artificially made meat: In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just domestics that were affordable to farm. Yes, ANY ANIMAL, even rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo Dragon. We will want to taste them all. Some researchers ...
