Another Russian is poisoned.... radiation is found in 12 sites linked to the poisoning of Litvinenko... it's World AIDS day...and it's a beautiful grey out...

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Signora says that today's protests are a threat to democracy and Sama7a says, on Al-Manar, that Nasrallah wants nothing but democracy and an end to sectarianism...and in related flights of fancy, apparently ahl il-kahf could sleep for centuries because they got a massive ear trauma from the Almighty...which a 'scientist' has proved is possible to send one into a state between sleep and death...for hundreds of years...wawawewa..

مؤكدا انه توصل في بحثه الى امكان استخدام الضرب على الاذن كوسيلة من وسائل التخدير الحديث

How God-like of this scientist to be able to do that...and if you can prove a miracle is actually science, ain't it no longer a miracle?

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And it would really be lovely if we could stop buying the myth about being against citizenship rights for Palestinians in the Arab countries they live in because 'we care about them and want Palestine back'...Are we supposed to think that some countries are against التوطين because if it happened Palestine would not exist?? Why, because 60 years of Palestinians being refugee 'guests' has really been great for that dream? The one chance we all get at being alive on this planet has for many Palestinians meant being hostages in a rhetorical game hung around their necks for half a century. No one did anything to make a realistic and functioning homeland for the Palestinians a reality but can still find it absurdly appropriate to use the idea of it as reason to NOT consider their citizenship. The countries that did give them nationalities didn't do it in some big plot to eliminate the chance that there will be a Palestinian state, despite what our epic seething paranoia about conspiracies might whisper in our ears...They did it because there are laws about citizenship that are applied if you give a damn about the people being born in and living in your country...and when they are not applied it is not 'for the sake' of the person not getting those benefits but for economic, political and social reasons particular to the country that doesn't want the Palestinians as citizens...so the angel wings can be retired when it comes to any talk about Palestinians and citizenship or the lack of it, enough already.

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The day gets better when this man has something to say...

Olbermann: "What a dark place your world must be, Mr Gingrich. Where the way to save America is to destroy America. I will awaken every day of my life thankful I am not with you in that dark place. And I will awaken every day of my life thankful that you are entitled to tell me about it. And that you are entitled to show me what an evil idea lurks there and what a cynical mind. And that you entitled to do all that thanks to the very freedoms you seek to suffocate."

wow it was kinda hot this morning, and now i need gloves to type...great great stuff to be confused by the weather...
Where is that thing once known as winter?
And where is that online kwti site where people sell their cars?

There doesn't really need to be any relationship between the things i say...
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Here are a few pardons:
1- Pardon?
2- Pardon?
3- Pardon?

And there's also a but of course...
An interesting...
And finally, a well, well...
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The Russian spy poisoned with radiation wrote some final words before he died this week...Radiation was found in the Millennium Hotel, in london and the Itsu sushi bar in Leicester Square which he visited on Nov 1st...and people who were in contact with him are being offered free radiation tests...Here's an article about who killed him? He was investigating the death of the celebrated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was shot last month...

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The Guardian has writers tell you what their favourite books of the year are...

Also there's money and blogging...

Bahraini elections drahhhma...

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It's lovely to welcome someone to the Galactica fan universe...there is good news in this world after all..

Here is a song for you...

There is a contest to name a new batch of 7 wonders...anyone want to nominate this deal with the devil-maker?... Then Lonely Planet suggest Belfast and Beirut are 'must see' cities...anyone want to nominate this other town of tears as a tourist destination?
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Germanwatch says that the US and Saudi are among the top five worst countries dealing with climate change...ahh good to know who our best friends are...good to know they are always helping to set an example in transparency, progress, rule of law, justice...and other fancy things.
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Shorts:
Al-Jazeera launches their new English channel---Because turning Darfur into the hell on earth is apparently not grisly fun enough, Sudan has decided to invade Chad---Ethiopia got arms from over 10 countries and counting, but the ones in the headlines are Iran and Syria---Pakistan has decided it's finally time to change rape laws, to now help the victim and not the rapist---O.J. Simpson writes a book about how he would have done it, if he hadn't done it, and wanted to pretend to have done it...erm...if he hadn't...yeah, what he would have done if he had killed his wife and her lover...cuz he did, no, didn't...a book...don't buy it, unless of course you have had Tamiflu recently and are experiencing one of the many documented cases of delirium and 'other unusual psychiatric behaviour'---If you wait long enough however, Global Warming, that thing everyone sucks at avoiding, will wipe out birds and you won't need to take Tamiflu no more...
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It's a lovely blue out again and there is one bird left chirping all on it's own...must feel sort of like all the lonely souls trying to make a difference in this place...keep chirping, someone will join you and then you'll realise it's suddenly springtime...
And then the typical kwti summer will come and singe your wings...but that's just me being cranky...

• Today there is Keith Olbermann...as there should be everyday
• But also there is Iran mad at Google
• And there is of course more Salon love for Battlestar G.
• There is also Jack Straw getting questions he wished he never got.
• Will the democrats make a difference? Larry Elliott thinks, not so much.
• There is a Scary new US court case that could affect the kind of news you get.
• And Lebanon, Lebanon...

Today there is only a poem..

Watching too many cooking shows...and not doing any cooking. Oh Tamasin why am I obsessed with your kitchen? So let's try to look at the news a little...They admit Iraq is chaos, isn't that big of them? oh no wait the word isn't 'big', is it?...Iraq is also said to be disintegrating and, well, a whole hell of a lot of hell is up north of us...quick, quick, look somewhere else, the US says there is a plot to 'topple the Lebanese government'...a plot...how sneaky, and distracting...and in other news of catchy ancient words for headlines, Egypt has a new major 'foe'...I have a new major disappointment, just when I was thinking about a flat screen tv I have to read that they increase global warming...which by the way, in case you haven't been on the globe for a week, is getting pretty bad...and if you want to know more about how bad it is, because you are morbid like me or just concerned look here...you know what else is bad? Life for women in the new Afghanistan, so bad that women are setting fire to themeselves to end their despair...let's get more depressed shall we? The same poisonous weapons used on our soil and in Iraq have most likely been used on Lebanon...Here is a list of the scarrriest people in America, and here is something that scares me to death, even though I'm not a fish.

Bloggers, internet users, everyone there is hope...I think...see I leave you with hope...even after I've bashed it on a rock.
Goodnight...