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The meaninglessness of shootings

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:34:06 +0000

One consequence of having been alive through a lot of modern American history is remembering a lot of mass shootings. I was working at a high school summer job when news came over the radio that Charles Whitman had gunned down more than 40 people, killing 14, from the main tower at the ...

The New Republic blogs found this 2 days ago on jamesfallows.theatlantic.com

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Scribd: NidalHasan

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:37:01 +0000

NidalHasan scribbled: There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble ...

Pajamas Media found this 3 days ago on scribd.com

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Quantitative Easing

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:25:54 +0000

During Japan’s banking crisis in the early part of this century, the Bank of Japan pioneered a process called quantitative easing (QE) whereby the central bank massively boosted the reserves that commercial banks held in its coffers. Bernanke and Co. have been using QE to prop up our ...

DP posted 3 days ago from democracy-project.com

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Matuyama, Motonori

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:20:00 +0000

> Matuyama, Motonori (1884 1958) Japanese geologist Matuyama, who was born at Uyeda (now Usa) in Japan, was the son of a Zen abbot. He was educated at the University of Hiroshima and the Imperial University in Kyoto, where he was appointed to a lectureship in 1913. After spending the period ...

Gates of Vienna found this 5 days ago on highbeam.com

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Obama has Become a Japanese Verb

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:09:05 +0000

The Japanese seem to really like President Obama. This goes beyond last year’s song from Obama City in Fukui Prefecture (it’s easiest to think of prefectures as being like states). Japanese youths are now using the President’s name as the verb “obamu” , which means ...

tsteels2 posted 9 days ago from themoderatevoice.com

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Winning the Peace

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:41:12 +0000

With all the Bloviators pulling out their "Afghanistan=Vietnam" analogies, Joshua Kurlantzick writes in the Washington Post , that we should only be so lucky. 76 percent of Vietnamese say U.S. influence in Asia is positive, according to a 2008 study by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs -- ...

The Hollywood Liberal found this 11 days ago on tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

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US economy is growing once again

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:47:52 +0000

The US, the world's economic powerhouse, joins Japan, Germany and France as the leading economies that have emerged from recession. While economists may be celebrating, it is too soon for the rest of us. The recent weakness of the dollar won't help Americans buy goods from the rest of the world ...

Instapundit found this 10 days ago on news.bbc.co.uk

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Okada's meeting with Clinton on, then off

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:34:13 +0000

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The U.S. State Department retracted on Saturday an earlier announcement that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would meet with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada this Friday. The department apparently jumped the gun when it made the announcement earlier in the day. Japan ...

The Washington Note found this 6 days ago on search.japantimes.co.jp

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George Bush's Tokyo pitch: Dirtball

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:00:47 +0000

by Mark Silva The Giants are up in the Japan Series -- 2-1 over the Nippon Ham Fighters. And George W. Bush, the former managing partner of the Texas Rangers (also former president of the United States), was there to toss the first ceremonial pitch for Game 3. Bush, ...

Think Progress found this 4 days ago on swamppolitics.com

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Jeremy Piven: 'I started to grow breasts'

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:59:26 +0000

Jeremy Piven has reportedly claimed that he stopped drinking soya milk because he started to grow breasts. The Entourage star, who decided to use dairy substitutes on his cereal, has said that he drank so much soya milk that it began to make him feel like a woman, reports STV . The 44-year-old ...

Deceiver.com found this 6 days ago on digitalspy.com

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Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

AFP - Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth. The cutting-edge but controversial technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being tested at the Mikawa power ...

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 6 days ago on france24.com

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