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No, we didn't watch the conventions, (one advantage about living in the Philippines) but I saw a "fair and balanced" report on Romney on the Japanese English language news.

no, it's not on their website now...mainly local news about another (mild) earthquake there...
there is also a report that the Japanese gov't is subsidizing their "green" cars....

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 Factoid of the day: there are over 1 million Chinese in Africa, most of them recent immigrants...

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Marc Gunn is a "celtic geek" and explores the links between celtic music, Middle Earth, SciFi, and ....cats?


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Obama speech interrupted by.... left wing protesters?

it's going to be a long election season...
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And the really important news of the day: Larry, the UK's chief mouser, has finally earned his keep: he caught his first rodent at the PM's residence in London this week.