Turkey now exports more to Iraq than to Italy.
full story HERE.
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The Rohingye population in Myamar are hated as "recent" ethnic immigrants, and given few rights.
But now the OIC (Islamicist backers) want to start an office in that country, presumably to make it into a religious conflict.
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EdDriscoll points out a UKTelegraph article trying to put the Jimmy Saville pedophile scandal into context:
yes, please do...someone needs to write a truthful book about the collapse of morality of those days, and how the psychiatric establishment thought it was good for us (including those who were my professors in medical school), and how media promoted the lifestyle of the sociopaths while making those of us who said no an object of ridicule...which is one reason why the old fuddyduddies hesitated to report the abuse..
A Jimmy Savile inquiry? We might as well launch an investigation into the entire 1970s
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If you are suffering from Sandy, remember those who are now trying to rebuild their homes:,
including Cuba
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I have written before about Benghazi, but the spinning and story changing by the WH has now led to conspiracy theories that the under-cover operation there wasn't just working with pro democracy groups and securing guns and WMD from local "militias" but invoalved gunrunning to Syrian rebels.
This link is via Instapundit, but conspiracy sites started pushing the story a few days ago...
the vast right wing conspiracy? Yes, but I seem to remember that the VRWC was correct about Clinton....
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Popular mechanics on the ten worst US disasters in the last century.
and don't miss their "Debunking Katrina" article: The press was 24/7 blaming Bush for Mayor Nagin's mistakes, while ignoring this reality:
Is Atlantic City's mayor the Mayor Nagin redux?
perception of general inaction, one that was compounded by impassioned news anchors. In fact, the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest--and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history, with nearly 100,000 emergency personnel arriving on the scene within three days of the storm's landfall...
"And now I'm going to have to send emergency personnel in there tomorrow, with live wires all over the place, risking their lives because Mayor Langford was worried that some of those people were angry ?" Christie asked. "That's not leadership everybody."-----------------------------------------------
Remembering "The Big One":
Atlas Obscura has an article on the ruins of a Portuguese convent that collapsed during Lisbon's November 1, 1755 earthquake.
The magnitude 9 earthquake struck at about 9:30 am on the Saturday morning, tearing wide gashes in the earth. The tremor was followed by a series of devastating tsunamis and five days of raging fires which devoured the buildings left standing. It was one of the deadliest quakes in history, leaving an unknown total number dead (usually named as about 60,000 people though estimates range from 10,000 - 100,000), and 85% of the city in total ruins.
More HERE. Ironically, it is mainly remembered today by students forced to read Voltaire...
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There are a lot of quiet things going on in China...here is the LATimes report.
On Friday, Chinese leaders woke to a New York Times story about how Premier Wen's family controls assets worth at least $2.7 billion.
heh. sounds like he is taking lessons from Gloria.
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