By Libby I'm finding that I can't wrap my head around the carnage in Mumbai. There's so many unanswered questions. It all feels so senseless to me. But the survivors stories resonate. Take Nick Hayward for example. A Brit who is the Asia-Pacific managing director of Euromoney Conferences missed certain death at the Taj Mahal hotel by a mere 30 seconds. …
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New wave power development offers promise of cheap, green energy
http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/11/new-wave-power-development-offers-promise-of-cheap-green-energy.htmlby Jay McDonough Using the tremendous power of the oceans, either in the form of wave motion or temperature gradients, is touted as an exciting new prospect in the search for new, green alternative energy sources. There are a couple constraints, however, with conventional wave motion in the number …
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It's time to reconsider the U.S. 'war on terror' policy
http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/11/its-time-to-reconsider-the-us-war-on-terror-policy.htmlBy Jay McDonough The horrifying, 60 hour long siege on Mumbai has ended. Ten gunman were responsible for at least 195 deaths and 300 wounded. From an earlier report from the NY Times: Bodies were extracted from the ruins of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in the hours after the standoff with militants there ended on Saturday in a gunfight fire. …
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at-Largely
http://www.atlargely.comPosted By Cernig Today, to much fanfare and absolutely no surprise, Obama announced his foreign policy team. I've already commented on his overall thinking as revealed by this team, so today I won't repeat myself. But here's what some notable others are saying. Most pundits seem to be honing in on one key concept - transformation - and this bit from
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Jon Swift
http://jonswift.blogspot.comIgnoring Fox News was bad enough, but then Obama went out of his way to insult Nancy Reagan, accusing her of holding séances in the White House. When he learned that Reagan did not hold séances in the White House but merely consulted with astrologers and arranged the White House schedule based on favorable alignments of the planets, Obama called Reagan to apologize for his tasteless joke. That wasn’t enough for many outraged
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American Power
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.comwere Indians. But just visit any of the top blogs across the leftosphere, in any case. There's little, if any, condemnation of the terrorists, only astonishment that an attack on the West would be reported as such. See, for example, Daily Kos, Newshoggers, Open Left, or Steve Clemons, especially, who can't resist using the Mumbai attacks to denounce "U.S. forces" who kill "innocent people"... "breeding blowback and rage." This is how democracies perish, folks. By refusing to identify
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Mission Accomplished: Iraq Parliament approves SOFA.
http://the-osterley-times.blogspot.com/2008/11/mission-accom...will dictate the US withdrawal from Iraq. The agreement was ratified a week ago by Prime Minister Nouri al-Mailki's cabinet, and is now guaranteed to be approved by Iraq's presidential council. As noted previously, one of the concessions to resistant Sunni lawmakers was an agreement the pact
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Mumbai Media Madness And The Presumption Of Expertise
http://boztopia.com/?p=432make it all fit into your paradigm, or make sense of a situation in terms of variables you understand. The world is bigger than your worldview. You can see this happening with the Mumbai attacks. As my colleague Cernig notes, everyone is grasping for a clear suspect and rationale for what is causing the chaos, and trying to make the elusive answers fit their narrative. “It’s Pakistani extremists!” “It’s al-Qaeda!” “It’s Somali pirates!” “It’s Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick!
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KIKO'S HOUSE
http://kikoshouse.blogspot.comyour term you'll be able to control the narrative. The big-ticket newsies will be too scared of losing their precious access to be able to consider independent thought or investigative journalsim that might actually turn up unwelcome surprises. -- HILZOY For a bunch of people who were written off as a permanent minority four years ago, the Democrats look remarkably like the natural governing party these days, with a deep bench of talent. -- PAUL KRUGMAN As someone who was skeptical of Obama's moderate posturing
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Mumbai Complex Terror Op
http://zenpundit.com/?p=2945is not, I will wager, an entirely indigenous operation. Here are my recs for commentary: Top Billing! Shlok Vaidya at Naxalite Rage Second Best!: The Counterterrorism Blog Next: DesiPundit Twitter Outside the Beltway Pundita The Newshoggers Danger Room
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Old Marine Graveyard
http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/11/26/old-marine-graveya...I have no obvious eligible candidates for the job.” The Swamp offers some blah blah blah on a widely respected manager, but avoids any touchy subjects. Like the fact that Obama apparently is giving up on surrender. Here’s a good one. Newshogger lauds the “wise move.” Obama need to concentrate on reinventing the economy. He needs experienced and respected people to handle the Pentagon and extracting us for the quagmire that is Iraq. I suspect theat Gates has more in common with with
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at-Largely
http://www.atlargely.comAs one prominent investigative reporter, who actually does his own spadework instead of simply regurgitating unofficially official spin wholesale, told me back in August for a previous post on the phenomenon of "stenography for access": Explicit or implicit bargains between sources and journalists is an important dynamic at work in the pattern of uncritical reporting of the official line. Of course the belief of some journalists that they must somehow earn the trust of official
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