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Turning the ship before it hits the iceberg

Saturday, October 25

Aaron Klein's warnings to McCain and Obama about Hamas

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My favorite Middle East correspondent, Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily and a regular John Batchelor Show guest, ...
Friday, October 24

John Batchelor Chronicles the Crackup of the Old Orders

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The only good thing about John Batchelor broadcasting on the radio only once a week instead of five nights daily: it allows him to snatch en...

War at sea: piracy and the rise of private navies

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This story is so 21st Century in so many ways. The Somali pirates who captured the MV Faina are still in a standoff with the Russian and ...
Monday, October 20

Under the weather with flu

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I'll check back on Friday; hopefully the bug should be vanquished by then.
Monday, October 13

Note

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Three posts up today; there was also news over the weekend about the World Bank that's important; just News Google the Bank to get up to...

North Korea: Pundita's Sherlock Holmes Award of the Month goes to Toshimitsu Shigemura

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Julian Ryall has reported from Tokyo for the U.K. Daily Telegraph that newly-released photos of Kim Jong-il have only raised suspicions: ...

Why is an element of the global financial crisis beginning to resemble the Donner Party?

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Markets were plummeting left and right last week but China's stock market didn't do all that badly , despite the slides in the Asian...

More on William Ayers' education plan: Ayers-Obama relationship primarily an education issue for voters -- but try telling that to the news media

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Last Monday on Fox's Hannity & Colmes show, co-host and Democrat Alan Colmes had a field day with Republican guests who criticized O...
Sunday, October 12

De fox now in charge of de chicken coop. Me moving to Mongolia.

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"920P: James Polti, Financial Times , re the 35 year-old Goldman [Sachs] protégé at Treasury now in charge of spending $700 billion for...
Friday, October 10

Breaking News: MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE WINS 'HATE SPEECH' HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (Updated 3X)

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(There will be updates to this post as comments from Canadian bloggers roll in about the B.C. ruling. I'll keep a running tab of the num...
Wednesday, October 8

Signs not good that Kim Jong-il is alive

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Today is the anniversary of Kim's inauguration as the ruling party's general secretary. No reports of him showing up for the celebr...
Monday, October 6

North Korea: What's a song worth?

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Ah. I see they've moved the goal posts: "The North's hard-line military has insisted upon simultaneous nuclear inspections in N...
Friday, October 3

Sarah Palin takes command

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I didn't watch the vice-presidential debate; not wanting to be distracted by images, I chose to listen. Twenty minutes into the debate,...
Thursday, October 2

"The Senate acts as it believes it must, rising to the task of voting with the bankers and bundlers who pay for the Senate."

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Conscience: n. Definition: The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wron...
Wednesday, October 1

Is the House bailout revolt still on? John Batchelor has latest. Meanwhile -- shock of shocks! -- pork shows up in bailout bill.

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By John Batchelor, posted on October 01, 2008 at 6:26 PM Smoke House Fight Review Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who has his bowie ...

Financial markets rescue package fiasco: Death comes as the end

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I don't know why the memory of Agatha Christie's Death Comes as the End flashed into my mind while I read John Batchelor's late...
Monday, September 29

"CNN=Crackhead Nightly News." Out of the mouths of No Quarter readers.

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Dispirited? Bitter? Thinking America is going to hell in a handbasket? Before you reach for your gun and your Bible, take two readings of ...
Sunday, September 28

Say, which country is the U.S. Treasury going to bail out? The U.S. or China?

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Prologue Bernanke: I think we're supposed to first separate the blue and yellow wires. Paulson: No, no! Don't touch the blue and y...
Saturday, September 27

Vote for the Eskimo

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"Will John McCain stroll onto the stage tonight and tell the American people that he is leader of a party that will fight Wall Street...
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