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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Obama cautions against Gaza incursion, Murdoch muses about "Jewish Owned" media, and other stories from The Slatest.

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

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President Obama: "Preferable" To Avoid Gaza Ground Incursion
Sunday, November 18, 2012, at 10:50 AM EST

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Israel Prepared To Widen Gaza Offensive as Truce Remains Elusive
Sunday, November 18, 2012, at 9:31 AM EST

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Obama: No Compromise on Raising Taxes for Rich
Saturday, November 17, 2012, at 1:47 PM EST

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Rupert Murdoch Wonders Why "Jewish Owned" Media Have "Anti-Israel" Bias
Sunday, November 18, 2012, at 9:45 AM EST

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Train Hits School Bus in Egypt, Killing at Least 50
Saturday, November 17, 2012, at 1:57 PM EST

 
Blog | Daniel Politi
Why Do Senior Generals Live Like Billionaires?
Sunday, November 18, 2012, at 10:36 AM EST

 
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It Has Been Nearly 28 Years Since We Have Had a Colder-Than-Average Month
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(GOP Congressman Says) Petraeus Says Terrorist-Attack Talking Point Was Scrubbed at Last Second
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While The Band Played On

Adam Curtis | BBC | 14 November 2012

A bit of video and music fun. Curtis has cut together some arresting footage from the BBC archives of people dancing; and put the footage to two different soundtracks to show how music affects your perception of what you're seeing Comments

Your Daughter Died

Deborah Blum | Wired | 15 November 2012

Chain of fatal poisonings in Thailand, mostly of foreign tourists. Police refuse to investigate. Authorities blame insecticide in hotels. "I used to work in Phuket and have seen it to be a common practice to poison foreigners" Comments

Interview: Anne Applebaum

Jonathan Derbyshire | New Statesman | 8 November 2012

Succinct Q&A about Soviet power in post-war Europe. "If Austria had been taken over, Austria would have been a communist country. And if the Soviets hadn’t taken over Poland, Poland wouldn’t have been a communist country" Comments

Kill The Password

Mat Honan | Wired | 15 November 2012

"Nothing you do, no precaution you take, no long or random string of characters can stop a dedicated and devious individual from cracking your account. The age of the password has come to an end; we just haven’t realised it yet" Comments

Will Arabs Turn Out For Gaza?

Marc Lynch | Foreign Policy | 16 November 2012

"Israel is gambling that the Arab uprisings have changed little, and that Arab leaders will continue to act much as they did during its 2008-09 war against Gaza, controlling popular anger while doing little beyond heated rhetoric" Comments

Learning To Love Volatility

Nassim Nicholas Taleb | WSJ | 16 November 2012

We must learn to benefit from disorder that "black swans" bring. Taleb's term for this quality is "antifragile", and here are his "five policy rules that can help to establish antifragility as a principle of our socioeconomic life" Comments