The Corner Blog Archives: July 2006
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31 July 2006
Israel getting cold feet?
So, the Israelis have agreed to a 48-hour pause in aerial operations (kind of, anyway - they can still bomb away at “targets preparing attacks”). What does this mean? I, sitting in a warm, safe (but boring) call centre several hundred miles away, obviously have no idea. But speculating is fun, isn’t it? So let’s!
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30 July 2006
Bodies counted and visualized
Israeli/Lebanese coffin counter vs. US/Iraqi coffin counter
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28 July 2006
World Happiness
According to analytical social psychologist, Dr. Adrian White, Denmark currently tops the list of “Happiest countries” in the world.
We’re looking much more at whether you are satisfied with your life in general,” White told Reuters. “Whether you are satisfied with your situation and environment.”
The main factors that affected happiness were health provision, wealth […]
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26 July 2006
Drinking tea with Israel and Hizbollah
Although the strike against the Unifil wasn’t deliberate it most certainly not was an accident. There has been lot of debate in Jerusalem Post and other Israeli medias that the Unifil in the Southern Lebanon hasn’t just been insignificant but also harmful to Israel. They seem to see Unifil as impotent and not capable of […]
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26 July 2006
Israel is now targeting UN observers and using clusterbombs on civilian villages
I really wonder how long Israel is allowed to “just do what it wants”? How many civilian and UN casualties we need before EU takes action?
A Finnish UN observer is believed to have been killed [link: FIN | ENG] yesterday in Israel’s airstrike to the city of Khiam. Israel stroke to a light UN bomb […]
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25 July 2006
The middle east buddy list by Slate
The middle east buddy list by Slate
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24 July 2006
I found these “nice” photos from Truth will set you free
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23 July 2006
Cork Alliance Against War
Another political meeting in Cork coming up, details below:
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CORK ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR PUBLIC MEETING:
Ex Abu Ghraib interrogator Joshua Casteel speaks out.
Wednesday 26 July
8:00pm Metropole Hotel, Macurtain St.
When Joshua Casteel was sent to Iraq by George Bush, he was promised that he would be fighting the war on Terror. He was stationed as […]
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21 July 2006
Bigotry prevails
Isn’t New York supposed to be the shining beacon of multi-culturalism, liberalism and tolerance in the US? Why, then, did the New York Supreme Court rule that marriage is not a right gay people are entitled to? I suppose it doesn’t come as a big surprise, but I still don’t understand why gay folks aren’t […]
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21 July 2006
Pictures worth 1000 words…
More political cartoons on: http://www.cagle.com/news/IsraelGaza/main.asp