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"The outbreak of full-scale war on August 8 had been preceded by several weeks of skirmishing in South Ossetia. In the first few days of August, many Ossetian families evacuated their children from Tskhinvali as the fighting intensified."
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- [from elizrael] Blackberry gets filter in the UAE | TheNextWeb, Dec 27, 2009
- [from ibnaddunya] Mahmoud Saber's blog » Between Cronyism And Cohesion Force !
- [from ibnaddunya] BBC - Podcasts - World Book Club
- [from martinstabe] The Scoop: The Gift of DataDerek Willis on providing local context to a national story using data: You can’t provide locally relevant information for a mass audience in a story ... That constraint – which still exists on the web, albeit it less so than for print publications – makes it easier to justify working with hundreds of thousands or millions of rows of data to build an interfa […]
- [from martinstabe] NYU Journalism "Primary Sources": Jay Rosen and Clay ShirkyInteresting discussion from about the 7:16 mark, where Rosen discusses the "sociology of the newsroom" research of the 1970s and 1980s and its implications for a world where the production routines of the media are changing.
- [from elizrael] Coordination Center for National Iranian Armed Resistance Forces declares its existence. - MikVerbrugge, Dec 27, 2009mutiny in the Iranian army
- [from righthand] It Is Time to Bury the Brutish Empire! British Deception Responsible for Palestinian Bloodshed TodayThe history of the British manipulation of Arabs and Jews is, as the incredible suffering of the people of Gaza attests to today, a sad story. It is a pathetic one too, because the world, and the involved parties, who have failed to understand the evil nature of the British Empire, and thus, failed to react decisively to its machinations, before, during, and […]
