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12 Jun 2010 13:42

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Politics: CNN spatwatch: James Carville basically calls Fareed Zakaria an idiot

  • “We want to eat our own shrimp! We don’t want to eat Indonesian shrimp!” Let’s admit that James Carville 1.) Is really entertaining when he’s talking about hitting someone with a “football bat” 2.) Has a really good point here which we actually touched upon in the last post and 3.) Is going to have to be careful not to run into Fareed when he’s walking around the office in the next few weeks. Wouldn’t you be emotional if you were from the Gulf, too?

14 May 2010 11:58

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World: In Indonesia, a plot to kill Obama during a state visit was foiled

  • They had some very ambitious plans. Inspired by the Mumbai attacks a couple years ago, a group of Indonesian militants planned to trigger a number of attacks on Jakarta on August 17th, when Obama was planning to come to town for a state visit, in an attempted coup. The group, reportedly a splinter group of the al-Qaeda-tied Jemaah Islamiah group, was busted back in February during a raid. Wow. source

12 Mar 2010 10:14

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Politics: Obama says “screw deadlines,” reworks his trip around health care

  • 03/18 the deadline Obama gave Congress to get health care passed, so he could go to Indonesia and Australia
  • 03/21 Obama’s new deadline, as a result of Congress deciding not to pass it on his personal schedule source

26 Dec 2009 10:28

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World: Today’s the fifth anniversary of the major Indian Ocean tsunami

  • 250,000 died in the quake’s aftermath – the largest disaster death toll in modern times, easily
  • 170,000 died on Indonesia’s Aceh province alone; those who survived were devastated source

04 Dec 2009 19:26

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World: Stay in, guys. It appears to be a cursed Friday night for partying.

  • clubbin’ In Russia, 100+ were killed in a late-night explosion at a nightclub. Fireworks are being blamed for the blast in the city of Perm.
  • karaoke In Jakarta, Indonesia, 20+ were killed after a fire in a crowded karaoke club. The people were trapped in a tiny room.

22 Nov 2009 09:05

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World: Nearly everyone escapes a sinking ferry in Indonesia – nearly.

  • 9+ died in the disaster, off the island of Sumatra
  • 209+ were rescued before it was too late; the ship held 220 source

03 Oct 2009 10:50

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World: The Indonesian quake could be even worse than imagined

  • 3,000 people may still be trapped in rubble; yikes source
 

01 Oct 2009 20:15

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World: The Indonesian quake is reaching a catastrophic death toll

  • 1,100+ people have died in the quake so far source

01 Oct 2009 09:09

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World: Scary: The Indonesia quake death toll just leaped over Samoa

  • 529+ dead in the Indonesian earthquake at last count; that’s a huge jump from our last tally source

30 Sep 2009 20:31

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World: We don’t like these massive earthquake death tolls

  • 110+ have died in the Samoan earthquake and tsunami source