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US election cost over US$6 billion. Discuss
That’s the amount spent, according to the New York Times. This is many things but it ain’t democracy.
“Now I’m going to offer you a hamburger”
This is just weird. Benjamin Netanyahu talks awkwardly with Dan Shapiro, the US ambassador to Israel after Obama’s election win:
This is news: 65% of Australians view Israel negatively
According to a new BBC global poll (via the Jerusalem Post): Israel retained its position as one of the world’s most negatively-viewed countries, according to BBC’s annual poll published Wednesday night.… With 50 percent of respondents ranking Israel negatively, Israel keeps company with North Korea, and places ahead of only Iran (55% negative) and Pakistan…
“The white establishment is now the minority”
Bill O’Reilly is clearly very sad about this fact on Fox News:
Making money from natural disasters
Naomi Klein writes in The Nation about disaster capitalists salivating over Hurricane Sandy: Less than three days after Sandy made landfall on the East Coast of the United States, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blamed New Yorkers’ resistance to big-box stores for the misery they were about to endure.… Writing on Forbes.com… [1]… he explained that…
God loves Romney and I’m praying for them both
A lot of white people certainly don’t like Barack Obama. Why? Well, hard to know really but it’s something to do with “freedom”:
The Islamist revolution is here; are we ready and even willing?
The grand sweep of history after the Arab Spring is yet to be written; it remains a work in progress. But this piece, by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley in the New York Review of Books, is a stunner, riffing on the prospects of an Islamist phase, what this means for democracy, Arabs in general…