Are We Witnessing A Sea Change...

....in the Arab world?

Witness: Here, here, and here.

Round-Up

More Canadians cutting the TV cord: report

I'm ahead of the pack.

Iran halts pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia as tensions rise

That's pretty amazing, considering that Iran is a Muslim theocracy.

I guess it wasn't Air Canada:

Just plane cute: Koalas get first-class perks before Qantas flight to Singapore

Koala class? Why these koalas travelled in style on a Qantas flight

And from the cutesie-cutesie file:

Dark Energy Detectives' cosmic map sheds light on dark matter

And just plain out of this world:

Science Pictures of the Week: A spectacular star-forming wall, Yuri's night, and an ultra-hires rocket launch

Wow!!

German soldiers preserved in World War I shelter discovered after nearly 100 years

"The men were part of a larger group of 34 who were buried alive when an Allied shell exploded above the tunnel during World War One causing it to cave in."

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"Many of the skeletal remains were found in the same positions the men had been in at the time of the collapse, prompting experts to liken the scene to Pompeii.

A number of the soldiers were discovered sitting upright on a bench, one was lying in his bed and another was in the foetal position having been thrown down a flight of stairs."

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"Archaeologists believe the items were so well preserved because hardly any air, water or lights had penetrated the trench.

The 300ft long tunnel was located 18ft beneath the surface near the small town of Carspach in the Alsace region in France.

Michael Landolt, the archaeologist leading the dig, said: "It's a bit like Pompeii."

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"The dead soldiers were part of the 6th Company, 94th Reserve Infantry Regiment.

Their names are all known. They include Musketeer Martin Heidrich, 20, Private Harry Bierkamp, 22, and Lieutenant August Hutten, 37.

Their names are inscribed on a memorial in the nearby German war cemetery of Illfurth.

The bodies have been handed over to the German War Graves Commission but unless relatives can be found and they request the remains to be repatriated, it is planned that the men will be buried at Illfurth."

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"It is estimated that over 165,000 Commonwealth soldiers are still unaccounted for on the Western Front"

An Aboriginal Woman...

...tells it like it is:

Aboriginal women fear their own kind the most

"In the fall of 1988, I was in first-year law school at the University of British Columbia. Our criminal law teacher recommended we all go downtown and watch a trial where alcohol was being considered the murder weapon for the first time. There were over 200 of us in first year criminal law. Only my mom and I attended the trial.

Although Gilbert Paul Jordan, a.k.a. "the Boozing Barber," was linked to the deaths of at least 10 women, he was convicted of manslaughter in relation to the death of only one. Evidence at his trial showed all the women he had targeted, hundreds of women, were aboriginal. Fact is, aboriginal women who were alcoholic or down on their luck ended up dead.

That was 1988. I was 28, and had just finished undergrad work, escaped a violent marriage in my early 20s and had survived a teenage rape. In 2011, some 23 years later, I ran for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations as one of eight candidates, one of four indigenous women.

I'm writing this to share my views on sexism in our community and any linkage I see to violence against women in our community and our conspicuous absence as leaders within our communities. Some 90 per cent or so of the chiefs eligible to vote for national chief are men.

In my opinion, there is a link. Aboriginal men kill aboriginal women and girls, rape aboriginal women and girls, beat aboriginal women and girls, and no one is really talking about the moose in our living room."

As if we didn't know. But thanks for confirming it. Godspeed.

Weird Things Over Russian Skies

Meteor? Blast? UFO? Massive flash over Russian Urals stuns locals


Chelyabinsk meteor #2? Massive flash over Russia’s Urals stuns locals & scientists

Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do.

Wow!! Just Wow!!

From an Arab, yet!!

If I Were Israeli…

Wow!

A budding genius!

Wow!

Stunning admission from the Palestinian UN representative!! This is stunning both because it comes from a Palestinian and from the UN:

Palestinian UN rep: “Each and every missile launched against Israel constitutes a crime against humanity”

"In an astonishing moment of candor, the Palestinian representative to the UN Human Rights Council — in explaining the high risk of Palestinians being indicted if the International Criminal Court acquires jurisdiction – has admitted that “each and every” Palestinian missile now being launched against Israeli civilian centers constitutes “a crime against humanity”; that, by contrast, Israel’s own response actions in Gaza “followed the legal procedures” because, as Hamas spokespersons admitted on TV, “the Israelis warned them to evacuate their homes before the bombardment; but, however, “as for the missiles launched from our side, we never warn anyone about where these missiles are about to fall or about the operations we carry out.”"

Is a sea change just around the corner?

Wow!

As you can see, this is making headlines all over the world. But will the CAGW crowd notice the obvious: vis, water levels have been rising for a while now and landscapes and their related flora and fauna do move along with it. The Indian Industry will want to milk this for all it's worth, too, although there is really nothing new about this.

Ancient Hunting Grounds Discovered Beneath The Waters Of Lake Huron


Archaeologists find 9,000-year-old Hunting Drive Lane Under Lake Huron


Ancient Caribou Hunting Site Found Under Lake Huron

Ancient Caribou Hunting Site Discovered Beneath Lake Huron

Ancient Caribou Hunting Maze Discovered Under 120 Feet Of Water At Lake Huron


Ancient hunting camp found beneath Lake Huron


Prehistoric hunting structures found under Lake Huron


Prehistoric hunting structures found in Lake Huron

Ancient caribou hunting site discovered beneath Lake Huron

9k year-old hunting site immersed in 120 feet water found

Ancient Caribou Hunting Maze Discovered Under 120 Feet Of Water At Lake Huron

Lake Huron Found to Be Sitting Atop Ancient Caribou Hunting Structure


9,000-Year-Old Caribou Hunting Site Found underneath Lake Huron

Scientists Find Ancient Hunting Structures and Camps beneath Great Lakes

Researchers Uncover Prehistoric Hunting Site at Bed of Lake Huron


Lake Huron holds 9,000-year-old hunting blinds

Wow!!

The ever changing map of Europe (take your dizzy pills before you watch this 1000 year overview):




And another. This one is 2000 years of history:

Wow! Just Wow!

A journalist with integrity!!

Wow!!!

Just WOW!!

They Obviously Don't Live In Canada

http://youtu.be/q2fizeoT22g

And then there's this Irish lad: