Classical Music

I readily confess, I don't know one composer from another or one piece from another, but I sure like listening to it.

Wow!!!!!

I Can't Even Imagine...

...what 29,000,000 or even 3,000 light years distance is:

Hubble Space telescope: Photos from 25 years of space exploration

It's A Planet Eat Planet...

...world out there:

Astronomers witness supermassive black hole eat its own galaxy's star-forming gas

Study suggests that Jupiter destroyed early planets

Meanwhile, this is super cool:

Awesomeness

Spectacular show during rare alignment of Mars, Venus

Moon, Venus, Mars Perform Rare Cosmic Show In Night Sky

Awesome

Fireball! Meteor Going 45,000 Mph Lights Up Pennsylvania Sky

Watch a 500-pound meteor light up the Pittsburgh sky

Watch a hot, speeding space alien explode all over Earth's Beaver

Payback Breaks Out All Over

The World Reacts: Islam On the Attack

Europe Cracks Down on Terrorism Suspects

Belgium terror raids: Killed suspects had police uniforms, Kalashnikovs and bomb-making kit

20 sleeper cells operating in Europe

15 arrested in anti-terror sweep across Europe

Boko Haram crisis: Chad sends troops to help Cameroon

Chad Sends Troops to Cameroon to Widen War Against Islamists

German police arrest two Salafist suspects in raid

Baird decides not to visit Muslim holy site on trip to Jerusalem

Iraqis want ISIS fight increased

Publishers and bookshops are defiant as they go digital.

The House of Saud recoils:

Saudi Arabia postpones activist's flogging: source, Amnesty

And John Kerry admits that the Obama administration sucks:

John Kerry apologises to France for missing Charlie Hebdo rally

Then they go out of their way to prove it: US Consulate Training, Arming Palestinians as Guards

Only 300 copies of latest Charlie Hebdo issue available in U.S.

Wanna Give Your Scroll Button a Good Run?

Here's a whole new perspective on the Solar System.

Requires patience and a good scrolling finger.

Digging Up New (Er) Old Stuff

Archaeologists discover 1,000,000 mummies in Egypt

Stonehenge Discovery Summary: Prehistory Has Changed Forever!

6,000 year old encampment found at Stonehenge

Another Hero of Mine

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.

Getting in the Mood

Wow!

UPDATED AND BUMPED:  And China, too:



1.4 billion or roughly another 19% of the world's population!!

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Modi Revives India-Israel Ties as Terrorism Threat Grows

With potentially 1.3 billion people, or 19% of the world's population, on your side, it's hard to see what can go wrong.

"Modi’s public overtures to Israel since his Hindu-dominated Bharatiya Janata Party won a landslide election in May are bolstering a defense relationship as both countries face threats from Islamic terrorists. The previous Congress-led government kept ties with Israel quiet, partly over concerns it’d antagonize Muslim voters the party relied on for support.

“The relationship is coming out of the closet,” said Sadanand Dhume, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. “This is unquestionably the most pro-Israel government in India’s history. It’s one of the many signals of a more assertive India and one that takes terrorism very seriously.”"

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"Modi called for an international strategy to defeat terrorism while addressing Australia’s parliament this week, several months after accusing neighboring Pakistan of resorting to terrorism because it can’t win a conventional war. The countries have fought two of their three wars since 1947 over the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir, which is divided between them and claimed in full by both."

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"While India’s foreign ministry says its friendship with Palestine is “an integral part of our time-tested foreign policy,” signs of a shift toward Israel were seen shortly after Modi’s BJP became the first party in 30 years to win a majority in India’s parliament. Swaraj, the foreign minister, in July rejected a request by opposition lawmakers for a resolution condemning Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

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Virus that 'makes humans more stupid' discovered

Sweet Revenge

How three Jewish teenagers exacted justice without really trying.

The day a Holocaust survivor got revenge on his tormentor

Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do

They're out there....

The giant stone circles in the Middle East no one can explain

I'm extremely curious about these circles. The one called Stonehenge, in England, is a long, long way from Syria, especially in those days. Did the idea spread by word of mouth, carrier pigeon, extraterrestrials or what?

Wow!

A budding genius!

Amazing!!!!

Animals blending in.

Wouser!!

First, there was the discovery of Franklin's ship, some discoveries of ancient ruins underneath Stonehenge, ancient Jewish artifacts in Israel, and now this: a 232.08 carat white diamond. Next thing you know, they'll finally find Harper's hidden agenda.