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US mainstream media bias

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None of the mainstream outlets appear to be carrying reports of Charles Taylor as CIA spy. Happy to point fingers at foreign governments but not their own. Screenshots from Google news.

Bombs away

Love this track by The Commuters <p><a href="http://thecommuters.bandcamp.com/track/bombs-away-2">Bombs Away by The Commuters</a></p>

Pakistani programming prodigy passes away, aged 16

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Arfa Karim Randhawa, the computer programming prodigy who became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at 9 years old, has passed away at the age of 16, according to   reports out of her native Pakistan this weekend . Read the full story at Digital Life including this quote from Arfa: "If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind," she said. "If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind."  

Universe’s first galaxies: 13 billion years ago

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Hubble ultra deep field. The patch of sky shown is the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length to the heavens: tiny. Source: theurbn.com

Quran word cloud

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Source: Yusuf Ali translation via harunyayha.com