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??Angela Wu?? thinks the “sky is falling”:http://hereisangela.com/2006/07/13/coup-doeil-the-sky-is-falling/ — lately, I tend to want to agree. My news reader has been terrorizing me lately. For your consideration, a short list of things that have been quietly freaking me out over the past few days:

* ??New York Times??: “Accused G.I. Was Troubled Long Before Iraq”:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/us/14private.html
* ??BBC News??: “Scores dead in Mumbai train bombs”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5169332.stm
* ??New York Times??: “Japan Finds Still Harsher Words for North Korea’s Missile Tests”:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/world/asia/11missiles.html
* ??ABC News??: “Extreme Weather Fits Global Warming Pattern”:http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/GlobalWarming/story?id=2115144&page=1
* ??NPR??: “Detainees at Guantanamo Bay”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4711397
* ??CNN??: “Hezbollah ready for ‘war on every level’”:http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/14/mideast/index.html

Ironically, the best news I heard all day “came out of Newark”:http://blog.newarker.info/2006/07/14/not-in-my-city/.

I started trolling Wikipedia this afternoon: “World War III”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_III → “Mutual assured destruction”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_Assured_Destruction → “Extinction event”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event → “Red telephone”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_telephone → “Brinkmanship”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship → “Six-Day War”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Arab-Israeli_war. Huh, strangely familar:

The Six-Day War … also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Six Days War, or June War, was fought between Israel and the nearby Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria. Egyptian aggression initiated the war as Egypt formed a blockade of Israeli shipping in the Straits of Tiran, removed the UNEF peacekeeping forces from the Sinai, and deployed a large military force in the Sinai on the Israeli border.

Responding in an act of defense, Israel launched a preemptive attack against Egypt. Jordan in turn attacked the Israeli cities of Jerusalem and Netanya. At the war’s end, Israel had gained control of the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. The results of the war affect the geopolitics of the region to this day.

Somehow, blogging a list of links to the latest Web 2.0 applications just didn’t seem worth it today.