Robert Fisk, The U.S. Abandons the Internet, Google introduces new search options

Haj Mohamed has his own military background; he was religious affairs education officer in the Pakistan air force, serving in Islamabad and Quetta before arriving in Hong Kong in 2001. Indeed, Pakistani pilots used to travel to the People's Republic for training. So Mufti Mohamed is a safe pair of hands. No wonder he gets on with the security forces. But there are good relations between all religions – the mufti holds interfaith meetings – and when demonstrations were held on the island to protest at Israel's ferocious bombardment of Gaza almost 12 months ago, Muslims were outnumbered by non-Muslims. A non-Chinese Jewish businessman told me that many Chinese businessmen knew little about the Middle East "except for five minutes on CNN". He was very, very wrong. Robert Fisk’s World: In a remote corner of China lies a tiny patch of Muslim freedom

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Google introduces new search options By Mercedes Bunz on Media - Nine new options for filtering results and integration of Hot Trends aimed at keeping Google ahead of Microsoft's Bing
Google has introduced new options to search that are intended to make life easier for users.
The new options - nine in total - are hidden in the left sidebar and allow users to filter results by the past hour or a specific date range; they can be specified to look only within blogs or for reviews; and enable the user increase or decrease the number of shopping sites they get in the results. Up till now the search results could only be reduced to news, images, videos or certain languages.

Glenn Beck Uses Vicks to Make Himself Cry By Alex on Glenn Beck - We already know Glenn Beck is a phony who makes stuff up, laughing all the way to the bank as he cynically exploits the anxieties of ordinary Americans. We've even seen him exploit his own daughter's disability and pretend to boil a frog alive to further his agenda. And of course, there's the crying. Crooks and Liars has a video that shows us how he does it. Video after the jump....