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January 12, 2011
A Media Oddity

Via the Angry Arab, a piece in the Belfast Telegraph with a publishing date of Monday, 10 January 2011 and with recent comments is headlined: US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed

Hmm … I have read such some time ago …

Search, search, … tada! The Independent, Sunday, 25 September 2005(!): US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed

Same article.

So why is the Belfast Telegraph republishing as 'news' a five plus year old Independent piece???

Posted by b on January 12, 2011 at 20:26 UTC | Permalink
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Good catch!
BTW, ‘tata’ is slang for ‘breast’ – should be ‘Tada!’ Was your use of ‘tata’ a Freudian sylph? (oops…I mean ‘Freudian slip’) 🙂

Posted by: Dr. Wellington Yueh | Jan 12 2011 23:23 utc | 1

I recall a couple of years ago overhearing a physician in training where I work tell one of his colleagues that he paid his way through medical school by working for an Israeli arms dealer and was still doing some of this work on the side. I doubt that what he was employed to do is illegal, otherwise he wouldn’t have openly told someone else about it. But I do find it disturbing that someone whose job it is to heal others also has a job bringing harm to others. I don’t have it in me to do such a thing, but that’s just me.

Posted by: Cynthia | Jan 13 2011 0:35 utc | 2

Slow news day?

Posted by: YY | Jan 13 2011 1:41 utc | 3

When searching for info on the Lebanon crisis (the previous thread), my first thought was that this was an old story. (Isn’t something like this what started a chain of events ending with the last Israeli invasion?)

Posted by: Rick Happ | Jan 13 2011 3:48 utc | 4

drunken intern low-paid lackey aspiring journo copy paste …oops!

Posted by: Noirette | Jan 13 2011 19:50 utc | 5

Was your use of ‘tata’ a Freudian sylph?
It wasn’t. The German “tada” is “tata”. I wasn’t aware of some other meaning in English.

Posted by: b | Jan 13 2011 20:32 utc | 6

@b #6:
Ah…thanks for the German lesson. Long-standing Victorian attitudes toward sex in this country have produced some very strange kinks in the language (pun intended!).

Posted by: Dr. Wellington Yueh | Jan 13 2011 20:41 utc | 7

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