For those of you who live in cities that emit massive amounts of light pollution, NASA is livestreaming the Perseid meteor shower. The stream will begin at 9 pm EDT.
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For a number of days, Egyptian police have been telling pro-Morsi demonstrators to leave their protest camps. The protesters have remained, and Reuters News is reporting that on Monday the police will forcibly evict them from the sites. If the report turns out to be true, then we can expect a high degree of resistance and violence. Egypt may be at a turning point in its move toward democracy, already weakened by the military coup against Morsi.
Israel has announced that it will build about 1,200 new settlement houses in the Occupied Territories. This announcement was the third such announcement in a week. The suspicion is that the Palestinian Authority gave up its demand for an end to the settlements as a precondition for negotiations in return for the phased release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Trading land for prisoners is not an especially beneficial deal since the loss of land tends to be permanent, and the thinking is that US Secretary of State Kerry made PA President Abbas accept the terms. Abbas will definitely lose legitimacy within the Palestinian community if the suspicion is valid.
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