Image via WikipediaI know that seems a sensationalist headline. I found it 'interesting' to say the least that not one - but two stories in the same post relate to violations of the NPT ; and not by North Korea or Iran, either. By holders of actual, functioning, real and present weaponry - not specious speculations, prognostications, false reports and 'what ifs'.
Where have all the libraries gone? Tue 26 Oct 2010
Some people would sooner die than think, and in fact they do! - Bertrand Russell
The Wall Street Journal reports yesterday that in St Paul Minnesota the traditional library has now been superseded by:
" a stack of metal lockers outside city hall. When patrons want a book or DVD, they order it online and pick it up from a digitally locked, glove-compartment- sized cubby a few days later. It's a library as conceived by the Amazon.com generation." ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052702304354104575568592236241242.html )
The driver? High costs of staff.
"Bush Didn't Write No Damn Book"
The first lie you’ll encounter in ‘Decision Points’ is the identity of the author; Bush didn't write no damn book and if I’m wrong about that, I’ll eat the shoe that Iraqi journalist threw at him. ‘Decision Points’ is a hoax as transparent as Clifford Irving’s fake autobiography of Howard Hughes.
I'm not suggesting that Bush is stupid. You need to be awful crafty to regurgitate the same WMD lies for eight years.
The word is already out that Condi Rice vetted the doctored manuscript before it made its way to the printing press. I can see Bush now patting Rice on the back “Condi, you did a heck of a snow job.”
Ahmed Amr is an American and a staff writer for LiveCheap.com. He is the author of “The Sheep and the
Guardians - Diary of a SEC Sanctioned Swindle,” which uncovers the extent of collusion between the regulators and the corporate crooks on Wall Street. By the same author :
Will the Times pay for its crimes?
Exit Emperor Bremer
The Whole World Is Watching and Yawning
California's New Budget Already Outdated
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this summer declared a "fiscal emergency" over the state's $19 billion budget deficit, and they finally passed a new budget last month. But now that budget is another $6 billion in the red. Poor Jerry Brown.
Big Society is surefire route to a weaker society
Balls : “…all the senior police officers I’ve met in my constituency, and over the last month doing this new job, recognise they cannot effectively deal with crime and anti-social behaviour if they view their role as being simply about ‘catching and convicting criminals’."
CIA Gini Index, from Wikipedia.
In case you missed it: 22 y/o Florida lifeguard “was rained on and started having rectal bleeding” — “Significant amount” of blood lost
The FOSL Forum is now LIVE.
*DEADLINE IS TODAY* Sign Riki Ott’s letter to Congress — Simple Instructions
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"Torturing Democracy"
Watch the Award-Winning Film, Read Key Documents, Browse Interview Transcripts, and View the Interactive Timeline at TorturingDemocracy.org
The Torture Archive
Update - September 16, 2010
More than 30,000 New Pages Added to Torture Archive
116,000 Pages Now Online
The Digital National Security Archive
The Online Network of Freedom of Information Advocates
The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
The Cold War International History Project
New - November 4, 2010
New Obama Order Standardizes and Limits Pseudo-Secrets
Follows Recommendations from Open Government Advocates and the 2006 Archive FOI Audit
March 12, 2010
2010 Rosemary Award for Worst Open Government Performance Goes to Federal Chief Information Officers' Council
September 22, 2010
THE IRAQ WAR -- PART I: The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001
Documents Outline Policy Makers’ Aims for the Conflict and Postwar Rule of Iraq
June 16, 2010
"We can't go on the way we are"
U.S. Proposals for a Fissile Material Production Cutoff and Disarmament Diplomacy during the 1950s and 60s
The Secret History of Dayton
U.S. Diplomacy and the Bosnia Peace Process 1995
Dayton brought to an end one of the most difficult periods in the history of U.S.-European relations, helping to define a new role for NATO and restore confidence in American leadership after a period during which it been cast into doubt.
There were two core goals of the creation of this archive and the writing of the study: first, to collect the documents and create an oral history of this fast-moving negotiating process for the benefit of future historians and to supplement the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States series; and second, to use the study to outline the bureaucratic and diplomatic mechanics of this complex negotiation, so that the lessons of the "Dayton model" could be studied and applied by future diplomats and policymakers as they worked to tackle similar problems (a fuller explanation can be found in the foreword to the original study). It has also proved invaluable to the many American diplomats who have been responsible for implementing the Dayton Accords or shaping U.S. policy toward Balkans generally.
Declassified in 2003, the original study is now available to scholars.
Howard Zinn’s Final Act of Protest
In his last book, the late, great historian—and former bombardier—examines his troubling actions during W.W. II.
Hal Ford, RIP
another class act passes away.
JJ's - Balkans & the Middle East
Press review Nov 12 - Serbia | Bosnia | Macedonia
Kosovo medics 'trafficked organs' | 2 | 3
End of the road for Kosovo organ claims?
Arrested Albanian 'trafficked Serbian organs'
Earlier articles
Tobacco-loving Serbs face tough challenge
Kosovo politician threatens debaters with a gun
Bosnia hails halt to 'political' Interpol arrests
Serbia vows to tackle EU asylum influx | 2
Bosnia to embrace spirit of reconciliation
Kosovo lobby contract cancelled
The Balkans can still be lost
Kosovo's 300 bln dollars worth of coal in hands of US
Another typical day for the dead in Kosovo | 2
EU abolishes visa requirements for citizens of Albania, Bosnia | 2
Diplomats gone wild - Malic
Secer - not yet sweet enough
Tadic in Vukovar
Aftershocks
Moderate earthquake hits central Serbia | 2 | video
Karadzic questions investigations into shelling incidents
Muslims shelled own people - Fraser
Markale projectile 'was likely fired from Serb positions' - Rose
Historic Dissident Journal "Problems of Eastern Europe" Published Online
Left Foot Forward
Is Anglo-French co-operation on nuclear warheads illegal? ***
Patrick Bury is a former Captain in the Royal Irish Regiment who served in Sangin, Afghanistan. A memoir of his experiences, ‘Callsign Hades’, described as ‘the first great book of the Afghan war’, is out now; he delivered his Masters dissertation on British military-media relations
According to Dr David Lowry, former director of the European Proliferation Information Centre, any Franco-British military nuclear co-operation would be a violation of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) – by both nations.
The UK is both a co-author of the 1968 treaty text, and a depositary state for the treaty itself, article one of which reads in full:
“Each nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; and not in any way to assist, encourage, or induce any non-nuclear-weapon.
“State to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, or control over such weapons or explosive devices.”
Dr Lowry argues that:
“Any interpretation of the entente nucleaire must regard it as at least an ‘indirect’ transfer of nuclear weapons knowledge.”
UK MoD Documents Link British Forces to Attacks on Civilians
Whatever happened to Diana's landmines legacy?
Paul Donovan
Observer.co.uk, Sunday 25 August 2002 04.10 BST Article history
After Princess Diana's death, governments pledged to end the scourge of landmines. Five years on, her legacy has been squandered . After the Ottowa Treaty, governments failed to live up to funding promises on landmine clearance and a number of arms companies were caught trying to sell the banned weapon in the UK. Other arms companies meantime sought ways of getting round the treaty.
The first of a number of media exposes of wrongdoing involved a Romanian arms company being caught trying to sell the banned weapon at a British Government sponsored arms exhibition in Surrey.
Children & Land Mines
Scroll down to see article - Eugene Weekly News page
Lethal landmine legacy from battle of El Alamein
The battle of El Alamein was a turning point in World War II but the unexploded munitions it left behind continue to kill and maim the local population
Afghanistan's landmine legacy
Sunday, 28 July, 2002 BBC
Royal Navy News Feed
[Twitter:] In keeping with the Royal Navy's traditional toasts - Thursday: Here's to a bloody war and a quick promotion.
[Twitter:] A new website that U can view journals penned by the Royal Navy Medical Officers from 1793-1880. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/surgeonsatsea
Chamber of Shipping: Merchant Navy seafearers awarded piracy medal by Royal Navy
[WordPress Blogs:] Royal Navy nuclear submarine navigation problems?
Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:37:43 +0000 - A written answer in the House of Commons from the Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Techno
US firms bid to run nuclear site - BBC News ***
A group of private companies has bid to take over the running of the Royal Navy arms base at Coulport on the Clyde, where nuclear warheads are stored. ...
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"Weapons of mass destruction are the most sensitive areas of military technology and should not be privatised”
Angus Robertson MP
SNP's defence spokesman
Texting 'health risk' for teenagers
Parents have been warned to watch out for signs of excessive texting in their children, amid concerns it poses a new health risk.
Full Article
Increase in rickets in Southampton astonishes doctors
More than 20% of children tested showed signs of the bone disease rickets, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust said....
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Airships, Aviation and the Environment
Tuesday 20 October 2009 Skyhook to do the heavy lifting
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