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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, January 17, 2011

17 January - Late Links

British Soldiers patrol Helmand Province.Image via Wikipedia

I've been offline for several days due to technical problems with my broadband connection. Since I'm also in the process of moving and house-sitting things are likely to be somewhat spotty. Plus My Opera has not been resolving this evening and I have been able to make only a partial record.

Afghanistan's push to tax U.S. contractors could renew tensions


UK linked to notorious Bangladesh torture centre

In September it emerged that in recent years MI5 and MI6 have always asked the home secretary or foreign secretary for permission before conducting any information exchange where there was a risk of an individual being tortured. Smith, her successor Alan Johnson and David Miliband, the foreign secretary during the period of the joint UK-Bangladeshi counter-terrorism campaign, have declined to answer questions about the matter.



Haiti at boiling point as former dictator returns

The US state department has refused to comment 
( There's a first! )


Groundwater Overexplotiation Pushes Arsenic into Deeper Aquifers


The War on Logic


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