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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.

Friday, May 6, 2011

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 BBC - Home
  • Obama hails Bin Laden raid team - 5 hours agoUS President Barack Obama meets the team that killed Osama Bin Laden and praises "one of the greatest military operations in our nation's history".
  • Syria warned over protest deaths - 50 minutes agoThe White House warns Syria it will take "additional steps" if Damascus continues a crackdown on protests, as at least 21 people are reported killed.
  • US drone 'missed al-Qaeda chief' - 3 hours agoA radical preacher who heads the world's most active al-Qaeda cell was targeted by a drone just days after Osama Bin Laden's death, reports say.
  • Euro falls on Greece exit rumours - 5 hours agoThe single currency falls on a report that Greece has raised the possibility of leaving the euro, but officials strongly deny the suggestion.
  • Border row ahead of Asean summit - 1 hour ago


 BBC - England


 Cage Prisoners



Crikey! - columns


Top Documentary Films
  • The Secret: Evidence We Are Not Alone - 5 minutes agoThe Secret presents the story of how leaked government documents prove that the United States has been recovering crashed unidentified flying objects, often known as flying saucers, since 1941, and ha...
  • The Elephant: Life after Death - 9 hours agoElephants can live for 70 years. But what happens when one of these magnificent beasts dies in the wild? This stunning film turns normal wildlife documentaries on their head to find out what happens a...
  • How To Mend A Broken Heart - 1 day agoDr Kevin Fong finds out how close scientists are to being able to mend your heart if it stops working. He meets some of the people who have undergone pioneering heart operations and the scientists who...
  • In the Realm of the Hackers - 1 day agoIn The Realm of the Hackers is an Australian documentary directed by Kevin Anderson about the prominent hacker community, centered in Melbourne, Australia in the late 80′s to early 1990. The storyline...
  • The Russian Revolution - 2 days ago




Drone Wars UK
  • Drone Laws - 20 hours agoAn article by two senior MoD scientists in an obscure US military journal suggests that while the UK military says it has no intention of developing a fully autonomous armed drone, background research...
  • Transfer Speculation - 4 days agoI wrote most of this post last night before the announcement that US special forces entered Pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden and members of his family.  It is noteworthy that drones were not used t...
  • Drones everywhere - 2 weeks ago Obama: Sending Drones to Bomb Libya It’s been a busy week!  On Monday the Guardian highlighted the MoD’s  new document on the need for serious discussion on the ethics and legality of usin...
  • New MoD document recognises legal, ethical and moral issues raised by use of armed drones - 2 weeks agoThe UK Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (click image to open PDF) The UK Ministry of Defence has published a new document, to “inform and prompt wider debate” on military unmanned aerial vehicl...
  • UK Reapers notch up 20,000 flying hours - 4 weeks ago

 
The Drum - Opinion
  • OBL, the West and the Spring Revolutions - 23 hours agoThe first week in May marked a momentous announcement from "the president of the free world": their number-one nemesis had been killed. Perhaps the spontaneity of some of the celebrations in...
  • Bin Laden, Twitter and gaudy media baubles - 23 hours agoAt 12.15pm last Monday afternoon, I turned on ABC News24 and was told that Barack Obama was due to appear on television at 12.30pm.  There was no information on what he intended talking about. Since t...
  • Conversations: do we need a budget surplus? - 23 hours agoThe Drum, in collaboration with The Conversation , a website that publishes commentary, research and analysis from Australian universities and the CSIRO, have decided to interrogate some of the assert...
  • The future of Australian sport - 1 day agoThe year is 2047. The Code Wars finally ended in stalemate – NSW is littered with empty, rusting Australian Rules stadia, and Victoria has been laid waste by the NRL’s Clone Army of Storm Forwards. Fo...
  • A tale of two cities - 1 day ago



Eco 20.20


ESA


Bin Laden's wife: 5 years spent in hideout

One of 3 wives at compound speaks to interrogators as more clues emerge to leader's final days. » Latest details


Gawker 



Great Beyond


Green Life
  • Daily Roundup: May 6, 2011 - 4 hours agoWrong Strategy: Yesterday's passage of a bill to expand offshore oil drilling will do little to bring down high gas prices, new studies suggest. Huffington Post A River Runs Through It:  Coast G...
  • Movie Review Friday: Queen of the Sun - 12 hours agoEscape to the movies with one of our Movie Review Friday selections. Each week we review a film or television event with an environmental theme. Seen a good eco-flick lately?  Send us a short review a...
  • Daily Roundup: May 5, 2011 - 1 day agoInto the Belly of the Beast: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have entered one of reactor buildings for the first time since Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami. Guardian Bi...
  • Endangered Species on a Bus? - 1 day agoIf a picture is worth a thousand words, Todd Gilens is certainly getting the word out. The artist's “Endangered Species” project, which runs until the end of May, involves four San Francisco buses...
  • Green Your Mom: The Fitness Buff - 1 day ago


 Media Monitors
  • Osama bin Laden, the US and Pakistani Rulers"The Generals and Zardari will deny their deception, greed and treason to the national interests. Surely, history will judge the rulers by their actions, not by their claims."
  • What Osama bin Laden, Troy Davis and You have in common"I oppose caring for anyone at the expense of others. Letting bin Laden off the hook would send the wrong message to potential future criminals. Prosecuting him in court would send the right one....
  • Everybody but Israel"Israel is certainly mistaken in not accepting the API with one or two reservations. Yet this does not exonerate the Arab world. It does not appear to have drawn any positive lesson from Sadat ...
  • MQM, Violence and Political Expediency"Before the emergence of MQM, people of all the ethnic groups co-existed amicably and peacefully. It is only after the appearance of the MQM that Karachi became synonymous with target killings, a...
  • Osama Bin Lynched


 Homeland Stupidity
  • The Nanny State Can’t Last - 3 weeks agoLast week, Congress and the administration refused to seriously consider the problem of government spending. Despite the fear-mongering, a government shutdown would not have been as bad as claimed. ...
  • Albany’s Historic Student Ghetto: Kegs N Eggs Mark the Spot - one month agoAlbany, New York isn’t just the seat of a clown car state government — it’s also a college town. And college students, when boozed to the gills, can out-bozo politicians. (Well, almost.) On March 12th...
  • Gaming the Game: Baba, Elvis, and the NBA Betting Scandal - one month agoSean Patrick Griffin’s new book Gaming the Game won’t make disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy happy. In 2007, Donaghy was busted by the feds for conspiring with pro gambler Jimmy “Baba” Battista and th...
  • No-Fly Won’t Fly Constitutionally - one month agoLast week we once again heard numerous voices calling for intervention in Libya. Most say the US should establish a “no-fly” zone over Libya, pretending that it is a benign, virtually cost-free action...
  • Buying Friends Creates More Enemies - one month ago



 In These Times
  • The High Cost of Cheap War - 11 hours agoIt seems only fitting that in the very month the "Terminator" sci-fi franchise predicted the rise of militarized artificial intelligence, The Guardian reported on a British Ministry of Defen...
  • Bin Laden’s Free Pass - 1 day agoWASHINGTON, D.C.—When George W. Bush rejected a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid-October 2001, he gave up the only opportunity the United States...
  • All Changes Great and Small - 1 day agoI have a problem with history. Always have. I went to what was known as a "progressive" school, on a scholarship because my father taught the piano there. In the junior school I learned abou...
  • The Ability to Kill Osama Bin Laden Does Not Make America Great - 2 days agoOsama bin Laden, evil incarnate, has justified so, so much American violence in the 21st century. We have launched two wars and executed God knows how many covert military operations in the ethereal, ...
  • After Bin Laden, Obama’s Opportunity Knocks - 2 days ago


 LEAF
  • Trends in Sustainable Food: 28% honestly disengaged - 1 day ago A few weeks ago, Defra released their latest research on attitudes to sustainable food ( full report ). They found that people want to buy healthy and local food. The full report is very interesti...
  • 10,000 Farmers Wanted, No Experience Necessary - 2 days agoThe National Trust is starting an innovative farming experiment, inviting 10,000 people to become ‘virtual farmers’ and get involved in the day to day running and key decisions at one of the Trust’s w...
  • The “S” Word - 1 week ago


 The Bible Reveals May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day! - 1 day ago

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