Sometime in the last 24 hours, Bangladeshi blogger and journalist Tasneem Khalil was arrested by "the Joint Forces". He's the CNN and Human Rights Watch representative in Bangladesh and had recently been covering extra-judicial killings these Joint Forces have been...
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Who's uncivilized?
Call that humiliation? No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch Terry Jones Saturday March 31, 2007 The Guardian I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our...
Banned soft drinks in India
From The Hindu, December 20th, 2006: "Soft drinks banned within premises of educational institutions, hostels" The State Government has issued a fresh ban against the sale and distribution of all soft drinks, including Coca-Cola and Pepsi, within the premises of...
Wakey wakey
The Top 10 Lies of Web 2.0 Méfiez-vous du Web 2.0 [fr] *cough* toldyouso *cough* ;) Totally unrelated; having sex on a domestic flight in America will get you 20 years in prison....
The party's over...
Absolutely most see. "Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at ... all » school, the places oil centre stage as...
$86.84
That's how much each YouTube user was worth to Google yesterday. $1,650,000,000 / 19,000,000 users = $86.84 Of course it is far far more complex than that. Youd on't plunk down that kind of coin just on a whim.. or...
"Oh Lord, thank you..."
Not really following this Foley stuff but thankfully Glenn Greenwald is. What they are engaged in seems to be non sequitur after non sequitur, which they have been getting away with thanks to the artificially truncated memories of a media-breast-fed...
Reuters, Ted Turner, the U.N. and GlobalVoices
At 4:00pm EST today, Reuters is hosting Ted Turner in a discussion about the future of the United Nations. Turner is, amongst other things, the largest private funder of the U.N. The discussion is being webcast and GlobalVoices has...
"George Galloway Savages SKY NEWS"
(SKY is apparently the british equivalent of Fox News, both Rupert Murdoch properties. Rupert also owns MySpace now. Beware, the brainwash machine expanded by a couple million more brains... very narrow brains mind you... ;) Erasure of memory, loss...
Lebanon solidarity protest, Cairo
Lebanon solidarity protest, CairoOriginally uploaded by madmonk. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez expelled Israel's ambassador. Here a protester in Cairo offers her thanks and support...
"America's Online Censors"
Rebecca does an absolutely great job of summing up many of the issues and thoughts and results of the U.S. Congressional hearings held last week concerning U.S. technology companies and their roles in Internet censorship regimes around the world. We...
Open borders?
Consider this: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said the Bush administration should put on hold a deal to stop state-controlled Dubai Ports World of the United Arab Emirates from managing sea ports in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New...
Comparing
Long story but yesterday over lunch with my new good friends John and Colin, I committed to building this side-by-side comparison of Google China and Google in Chinese for the OpenNet Initiative. The reason for doing this is explained thusly:...
This sounds promising
From BBC News Health: "Dementia cases 'are set to soar'" By 2040 there will be as many people with dementia in China alone as in the whole of the developed world put together. Steven: But hey if we're all batshit-insane,...
"We're not afraid!"
Right... The man shot and killed on a subway car by London police in front of horrified commuters had nothing to do with this month's bombings on the city's transit system, police said Saturday in expressing their regrets. They identified...
What about love?
Parole for Mark David Chapman?: Cory Doctorow:Mark David Chapman, the loony who shot John Lennon in 1980, is up for parole.An online petition calling for Chapman to remain in prison for the rest of his natural life has been signed by nearly 2,000 fans - and includes angry threats to Chapman's life should he be freed.Link Somehow...... Even where his own life is concerned.
Oh god, no
This makes me so incredibly, furiously ill. Why, oh why oh why oh why oh why does man so single-mindedly seek to destroy his own humanity? (To be clear, this is not, in my view, an islamic issue: it is human.
Reading the graph
over at Jim Moore's . I read it like this: The more information leaks out of Iraq, the less enthusiastic the American public is about the whole thing. (There is hope afterall!) And, look at what was needed for...
5 million on terrorism list
Canuck: U.S. on the lookout for 'potential problem' By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN U.S. security agents have a master list of five million people worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or criminals, officials say. "The U.S. lookout index contains...
Federal matching funds vs. electability
For some strange reason, some people, who really should know better, are more concerned with some vague notion of "electabilty" rather than the cold hard economic facts of the trap known as "federal matching funds". Now I think I have...
Canadian RIAA gets its way
For no good reason, I visited the canadian apple online store today. I like to go in there sometime, poke around and drool. Go figure... Anyways, so I click through to the iPod section and - what da heck, eh?!...
Drugged and abandoned
Well well well... Correspondences - News By the People For People: Who captured Saddam Hussein? Hussein was betrayed to the Kurds by a member of the al-Jabour tribe because Hussein's son Uday had raped a daughter of the tribe. Saddam...
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
From a mailing list I am on. (My comments follow) "I try not to forward too many depressing articles. But this rates up there with the biggest outrages. Not only is the deed itself an abomination, but the way it...
No Comment
As part of my cable television package, I ordered EuroNews. Nevermind that the news reported is from a european perspective (a welcome change from the CNN et al), but there are two other major characteristics of this All-News network I...
Michael Moore publishes letters from U.S. soldiers in Iraq
I just received an e-mail from good friend and former employer, Warren Wilansky. Warren and the gang at Plank Design do all of Michael Moore's websites. He sent me the text of the latest Mike's Message. A small excerpt: What...
Ashcroft humor
US Attorney General John Ashcroft was visiting an elementary school. After 15 minutes speaking he says, "I will now answer any questions you have." Bobby stands up and says: "I have four questions: 1. How did Bush win the election...
Electioneering, stats and the network effect.
What a seriously odd series of moments the last 72 hours have been. Not five minutes ago I thought to myself "I'd like to see some visual representations of U.S. campaign stats. Like, where's the candidates money coming from, where...
Extremely disturbing
Article examining George W. Bush's upbrining and it's effects / ramifications. Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | So George, how do you feel about your mom and dad?...
Media protest power
From "The Prandial Post" weblog:So the media fought back by precisely not doing what they do best. As Ansar arrived in Parliament, everyone put down their cameras and notepads and just watched him, arms folded, not reporting on the events....
Scully? Any thoughts?
This is "way out" perhaps but no less implausible: SARS - A Great Global SCAM Caveat lector:The reader should reach his own conclusions on Horowitz's credentials. His earlier books appear to cover such topics as the author's thesis that the...
Incompetence at the top
This leaves me speechless. I don't know which is more impressive... Rumsfeld's arrogance and stupidty (and therefor the certainty of his defeat), or the fact that apparently, normally, an "embedded piece of the bureaucratic and operational culture " is essentailly...
Real dummy?
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Would the real George Bush please stand down Bush's main vocal technique - the bewildered pause - is only too easy to imitate....
One war post
Al Jazeera - Now in english and sticking it to The Man Look at this picture America. This is one of your sons. He is one of many MANY dead. Most of the dead are not your children. But all...
Daddy dearest
Bush Sr warning over unilateral action So George "A Thousand Points of Light" Bush Sr. is now saying Jr. should chill just a bit. Sing a song. Thx Warren....
U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation
In the new York Times (free registration). The policies we are now asked to advance are incompatible not only with American values but also with American interests. Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the...
Bye-bye
CNN.com - Pioneer 10 falls silent after nearly 31 years - Feb. 25, 2003 Off it goes, deeper into the night....
Important to note
My good friend N posted this comment on a previous entry of mine and I felt it important to repost it here as an entry of its own. Thank you Naz. Take this test:Here's a list of the countries that...
Not just Iraq
The current Republican White House of George Dubya isn't just being stupid about Iraq. Of course this is nothing surprising really, considering. Take a look at this insanity: "US Isolated at Population Conference over Its Anti-Abortion Stand" "US Anti-Abortion Stand...
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