Another day, another alleged terror plot. Someone sure is busy striking fear into people, but it isn’t Islamic radicals. Rather it’s the people who actually stand to gain something from increased control. Now, this latest development in aviation regulations is just mindboggling. Boing Boing notes …
[The British government has] prohibiting all hand-luggage on planes, except [...]
Last September, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was assassinated by the FBI in his home in Puerto Rico. Though ostensibly sought after and placed on the most wanted list for his alleged involvement in a bank heist, Rios’ real crime of course was his passionate advocating of independence for Puerto Rico. Now, the U.S. can’t let that [...]
I noticed this blog (”Sex and Shanghai”) in a China-related story over at MetaFilter. If it is indeed for real, and not some 14 year old prankster, it would be one of the most aggravating, disturbing, arrogant, vulgar, self-aggrandizing and frankly racist colonial stories I’ve read all summer.
I find obvious parallels between the type of [...]
A new documentary on extremist Christian groups in the U.S. blending religion and politics (via Boing Boing) David Byrne:
There were some perfect sound bites - at one point Pastor Fischer instructs the little ones that they should be willing to die for Christ, and the little ones obediently agree. She may even use the word [...]
Another one bites the dust. Another lying, cheating American busted for using what appears to be exogenous testosterone no less. On the one hand, the ‘revelation’ that people dope themselves for professional cycling should really provoke a resounding ‘duh’, but since those whacky Americans made a big deal out of Landis’ win, his professionalism and [...]
(Via Slashdot) Called simply a formality, symbolic in the US. But few seemed convinced. In fact, many Americans seem convinced that it is a slippery slope and that they may at some point have to implement Chinese internet laws and whatnot. All sorts of irrational, jingoistic and americocentric fears are cited. Everything in fact except [...]
USA Today is on to the fact that economics is just a nonsense ’science’ of largely made-up theories and convenient accounting. Not to mention encroached by politics.
The United States’ true deficit is $2.9 trillion, more than three times the $729 billion the government claims, USA Today reported Thursday.
The report said the federal government keeps two [...]
KA-CHOP! POW! WHAM! MetaFilter
An official comic book adaptation of the 9/11 commission report is due to hit bookstores this month. The U.S. Army seeks an Arabic-speaking comic book creator. These are just the latest incidents in a long-running history of using comic books for propaganda purposes, ranging from Mussolini and Hitler to Captain America [...]
Don’t try to climb any trees in Tony Blair’s Britain would be my advise. As an avid gardener myself, I wouldn’t stand for vandalizing living matter, but on the other hand this seems a bit excessive.
But the afternoon adventure turned into a frightening ordeal for Sam Cannon, Amy Higgins and Katy Smith after they climbed [...]
Just a note to remind everyone that the best Instant Messaging client / clone just got a whole lot better.
With the 0.5 release, Miranda IM introduces Unicode support, to further improve integration into multi-language systems. Available now are 2 separate download options. The Unicode version is available for Windows NT, 2000, and XP users and [...]
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