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Extremists destroy kids summer camp in Gaza, threaten UNRWA
Armed, masked men torched a UN run Summer Camp for Gazan children this weekend. They also threatened UNRWA, and its director in the Gaza Strip John Ging, when they left three bullets along with a letter demanding an end to these kinds of UN activities. UNRWA claims that around 250,000 children were due to use these... »
My Top 10 TED.com talks
1. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds 4. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 5. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn 6. VS Ramachandran on your mind 7. Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 8. Adam Savage’s obsessions 9. Emily Levine’s theory of... »
Olympic dream vs. Vancouver reality
video report via The Real News Here’s a look at what mainstream media largely ignored at the Winter Olympics.. More at The Real News »
Head Shops products to be banned in June
from last night’s RTE news… »
Free the weed? (and tax it)
Surely we are grown up enough now to see the futility of our past lawmaking? At a time of economic turmoil, when politicians are chasing their tails around and the media following them, people are beginning to open their minds up to new ideas, new possibilities. You get all this marketing babble about , “a... »
Bring on the Blasphemy
So there you have it. Today, those numskulls in the Dail have passed the blasphemy amendments to the defamation bill without debate. Funny how there was no public consultation on this. Where did this come from? Is there more to this? At first look it seems that this is yet an another example of an... »
A lens on Iran
photo credit: misterarasmus So what is going on in Iran? Now that our trusty western media has been kicked out we are getting our news from the ground. The rise of social media and citizen journalism is playing a noteworthy role here. But I have to admit that I am suspicious of the whole situation. What is... »
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