Politics
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... »
Collateral Murder in Iraq [video]
Come on, let us shoot! This video clip was brought to my attention the other day from Wikileaks. It shows what can only be described as as massacre of more than a dozen people including two Reuters journalists by US troops in Iraq. You will get a bird’s eye view of the “action” from the... »
Posthumous apology to Alan Turing
The British Government today issued an apology to Alan Turing Click here for UK Gov statement BBC coverage here »
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... »
The Filth and The Fury
It’s scarcely believable, the things I’ve heard over the past few days. The publishing of the report from the Ryan Commission’s investigation into child abuse in Ireland’s industrial schools blew the lid on the the whole festering cluster-fuck we like to call “Catholicism” in this country. 800 priests, nuns, Christian Brothers and various others... »
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