Crushed under the juggernaut of blind authority You’ve seen the Tweets, now read the blog. Following an interesting discussion with Jack Of Kent about Aspergers hacker Gary McKinnon on Twitter (described by one Tweeter as like Newsnight in haiku) I have a few brief points to make. I’m totally opposed to extraditing Gary McKinnon to […]
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Now, why does Rand Paul remind me of The Manchurian Candidate? Kentucky’s Republican Senate nominee and Tea Party darling, Rand Paul, who could kindly be described as “eccentric” by our wussy Brit standards, has gone all gooey over BP, defending the company and its gosh darn bad luck oil spill against that mean Barry Obama.
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Welcome to the true face of war. When you start something as nightmarish as war, you open up the inevitability of atrocities, dead on all sides, the murder of innocents and the death of the souls of the perpetrators. Wikileaks has just released video of the massacre of a dozen Iraqi civilians that shows the
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It’s an overused word, I know, but “awesome” is what these giant waves are. That top picture gets the hairs on the back of my neck standing up and the skin on my scalp shivering. The waves were mighty enough to injure fifteen spectators at a US surfing contest south of San Francisco. Despite the
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The Haiti earthquake disaster relief effort has turned into a scandal. While the desperate survivors wait to be dug out of the rubble, the media depicts them as savages, aid piles up undistributed at the airport, an army of bureaucrats fill in forms when they venture out of their safe zones, and an army of
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Anna Chen – 19 December 2009 Well, I used to be a fan of The Independent, what with having Robert Fisk and being so brilliant on the Iraq war. But with an article yesterday headlined, “China’s delaying tactics threaten climate deal” by Chris Green, and allowing racist epithets in their comments threads, has The Indy
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