Bradley Manning is the true US hero of the War in Iraq; perhaps one day he will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The twenty-first century definition of a terrorist state seems to be a state that is outside the control of the USA.

two of the iconic symbols of the C20th: the mushroom cloiud and the Mandelbrot

it's a fine line between superstition and not offending the gods

the offices of Al Jazeera in Kabul and Baghdad were both blown up by US missiles - so much for the freedom of the media

Thatcher's Government crushed the miners and closed the coalmines. Today a third of the UK's electricity comes from coal. The UK now imports coal from Indonesia, S Africa, Russia and Columbia.

when i was young, my teachers told me that the reason why the USA and the UK were morally superior to the USSR was that we did not torture people, and we did not imprison people without a trial

how times have changed!

living forever is something which appeals mainly to the young

advance notice for "Digin! The Bath Gardeners Market" (Avon, UK)
Sunday - 22 April 2012
http://www.facebook.com/TheBathGardernersMarket

RIP Václav Havel

Politicians and generals tell us, "We are winnning in Afghanistan". The West spends $140,000,000,000 a year on military operations and the number of violent incidents has increased every year since 2004.

RIP playwright Shelagh Delaney, writer of "A Taste of Honey"

"forgive and forget" doesn't apply to institutions and authorities

riots in the UK?

what about the riots in China?

more animals used in UK experiments -- Charles Fourier judged society by its attitude towards women -- perhaps now, a society should be judged by its attitude towards animals

with the recent growth of Christian and Moslem fundamentalism, we seem to have regressed to a world of "an eye for an eye"

there's little difference between the UN authorising "no-fly zones", and the Vatican authorising armed invasions in medieval times

"the United States... whose record of violence is documented in the crushing of fifty governments since World War II, many of them democracies." - John Pilger

David Cameron's the 'big society'?

whatever happened to 'small is beautiful'?

"Baby Doc" Duvalier returning to Haiti to help his former subjects?
with help like that, who needs national disasters?

is it feasible for the USA to ever pay off its national debt?

those who have been most wronged are sometimes the most forgiving

Enemies of the Internet (2010)

Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea,
Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam

RIP Benoit Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010), whose book "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" may turn out to be the most important scientific publication of the C20th.

UK Defence Minister Kevan Jones attacking English icon Joanna Lumley? he's either very stupid, or is determined to commit political suicide

Google vs the Chinese Government?
Bring it on!

if the human race goes into space, it will probably need to modify its genotype