Shake Hands with the Devil, The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda - by Romeo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power.

First of all, as I observed earlier, even though it's been 14 years since the Rwandan Genocide, the names of the principle people involved with the international effort then are still involved with their governments and societies ( Read more... )

The Project is hereInteresting that Amnesty characterises this as "Joining the Global Neighborhood Watch." It's an interesting idea, and reminds me of some of those ideas of ubiquitious micro-photography and Internet dispelling the "black sites" of the world. Nevermind that recent US behaviour has proven that marginally incorrect. Then again, I'm ( Read more... )

1. Beebs reports on another Wikipedia controversy - really, you'd almost think the Beebs was running a hit job for the Encyclopedia Britannica people. ;-)

2. Changes to the UK in the last 10 years - Oh Happiness! Squeezable Marmite (Check last 75%)! Mmmmmm! :-) But what's this about all Britons wanting to move to Australian now?

3. No morning ( Read more... )