"What remains is for the Burmese government to allow the international community to help its people. It should be a simple matter. It is not a matter of politics. This is a matter of a humanitarian crisis" said Dr. Rice ( Read more... )

This teenager was dumb but young, and as such she's not expected to know anything much. Besides, she could have got flustered trying to speak in public without being used to it, by trying to sound like she had a pre-written speech. Ok, I'm in love with her, I'm allowed to make justifications, OK?

This woman, on the other hand, is arguably dumber, ( Read more... )

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Something I find interesting is how often neo-cons turn out to have been Marxists in their youth. What is it with these guys, is it that they're desperately in need of ideological leadership and once communism fell they just switched to the next thing available so that they didn't have to think for themselves ( Read more... )

Disney never had any problems with teaching children to hate Jews, apparently the Islamists have found common cultural ground with the USA ( Read more... )

"Anyway what has happened in Iraq would happen in any country if security forces were removed, yes even the US, EU & UK"Would it? Would it really? I can imagine that a lot of places in the States would go mad, places already very violent and full of arms (but with drive-bys rather than bombs), but I really can't see that civil society would fall ( Read more... )

Hmm.. I seem to have lost Sky One because Virgin and Sky are fighting. Big deal I'll miss it about as much as Fox Sky News ( Read more... )

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OK, so it's not a novel, but it's not directly relevant to anything I'm studying It's also very readable indeed, surprisingly so for an academic work, which is another reason why I'm counting it in my 50 books for this year ( Read more... )

Lord Bragg, otherwise known as Melvin, recently wrote a book called "12 books that changed the world" and accompanied it with a 3 part (possibly) series on ITV, which may still be running. The list he came up with was called by the Torygraph "idiosyncratic". Personally I think that, with the exception of the Rules of Football (a sport on which far ( Read more... )