Jan 28 2012
Canadian teenagers send Lego man into space By Shiv Malik, Thursday 26 January 2012 11.17 EST … [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwLmGR6bPA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwLmGR6bPA Two Canadian teenagers have sent a Lego man into the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere using a home-stitched parachute and equipment found on Craigslist. Two weeks ago, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached …
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Jan 22 2012
The World War on Democracy By John Pilger, January 20, 2012 … Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s …
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Jan 12 2012
What War With Iran Might Look Like By Philip Giraldi, Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:34 … Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called “What World War III May Look Like.” The article, which presumed that an incident involving U.S. troops on the border between Iraq and Iran could easily escalate into …
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Jan 08 2012
Blessed are the un-cool By Rachel Held Evans, Jun 15, 2011 … People sometimes assume that because I’m a progressive 30-year-old who enjoys Mumford and Sons and has no children, I must want a super-hip church—you know, the kind that’s called “Thrive” or “Be” and which boasts “an awesome worship experience,” a fair-trade coffee bar, …
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Jan 05 2012
Death of Topsy the Elephant (1903) Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 … This morning we will be remembering the sad fate of Topsy the Elephant, who was put to death by electrocution for the murder of three. 1903 was a landmark year for the inventive folk of the USA. The Wright brothers …
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Dec 31 2011
Apple: time to make a conflict-free iPhone By Delly Mawazo Sesete, Friday 30 December 2011 15.38 EST … My name is Delly Mawazo Sesete. I am originally from the North Kivu povince in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a deadly conflict has been raging for over 15 years. While …
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Dec 24 2011
The near-religious zeal that drives the godless By Howard Jacobson, Saturday 24 December 2011 … May I take this opportunity to wish readers a happy “moral and aesthetic nightmare”. That definition of Christmas belongs to the late Christopher Hitchens. Anybody can slag off Christmas, but it takes a smart way with words to make so …
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