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David Steven
US to world – sod off
The world may be in deep trouble, but Barack Obama is still stumbling around trying to staff up his government - testimony to a crazy appointment system and a...
That bonus – we’re not giving it back
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Cheney: Mission accomplished in Iraq
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The security burden
In Small Wars Journal, Sergeant Michael Hanson laments the weight of the equipment that a US marine carries to keep himself safe. 40 pounds of body armour,...
Peak emissions now – the right choice for Obama
Yesterday, I put some words into Barack Obama's mouth - re-jigging JFK's famous 'man on the moon' speech as a call for an immediate peak to global emissions....
Are we helping Pakistan?
I've been visiting Pakistan on and off for a couple of years now - and each time things have got much, much worse (see this bleak assessment from 12 months...
Obama: global emissions must never rise again
Extracts From Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs President Barack Obama Delivered in person before a joint session of Congress May 25,...
Sri Lanka cricketers attacked in Pakistan
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Enlist the old (and why being libertarian is not enough)
Over at The Interpreter, Sam Roggeveen objects to Jules's call for national service to be used to toughen up the youth in the face of a changing climate. This...
Peak Emissions Now
Why wait until 2015? Let’s declare 2009 the high watermark for global greenhouse gas emissions.
Joe the Plumber: Political traitors should be shot
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Kraken Wakes – climate calamity
The first signs of disaster are noticed by only a few doomsayers. Newspapers profess themselves 'distressed by the calamities that have befallen certain...
John Bolton: Nuke Chicago, hah hah
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Boeing 777 evacuation test
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Another rendition for Mohamed
Disgraceful comments today from Con Couglin, the Daily Telegraph's 'executive foreign editor', on the release of Binyam Mohammed. Coughlin thinks Mohammed...
Keyes on Obama: an abomination
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Twitter’s urban roots
Jack Dorsey has been talking to the LA Times about his early sketch (from 2000) for STATUS, a service that would eventually be launched as Twitter. What's...
Australian bush fire survivors
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Hoekstra on Twitter: I’m in Iraq, come get me
"A congressional trip to Iraq this weekend was supposed to be a secret," reports Congressional Quarterly. "But the cat’s out of the bag now, thanks to a...
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