HTTP/2 200 cross-origin-resource-policy: cross-origin etag: W/"f70747b4bb4e0e2d76cc098405f16533d689ff90216eaf6f09f6279fbec08755" date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:21:18 GMT content-type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8 server: blogger-renderd expires: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:21:19 GMT cache-control: public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=1 x-content-type-options: nosniff x-xss-protection: 0 last-modified: Tue, 06 May 2025 02:03:08 GMT content-encoding: gzip content-length: 9399 x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-261356442025-05-06T04:03:08.288+02:00"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." -M. L. King Jr.misneachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11655813967717333073noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26135644.post-49362628043336252652007-05-11T13:59:00.000+02:002008-11-19T06:43:32.030+01:00

Castaword.comComing Soon.

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"If I give you a clean sheet, what will you write?Will your words be long and graceful or short and sweet?Will it be poetry or brute instinct?If you have something to say, best say it now.For soon, always, too soon.My sheet will be filled.And this chapter will end.As sure as the next will begin.With a clean sheet, new authors, and a millionp o

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The (Irish) players take the field.The National Anthems are sung.A bit of rugby was played as well, as Ireland trounced England by 30 points on the hallowed grounds of Croker.------------------------------------Update: "Was there something more than a Rugby match going on here?"I'm sure you're aware of some of the history between Ireland and England, as in the fact that Ireland was an occupied

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The Human Race is unique in biological history as being the only species with the capability and idiocy to invent the phenominon of War. As such we are presented with a basic choice between War and Peace.For most rational human beings the choice is an obvious one. What sane-minded person would knowingly choose war over peace? Who could possibly want to kill and die when any other option is

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The mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks is still at large, Al Qaeda is stronger than ever, the US was too effective in turning the Iraqis against each other (an old tactic dating back to Roman times and used extensivly by the British during their imperial years to spare their own troops by fostering divisions in occupied populations so they attack each other rather than their occupiers) and have

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Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President who received what was termed the largest round of applause ever heard at the UN General Assembly when he lashed out at the policies of the US, has won a third term as President of Venezuela by a margin of at least twenty percent. A US sponsored coup-attempt against the leader in 2004 led to a popular uprising to have him reinstaded, demonstrating his

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This seems to be the formula most widely accepted by the western media and the US/US's Puppy (Englerica? Ameriland?) governments. Lets take a recent Associated Press article, regarding civilian casualties (being a woman or a child under 10 still counts as a "civilian," at least for now):BAGHDAD -- U.S. soldiers destroyed two buildings being used by insurgents in a town in the western Anbar

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I can't help but think of a passage from the bible I read recently (book of Matthew, about hypocrisy) when I come across this article, in the context of the US's assertion that Iran isn't living up to their Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty obligations (which the IAEA says they are, but what does the IAEA know?).From The Washington Post:New Nuclear Weapons Program To ContinueBy Walter

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Recently there has been much news coverage of the "ceasefire" between Hamas and Israel (which Condi Rice was in Israel trying to "shore up" on Thursday) and the magnanamous offer by Ehud Olmert of peace negotiations with the Palestinians.The fact that the ceasefire has been anything-but aside (monday, for example, after the ceasefire took effect sunday, Palestinian militants fired rockets into

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Almost every day in the news there's something that causes me, for just a second, to lose my breath and wonder, have I dozed off and found myself in some strange dream based on George Orwells 1984?Today, the Associated Press reported on a system that the US government maintains in which a federal agent will basically arbitrarily assign a score that assesses their risk for being a terrorist or a

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I have mentioned the Tomlinson vs. MI6 blog on a number of different occasions, and it has received much interest.As an update, the Original Tomlinson vs. MI6 Blog was predictably shut down by Typepad. When you're a former secret agent, it's not surprising that your former employers would go after you when you start soap boxing.However, the blog has been re-born right here on Blogger!The new

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I am appalled by what I am reading in the news today.I place great hope in the EU. Progressive governance and an increasing ability (though apparently lacking desire) to break out from under the thumb of the US government gives Europeans great pride. However, continuing complicity towards Crimes Against Humanity should make all Europeans cringe as they read the news today.From Ireland comes news

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Updated November 24 & 25 below.-----------------------------------------------------------Lord Acton once implored us to remember a simple mantra:Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.Since its inception, American foreign policy has

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American cable providers thus far have refused to carry the new channel, which will be available only online in the United States.That quote comes from the "Jewish Telegraphic Agency" and exemplifies the exact reason why I am excited to report (for those that somehow might not know) that: Today, November 15, 2006, Al Jazeera will officially launch its worldwide english-language news network.For

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Ehud Olmert and George Bush met in Washington on Monday to discuss the latest target in the recently revived "war on terror" (originally declared in the 1980s to deal with uncooperative governments in Latin America), Iran. In response to this visit, Bush held a press conference in which he threatened Iran with "global isolation" if they did not give up their uranium enrichment program. Tony

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Before mentioning the American Midterm Elections, lets take a moment to look southward. Does anyone remember when Ronald Reagan and George Bush (the first), along with Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, et. al., went about selling arms to Iran to fund their support for an anti-government terrorist organisation in Nicaragua? Those fighting against the government in Nicaragua were called the "contras,"

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An article I came across today got me thinking: Saddam Hussein is on trial for the deaths of 148 Kurds in 1982, a charge that carries the death penalty as punishment. The fact that the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq has directly lead to a minimum of 3,000 times that many deaths notwithstanding... doesn't anyone think it's strange that Bush II, Rumsfeld, Cheney, et. al. have set Saddam up

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This album is powered byBubbleShare- Add to my blogSince Israel launched yet another military offensive on Gaza on wednesday, creativly named "Autumn Clouds," nearly fifty Palestinians have been killed and scores more wounded. These IDF operations in Gaza alone have been going on without a hiatus since June, and have caused the loss of some 300 Palestinians. However, due to the fact that a) it's

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Just a quick post about the Internet Governance Forum that was held in Greece over the past 3 days. Some information about it is available below.The introductory remarks of the section that I, personally, am most interested in (the "openness section," i.e. the freedom-of-speech section) included the following, loosely transcribed:The institutional fears of the new empowerment, because of the new

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Amnesty International Press ReleaseAI Index: POL 30/055/2006 (Public)News Service No: 27727 October 2006Embargo Date: 27 October 2006 00:01 GMT"Call to Bloggers" to stand up for freedom ahead of world meeting on future of InternetUrgent appeal for Iranian blogger held incommunicadoAmnesty International today issued a ‘Call to Bloggers’, asking them to get online and stand up for freedom of

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Yesterday I mentioned EU Elections Inspectors busy at work in the Congo to oversee democratic elections there. I have also discussed in previous posts the question of "democracy" "promotion" both in the U.S. and in other nations, such as Iraq or Afghanistan. There is an interesting article pertaining to the subject on Salon.com today, regarding a documentary meant to be aired on HBO (of

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Just a quick post today covering a couple of newsworthy items today (other than the first major snowstorm of the year in Stockholm).The first is the fact that the predictions of Far East analysts regarding North Korea using their Nuclear tests as a ploy to gain an advantage in diplomatic negotiations in the stalled six party talks seems to be accurate. While the DPRK's official news site has

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Among the dangerous threats facing our species (and in fact all species on this planet) today is the grave threat of climate change and global warming. The following article was posted on BBC News today.Climate change 'hitting Africa'Climate change is already affecting people across Africa and will wipe out efforts to tackle poverty there unless urgent action is taken, a report says.Droughts are

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from Cartledge's Grub Street Journal.---------------------------The Civil War in Iraq, which is claiming, on average, 100 Iraqis a day, is still finding its way into the news headlines. Not surprising as many of the moneyed elites are beginning to wonder whether the seizure of Iraqi oil was worth the cost (based on continually soaring oil and petrol prices), and that divergence in elite opinion

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When confronted with harsh realities, human beings have an inherent nature to do one of two things: bury their heads in the sand and say "it can't be true," or give up hope along the lines of a pessimistic austrian writer who once wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."Grave predictions, uncertain futures, and a feeling of powerlessness can lead people to give

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