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More Europeans clear the air with smoking ban

Thumb nail: Welcome to Norway: the only thing we smoke here is salmon (click on picture for full-size) I believe Norway is the second European country, after Ireland, to ban … Continue reading

28 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Kerala logs Microsoft out

The remarkable southern Indian state of Kerala does it again. It has banned Coke and Pepsi and now is pursuing a policy of preference for Linux over proprietary software, amongst … Continue reading

27 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel: Another week, another rights report

SEE ALSO Breaking the Silence: Fmr. Israeli Soldier Tours U.S. to Expose Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Military (Democracy Now) Israel violates Palestinian prisoner rights-report 26 Oct 2006 10:05:24 GMT … Continue reading

27 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Iraq: Reparations that are now an absurdity

Independent: 27 October 2006 In the topsy-turvy world of international politics, Iraq, a nation in political and economic turmoil, has just paid more than $21.4bn (£11.3bn) in “war reparations” to … Continue reading

27 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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