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2006 Sydney Peace Prize address :: Irene Khan

Congratulations to Irene Khan, this year’s recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize. Past recipients include Arundhati Roy, Hanan Ashrawi, Muhammad Yunus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Olara Otunnu. For those that … Continue reading

3 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

They’re coming in thick n’ fast on apartheid state

I notice the official excuses from the apartheid state use protection from (and intelligence gathering about) terrorism as a pretext for these continued airspace violations. The usual hogwash to which … Continue reading

1 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

ACTME: Sheikh al-Hilali and the Wisdom of Solomon

News item: Sheikh will step aside, Muslim colleague says (ABC)   ACTME Press Release [with interesting misogynistic quotes from all three Abrahamic religions; see latter half]   AUSTRALIAN COMMITTEE FOR … Continue reading

30 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

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

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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