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the stars are beginning to hide
This is an interesting NY Times article (via Slashdot) about how humans have successfully expanded on their millenia-long project to trash the Earth to now include the trashing of space around the Earth. Apparently we have now reached… -
people tell me it’s a sin
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ALP maintains lead over government in polls
The latest Newspoll shows Labor leading the Coalition 56 to 44 on a two-party preferred basis. Some interesting graphs can, as always, be found on Ozpolitics. Of particular note is the graph showing Howard clawing back… -
church and state: cult directed members to support PM
It’s come out in recent days that the Exclusive Brethren cult, which in the past has claimed to be not just politically neutral but to actually forbid participation in political activities, in fact instructed its Australian members to… -
HIV/AIDS on trial
There is an interesting trial underway at the moment in the South Australian Supreme Court in which a man who was convicted of endangering the lives of three former girlfriends by having sex with them when he knew he was… -
feel like talking to somebody but I just don’t know who
A brief note to say that I will be clarifying the point of this place in the not-too-distant future. You can possibly look forward to some sort of underlying philosophy behind what’s posted here, including the reason why the dice… -
band reunion-a-thon continues
Hot on the heels of this comes the (alleged) news (well, a story in The Sun so the term ‘news’ is used loosely) that Led Zeppelin is looking at reforming to tour the United States.As if…
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european courts offer victims avenue to expose ‘extraordinary rendition’ kidnappings
It appears that the courts in Europe are prepared to ignore what are undoubtedly massive political considerations and are giving the victims of the practice of ‘extraordinary rendition’ (i.e., the warrantless, state-sponsored kidnapping and extraction to third world countries where…