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Monthly Archives: September 2004

The lovely, ugly Wally 118 yacht [Boys Toys]


The power of make-up!

Office cutie to Ms World…

bronzing up: smearing yourself in your own waste [Word]

Aussie cons use this for..err…avoiding court.

What is going on in this town (London)?

Whilst I was away in wonderful Belgrade, I see I missed some fine old London horror-crimes…
Another teenager gets stabbed to death and a bus driver beats a student girl to pulp, this is not too far from normal London lawlessness. But the following story is shocking:
A gang forces woman out of her car and rapes [...]

Critical Thinking on The Net is back from summer break…

New posts and quotes, like this:
“Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and [...]

Horror photos of Russian school siege and aftermath

I have not really got much to say about this. I though suicide bombers were the nadir of Islamic fascists, but I was wrong. The deliberate targeting of children - despite a near universal human given that children are innocent and inviolable - takes this war to a new level of barbarity.
Two photo albums [...]

In Belgrade for 2 weeks (work)…

…so sporadic posting.

Hamas blasted! [BBC]

Blow up buses in Jerusalem results in getting your fighters slaughtered. Simple.
The BBC however spun it the wrong way around - “Hamas swears Gaza strike revenge”. What they have not noticed is that killing armed Hamas militants whilst they trained IS revenge for the massacre of Israeli civilians last week. It is part of [...]

This is deeply worrying

From the BBC
Satellite tracking for criminals
Prolific offenders and paedophiles are to be monitored by new satellite technology under three pilot schemes beginning on Thursday.
It is the first time a European country has used satellites to monitor the movements of offenders.
Convicted burglars, robbers and car thieves will be fitted with an electronic device that [...]

What Went Wrong in Iraq by Larry Diamond [Foreign Affairs]

From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2004
Summary: Although the early U.S. blunders in the occupation of Iraq are well known, their consequences are just now becoming clear. The Bush administration was never willing to commit the resources necessary to secure the country and did not make the most of the resources it had. U.S. officials did get [...]