May 2009
Terrorism in the USA →
(via spuriousbile)
Christian terrorists no less!
Sleaze ball of the week?
Frank Cook claimed back a £5 donation made at a church service to commemorate the sacrifice of RAF pilots. The left wing MP for Stockton North signed the claim thus: “Battle of Britain church service, Sunday 17.09.06. £5 contribution to offertory on behalf of Frank Cook MP.” Where do you start?
Animals 'can tell right from wrong': Scientists... →
Animals have a sense of morality and can tell right from wrong, according to new research.
Species ranging from mice to wolves are governed by similar codes of conduct as humans, say ecologists.
Until recently, humans were thought to be the only species to experience complex emotions
But Professor Marc Bekoff, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, believes that morals are ‘hard-wired’ into...
Hendrix 'was murdered' by his manager, claims... →
Rock legend Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager as part of an insurance scam, a new book by one of his former aides claims. Hendrix choked to death on his own vomit when he was 27 – but the exact circumstances of his death have always been a mystery. Now James ‘Tappy’ Wright, one of the rock star’s roadies, claims that Hendrix’s manager, Michael Jeffery, confessed to killing him. Jeffery is...
Whilst I am thoroughly enjoying seeing so many MPs having their snouts dragged from the trough and being publicly humiliated I think it’s time for the press to turn their attention to the European Parliament and start exposing the far greater corruption which runs through every level of that less than august body.
Remember that this is a publicly accountable body which has consistently...
After the fiddles come the freebies →
For every visit by Members of Parliament to Israel or Iraq, there are lots of all-expenses-paid junkets to such exotic locations as the Maldives and the Cayman Islands. Jane Merrick, Nina Lakhani and Emily Dugan report
A new front opened up in the Westminster expenses scandal last night after it emerged that MPs are travelling around the world on hundreds of trips a year paid for by the taxpayer...
It’s a real shame that Jacques Chirac didn’t speak out at the time about Bush’s telephone conversation invoking fanatical Old Testament prophecy. Retropolitics makes the point that “it’s only strange/shocking/unbelievable if you haven’t been paying any attention” but the truth is that I never saw any mention of this level of dementia/paranoia in the press outside of...
OKAY
jhnbrssndn:
bingoparaphernalia:
thecurvature:
So you know what pisses me off? When my country goes and invades another country despite my extreme disapproval and protest, and spends billions of dollars invading that country, killing lord only know how many innocent people, including children, oh, and then locking people up only to torture and rape them — and then, AND THEN, I find out that...
“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in...”
– Elbert Hubbard
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
...
Threat of the 'thought police' alarms Israel's... →
Israeli Arab leaders have called an emergency meeting today to discuss their growing alarm over a series of “racist and fascist” bills being promoted by right-wing members of the country’s parliament. One of the bills has already brought fierce accusations from two prominent Jewish Knesset members that its backers are trying to create a “thought police” and...
MPs' expenses: Phantom mortgage MPs must face... →
The Conservative leader’s warning came as Elliot Morley — the former Labour minister exposed for claiming more than £16,000 for a mortgage he had already paid off — announced he was standing down as an MP.
Mr Morley said he had made the decision with “regret” and insisted that he had done nothing wrong.
I guess it’s going to be up to the courts to decide whether these people actually did do...
Time-Lapse Videos of Massive Change on Earth |... →
psychonauts:
ledgergermane:
(via americansatori)
Watch Dubai grow! Watch the Aral Sea shrink into a small, salty puddle! Watch the Amazon get deforested. All the *hits*.
It really pisses me off when I see or read about the Global warming nay sayers who use whatever handy argument they can find to defend the status quo. Pictures like this prove that it doesn’t matter what’s...
A Pale Blue Dot →
retropolitics:
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and...
I wish this would get reblogged or rewritten not...
jmarie3:
1980:
I’m so tired of seeing rape, suicide, murder, molestation, and other words of such horrible meanings used in such a fun fashion while implying the sexual and devious nature of the words.
It just bugs me to no extreme. Really people, is it such a joke, is it really that funny??
Until it happens to someone extremely close to you, you will never understand and if it does and you...
It’s one’o’clock and time for...
Not to be morbid, just wondering.
buttersandwiches:
What would you want written on your tombstone?
“I told you I was sick!” (credit this to the late, great Spike Milligan)
I also wonder just how long Obama believes that he can keep these photographs out of the public domain. Stuff like this has an irritating habit of being leaked (it happened with the original Abu Ghraib pictures) and you can bet your house that someone with access to them will have a fit of conscience and leak some, if not all of them, leaving the entire administration and military looking like a...
“I saw [name of a translator] ******* a kid, his age would be about 15 to 18...”
– Abu Ghraib abuse photos ‘show rape’ - Telegraph
via Coitus and Cop-outs (via sexartandpolitics)
(via moderndancers)
Further down I read the following ……
The translator was an American Egyptian who is now the subject of a civil court case in the US.
…. and I ask myself what...
U.N. Convention against Torture
This convention bans torture under all circumstances and establishes the UN Committee against Torture. In particular, it defines torture, requires states to take effective legal and other measures to prevent torture, declares that no state of emergency, other external threats, nor orders from a superior officer or authority may be invoked to justify torture. It forbids countries to return a...
Cash for Aussie 'grateful dead'
The Australian government has admitted that cash hand-outs aimed at stimulating the economy have been sent to thousands of people who are dead.
The money was part of a multi-billion dollar package under which every tax-payer was entitled to a payment of up to A$900 ($700, £440).
About A$14m of the money went to dead people, ministers said, and A$25m to Australians living overseas.
Local media...
Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed...
Count every ‘ F ’ in the following text: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS… (SEE BELOW) HOW MANY ? WRONG, THERE ARE 6 — no joke.. READ IT AGAIN ! Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F’s before you scroll down. The reasoning behind is that the brain cannot process...
"The rising odds of DNA false matches" | Comment... →
shadowfirebird:
‘A lawyer and genetic scientist has raised the disturbing possibility of false matches being made in the police national DNA database (NDNAD). He suggests that the DNA database – which at the end of September 2008 had 4,343,624, samples, including those from hundreds of thousands of innocent people – is now so large that it is mathematically predicted an innocent person will be...
My Tumblarity
jmarie3:
stevemakesnoise:
My Tumblarity is plummeting.
Mine too! But I’m an underachiever, so it’s to be expected (those numbers just mean that you have an actual real life outside of Tumblr—be proud of the low numbers, I am)
I see it all clearly now - thank you
“This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his...”
– George W. Bush (via unburyingthelead)
Woah. Epic Ridiculous call.
(via moderndancers)
So how is GWB any different to Osama Bin Laden then? They both believe God has chosen them to destroy his enemies for him. The only difference I see is that one had a bigger arsenal at his disposal.
“Even as they battle the enemy around the world, as many as three soldiers try to...”
– ABC News: Combat Stress Gives Military Pause (via retropolitics)
Did you notice within the first sentence? “Even as they battle the enemy around the world,…” . America wages war around the world, anywhere in fact except on her own soil. When any other country does this it’s...
I take one day out and lose 120 Tumblarity points - bah!
French President Sarkozy opens UAE base →
President Nicolas Sarkozy has formally opened a French military base in the United Arab Emirates, France’s first permanent base in the Gulf.
The flags of France and the UAE were raised at a ceremony at the so-called “Peace Camp” in the Abu Dhabi emirate.
France is a leading military supplier to the Gulf state, and signed a nuclear co-operation agreement last year.
Its new base...
The actual philosophical argument behind "The... →
buttersandwiches:
Descartes for the 21st century.
I’d heard about this hypothesis but never seen the source - thanks, (and it’s all too believable if you simply look at it logically).
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as...”
– Winston Churchill
Retailers keep secret EU law that gives consumers... →
Shoppers with faulty goods are being routinely denied repairs or replacements because they are not told about their rights under a guarantee scheme.
EU law creates a minimum period of two years in which a faulty product can be returned, and in England and Wales the figure is six years.
But many High Street stores are denying customers these rights, either because the staff don’t know the...
Stolen RAF vice files spark blackmail fear →
Sensitive files detailing the extra marital affairs, drug taking and use of prostitutes by very senior officers in the RAF have been stolen, raising fears within the Ministry of Defence that personnel could be vulnerable to blackmail.
Up to 500 people in the service could be affected by the theft. They have been interviewed individually about the possible consequences to them and to their...
Olbermann Rescinds Charity Offer For Cowardly... →
(via retropolitics)
It all makes for high ratings I suppose
