March 2011
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“Helmand Province, situated in the South of Afghanistan, is a province where...”
– House of Commons Defence Select Committee, “The UK deployment to Afghanistan”, April 2006
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Looking at a deadline
My first PhD deadline, to be exact. I promised my supervisors they’d have my draft initial review in on Friday. So this week is when I draw together all the stuff I’ve been researching over the past few years and try to cobble it together into some sort of coherent document.
When you spend every waking moment reading about Afghanistan, as I am doing, you soon realise that that...
“Globalization will result in critical interdependencies that will link members...”
– Her Majesty’s Ministry of Defence, The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036
Whatever happened to Sara Macpherson? →
Man, she was the greatest.
“I am sorry I haven’t put anything up recently. I have been busy finishing...”
– Adam Curtis
This is exciting news
“You cannot have a revolution if you’re not willing to sacrifice everything.”
– Kateoplis
Trafalgar Square: don't write a cheque you can't...
Full disclosure: after organising Thursday’s one-day strike at my university, I was too wiped out to attend today’s anti-cuts protest in London. So I write as a mere spectator, despite the fact that I was present at every student protest late last year.
For several days before today’s massive anti-cuts protests in London, activists have been promising that they would turn...
“…the Competitive Enterprise Institute is one of those hilariously-named right...”
– David Brin (via azspot)
Record Industry On Limewire Infringement: $75... →
Yes, Dear Reader, more than the entire world’s economic output.
“At this point, if we aren’t attacking a smaller, poorer country,...”
– Dennis Perrin
Pervert with fetish for cow manure is locked up →
A serial pervert with a fetish for cow manure who terrorised a farmer and his family for six years has been jailed for two years.
David Truscott, 41, was discovered in a field, covered in manure and mud and naked apart from a single sock, by the farmer’s 16-year-old son on February 26 this year.
Truro Crown Court heard that Truscott, of Camborne, Cornwall, has already been jailed for an...
“Somehow always be in a relationship. Fact: Boring people always get laid. It’s...”
– From “How to Be Boring”
Via Thought Catalog (via modernandmaterialthings)
“Just because McCain and Lieberman support something doesn’t automatically...”
– Shadi Hamid
Yes. Yes it does. Every time.
“Corporations are creations of government. Without a government charter and...”
– David Korten (via azspot)
“Those who spend their time waiting have the deepest connection with cigarettes....”
– NO SMOKING, Luc Sante. (via gonegood)
“Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for...”
– Minnesota Republicans say: Poor people with money should be outlaws (via ryking)
Nope. No class war here, just move along. (and empty out your pockets poor-guy, cause I hear a lot of jingling in your pants)
What a fucking bunch of bullshit. The bankers get away with more than murder, yet...
“Over the years, Afghan civilian casualties from the air have waxed and waned,...”
– What U.S. air power actually does (via azspot)
Breaking: U.N. Security Council approves Libya... →
“A senior diplomat in a western mission to the UN in New York, who I have known...”
– Craig Murray on the invasion of Bahrain
“Aside from kitten memes and porn, schadenfreude is the dirty coal that keeps the...”
– Luke O’Neil’s Remembrance of Things Assed: How My Childhood Friend Became an Internet Laughingstock (via curator-of-curiosities)
And long may it remain so!
KARMA JAPAN →
Just in case you thought that Japan’s horror might bring out a sense of common humanity among others, this collection of Twitter messages will be a helpful corrective.
Special Report: Iran and the Saudis' Countermove... →