"“There is a false and foolish and evil saying that today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s freedom fighter. Today’s terrorist is today’s and tomorrow’s murderer.” These were the words used by the former Foreign Minister of Australia Alexander Downer while delivering...
created by Sanjanah | 1 year ago 103 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Reports today in the UK claim that when British foreign secretary David Milliband phoned the Russian foreign minister to voice Britain's objections to Russia's actions in Georgia, the foreign secretary went on a profanity-laced tirade. If true, this kind of language would be...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 235 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
" July 25, 2008, 11:04 am ‘Last Lecture’ Professor Randy Pausch, 47, Dies Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation and...
Radovan Karadzic's secret life has revealed...he had a girlfriend, a dark-haired middle aged woman that he introduced as Mila, whom he presented as an associate in his alternative medicine business. " The...
created by sweet east pearl | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 384 views | 15 recommendations | 3 comments
Bill Clinton, Vanity Fair, The same old Bill with no change in sight
You want change? Look Past the Clinton's
By Albert N. Milliron, Politisite.com
With every pundit spouting that McCain is just a Bush...
The World Science Festival is on in New York City... a series of lectures, talks and demonstrations aimed at science fanatics and n00bs alike. If I get on the bike now and stop only for fuel, I can be in NYC by...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 189 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The mind needs to be nourished as does the body.On May 27, the Japan Society in New York City offers a lecture titled Reflections on Citizen Movements: Peace and Politics in the U.S & Japan with activist and formerCalifornia State Senator Tom Hayden and James Orr, Chair...
What could be more timely than thinking of Ten of the best ... ways to spend your lunch break as suggested in The Guardian today.All of their ideas imply that you leave your desk or office or place of work which is a good thing.Taking in a lecture (number 1) might not be...
created by leconcierge | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 178 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan can add yet another award to his list of accomplishments, this time a Pulitzer Prize.Cited for his 'profound impact on popular music and American culter, marked by lyrical...
"ohannesburg (ANTARA News) - Concerts in London's Hyde Park and Rio de Janeiro and a Southern African parliament of children are among the events planned to mark the 90th birthday this year of former South African president Nelson Mandela, his charities announced...
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Columns > A Pakistani view of U.S. nuclear weapons
A Pakistani view of U.S. nuclear weapons
By Hugh Gusterson
| 5 February 2008
"The [U.S.] Air Force has...
created by worldviews | 1 year ago 942 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Local scientists are giving presentations in cafés, bars, and other hangouts as part of an emerging trend... interactive adult education in a non-classroom environment. This reminds me of the Dorkbot lectures...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 361 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
An Ex CIA veteran with over 30 years of service contributes to the Glastonbury Abbey's lecture series "Listening to Other Voices" in Massachusetts. Here are some of his thoughts, as he...
This is how the Iranians are reporting on their president's speech on Monday at Columbia. Notice how they sugarcoat and aggrandize the whole experience."Despite entire US media objections, negative propagation and...
created by BigT | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 526 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments