Wheeler to appeal over referendum

The millionaire Stuart Wheeler's Quixotic quest to force a referendum on the Lisbon reform treaty has been dealt a blow today as the High Court has rejected his legal challenge. His argument is that because the...

Bored With Web 2.0? Demand Change

Some interesting thoughts on the role of technology in making the world better. I disagree with a couple of Haque's contentions. Alot of money has been going into green technologies. According to Goldman Sachs investment increased from $400 billion in 2003 to $3 trillion in...

Canada's Terrorist: Enemy of the Crown

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAn accused Islamic Terrorist caught "Dead to Rights" in his emails professing destruction of the free world and desire to be with Osama Bin Laden, along with other hard...

Sullivan's departure leaves City Council in chaos

The Vancouver Manifesto did some great reporting on the events that resulted in Sam Sullivan's defeat last night."In a stunning turn of political events, challenger Peter Ladner has taken the mayoral nomination away...

Radical student protesters bust windows, issue manifesto

"Radical student protesters bust windows, issue manifesto Richard Warnica , Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008 A team of self-styled "warriors" has declared "war" on the University of B.C., smashing windows and painting walls in protest over on-campus...

Brazilian Red Revolution Manifesto: Lula´s Party Unmasked

"Brazilian Red Revolution Manifesto: Lula´s Party Unmasked This video leaked to youtube. It is supposed to be an internal video created to warm-up PT´s (Workers Party, the Brazilian President Lula´s Party) militants. The video reveal the real face of this party. It´s like...

Opposing the architects of the occupation

By Esther Zandberg About 200 British and Israeli architects and academics, including people of international renown, have signed a manifesto initiated by the British organization Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, which calls on...

The Left's New Machine by Jonathan Chait, The New Republic

"How the netroots became the most important mass movement in U.S. politics. The Left's New Machine by Jonathan Chait Post date: 04.30.07 Issue date: 05.07.07 Most political activists can point to one catalyzing event, an episode in each of their lives (or, more often, in the...

Healing On Stage -- Virginia Tech, Tragedy, and Theatre

"Though nearly three days have passed since the shooting spree that left thirty-three Virginia Tech students dead and dozens more wounded, the international news media still crowd this quiet South-Western Virginia...

Koolhaas and His Omnipotent Masters

According to Rem Koolhaas, there are three seminal events in the history of architecture: Samson tearing down the house of the Philistines in 1100 BC, the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 AD, and his design in 2006 AD of the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing....

I am John Doe - The Infidels Manifesto

*Cross posted from Wolf Pangloss Michelle Malkin has written a brilliant manifesto and published it at Townhall, asking people to disseminate it. I’m pleased to comply. Here it is in full. Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist, You do not know me....

Unabomber Wages Legal Battle to Halt the Sale of Papers

"Mr. Kaczynski, 64, is in a legal battle with the federal government and a group of his victims over the future of the handwritten papers, which include journals, diaries and drafts of his anti-technology manifesto. The journals contain blunt assessments of 16 mail bombings...

Italy fashion industry to fight anorexia

"ROME - Italy was once famed for the sultry, full-bodied beauties it contributed to the international scene. A month after the death of an anorexic Brazilian model, the Italian government teamed up with the fashion industry Friday to promote a "healthy, sunny, generous,...

Landscape Ecology and the problems with windfarms

"The parties signing the Seoul Green Manifesto, the NKPW and other European participants, urge the EU to take the appropriate measures as requested in the Manifesto to protect our Cultural Heritage from the wind turbines on land locations."

Overholser: Journalism As We Know It Is Over

"Geneva, the problem isn't that the legacy-media types haven't quite gotten their site interactive yet, but that they have not gotten their minds interactive yet. And I am afraid your manifesto is in some ways clueless."

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