How the world failed Haiti
"Operation Unified Response." Image Credit: U.S. Air Force In March of last year, two months after the devastating earthquake that killed 300,000 Haitians and left more than a million homeless, Sean...
View ArticleChina pissed with Australia over US troops deal
While Australian and US media gleefully talk up the geopolitical banter going on between US President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the moment, take a moment to realise...
View ArticleAnonymous: Operation Robin Hood hacking banks with YOUR stolen credit cards
The world’s most well-known hacktivist group of late, Anonymous, have joined up with another group of hackers known as TeaMp0isoN to hit back at banks in support of the Occupy Together / Occupy Wall...
View ArticleStand Your Ground: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and Bill Cosby
Teenage boy, Trayvon Martin The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African American boy who was...
View ArticleBurger Hospitalises Another Diner in USA
Not salmonella, nor other dangerous food safety related issues, but from a burger and the sheer fat and calorific content consumed. Vegas – City of Vice, has what everyone wants, quite literally. The...
View ArticleBreastfeeding pics: it’s TIME to exploit Attachment Parenting
Photos credited to the TIME cover shoot, http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/10/parenting/#1 (TIME lightbox) There’s nothing like a publicaly displayed photos of a mother breastfeeding her child to stir...
View ArticleGerrymandering – Obstructing the path to the ballot box
Image Credit: Tele Atlas, data from GovTrack.us | Image Sourced from: http://socialcapital.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/only-you-can-stamp-out-gerrymandering/ In the process of setting electoral...
View ArticleWhat is education, really?
The idea of general education for all is a noble notion. That we offer educational opportunities to all persons from all races and walks of life for “free” has come to be understood as a kind of...
View ArticleSyrians to the US: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
After talking tough last week about “the credibility of the international community” in the face of inaction, despite a UN and US red line being crossed with the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Obama...
View ArticleProhibition of marijuana has failed. What will legalising it achieve?
The first legal sales of pot for recreational use in America began in Colorado yesterday, while Uruguay campaigns to legalise cannabis at the national level. “There is an ever-growing group of...
View ArticleBarack Obama: The Imperial President
Barack Obama has been the most divisive President of the United States in modern times. After I type this, Obama’s acolytes are about to call me racist, evil or some type of primitive troglodyte. The...
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