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Thursday, 30 December 2010
Movie Review: Tron: Legacy (2010)
Short Review: Sure it is brainless, plotless eye candy, but it is well done brainless, plotless eye candy.
Full Review Here
News.............
When the wind sucks
The Four Questions Every Liberal Must Be Asked
How Not to Help Blacks Find Employment
Traver Off Target
The Rule of Sebelius
'Iceberg Cowboy' Finds Archway in Middle of Ocean
Why Nobel laureate Obama will not cry for Binayak Sen
Driving dogs, babies with bongs: Florida tops odd news in 2010
£300,000: Cost of each crime solved by Blunkett's Bobbies
Stuffed! The 30,000-calorie Christmas feast eaten by the world's fattest mum in ONE two-hour sitting
German Inflation hits 1.1 percent in 2010
NASA's new 'smart' foam bra boosts your cleavage if you're 'hot'!
Red meat has a calming effect
Taliban in Pakistan get new start for new year
If Christians Were Treated Like Muslims
Time, gentlemen: An elegy on the British pub, by our obituaries editor
A Salute to a Brave and Modest Nation
Taliban border between Afghanistan and Pakistan 'is impossible to seal'
Entire Australian town evacuated by helicopter after worst rains in a decade
Italy's debt costs approach red zone
Iraq advisers seeks a third of Gulf Keystone oil wealth
Australian man 'discovered missing wife on Antiques Roadshow' after 28 years
China preparing for armed conflict 'in every direction'
South American drug gangs funding al-Qaeda terrorists
Laurent Gbagbo threatens to attack immigrants if troops are sent to Ivory Coast
Iran nuclear weapon is further off, Israel says
The Eve of Secession: What the Future Might Hold for Southern Sudan
A Stockholm Conspiracy: The Underbelly of Ukrainian Gas Dealings
U.S. Congress Asked to Pre-Approve Apache Block III Sale to India
The lamest generation................from Rico
The GREATEST generation was followed by the LAMEST generation. Smug, arrogant, childish and child-like. Irresponsible.
- As Nasty Pelosi once said "it's for the children!" She oughtta know. Irresponsibility on Botox.
Now we have the "boomers" beginning to retire.
- The median retirement account these mental midgets have accumulated is $2,000.
- 1 in 3 Americans has $0 [zero] dollars in a retirement account....not ONE rapidly eroding Dollar! Groovy, man. Far out.
Is it any wonder that this electorate turned over the Nation's purse-strings by electing a Democratic Congress in 2006? Cool, huh? The debt accumulated by the 110th and 111th Congress under Reid-Pelosi has dwarfed that of the 100 previous Congresses. Irresponsibility writ large.
Neither Banks nor Nations are TBTF [too big to fail]. Repeat after me: Weimar, Zimbabwe, Argentina...
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
News Story of the Year — WikiLeaks
Read Nick Gillespie's essay, "The #1 Game-Changer of 2010: Wikileaks By a Landslide." The key point is that unlike the umpteen other purported "game-changing" news stories, WikiLeaks is genuinely new. And Gillespie argues the frequently heard point that WikiLeaks' impact goes far beyond one individual, such as Julian Assange. Beside that though is to what effect? What's the utility beyond the crazed anarchist's dream of sowing mayhem and destroying state operations, if not the state. We get that discussion at this Reason video, which features Eli Lake, Aaron David Miller, Steven Aftergood, and Heather Hurlburt (in that initial order).
It's a thoughtful clip, although there's a bit of romanticism at parts. I like Lake's comments on the immediate impact of simply generating greater knowledge of international actor behavior and interests. Miller's comments are both lyrical and penetrating. He suggests that the effects could be like footsteps on the beach, possibly washed away by the next big wave. Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, is matter-of-fact and to the point (and agreeable if not that animated), and, sorry, but I'm not learning much from Hurlburt.
What's just barely touched is the effect of WikiLeaks on the continued rise of anti-Americanism in the world. Eli Lake mentions this at the start of the clip, but the point gets lost at the remainder of the discussion. WikiLeaks has tightened the tacit alliance between the anarcho-libertarians and the neo-communist progressives. Nick Gillespie is a respectable guy, but the problem with libertarianism is that its adherents give cover for some of the most vile revolutionary doctrines now gaining increased respectability. See, "WikiLeaks: The Revolutionary as Entrepreneur." More on that later. Meanwhile see my previous entries, "How Communists Exploit WikiLeaks," and "Exposing the WikiLeaks/Communist/Media Alliance."
RELATED: "Wired Battles Glenn Greenwald."
Cross-posted from American Power.
Latest Update on Julian Assange Rape Allegations
See, "Progressives and the Julian Assange Rape Allegations."
RELATED: At The Other McCain, "Julian Assange, Libertarian ‘Reactionary’?"
PLUS: At WSJ, "Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers." Also, at CNN, "Jessica Yellin’s response to last night’s Assange discussion," and Wired, "Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs" (via Memeorandum).
News..........
Gone with the wind power
Ethically challenged Congressman seeks fat cat donors for new slush fund
The Missing Link in the Evolution of Barack Obama
Russia in NATO?
Bees One of Many Pollinators Infected by Virus Implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder
The denuclearizers’ dangerous ambitions
King-size ideas on immigration
Price of Silver Soaring
The Lesson of Ebenezer Scrooge
A New Lawsuit Against JPM and HSBC for Silver Manipulation With An Interesting ETF Twist
GOOD RIDDANCE The long-overdue movement to abandon Caps Lock.
Chip and PIN flaw that banks tried to censor
Britain forms plan for Gulf evacuation in event of war with Iran
Last police officer in Mexican border town missing
South Korea strikes rare earths deal with Burma
South Koreans exalt the British sausage
Mother throws newborn out of window
Customs ass: Let the drugs mules in
and finally.......
Chinese DF-21D ASBM (Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile): Will it Obsolete U.S. Aircraft Carriers?
RAF Could be Reduced to Just Six Fighter Squadrons by 2020
U.S. Forces in Korea Get an Armor Upgrade
Hide the Sheep! No U.K. Harriers = Bad News for Falkland Islands
70 Years Ago Today
London, UK
December 29th, 1940 saw the heaviest bombing of London during the Blitz. 
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