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Woman working on CIA contract fired for saying that waterboarding is torture and torture is wrong. Her employer? BAE SYSTEMS.
Read More All BritishWoman working on CIA contract fired for saying that waterboarding is torture and torture is wrong. Her employer? BAE SYSTEMS.
Read More All BritishSt. Helena, the British island in the Atlantic Narrows where Napoleon was confined, is not well known as a centre for dubious financial activities, unlike many other bits of residual empire (the Caymans, Gibraltar, Turks & Caicos, British Virgin Islands etc). This appears to be changing. A website has appeared advertising something called safeholder.com, which…
Read More St. Helena and a Nonexistent StateWhat strikes me these days is that all the things that the crazy-far left menaced, every time I thought something was less than ideal but to be accepted as the bill of low unemployment, minimum wages and state responsbility, they’ve all been delivered. No, they would never lock people up for no reason. They wouldn’t…
Read More What could they do? They did it allThat’s it. It’s done. The most stupid remark possible. The Sistine Chapel of stupidity. Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and poor nations would benefit from cheap energy. But we’d be called imperialist oppressors, then. From…
Read More The Climax of StupidityRemember when it was meant to be a duty on us all to defend freedom of speech, Western values, the Enlightenment, democracy and probably golden retrievers as well by publishing the Danish cartoons? Well, can anyone tell me why the same sort of people – Harry’s Place/Kamm/etc – aren’t noticeably furious that Bartholomew’s Notes on…
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