My name is Martin Haywood. I’ve been writing this blog for around a decade, even though the earliest post dates don’t reflect that. When I started the pages were static and only people far more tied up in the internet … Continue reading
Updated: New developments Sept 24, 2012 — See at end of story Israel is about to do something really stupid, counting on being able to push Obama around before the elections. And they’re probably right, Obama will probably allow Israeli … Continue reading
This is going to make tensions extremely high. I hope it gets past that to the point where it calms down Israel, but for the moment it’s going to look to Iran like an extremely aggressive move, since they’ll see … Continue reading
In the early 1930s an Australian anthropologist, Donald Thompson, travelled to Arnhem Land in northern Australia and made friends with the indigenous Yolngu people. He averted a likely massacre of Yolngu people by white Australians and freed three Yolngu from … Continue reading
from Lapham’s Quarterly Americans in 2007 paid $7,421 per capita for healthcare as opposed to $2,840 paid by the Finns and $3,328 by the Swedes, but life expectancy in the United States is not as long as it is in … Continue reading
Meanwhile, the report found that Bt corn likely provides a marginal operational yield advantage of 3 to 4 percent over typical conventional practices. Since Bt corn became commercially available in 1996, its yield advantage averages out to a 0.2 to … Continue reading
“Because France has so much nuclear power, the country has an inordinate number of electric heating systems. And because France has not added on enough additional capacity over the past decade, the country’s current nuclear plants are starting to have … Continue reading
Bebe Barron an early pioneer of electronic music. See Coilhouse for a film she did with her friend Anaïs Nin in 1952
Mostly, it turns out, things that are politically inconvenient rather than things which actually pose a security threat. Using Wikileaks to figure out what the government redacts No surprises there.
The introduction is here. Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known them all already, known them all: – Have known the evenings, … Continue reading
Greg Palast writes: So, we’ve got both candidates hawking the nuclear snake oil. But there is one difference between them. A big big BIG difference. McCain’s ready to spend a hundred billion dollars on nuclear power, no questions asked. But … Continue reading
The following roundup is from the Chinese People’s Daily: Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival –the … Continue reading
Half asleep this morning I was daydreaming about the psychological state of a Guantanamo inmate. No real idea why my life had suddenly changed, nor even a clear memory of the Pakistani soldiers taking me from my bed. Memory has … Continue reading
Ok, here’s a thought. The people who think the surge, as it’s called, is a good idea are the same people who think that what they call cut and run is a really bad idea. Pulling troops out of Iraq, … Continue reading