2 month ago
deusx : Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site - "Athens failed in Syracuse – and doomed their democracy – not because they fought in the wrong place and at the wrong time, but because they weren’t ruthless enough."
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2 month ago
deusx : Mythic's Awful Mac Gaming Mistake - Opinions by ExtremeTech - Oh for crying out loud, put on your big girl panties on and use Boot Camp to play your Windows games. It's like a 20 second reboot these days, plus another 2-3 minutes before I'm connecting to a server in Team Fortress 2 (for example). "T
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3 month ago
nelson : Getting shot at - Turkish journalists wander into machine gun fire in Georgia
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4 month ago
nelson : Official Georgia warblog - Government of Georgia is communicating via blogger
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6 month ago
deusx : President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war - Times Online - "President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackli
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6 month ago
deusx : Charlie's Diary: Alternative boondoggles - "Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%"
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Richard Rutter : The survivors’ stories leave no doubt: Guantánamo makes us all less safe - Shame on our Government for not condemning this abomination – even worse, for aiding and abetting.
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8 month ago
nelson : Military graffiti art - Great collection of painted barricades in kuwait
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gleuschk : Leray in Edelbach - shockingly long and interesting article about the mathematical work of Jean Leray in a POW camp in Austria, 1940-45
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nelson : Prince Harry agreement - How the British press agreed to am embargo
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10 month ago
deusx : Elizabeth Bear - Fiction - Tideline - "Chalcedony wasn't built for crying. She didn't have it in her, not unless her tears were cold tapered glass droplets annealed by the inferno heat that had crippled her."
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11 month ago
deusx : CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION AND ALTERNATIVE SERVICE - "A conscientious objector is one who is opposed to serving in the armed forces and/or bearing arms on the grounds of moral or religious principles."
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11 month ago
deusx : Conscientious Objector - "This is a way that may protect you from fighting war if you do not believe that war is a good solution to our problems."
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11 month ago
adamrg : Andrew Olmsted: Final Post - .
Andy Baio : Army Major Andrew Olmsted's final post - blogging from the front lines of the war, he was the first casualty of 2008 [via]
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11 month ago
nelson : Xmas mission accomplished - the War on Christmas is over, and we have won
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13 month ago
philgyford : Soundtrack To War - Good 90 minute documentary on what music US troops in Iraq, and Iraqis, listen to and make. Mostly: white troops listen to metal, black troops to rap.
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13 month ago
nelson : My book to help America - Charming kids WWII book showing a different era of war
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deusx : The Raw Story | CNN's Cafferty: Bush putting the poor out in the cold to fund war - "No money for kids' health insurance, no money to help poor families pay their heating bills but President Bush wants $190 billion additional for 2008 for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"
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14 month ago
deusx : A troubling turn in American history - The Boston Globe - "These developments would be disturbing enough, but what they point to is an interruption in this nation's most important public tradition - the movement from recognition of a problem to its attempted resolution."
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14 month ago
deusx : I survived Blackwater - Los Angeles Times - "As we do the work of bridge building and improving our host citizens' lives, if the people providing our transportation and security are antagonizing, angering and even killing the people we are putatively trying to help, our entire mission is under
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14 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : 9/11 Is Over - “Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: ‘Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.’” ∞
deusx : 9/11 is Over - "We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy."
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14 month ago
nelson : New US torture policy - When do the war crimes investigations start?
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14 month ago
nelson : Freistaat Flaschenhals - A bit of weirdness from World War I
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15 month ago
deusx : Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel? - New York Times - "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian"
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