December 31, 2006 – 11:16 pm
A big piece of the Arctic broke off the other day. So I thought this might be a good opportunity to review the situation with regard to climate change and to do a bit of speculation about what the next year may bring. The big event towards the end of last year was the publication [...]
December 31, 2006 – 3:04 pm
I’ve been a bit puzzled as to why the US would want to make a martyr of Saddam in front of a couple of billion people, by stage-managing his execution in such a way that the world got to see both their official propaganda version, followed shortly by that sickening cellphone execution video, so that [...]
December 30, 2006 – 10:27 pm
Jan:
Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine, just because they can.
The UK becomes dependent on Russian gas because the North Sea has been depleted past the point where we can be self-sufficient. This raises the question for many people in the UK about a) what’s going to happen now that we’re at the mercy of Russia [...]