• Pictures at an exhibition

    From tonight’s West meets East gathering:


    swerdloff


    jhames and webdaddy


    brian and dan’l

    I didn’t get a picture of him, but I did meet the lovely and talented mr. swill.

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  • The United States in decline?

    Foreign Policy has a very interesting article whose thesis is that America is now in decline because of a number of factors, including:

    • Public and private spending that is too heavily focused on military technology

    • The damage to our economic interests from an attack on Iraq

    • The likely failure of an attack on Iraq to “win” given the high risk of casualties and the lack of public support for combat leading to significant losses

    • The collapse in our world stature and leadership when we, as the foremost military power in history, fail to create a sustainable regime to follow Saddam Hussein

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  • Those wacky christians

    Monks Trade Blows in Unholy Row at Jerusalem Shrine

    The rooftop compound of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre bore scars of conflict on Monday after Egyptian Coptic and Ethiopian monks traded blows over a chair at the traditional site of the crucifixion of Jesus.

    About 11 monks were taken to hospital after clerics from the rival sects that jealously share the courtyard on the roof of the Jerusalem shrine threw rocks, metal rods and chairs at each other in the latest chapter of a centuries-old dispute.

    For the six Christian sects that jealously guard their rights at the church, enshrined in a 1757 Ottoman “status quo” law, the movement several weeks ago by one denomination of a chair into a spot claimed by another was a declaration of war.

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  • get your war on

    Yay! A new episode.

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  • Is that Choire?

    Is it just me, or does the cover model of HX this week remind you of Choire?

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  • Cathy & Weblogs

    Today’s Cathy is for all of us looking for friends/love/whatever on the web.

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  • Third Base

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  • Been too busy

    For the 2 or 3 people that probably read me, my apologies.

    I’m swamped at the moment – one paid project, one volunteer project, and then I have to find time to play with my new toy: a 14″ iBook — for OS X of course. I haven’t even booted into OS 9.

    I also owe leftyblog a response. I’ve written about 3 pages so far, but I haven’t had time to finish it.

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  • Why can’t we get policemen like this?

    A man who was carrying a rifle is being arrested by a riot police officer during the Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris,

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  • This should be bigger news

    I haven’t seen much coverage of this.

    For 6 days, hundreds of oil workers have been trapped in a Nigerian oil terminal (owned by Chevron Texaco) by hundreds of women from surrounding villages, demanding jobs for their sons and electricity for their homes.

    As many as 600 women from villages around the terminal took over the multinational Escravos plant on Monday, saying they want the company to hire their sons and use some of the region’s oil riches to develop their remote, rundown communities.

    Nigeria is the world’s sixth-largest oil exporter — and the fifth-biggest supplier of U.S. oil imports — in major part because of the vast reserves of the Niger Delta here. Yet the people in the Niger Delta are among the country’s poorest.

    Unarmed but unbudging, the women have blocked access to the helipad, airstrip and docks that provide the only exits for the facility, which is surrounded by rivers and swamps.

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    In the terminal airfield, two dozen women danced in the rain alongside four helicopters and a plane, chanting: “This is our land.”

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