Out of the corner of my eye

So, I’ve taken the plunge and launched an internet radio station playing a selection of electronic dance music. Inspired by seeing my friends playing on SubbassFM, Afterdarkradio etc. and wanting to see our group of friends do something with our skills and determination to DJ, Liquifi Radio was born and launched on friday with a […]

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So, in an effort to find something to be outraged about today, I didn’t have to look far when I found a link to this Telegraph article on a forum I read:
“Jason Lightwood, 38, enrolled on a group training session designed to help people struggling to find work.
As part of the session, jobseekers were given […]

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“I will, at this stage, focus most of my remarks on the proposal to extend pre-charge detention to 42 days. We oppose the proposal in its entirety. Many in this House will have watched with grave concern the passage of this proposal through another place. It brings to the fore the challenge of balancing the […]

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Some choice picks from the BBC Have Your Say on the Large Hadron Collider:

Why was this ‘built’ underground? Simple, it does not exist. It’s a big con.
It’s the same reason India/Pakistan allegedly conducted nuclear explosions underground simply because they never happened in the first place. Why? Because nuclear bombs don’t exist and they […]

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The Guardian goes back to interview visionary architect Paolo Soleri about Arconsanti, the first arcology:
“This is Arcosanti, 70 miles from Phoenix, Arizona. It’s a curious taste of what an environmentally friendly US town could look like, but probably never will. It was designed by Paolo Soleri, an Italian-born architect, who originally came to Arizona to […]

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23 year old woman: police raided her house and found 1 bag of pot and 6 pills of ecstasy. They said face 3 years in jail, or become an armed informant for the police, and meet drug barons to buy a load of coke and thousands of pills for thousands of dollars. She’s now dead.
Prohibition. […]

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Missed this one when it came out, but here’s an excerpt:
“The opinion was written by John C. Yoo of the Office of Legal Counsel, the executive branch’s highest authority on the interpretation of the law. It told the Pentagon’s senior leadership that inflicting pain would not be considered torture unless it caused “death, organ […]

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At JFK Airport, Denying Basic Rights is Just Another Day At the Office
Deputy Threatened to Arrest 12-year-old Daughter for “Unlawful Photography”
The “Suicide” of US Army Private LaVena Lynn Johnson - “According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Private LaVena Lynn Johnson killed herself on July 19, 2005, eight days before her twentieth birthday. Exactly how […]

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Excerpt from the House of Commons debate:
“In recent times, a lot of attention has been paid to what it means to be British. Well, one thing it means is that we British do not allow the police or politicians to lock people up for a long time without charge. That is not some trendy, fashionable […]

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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless […]

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