An Australian Artist and an International Hunger Fighter James Cumes Blogs about A Silver Lining
Another Matter of History: Why do our leaders seem so small compared with the World War II generation?
The Prime Minister, John Howard, today pledged $1 billion over five years to the Indonesia's tsunami reconstruction, the largest donation made so far for the relief effort. Howard promises $1 billion in aid
Flashbacks, survivor guilt, grief and fear will dog millions of survivors of the tsunami, with some experts warning these problems could prove harder to resolve than the physical damage...
Survivor Guilt is the worst of all
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Tremors point to a frightening future
However isolated they may seem, earthquakes may be closely linked
Like two bookends of calamity, earthquakes at Bam in Iran and off Sumatra in Indonesia have delineated a year of unusual seismic ferocity - a year, one might say, of living dangerously.
Twelve months, almost to the very hour, before Boxing Day's extraordinary release of stress at the India-Burma tectonic plate boundary, a similar jolt at the boundary of the Arabian and Eurasian plates devastated one of the most celebrated of Persian caravan cities.
• Tsunami Ripples [An Indonesian tsunami survivor rescued after five days at sea has another reason to celebrate She'll have her first baby in less than six months ; Natural disasters bring out the best philanthropic instincts in the human soul. Unfortunately they also seem to bring out the most insufferable theological drivel from the human brain. If we have reason to doubt the point of our existence in this world, surely we would understand it even less in that one]
• · Thomas Friedman Only Iraqis Can Liberate Themselves ; Two True Pictures of the Terror War
• · · Tim Dunlop has a knack for stories with legs, a large number of legs enters the trickiest topics of all: Insurgency lotto numbers in Iraq; [Bush Fuses Orwell, Kafka ]
• · · · Miracle of survival can't take away suffering of a family ripped apart
• · · · · Putin Demotes Adviser Critical of the Kremlin; [What the hell is going on? Is spectrum of workers revolution invading the world. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Ulyanov rather than John Lennon stare at me from every magazine my oldest daughter opens courtesy of the Big Pond Music ads for Telstra. There's a whole phenomenon going on with Che Guevara that's really difficult to explain. You have kids -- who don't even know who Che Guevara is, wearing his clothes. Che Guevara to Cubans is a murderer. The revolutionary medicine preached by Che Guevara is growing and 2017 is coming near you; Secret file gets to the bottom of toilet paper The Loo paper campaign, which would be at home in an episode of the comedy Yes Minister
• · · · · · A Chilean judge is investigating 10 secret police who worked under the former dictator Augusto Pinochet on a disinformation scheme Sydney court scene in 2008? ; Just amazing what the atrocious bloggers find: Harassing, Annoying, & 'Bad Guy' Identifying Chemicals