Unfortunately in our enlightened world, no-one likes to be criticized. This includes big business, Government and the next door neighbour. Thousands of Bloggers choose to write their opinions and interpretations of current events. Even more choose to hide behind pseudonyms, avatars and anonymous commentary. Why? Because we as a world are [...]
In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport. All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]
Prologue: Most of us remember the Blair Witch Project and it’s phenomenal box office success based on a number of web pages suggesting it was a real occurrence. Mythology – The Aftermath – The Legacy – The Filmmakers That was an exceptionally clever piece of PR marketing, resulting in one of the highest [...]
“D” was something to be feared when I was a lad; especially if it was written in red on the top right corner of a homework assignment when it came back from “marking”. The recent Joel Tenenbaum case in the USA may have backfired in a bigger way than any previous litigation activity undertaken [...]
There is apparently going to be a new crisis. And it is going to happen sometime soon after January 21st 2009. This is what Colin Powell and Joe Biden said separately over the last week… Here is what Joe Biden said: In remarks made over the weekend in Seattle, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden [...]
I find the legal machinations that governments have gone through over the last seven years, since 9/11 quite fascinating. In Australia we had a period of time under Howard where the immigration minister did some things that were quite amazing and logic defying as well as humanitarian defying. I just came across this article by [...]
While we sit and pontificate about what cool new technology is going to be the next big thing, events are unfolding with great rapidity that affect us all. Mark Pincus has a blog about how the US is starting to be as repressive as China. This is good passionate stuff that is really relevant to [...]
America is different to any other country. We have the CIA. (And FBI, etc). Then we have rights. Most people take their Rights extremely seriously. That has lead to a Freedom of Information Act. The act allows us to learn about films the CIA has made over the years. Films like “Kidnap, Executive style” or “Investigation of US Bacteriological [...]