I understand this is such a rare sight, even from land, because so few people live so far south.
The southern lights or Aurora Australis is seen from the International Space Station Picture: REUTERS (via Pictures of the day: 18 July 2011 - Telegraph)
A crane eats a fish from a tub of fish at a wholesale market at a fish harbour in Mumbai, India Picture: REUTERS (via Pictures of the day: 14 January 2011 - Telegraph)
What is this interpretation and gatekeeping of which you speak? You sound like a social scientist or something. Seriously, though, here’s today’s ray of sunshine.
Here’s a snippet of why we think Assange is a visionary of our times:
“WikiLeaks represents a ray of sunshine. By placing raw documents in the public domain, the organization not only leaps past the interpretive and gatekeeping roles of investigative reporting but also subverts the power of governments and businesses to censor the paper trail of their actions. (Reuters filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the video that captured the shootings of its newsmen. The request was denied. WikiLeaks never asked for permission in the first place.)”
If these hadn’t been thrown into the sea, wouldn’t the IDF be able to produce photos of these among the “seized weapons”
By Simon Cameron-Moore
(Reuters) - The head of a Turkish charity that organised the aid flotilla attacked by Israeli forces said activists had rushed some of the soldiers and snatched their weapons, but had thrown them overboard without using them.
Bulent Yildirim, chairman of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), denied Israeli accounts of events on board the Mavi Maramara after Israeli commandos stormed the ship on Monday in an operation that resulted in at least nine people being killed.
“We were handed 9 dead bodies, but we have a longer list of missing people,” Yildirim said at Istanbul airport after returning from Israel, where he said he had been kept in custody and questioned for three days.
Yildirim, who was on board the vessel, said some of the activists had grabbed guns off 10 soldiers in self-defence.
“Yes, we took their guns. It would be self defence even if we fired their guns,” Yildirim said, adding that people shouted to them not to use the weapons.
“We told our friends on board: “We will die, become martyrs, but never let us be shown… as the ones who used guns,” Yildirim said on Thursday.
“By this decision, our friends accepted death, and we threw all the guns we took from them into the sea.”
(via @georgegalloway
Apparently the bubble she’s in is too thick to be penetrated by oil or reason.
FRIDAY, APR 30, 2010 17:40 ET
WAR ROOMBY ALEX PAREENE
Reuters/FacebookAt almost the exact moment that Reuters broke the news (on Twitter) that a second oil drilling rig had overturned off the coast of Louisiana, Sarah Palin posted her latest Facebook “note.” The headline: “Domestic Drilling: Why We Can Still Believe.”
5,000 barrels of oil are already leaking into the Gulf of Mexico every day. The massive and growing oil slick is reaching the shores of Louisiana and it’s scheduled to touch Alabama this weekend. And now the coast guard confirms that a “mobile inland drilling unit” near Morgan City, Louisiana overturned today.
This all says one thing to the former Governor of Alaska: accidents happen, but wemust continue to drill.
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