In the appropriate circumstance the military option may not only be the best option, but the only reasonable course of action to save a people from its’ government… it is time, in my opinion, to exercise that option in Myanmar/Burma.

Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.

I cannot help but find Stephen Harper’s comments regarding a boycott of the Beijing Olympics more than a tad hypocritical. Why are these athletes so much more important than oppressed and poor people in countries led by tin pot dictators who we do support imposing boycotts on?

From around the blogosphere

Voodoo: Goats and zombies and such

Sharpe Markers: Oh the horror!!

The American police state: You’re not really surprised are you?

Happy Birthday peace sign: Yer look’en pretty darned good for 50

He’s not gonna give up, so what’s the answer - more sanctions that don’t hurt him, or…….

(And really shouldn’t surprise anyone else either)

New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy’s assassination has been brought to light.

Just what is it with the Brits and their big brother practices anyway? In addition to their government trying to fingerprint everyone who lives in the country and sending people and families to respect camps if they, in the opinion of the state, exhibit anti-social behaviour, their airport authority now wants to fingerprint and photograph everybody going through the bloody airport.

Send a trackback or leave a comment and ask yourself why the Pope himself is performing this particular baptism?

Subtitled: DNA is your friend - especially if you’re an authoritarian government

God bless Her Majesties Benevolent Government ^tm ‘eh…. always looking to protect her loyal subjects, even if it’s at the expense of the privacy of future loyal subjects who may, or may not, ever commit a crime [let alone a violent one] in their entire lives but who will end up in the policeman’s database anyway.

The results of the survey, released Tuesday, demonstrate that a significant proportion of American teenagers live in “stunning ignorance” of history and literature, according to the group that commissioned it.

Bush recognizes Kosovo’s independence… the difference is Serbia doesn’t hold a bunch of US debt. Here at home the Harper Government…..

Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank has made its first loans in New York in an attempt to bring its pioneering microfinance techniques to the tens of millions of people in the world’s richest country who have no bank account.

CUBA has demanded the US return Guantanamo Bay to the island nation and denounced the “war on terror” prison, where six detainees could face the death penalty.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the young Afghan who dared to read about women’s rights.

Canada’s foreign ministry has put the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured and also classifies some U.S. interrogation techniques as torture, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Thursday.