Big Footed Giant Found Ancestors of 1500 years: Family alive in Ireland
The skeleton of the famous Irish Giant Charles Byrne, who lived from 1761 to 1783, exhibited at the Hunterian Museum in London.
WikiLeaks: Israeli tactics in Gaza “Starve the Palestinians”
Cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv says Israeli officials wanted Gaza’s economy ‘functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.’
Prohibition: The grotesque nightmare of cultural folly
Prohibition is a sickening horror and the ocean of hypocrisy, incompetence, corruption and human wreckage it has left in its wake is almost endless. Prohibition has decimated generations and criminalized millions for a behavior which is entwined in human existence, and for what other purpose than to uphold the defunct and corrupt thinking of a…
Diplomatic Channels: The Israeli Security Concept leads to War
The US’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likely In March 1973 the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir visited US president Richard Nixon in Washington. He told her that the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was prepared to negotiate a full treaty, and Meir assured him…
The First Golf Superstar : Tiger made golf Sexy
HOW I HAVE RE-DEFINED VICTORY Tiger Woods of the United States has been called the most recognizable athlete in the world. Because of his tremendous talent and athleticism, it was not long after Woods joined the Professional Golfers Association Tour, PGA, 15 years ago that he became synonymous with success. But 2010 was different for…
The Best Story Yet: Wikileakes, Bradley Manning, FBI informant, Wired Senior Editor
The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired By Glenn Greenwald Wired/AP Kevin Poulsen and Bradley Manning For more than six months, Wired‘s Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year’s most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as…