January 2011
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'Mubarak must fall' – all across Cairo the... →
Sacrificing government ministers is not enough: for the people to be satisfied, the president must be deposed
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Time stretches if you keep busy →
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Grand piano appears on sandbank off Miami →
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Frames From The Edge (1989)
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He’s on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing...
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Silvio Berlusconi trades insults with talkshow... →
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The wrong kind of sharing: Mark Zuckerberg's... →
The founder of the biggest social network has his personal page broken into – and used to spread a message suggesting ‘social investment’ rather than from bankers
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One Universal Language : Esperanto →
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Justin Bieber Found To Be Cleverly Disguised 51-Year-Old Pedophile
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The power of posture →
How you hold yourself affects how you view yourself
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Amazing True Stories : Khalid El-Masri →
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Religulous is a 2008 American comedy/documentary film written by and starring comedian Bill Maher and directed by Larry Charles. According to Maher, the title of the film is a portmanteau derived from the words “religion” and “ridiculous”; the documentary examines and mocks organized religion and religious belief.
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Slavoj Žižek - Good Manners in the Age of... →
“Through actions like the WikiLeaks disclosures, the shame – our shame for tolerating such power over us – is made more shameful by being publicised”
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Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again)... →
Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with Wikileaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.
He experienced a similar incident last year at Newark airport.
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How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi... →
In an exclusive extract from his new book, A History of the World since 9/11, Dominic Streatfeild explains how despite expert warnings, the US let al-Qaida buy an arsenal of deadly weapons – then tried to cover it up.
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Chinese agency 'sold disabled workers into slave... →
Media accuse alleged trafficker of sending workers to factory with no pay, inadequate food and dire living conditions
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Suitably dressed →
The lounge suit, battledress of the world’s businessmen, is 150 years old—possibly