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  Karmic Compaq: Installing Ubuntu 9.10 on a Presario PC

  Image via Wikipedia The Compaq Presario SR5109UK is my first desktop PC, since the late 90s all I have owned are laptops and now netbooks. I really do prefer the mobile nature of a laptop and sitting/going virtually anywhere you like with it, but when my sister offered up this desktop that had been hidden…

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  Keith

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  7 February 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  Visualizing Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal

  Great visualizing from the New York Times showing President Obama’s 2011 budget, the chart is fully interactive and very informative. Will we look back and talk about the the ‘big-budget freeze’ of 2011? His gamble with deepening the deficit to stimulate job growth will have to be macro-managed better then the previous stimulus or these…

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  Keith

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  3 February 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  Targeted Killings of US Citizens? Yes We Can!

  President Obama’s efforts at disrupting Al Qeada have been marked by a major increase in drone attacks and the use of US Special Forces in short end effective operations against other targets as required. This strategy seems much more pragmatic and is arguably the best way to tackle the Al Qaeda threat around the globe,…

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  Keith

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  29 January 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  High Court Decrees Existence of Corporate Übermensch

  Werther gives an analysis of the US Supreme Court’s decision to allow corporations to fund campaigns for or against politicians. Most seem to be very surprised by this decision, it has also led me to wonder if the founders would have been happy with the East India Shipping Company being involved with US elections? Or…

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  Keith

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  24 January 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  Foundations of Terror, Pakistan’s Education System

  These clips are taken from a look at Pakistan’s education system and how it neglects to teach the children the basics but rather instil in them a type of hero worship of those that are determined to keep power in the country. Poorly targeted programmes but external states (like the USA) have failed to make…

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  Keith

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  17 January 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  Fly Air-Qaeda: Because Nobody is Watching

  Reports have emerged (in 2008!) that Al-Qaeda (Africa) in conjunction with FARC (Latin America) have been using a fleet of rogue aircraft (as large as Boeing 727s) to transport drugs from Latin America to Africa, then filter them up to Europe. This is obviously the path of least resistance, why risk sneaking on a drug-mule…

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  Keith

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  14 January 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  Global Jihad – Only Graduates and Wealthy Need Apply

  For some reason policy makers seem to think that reaching out to the poor will help stem the tide of Jihadist’s that are trying to strike at America. You can look at work by Fathali M. Moghaddam and his “The Staircase to Terrorism” to support the view that poverty plays a significant part in radicalisation,…

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  Keith

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  14 January 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  Doomsday Clock Announcement

  DOOMSDAY CLOCK ANNOUNCEMENT from TurnBackTheClock.org on Vimeo. Tick Tock Tick Tock… Doomsday Clock Announcement on Thursday, January 14, 2010 (1000 EST / 1500 GMT). The minute hand is set to move, but will we be closer to doomsday come the end?

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  Keith

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  11 January 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  Al-Qaeda has a new strategy. Obama needs one, too

  “Throughout 2008 and 2009, U.S. officials repeatedly trumpeted al-Qaeda’s demise. In a May 2008 interview with The Washington Post, then-CIA Director Michael Hayden heralded the group’s “near strategic defeat.” And the intensified aerial drone attacks that President Obama authorized against al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan last year were widely celebrated for having killed over half of…

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  Keith

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  11 January 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  Overseas Voters for US 2010 Elections Take Note

  The laws are changing for overseas US voters for the 2010 elections, just because you got a ballot for previous elections automatically do not expect the same this time. Hopefully the message will be sent out to as many as possible before the elections otherwise many will lose a chance to take part in the…

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  Keith

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  9 January 2010