On 11 January 11 2002, the first detainees from Afghanistan arrived at the US Naval Base of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Five years on, the baby is live and kicking and enjoys good health. It has been kept on a nutritious diet of injustice and abuse.

Celebrate it's five year on anniversary with all of it's well wishers at the Guantanamo Anniversary Special

Two days ago a Lybian court sentenced five nurses and a doctor to death, for the horrendous crime that they have apparently intentionally infected some 400+ children with HIV. The really outrageous and and sad side of this story is that the sentenced medics are innocent, at least according to the opinion of independent world renown experts. Their opinions have not been allowed in the court proceedings and discounted as biased, erroneous and alleged that they form a part of a conspiracy against Lybia. That is simply ridiculous. Especially since the medical opinion is that the main cause is probably bad hygiene practices in the hospital in Bengazi. :(

From a conspiracy theorist's point of view it is an inspiration that the blood money demanded by Lybia match the money Lybia was sentenced to pay the families of the Lockerbie bombing's victims.

There's nothing more to comment - there is loads of information on the internet. The article in wikipedia - HIV trial in Lybia provides a fairly brief but thorough account on the matter.

Yuk. It's so disgusting that I don't want to comment.

If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat

beeb's report, via Hope's

I lied. I'll comment. Quotes like that make me a feminist.

Well cheap(ish) iPods do come at a price, but they could been even cheaper! They don't grow on trees or in the rice fields - they are assemebled by cheap very intellegent self-replicating robots. The robots are provided with good maintenance, fuel and regeneration time. They are operational only 35.7% of the time. Approximately 8.33% of the time they refuel, 33.33% of the time they spend in their regeneration cycle. Approximately 4.17% of their time is spent in a work preparation cycle. That is fine, but what are the robots doing the remaining 18.47% - not producing iPods for sure. That is gross negligence from the contractors! Of course, due to the cheap robot design, the fuelling and regeneration are nessesary, but the unused 18%-22% inefficiency comes from the pockets of the iPod shuffling public. So our beloved iPods can cost even less or have more features at the same price if the robot time was not wasted.