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2000 * £40,000 = £80million Could have bought CRonaldo with that

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...-rupert-murdoch

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/17/9...-Hacked?via=tag Juicy.

HP are offering employees the touchpad for 100 off rrp. Still not keen on a tablet like.

Starting to worry I'll have to resign soon.

I'm sure he's a lovely bloke, but he talks like the lad that lives next door and I can't stand the bell-end.

£20 the lot

...and the US official.

The existence of both facilities and the CIA role was uncovered by The Nation during an extensive on-the-ground investigation in Mogadishu. Among the sources who provided information for this story are senior Somali intelligence officials; senior members of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG); former prisoners held at the underground prison; and several well-connected Somali analysts and militia leaders, some of whom have worked with US agents, including those from the CIA. A US official, who confirmed the existence of both sites, told The Nation , “It makes complete sense to have a strong counterterrorism partnership” with the Somali government. Jeremy Scahill has a history of revealing these stories which are denied for months before breaking big. His Blackwater revelations have won him loads of prizes.

Yuck are playing the Academy the following night. Nice couple of days.

Got Battles tickets for gateshead town hall. The Mrs got me a ticket for Aloe Blacc at the academy too.

I think Scahill is very particular about what he's found so far. Based on us facilities like this through the decades I'm anticipating worse than the rendition, imprisonment, interrogation and denial of rights.

As do the Wu tang clan.

The cool kids have a new album out. Huzzah!

It might have been, in response to 9/11/2001. That was a decade ago. Number of American civilians who died worldwide in terrorist attacks last year: 8; Minimum number killed after being struck by lightning: 29

Specifically this kind of strategy, sending small teams to assassinate terrorist leaders? If you can quote me, it'll jog my memory.

Geordie Aggro

http://www.thenation.com/article/161936/ci...t-sites-somalia Not a mention outside of al jazeera and democracy now.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs...-obama-20110706 http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/0...keynes-mystery/

Thanks MrBass and Matt. Just what I was after.

For example...

Thanks for the invite Gemmil. Who are people following so far? I can only find Graham Linehan.

BBC Most Popular Read 1: Pony pushed into lake is killed 2: Miliband will force vote on BSkyB 3: William and Kate wow Los Angeles 4: US frequent flyer hits 10m miles 5: The 'fake' sounds of everyday life 6: Six police officers hurt in riot 7: Japan quake sparks tsunami alert 8: Argentine singer Cabral shot dead 9: Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy 10: Australia to tax carbon polluters Meanwhile....Horn of Africa drought: 'A vision of hell' - appeal to help the more than 10 million people affected by severe drought in the Horn of Africa. Perhaps the NOTW is pitched at about the right level for what people are after.

Happy bothda

The suggestion that George Orwell would support what Murdoch turned it into is pathetic.