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Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html) states:(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.With the growing importance and occurence of travel and migration, shouldn't it be amended to expressly recognise these two issues as rights?For example:(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement, residence and travel, within and outside the borders of each state(2) Everyone has the right to immigrate to any country, and to return to his country.

Whoever has seen 'Syriana', and then yesterday watched George Clooney perform at the unofficial UN Security council session, where he was invited by John Bolton, to argue for yet another humanitarian intervention, surely must have felt the irony. As 'devil' Al Pacino said in the closing of "Devil's Advocate" , "vanity is my favourite sin"

"I've got the poison, I've got the remedy" goes an old hit by The Prodigy. Hearing the song again, I suddenly got the deeper meaning: The same multinational companies that produce all the ready made foodstuffs, have 'sisters' who produce the drugs to cure our unhealthy lifestyle.

15 years after the first internet page http://info.cern.ch was uploaded, there is no page to display at that address. www.cern.ch greets visitors with the statement "... where the web was born!" however there is precious little about the internet or its history on the website. Pity. (it works now! and there is also a picture of "the first web surfer" wow)

Watched an interesting movie on a free DVD offered by a Sunday newspaper: Beyond Borders (2003) dealing with the issue of humanitarian aid & development, how dirty NGOs must get in order to get results, ethical dillemas, and how these NGOs are unavoidably infiltrated by intelligence agencies with less benevolent agendas. The opening scene, with the protagonist disrupting a philanthropic event and spilling the champaign was pure vintage (like the champaign).

the MD of Tourism Australia, of the infamous "So where the bloody hell are you?" Australian tourism campaign?According to The Age he lost his $350,000-a-year job after 'a bitter falling-out' with the Tourism Minister.

Mazen Kerbaz, a leading Lebanese musician and comic-book artist, hearing the bombs falling 3km from his Beirut flat balcony, started to play music to relax, then decided to record his music mixed with the cacophony of war: 'Starry Night - an improvised duet with the Israeli air force'...Listen at http://mazenkerblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/other-websites.html

Belgrade, Baghdad, Beirut. Three historic cities, three bombed cities. Three 'liberated', 'democratised' cities.

The link between sun lotions, sunbathing and skin cancer is now well-established. Ironically, the higher the protection-factor - pharmaceutical companies trying to sell you the most expensive one - the higher the risk of developing skin cancer. However, scientists are now starting to also worry about the impact of sun lotions on thyreoid, due to the presence of the chemicals 4MBC and benzophenone in mass-produced sun lotions. Perhaps it's time to appreciate and immitate the cultures who dress-up fully on the beach, and realise the stupidity of sunbathing - we are not seals after all.

Search engines are wonderful tools. Like all wonderful tools, they are not inherently benevolent. Unlike all wonderful tools, they are not only controlled by their user... Have you ever wondered that major search engines now know: where you live, what you search, what you post, where you buy, what you buy, where you advertise, what you read, what messages you send, what messages you receive, oh and what you have inside your pc. Your only slim advantage? that you know that they know. But they also know that you know that they know. And who is 'they' ? Just follow the money...