Peace I was looking at some streetart on flickr when I spotted this rather interesting piece. It immediately struck me as something from the artist Banksy, and it depicts a ‘teddy’ bear with a Molotov cocktail in attacking position. If you look at the full wall you will actually see that it is aiming at three British riot police, with the caption ‘The Mild Mild West’. There are many different conclusions you can draw from this, and really that is what makes real art. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, and the real artists are those who depict that. Probably...

Ever watch the film ‘Enemy of the State’? Almost 450,000 requests were made to monitor people’s telephone calls, e-mails and post by secret agencies and other authorised bodies in just over a year, the spying watchdog said yesterday. » Times Article Should you be scared? Well yeah, if your brown, Muslim or Brazilian looking I’d watch my back. That’s not actually a joke, you see people often rant about the so-called monitoring that people are subject to, and honestly, we usually ignore it. When it comes to your community then you realise that perhaps its time to start...

Watch it and worry. Read the comments for an interesting analysis!

Author: Moazzam Begg assisted by Victoria Brittain Publisher: Free Press (27 Feb 2006) My Rating: 5/5 Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantanamo and Back   Review When I was in Year 10 in January 2005 I did a presentation to my English class on the indefinite detention of potentially innocent human beings in Gunatanamo Bay. Handing out some of the few pictures actually available from the media and articles describing the horrific events that took place in Guantanamo to the class showed some interest, in particular a cutting from a newspaper highlighting the release of...

No chemical materials and no charges. Isn’t it time the stupidity stopped?

Islamic Party of Britain Notes: Publishers of a quarterly magazine, Common Sense. There are numerous articles available, there, online. The most recent issue of Common Sense includes a number of articles of advice, about interaction with the media. The special publications of Common Sense include matters about the form and the rights of the nation and the people of of Palestine. The answers in the Question and answer forum are made across a broad range of compelling, contemporary and historic subjects, and made upon apparent, broad knowledge, as after study — e.g. ranges: Islamic national...

  ZDNet.co.uk reveals that a state-of-the-art computer system installed in a public swimming pool in Wales detected the motionless girl at the bottom of a extremely deep swimming pool and informed the life guard of her whereabouts and how long she had been there for. The computer managed to alert the lifeguard after 30 seconds of her being in the water. The local council installed the system after lifeguards were having problems seeing to the bottom of the pool in the deep end and cost around £65,000 to install. The computer detects whether someone is in distress by calculating swimmer’s...

Microsoft’s latest version of DRM (Digital Rights Management), which was designed to put a stop to hacker’s getting around the licences imposed on downloaded music, could be exploited once again. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2005/04/14 Ever since Microsoft released its DRM technology, rookie hackers have been trying to get around it to get more for their money from services such as Apple’s iTunes and Napster. However, professionals have decided to take on the daunting task of decoding Microsoft’s encryption methods. The reason for this taking on this lengthy...