Monthly Archives: May 2011

They have become the equivalent of Soviet Pravda.

…if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it’s going to mean … Continue reading →

http://seaice.alaska.edu/

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=075fQyMfh04] h/t to Ryan Maue

http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/

Osama bin Laden hideout ‘worth far less than US claimed’ Pakistan property experts say US government description of ‘$1m mansion’ was way off the mark, as further exaggerations come to light http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The Olympics are in London next year. 2.19pm: In an interview in the Evening Standard Ken Livingstone has accused Obama of behaving like a “mobster” because Bin Laden was assassinated and not captured alive, my colleague Andrew Sparrow writes on … Continue reading →

2.36pm: A former head of counterterrorism at the CIA has told Time that techniques such as waterboarding did produce the information that eventually led to Bin Laden’s death. The assertion by Jose Rodriguez, who ran the CIA’s counterterrorism Centre from … Continue reading →

His body was given a respectful burial in Lake Michigan – in accordance with Italian and Catholic traditions.

Senior Pakistani security officials said Osama bin Laden’s daughter had confirmed her father was captured alive and shot dead by the US Special Forces during the first few minutes of the operation carried out at the huge compound in Bilal … Continue reading →