"There will be no peace talks with Israel as long as settlement construction continues." Abbas has gone off script it seems. - http://www.ynetnews.com/article...
In BBC interview, Palestinian president reiterates that there will be no peace talks with Israel as long as settlement construction continues. Like other senior Fatah officials, he talks about popular resistance. He also accuses Hamas of negotiating with Israel
- Andrew Ford Lyons
Like the heroic stand of many South African whites in support of the African National Congress, a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence gives the Israeli left a chance to finally launch a struggle with the Palestinians against Israel's politics of force, for the sake of our normal life.
- Andrew Ford Lyons
Six Apart co-founder Anil Dash plans to reinvent the way the government listens to its citizens. We’re not talking about wiretapping. Rather, he wants to solicit expert opinions on scientific matters through a new social network belonging to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Expert Labs. Dash pumped his idea Wednesday afternoon during a keynote address at the Web 2.0 conference in New York.
- Andrew Ford Lyons
"Uptimization" is possibly the most ridiculous marketing word to push an SEO service that I've come across yet.
It was choice, then, to read this week of Mr. Carrey offering some pearls of deeply ripe wisdom on our continent's current dilemmas. Said the frenetic one: “Every construct we've built in American life is falling apart. Why? Because of personal greed and ambition.” Get paid $25-million to inflict Bruce Almighty on an innocent world, and talk of greed. Pot meet blast-furnace smelter.
- Andrew Ford Lyons