Links of interest for May 23rd, 2008 through June 4th, 2008:
- Oil prices: George Soros warns that speculators could trigger stock market crash | Business | guardian.co.uk
- Soros says that oil was pushed to its recent all-time peak of $135 a barrel by a new wave of speculators. He believes that the doubling in the price over the last year is partly due to investment institutions, such as pension funds, who are pumping money - Awol Christian soldiers
- Conservatives in Europe want to use Islam as the lightning rod to convince lapsed Christians that unless they become more religious, society around them will collapse from the Muslim onslaught. Is the answer really to develop our own kind of fanatics? - Can You Really Love Your Country?
- Why should you love your country? Most people would say our country has done so much for us that we should show our gratitude. But what has ?our country? done for us? An even better question is: what is ?our country?? - US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships | World news | The Guardian
- The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees. - Tomgram: Welcome to the Age of Homeland Insecurity
- Kiss American Security Goodbye: 15 Numbers That Add Up to an Age of Insecurity
