No Right Turn: It's a war crime

Earlier Israeli actions, specifically the complete sealing off of entry and exit to and from the Gaza Strip, have led to severe shortages of medicine and fuel (as well as food), resulting in the inability of ambulances to respond to the ... Continue reading

Python molurus bivittatus (Burmese Python)

With the spread of human settlements the scrubland habitat is the first habitat to disappear. Many have also been killed due to heavy demand for python skin by the leather industry . Some are also killed for food, particularly by the ... Continue reading

The Python Snake: Python Reticulatus

At least in the 1998 and 2003 incidents, the victims were gathering food or wood in the forest when they happened upon the snakes. While there are no eyewitnesses for the 1998 case, Tripura apparently startled the snake so that the ... Continue reading

No Right Turn: Like Soviet Russia

Still no BORA-assessments · "Balancing the economy and the environment" · New Fisk · Predictable bigotry · Fresh Python · Exclusive: police spies violated legal professiona... Petty · Resurrecting the 90's · Gone native ... Continue reading

No Right Turn: Climate change: time for plan B?

And of course while these solutions will address temperature rise (hopefully) they won't solve the other problems of excess carbon, such as ocean acidification, which threatens the entire marine food chain. Finally, its worth pointing ... Continue reading

No Right Turn: The Lords say "no" to torture

Lord Bingham of Cornhill, who delivered the core opinion, begins with the history of British common law's rejection of torture as "repugnant to reason, justice, and humanity", motivated by. the cruelty of the practice as applied to ... Continue reading

Deadly Australians - Windows Live

The forked tongue of a snake picks up minute particles and is its main organ in locating food. The tongue is quite harmless. Snakes are opportunistic feeders and may go for lengthy periods without food. Snakes are of great economic ... Continue reading

No Right Turn: "A better place"

Torture is as common as it was under Saddam, the country is wracked by sectarian violence, there is no security, and the basics of life - food, water, electricity - are even less accessible than they were before the war. ... Continue reading

No Right Turn: The cultural desert in which I dwell

Which given the quality of their restaurant "reviewer" (who eats steak and complains about the napkins and presence of vegetarian food in a different place every week) is hardly surprising. Sanctuary: that about sums it up. ... Continue reading

Selamat Pagi, Selamat Datang & Selamat Malam - Phil Moore's Travel ...

For a bargain price of 600000Rp (some nifty bartering on my part) I took a 4 day/3 night cruise on a simple boat, designed for 14 but given the lack of tourists we totalled only 4 including me - plenty of space, tonnes of food and no ... Continue reading