- Peace talks between the Pakistani government and the Taliban have been derailed four times by American drone strikes, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
- This week BAE Systems unveiled a formerly top secret MOD-funded project, calling it “the pinnacle of British engineering” – the supersonic Taranis drone.
- WildLeaks, ‘the first secure platform for wildlife crime whistleblowers‘ has launched to help tackle the $17 billion a year animal poaching and trafficking industry.
- We may have suspected it before, but a new study of lottery winners reveals that the more money somebody wins, “the more they tilt to the right” in their politics.
The Earthbound Report 
“individuals’ political beliefs are shaped partly by self-interest and not solely by
disinterested ethical opinions.”
Not surprised at all. And of course it cuts both ways. Left wingers aren’t more moral, they just want to take others money the same way right wingers want to keep theirs’.
Well, I was reading about how a certain socialist who’s been in the news this week occupies a council house on a 154k salary, so you’re not wrong.