Very cool, if true

1. The Largest City Ever Destroyed. The forgotten city of Merv

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2. Kanye West's lawyers set to take out newspaper adverts advising he is being dropped

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3. The Tories are taking 1984 as a manual again

(tags:conservatives 1984 asylum OhForFucksSake migration )

4. Scottish women's rights centres accuse UK ministers of anti-trans misinformation

(tags:bigotry LGBT transgender women UK Scotland law )

5. What's a girl gotta do to get a rape conviction around here?

(tags:rape law society OhForFucksSake uk RapeCulture police )

6. Five big problems the NHS in Scotland needs to fix

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7. Voters are abandoning the Conservatives - many of them haven't moved to Labour

(tags:politics uk )

Should you be the kind of person who ever feels sceptical about what the news/government feeds you, I highly recommend you read:
1) This piece about the difficulty of actually making the "liquid explosives" that were supposedly going to be used in the recent plot.

2) This piece, which rightly points out that None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports., as well as the fact that a _year_ of survelliance hadn't turned up this plot, which instead came to light under Pakistani interrogation. The Pakistani police being known for the use of torture.

And then watch this video, which is a news piece by MSNBC about what they call "The Nexus of Politics and Terror", when terrorist alerts are announced at politically useful times, in the handy top 10 format.

It's all scary, scary stuff.