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Jamie Seidel
Jamie SeidelContributor

After evolving a digital heart (not the pacemaker kind) out of inky veins, Jamie just wants an excuse to learn something new. But he’s fully aware his 32 years’ experience in the news industry has given him just enough knowledge to be dangerous. International affairs. History. Defence. Science. Space. Technology. He has a fascination for them all – particularly when it comes to social fallout. Translating tough concepts into common terms is his craft. His passion is to explore the big picture encompassing world events.

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FERGUSON, MO - AUGUST 13: A resident wears a button featuring a picture of Michael Brown during a press conference with Police Chief Thomas Jackson who was fielding questions related to the shooting death of Brown on August 13, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on Saturday. Ferguson has experienced three days of violent protests since the killing. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

The moment that inflamed America

A BLACK teen and a white cop come face-to-face on a suburban street in Ferguson, Missouri. The teen is shot dead. Riots spill onto the streets. These are the crucial seconds that unleashed an uprising.

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Lebanese Shiite Muslim men hit their heads as they mark the final day of Ashura in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh on December 27, 2009. Shiites in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon wrapped up the annual 10-day Ashura rituals which commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, by armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in 680. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYAT

When knights and caliphs rule

A SELF-declared Islamic ‘caliph’ wants to impose his own personal ‘kingdom of heaven’ upon the world. Can he do it, and what is a ‘caliphate’ anyway?

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