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    Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker: Game release on Nintendo Wii soon

    Product Reviews Net (subscribe) | yesterday | Video Games

    Some good news to share with Nintendo Wii owners now, as we have heard reports that Michael Jackson’s classic game Moonwalker could be releasing on the Wii Virtual Console soon. As reported from VG247, the game has appeared on a listing over at the PEGI ratings website. You won’t need us to tell you that [...]
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    UK proposes new tax on banks, Geithner rejects

    AMERICAblog (subscribe) | 08/11/2009 | Politics

    The "Tobin Tax" has been kicked around a lot lately as one possible option. France and Germany were recently promoting the idea and now, the UK has come on board. It's easy to understand that not everyone will always agree on policies such as this though it's becoming hard to see when Geithner and Obama will ever ask the financial businesses to contribute their fair share . If not this, what? When?...
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    Labour's private polling says it could lose 220 of its MPs

    ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    Jackie Ashley reveals the sensational fact in her Monday Guardian column: "Some Labour people may think I'm sounding too gloomy, but those who have been privy to recent private polling are a lot more than gloomy. This suggests that Labour could return to the Commons with just 120 MPs or thereabouts, taking the party back to 1930s territory. As ministers look for jobs to keep themselves going after...
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    Politicians' twaddle

    Dr Grumble (subscribe) | 08/11/2009 | Politics

    Will politicians learn from the Nutt case? Dr Grumble doubts it. They do not want to listen to scientists when formulating their policies on the misuse of drugs. They want to do what they believe the public wants. That is their prerogative. They don't have to accept scientific advice but they should be prepared to meet head on the fact that their policy is not evidence-based. It is wrong for them to...
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    Not too many buttons

    Phil Gyford (subscribe) | 08/11/2009 | Technology

    Posted in Phil Gyford's Writing I didn’t intend to spend a while writing about the internet’s joke du jour, the OpenOfficeMouse , but I started writing a comment on Chris Messina’s thoughtful post and it expanded into something post-worthy. Read more&#8230
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    A war-criminal comes to London

    Liberal Conspiracy (subscribe) | 08/11/2009 | Politics

    contribution by Ben Six So, on Tuesday, Liam Fox, the man who's likely to be our next Defence Secretary, will step onto a platform somewhere in London and celebrate one of the 20th Century's most notorious war criminals : Henry Kissinger, a man whose bloody footprints trail through Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor .
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