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    Jumping Off IBM Connect 09: looking back

    James Governor's Monkchips (subscribe) | 19/11/2009 | General

    I just got back Connect 09, IBM’s annual Software Group (SWG) analyst event. After couple of days of intensive briefings and discussions across the entire IBM Software portfolio its hard to know where to start in summing up what I learned. Our man in Austin, Coté, has already put together some sweet roundups of the information [...]
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    Archbishop of Canterbury, in Rome for meeting with Pope, mounts a fighting defense

    Pope Benedict XVI Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    Catholic World News November 19, 2009 Two days before he is scheduled to meet with Pope Benedict XVI, the Archbishop of Canterbury made a spirited defense of the Anglican decision to ordain women as priests, and minimized the differences between the Anglican communion and the Catholic Church, in a talk at the Gregorian University in Rome. Dr. Rowan Williams said that the Anglican communion, with its...
  • 3 Vote!

    EU Who?

    The Plank (subscribe) | yesterday | International

    Today the European Union finds itself with two new top leaders--Herman Van Rompuy, the EU’s first president, and Catherine Ashton, the new high representative of foreign policy. If the names are unfamiliar, you’re not alone. In fact, the buzz surrounding Van Rompuy, who has been the Belgian prime minister for less than a year, and Ashton, who was most recently the EU’s trade commissioner, is that...
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    Children in ‘don’t label me’ humanist ads are labelled ‘Christians’ by The Times

    The Freethinker (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | General

    THE happy expressions on the faces of the two children chosen to front the British Humanist Association’s latest poster campaign were put there by Jesus. Apparently. Writing in The Times yesterday, religious correspondent Ruth Gledhill fancied she dropped a bombshell when she revealed that : Charlotte, 8, and Ollie, 7, are from one of the country’s most [...]
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    CRU Emails #6: follow the money

    The Devil's Kitchen (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    Now that the general hilarity engendered by the email has simmered down a little, people are starting to look at the (vast numbers of) documents—many of which are very revealing. Your humble Devil has constantly pointed out that climate scientists may not be in a conspiracy to deceive mankind—but they do need money for research. A lot of money. And creating a massive scare and then doing some research...
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    Rowan's Roman Bluff

    The Ugley Vicar (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | UK

    For a man hardly renowned for his robustness, the recent speech given in Rome by the Archbishop of Canterbury was remarkably robust. Of course, it was given partly in response to the announcement from Rome on October 20 th of effectively a ‘safe haven’ for Anglicans disenchanted by the policies of the Church over which Rowan Williams presides. Few will forget his somewhat glum and deflated appearance...
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