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    Warmergate

    Mr Eugenides (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Sciences

    Will wonders never cease? Here's George Monbiot in the Guardian this morning : It's no use pretending this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I'm dismayed and deeply shaken by them. Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us...
  • 10 Vote!

    Strong words

    Tim Worstall (subscribe) | yesterday | International

    Like Labour under Brown, idiot leaders mistook a bubble for their own skill. Ambrose EP……strong but correct.
  • 7 Vote!

    The Guardian on the Digital Economy Bill

    Amused Cynicism (subscribe) | yesterday | General

    The Guardian has a good editorial on the Digital Economy Bill: The digital economy bill is misnamed. A more honest title for the legislation, recently introduced in the Lords, would be the copyright protection and punishment bill. It is less about creating the digital businesses of the 21st century than protecting the particular 20th century business [...]
  • 10 Vote!

    Jean Charles de Menezes: price of a life

    Liberal Conspiracy (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    One three year old boy strikes another 11 times with a metal bar, leaving the victim toddler covered in blood and in need of stitches. Should the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority pay out? Yes, the Tribunals Service ruled earlier this month, and probably rightly, too. Perhaps I should reconsider the forgiveness I have since freely extended [...]
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    No Gavels in English Courts? But I Saw it on the BBC

    Discourse.net (subscribe) | yesterday | TV

    According to Marcel Berlins, English judges have never had gavels, despite what you routinely see on the BBC. He is not amused. (via The Magistrate's Blog)...
  • 3 Vote!

    Links 11/23/09

    naked capitalism (subscribe) | yesterday | Sciences

    Moab man embraces simple life living in cave Denver Post (hat tip reader EV) Early Data Suggest Suicides Are Rising Wall Street Journal A risky trial that offers little reward Clive Crook, Financial Times After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue Guardian, I actually find this sort of gender stereotyping annoying, and worse, the women here are [...]
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    Reuters: “ANALYSIS-Hacked climate e-mails awkward, not game changer”; Hackergate contest...

    Climate Progress (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Sciences

    Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impact Scientists behaving badly won’t change evidence…. WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder for critics, but experts believe the issue will not hurt the U.S. climate bill’s chance for passage or efforts to forge a global climate change deal. Already dubbed [...]
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    Hacked climate e-mails and FOI

    Open Secrets (subscribe) | yesterday | Sciences

    Freedom of information can be a troublesome matter for some academic institutions - and this is well illustrated by the surprising content of some e-mails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and published on the internet a few days ago. The CRU is a leading centre for the study of climate change and has played a key role in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel...
  • 10 Vote!

    DNA Database is Racist

    Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (subscribe) | 13 hours ago | Politics

    With chilling echoes back to the data collected in Nazi Germany on genetics the startling truth about the criminal database is that 3 in ever 4 young black, British males finds himself on the DNA database . In total there is also a third of all Black men. Of course the computer itself is colour blind. But as each entrant on that database at present has been stopped, arrested and sampled, even if released...
  • 5 Vote!

    Eugenic Arguments in the Times

    Left Brain/Right Brain (subscribe) | yesterday | Health

    Today’s Times carries an article that suggests that people with learning difficulties should not be allowed to have children because it would cost to much to support them. The children would suffer and some of these parents are also autistic “which will make loving and consistent parenthood extremely difficult.” The article is confused and wrong in [...]
  • 3 Vote!

    ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox

    NewsBusters (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sciences

    The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing ClimateGate scandal. Despite last Friday morning's bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists -- many with direct ties to the United Nations' Intergovernmental...
  • 5 Vote!

    Bad Day At The Office?

    For Girls Who Can't Do Football (subscribe) | 22/11/2009 | Football

    Ever had one of those days at work when you wish you hadn't bothered to get out of bed, let alone turn up? Probably the Everton players yesterday. Definitely the Wigan team tonight. Almost certainly the journalist on the receiving end of this steely stare . And probably Wigan warrant another mention. Bet that dressing room was a bit subdued after the match. Back to practice first thing tomorrow lads!...
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