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Boris gets done by own Congestion Charge
Boriswatch (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | UK Politics
Looks like even the Mayor of London is not excluded from the road charging in central London. The Big Bozza managed to completely forget to pay the charge, becoming - in his own words - a “victim to the wretched system”. £60 later, Boris is keen to swicth the payment to an account-based system, one [...] -
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Vatican says Gaza "resembles a concentration camp"
Will and Testament (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | International
The comparison, made by Cardinal Renato Martino , president of the Council for Justice and Peace, has infuriated Israel. In an interview on Wednesday, Cardinal Martino said, "Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more; it resembles a big concentration camp." On Thursday, Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, was quick to reply: It is "shocking to hear the vocabulary of Hamas... -
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Israel shelled Gaza Palestinians after evacuating them, UN says
The Guardian (subscribe) | 21 minutes ago | International
At least 30 people were killed in the Zeitoun district of Gaza after Israeli troops repeatedly shelled a house to which more than 100 Palestinians had been evacuated by the Israeli military, the UN said today. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said it was "one of the gravest incidents since the beginning of operations" against Hamas militants in Gaza by the Israeli... -
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Colombian drug baron shot dead in Madrid hospital
The Guardian (subscribe) | 42 minutes ago | International
The Colombian cocaine cartel boss Leónidas Vargas was shot dead in his bed in front of horrified fellow patients at Madrid's public Doce de Octubre hospital last night. A masked man walked into the fifth floor room that 57-year-old Vargas shared with at least one other patient at 8pm and fired four shots from a silenced pistol, Spanish police said. A second armed man stood guard outside the door.... -
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More Christian Voice Idiocy
davblog (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | UK
Christian Voice (Stephen Green's one-man extreme christian hate-squad) have written to the Advertising Standards Authority registering an objection to the atheist bus adverts. Green is quoted as saying that the adverts "break the ASA's codes on substantiation and truthfulness". He... -
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Britain set to shake off the big chill and freezing fog ... but here comes the rain
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | High-Tech
The end is in sight from the bitter cold with warmer weather forecast for this weekend.
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Russia and Ukraine reach pact on gas deliveries
International Herald Tribune (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | International
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US strike kills 2 key al-Qaida operatives
Boston Globe (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | International
A U.S. strike inside Pakistan's tribal region has killed two Kenyans said to be among al-Qaida's top operatives on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list, a U.S. counterterrorism official said. -
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Bank's interest rate lowest in 315 years
The Washington Times (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Economy
LONDON | The Bank of England on Thursday cut interest rates to the lowest level in its 315-year history, taking it into uncharted territory as it attempts to ward off a prolonged recession. -
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UN urges immediate Gaza ceasefire
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | International
The world was waiting for the military response to the British-led United Nations resolution calling for an "immediate and durable" ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza. -
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Network Rail under pressure to explain problems on west coast main line
The Guardian (subscribe) | 11 hours ago | Sport
Network Rail was under pressure yesterday to explain why the newly upgraded west coast main line has been beset by a week of problems that have brought chaos to tens of thousands of commuters and cost businesses an estimated £50m. The latest overhead power failure, at Atherstone in Warwickshire, happened yesterday morning while engineers completed repairs on the failed power line in Wembley, north... -
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Zavvi branch shuts doors at Cameron Toll
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Alan Duncan remains popular with grassroots despite 'friendly fire' from CCHQ
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Alan Duncan is receiving quite a bit of friendly fire at the moment. An unnamed Tory MP tells today's Telegraph: "Just imagine the shadow business secretary is away skiing when we are going across the country to talk to people... -
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Laughing gas increases imagination, suggestibility
Mind Hacks (subscribe) | yesterday | Sciences
A new study has found that laughing gas, a common anaesthetic used by dentists, increases the vividness of imagination and also increases suggestibility, making people slightly more likely to experience hypnosis-like suggestions. The study, just published in the medical journal Psychopharmacology , stems from the informal observations of dentists that patients under laughing gas ( nitrous oxide )... -
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god is a concept by which we can measure our pain....
SwissToni's Place (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
I really shouldn't waste my time getting irritated by stuff like this, but.... **deep breath** Remember the atheist bus advertising campaign? You know, the advertising campaign sponsored by the British Humanist Association from an original idea by Ariane Sherine , who had been appalled by some of the religious messages she saw on buses. I'll quote her directly: "Yesterday I walked to work and saw not... -
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New PTSD Cure: Tetris
Techdirt (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Sciences
A newly published study from Oxford University suggests that Tetris is a useful tool for treating post-traumatic stress disorder . The study doesn't seem wholly comprehensive, but the basic idea is that the game engages the mind in such a way that it's essentially too busy working out where to put the pieces to have flashbacks. The key is that the game requires "visuospatial cognitive tasks" that preclude... -
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Reznor 'Leaks' 400 GB Of High Def Concert Footage
Techdirt (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
Trent Reznor is making it awfully difficult for me to finish the presentation I'm giving about him next week at MidemNet, because he keeps on doing stuff that should be mentioned in that presentation (I may have to ask the MidemNet folks for more time!). The latest is a post on the NIN.com site (which, annoyingly, doesn't have permalinks for his posts -- though others repost it in the forums on the... -
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UFO Destroys Wind Turbine
The Inquisitr (subscribe) | yesterday | Sciences
A wind turbine in England has been destroyed, and one of it’s 65 foot long blades is missing in a strange case locals are blaming on UFO’s. Locals started reporting strange “flashing orangey-yellow spheres over Lincolnshire” the evening before the mystery destruction. Then at 4am, locals heard a “massive bang” and reported lights in the vicinity [...]
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Arshavin Moves Closer to Arsenal and is the Sell Off Beginning at West Ham United
EPL Talk (subscribe) | 07/01/2009 | Football
So Andrei Arshavin is starting to make loud noises about his future, and it doesn’t look like playing in Russia is a part of it. He’s telling Zenit St. Petersburg that if he has to, he’ll buy out his contract (this is the only link that is currently available, the Telegraph also reported the same [...] -
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Cindy Knows Best
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | yesterday | Fashion
Not all parents are fans of Miley Cyrus and her shiteous Disney Channel show, Hannah Montana. In fact, Cindy Crawford has banned her daughter from watching the show! Why'??? It seems her 7 year-old daughter has been learning to talk back from watching the clips. Cindy says about her daughter Kaya, "I love Hannah Montana, but she learns to [...] -
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Twittering With Tony Benn
Iain Dale's Diary (subscribe) | 06/01/2009 | Politics
One part of the Tony Benn interview I did yesterday, which won't be appearing in Total Politics , concerned the attempt to fake his identity on Twitter. I thought my blogreaders might enjoy this exchange in which I try to explain the joys of Twitter and Tony Benn givs his views on blogging. ID: What do you make of Twitter? TB: Someone said I was on it. Someone had pretended they were me. I got an... -
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+++ Clegg reshuffles Shadow Cabinet
Liberal Democrat Voice (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Highlights from the full story: Simon Hughes: Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Steve Webb: Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions David Heath: Shadow Leader of the House Jenny Willott: Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Howarth: Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Susan Kramer: chosen to leave the shadow cabinet to take up [...] -
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Blog closed and GONE
Old Holborn (subscribe) | 06/01/2009 | Other
This is my last post Today, a fellow Libertarian decided to post my name , address, email address, business address, photo of me and my children on the web. Because he was angry with me over my stand on Israel. Tonight, my wife and family have read the consequent death threats and insults to them that have poured in and asked me to close this blog. Many people now know where I live, where my children... -
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Uninformed Liberals Clap Over Panetta, Creator of "Extraordinary Renditioning" Policy...
Chicagoray (subscribe) | 07/01/2009 | International
The good policy by the way that enabled us to snag ragheaded Khalid Sheik Muhammad, which oddly enough was created during the Clinton administration by Panetta , a story American media will shy away from as much as possible, although credit CNN with at least publishing the truth on this matter. Thanks should also go out to Media Matters (sarc on) for their 4 years of misinformation on this issue where... - see all discussions
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