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| From Airstrip One to MegaCity One | Aug. 15th, 2006 09:13 am | |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/art Can't even find the anger to comment. | ||
| From the "I can't believe it's not Onion" files... | Aug. 15th, 2006 07:31 am | |
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1) Arabs and Muslims should be subjected to racial profiling because Islam is a âœJohnny-come-latelyâ religion and Muslims âœpray to someone who wants to kill you.â (If, as regards religion, the Old Ones are the best, why isn't he praying to Cthulu?) 2) "Might Some Argue That Lamont (Democratic Senate Nominee, CT)... Is The al Qaeda Candidate?" ("Well they might, if subjected to repeated blows to the head. Let's try this out.") | ||
| An interesting comparison | Aug. 13th, 2006 10:52 pm | |
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Margaret Beckett and the rest of the UK NeoCons claim that terrorists have absolutely no interest in British foreign policy. Yet the Washington contingent seem to think that these same terrorists are gleefully examining the minutiae of US domestic politics. Slight slip in the unified message there, I think? | ||
| The sceptics among us are not alone... | Aug. 11th, 2006 04:06 pm | |
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Don't the trusting or the gullible ever go blogging? http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2 | ||
| NFN? | Aug. 11th, 2006 02:30 pm | |
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MP sorry for 'inbreeding' remarks A Labour MP has apologised after saying inbreeding may be partly to blame for a rise in cases of diabetes in his Norfolk constituency. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_polit (FWIW my Dad's family is from Norfolk, my Mum's is from Suffolk) | ||
| The old ones are still the best | Aug. 10th, 2006 10:23 pm | |
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| National sovereignty? Nah, just call in the marshals | Aug. 10th, 2006 02:01 pm | |
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"US air marshals are being sent to the UK to provide extra air security". So, not satisfied with a one-way extradition "treaty", extraordinary rendition, and requests to send tanks to London, we now have american cops playing in our airspace? Oh - and I'm not trying to be funny - you might not want to have headphones / music on in the tube or busses tonight. | ||
| Propogation: Only traitors try to make us afraid of terrorists | Aug. 10th, 2006 01:47 pm | |
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Propogation from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ciphergoth
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| Hackers crack biometric passports | Aug. 7th, 2006 10:48 am | |
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Flaw in passports used by Britain casts doubt over ID cards plan. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/s | ||
| Monogamy a function of dopamine? | Dec. 4th, 2005 07:49 pm | |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.n | ||
| Oh yeah... | Sep. 30th, 2005 11:48 am | |
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One problem with this cold is it keeps fucking my memory about. I've just recalled some fragment of news I heard as the radio woke me up. This is the only place I can find it offhand: Multiculturalism blamed for bombers' hate Lizzie Murphy MULTICULTURALISM is a divisive political concept which has fomented racial hatred and may have helped to produce the July 7 suicide bombers, a report claims today. The social policy think-tank Civitas criticises what it calls "hard" multiculturalists who insist that no culture is better than any other and that society should celebrate difference. [...] Note: Civitas describes itself as "Liberal" but I've always seen it referred to by others as a "Right-Wing Think Tank" | ||
| Due process? That's for liberals... | Aug. 5th, 2005 02:01 pm | |
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You may have seen this propogated elsewhere: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_polit Blair's starting to openly drop human rights measures, and due process is under threat. This is not only a completely disproportionate reaction to the recent terrorist activities, but a direct threat to the concept that law should come from the courts rather than a politician's whim - something Labour have frequently been a bit too keen on. There is a common perception that Liberals like making it difficult to punish the guilty. In truth, we like making it difficult to punish the innocent, by maintaining due process and the burden of proof. This can make it harder to punish the guilty, but not usually significantly so, and it is an accepted tenet of political theory that any free and fair society must raise significant safeguards against miscarriages of justice. The burden of proof is simply one of the prices that you pay for free and democratic societies. Equally, laws that give "discretion" to government or Police agencies are profoundly undemocratic, and dangerous. The promise is always that the powers will never be used "in an unintended manner", but they invariably are (cf RIP, CJB), and (the point which their proponents always seem keen to miss) they can be misused against 'dissidents' as easily as against genuine threats. The price of liberty is, as is frequently noted, eternal vigilance, against governments as much as against enemies - and liberties are always far more easily lost than regained. (The price of Liberty, on the other hand, starts at 8 quid). | ||
| Enough already | Aug. 3rd, 2005 01:45 pm | |
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My stomach seems ok, but the rest of me's now fucked up. (ETA: feel much better for having eaten) But hell, at least I'm still not a Tory: The following is the front page lead article in today's Torygraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh Multicultural Britain is not working, says Tory chief By George Jones, Political Editor (Filed: 03/08/2005) Muslims must start integrating into mainstream British society, says David Davis, the shadow home secretary and front-runner to take over the Conservative leadership. Writing in The Daily Telegraph today, Mr Davis signalled a significant shift away from the policy of multi-culturalism, which allows people of different faiths and cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate. ... | ||
| Got Democracy? | May. 26th, 2005 08:17 pm | |
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Want it? Yoinked wholesale from softfruit:The Indie's online petition to introduce democracy to the UK, for anyone into signing such things: http://www.independent.co.uk/cfd/democr Plus a letter from Charles Kennedy taking Blair to task: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politi | ||
| Propogation required | Apr. 30th, 2005 11:32 am | |
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Voting Lib Dem won't let in the Tories (The Independent) http://www.livejournal.com/users/mo | ||
| Oh and in case the world wasn't fucked up enough already | Apr. 4th, 2005 08:02 pm | |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,1 Many of these hydrates deposits are chronically unstable and could be triggered to release into the atmosphere by any drilling. This isn't just a matter of extraction leakage or added pollution when the stuff's burnt (which would be bad enough), this is a matter of rapid release which could significantly increase climate instability in a very short time. That said, it could just all release without human intervention, but when sitting on a climate bomb the sensible thing to do is not to poke it. | ||
| All a question of fitness to stand... | Mar. 19th, 2005 07:12 pm | |
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David Shayler, the former MI5 officer, announced he intends to stand against Tony Blair in Sedgefield in the general election. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolit | ||
| Jan. 28th, 2005 09:50 am | ||
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UK: The home secretary is transforming Britain into a police state, says former leading anti-terrorist police chief. http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/sto | ||
| "You had the right to remain silent" | Jan. 11th, 2005 05:41 pm | |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4163871.s | ||
| Charities fear drop in lottery grants to 'unpopular' causes | Jan. 11th, 2005 12:32 pm | |
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Voluntary sector leaders today warned that charities working with asylum seekers and refugees will stop receiving lottery cash after the new lottery distributor announced a change in the way it awards grants. http://society.guardian.co.uk/lottery/s | ||