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"Suicides" At Gitmo Update
"Amazingly, the Pentagon has not offered a formal response to the Seton Hall Study of three alleged prisoner suicides at Guantanamo Bay, as detailed here. Since the allegations of obvious misconduct are very serious, one wonders why the Pentagon has just gone silent. And whether they can stare down the incriminating evidence of - at minimum- grotesque incompetence as if it doesn't exist."
Neil Clark: Beyond Orwellian: Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner
"It’s beyond Orwellian. We have a Noble peace prize winner, who is so committed to peace that he won’t even sign a landmine ban."
The Devil's Kitchen: Follow the money-a lot of money...
The Devil looks at the huge amount of funding available for the 'right' kind of climate research and and discovers who controls it.
Stumbling and Mumbling: The economics of the Peter principle
"Competitive careers systems have an inherent tendency to promote the least productive individuals, thus leading to mediocracy.
The intuition for this result comes from the fact that more productive people have better fall-back positions than less productive ones when failing in the competition for top positions. "
Normalizing the Crime of the Century by John Pilger
"The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalize an epic crime by providing enough of a theater of guilt to satisfy the media so that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised. When he appears in January, Blair will play this part to odious perfection, dutifully absorbing the hisses and boos."
Dennis Perrin: The Best Distraction
"Given the number of women (Tiger Woods) fucked, I'm amazed he avoided detection this long. As Michael O'Donoghue once told me, being rich is one thing, but screw being famous. This merely puts you in the crosshairs, fresh carrion for the culture to ravage. "
Tim Worstall - Bank bonus idiocy
"Apparently our Chancellor believes that payroll taxes are paid by employers, not taken out of the hides of the workers. No wonder the economy’s fucked with ignorance like that on display. - "The charge will cover bonuses awarded between 9 December 2009 and 5 April next year." - Pay ‘em on April 6th then……"
The J-Walk Blog: Creationists And Climategate
"The Institute for Scriptural Geology in Waco, Texas, today offered "unswerving support and fervent prayers" for the scientists caught up in Climategate. Professor Elmer Moody, director of the institute, told a press conference: "We know what it's like to have the integrity of our research questioned by unbelievers, so our hearts go out to those good folks at the East Anglican University. "
Via John Brissenden: Real Terrorism
"Terrorism is here. What’s going on in Mexico is nothing BUT terrorism, perpetrated by the cartels, the army, the police, and the businessmen associated with them. And the strangest reality of it all is that we are the primary sponsor for it. We sponsor terrorism. Billions of dollars worth of drugs come here every year, and we exert the majority of our efforts to ‘stop’ it on nailing poor black people selling 5$ and 10$ bags of crack and heroin and sending them away for decades under Rockefeller Laws and similar legislation."
Here We Go Again
President Barack Obama’s own top national security adviser has stated that there are fewer than 100 al-Qaida members in Afghanistan and that they are not capable of launching attacks. What superheroes they must be, then, to require 100,000 U.S. troops to contain them.
The Safety Net - Across U.S., Food Stamp Use Soars and Stigma Fades
With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.
Sweden woman's 'murder' committed by elk not husband
A Swedish man who was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife has been cleared, after police decided she was probably killed by an elk.
Want to fix the NHS? Go private
Who needs a Dignitas clinic when you can check into a hospital in Basildon and be relatively certain to be taken out in a box?
Prisoner escapes jail in cardboard box
One of France's highest-profile prisoners escaped from jail by packing himself into a cardboard box he made himself in the prison workshop.
Above their station
In-train announcements on East Midlands Trains have a new word for stations: they’re now “calling points”. This is even sillier than the silliness it replaces: “station stops”.
Harriet’s always been the real face of Labour
Anthony Blair’s good fortune was that he didn’t look like his government. Gordon Brown’s misfortune is that he does look like his government.
Why your nails are having a growth spurt
The speed of finger and toenail growth has surged by nearly a quarter over the past 70 years, a new study has revealed. And the modern diet – rich in protein from readily available fish, meat, eggs and poultry – may be behind the spurt.
Scottish government in talks over tax on cyclists
A road tax on cyclists is being considered by Scottish Government civil servants. The prospect of cyclists paying a charge, like motorists, to use roads comes in a document outlining the Scottish Government's vision for cycling.
Obama still isn’t president in the south
Denying the leader’s American birth is just another form of racism. A black man is president and a large majority of white southerners cannot accept that, even in 2009
Florida man blames cat for downloading child pornography
Dogs have been blamed for eating homework - now a Florida man says his cat downloaded child pornography. Police are charging Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach, Florida with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after finding more than 1,000 images on his personal computer.
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