Freedom of Information

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• The TaxPayers Alliance on the CRU and FOI

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 150
  "CRU emails reveal inconvenient truths about FOI" - anyone would think the CRU had something to hide... Theres plenty there but heres the best extract: "On May 29th 2008, Prof Jones instructs colleagues to delete emails in a message helpfully titled "IPCC & FOI": "Can you delete any emails you may have had ...
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• More on the Forensic Science Commission

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  Dave Montgomery reports, " New forensic commission e-mail policy goes in wrong direction, lawmaker says ."  The article appeared in the Saturday edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Members of a state commission examining the case of Cameron ToddWillingham have been asked to delete e-mail correspondence, a ...
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• 19,950 Indian “Students” Pour into Britain in Just Two Months

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 618
  19,950 Indian “students” have poured into Britain in just two months since Labour’s much-vaunted “points-based immigration crackdown” — triple the number last year and boosting Britain’s total student population by five percent in eight weeks. The shocking figures emerged after the producers of the BBC ...
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• Excellent quiz based on the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglias hacked emails

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 150
  Try the excellent quiz at The Shadow Lands and you will be amazed at what you discover. Meanwhile heres another extract from the email database that I think is quite astonishing ( my emphasis ): "Just sent loads of station data to xxxx. Make sure he documents everything better this time ! And dont leave stuff ...
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• Participant List: MRC CFS/ME Research Workshop

  
  ME agenda — Authority: 134
  Received, today, from MRC Corporate Information and Policy under FOI: Shortlink: http://wp.me/p5foE-2q2 PDF: participant list November 2009 (2) 23 November 2009 Please find attached a copy of the participants list for the workshop, as promised. This is also available on the MRC website at: ...
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• Regulators Need to Keep their House in Order Too

  
  CA on Information Governance — Authority: 117
  A recent High Court challenge to the findings of an employment tribunal hearing in the UK has highlighted the need for Regulators to be as careful with their records as those they regulate. The need to keep supporting material as carefully, in particularly sensitive cases, was also raised. When the former head of a ...
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• Roy Greenslade: New site helps journalists with media law

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 141
  Baffled by the fast-moving developments in media law? Then a new blog , launched by Tim Crook , may well help you through the minefield. He is also planning to run a companion website for his forthcoming book, Comparative Media Law & Ethics , which compares the UKs media law with that in the US. Crook, now a ...
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• Asia Cast for Monday 23rd November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 126
  Although China says the one-child-policy is voluntary, sadly, evidence shows it is often coerced and many times a violent process. (By Micah Sittig/Flickr) In this Bulletin… - China’s coercive and often violent family population control measures; - Japan’s deflationary economy; and - Sydney, Australia ...
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• Despite the talk, F for Fail on Federal FOI Reform by the end of 2009

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 131
  The Prime Minister in his Garran Oration at the Australian Institute of Public Administration National Conference in Brisbane on Friday gave the Australian Public Service a "good but needs to do better assessment," citing the just released KPMG Benchmarking Report as evidence of areas of good and not so good ...
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• US Army toyed with telepathic ray gun

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  Source: New Scientist A recently declassified US Army report on the biological effects of non-lethal weapons reveals outlandish plans for “ray gun” devices, which would cause artificial fevers or beam voices into people’s heads. The report titled “Bioeffects Of Selected Nonlethal Weapons” was released ...
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• Climate change hack has an FOI angle

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 131
  The publication of email exchanges between scientists following a cyberattack on researchers at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England suggest attempts to skew the debate about aspects of the climate change debate, but also reveal attempts to keep unhelpful information from Freedom of ...
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• Obama’s Labor Department Ignores Freedom of Information Act

  
  Big Government — Authority: 813
  On Friday, 20 November 2009, The National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation (Foundation) decided enough was enough and filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court demanding that they compel the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to comply with the Foundation’s April 6th Freedom of information Act (FOIA) ...
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• massive donkey dicks in Mandlesons ear

  
  punkscience — Authority: 121
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Interweb freedom in the UK is facing the direst threat in its short history. That threat is called Peter Mandelson. Faced with the prospect of almost certain disempowerment in the coming election, this disgusting little gobshite is ...
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• Oz troops battling cocaine addiction in Afghanistan, Iraq

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Kabul, Nov. 22 (ANI): Australian troops stationed in Afghanistan are getting addicted to cocaine, heroin and other hard drugs which are “as cheap as chips” in that country. According to News.com.au, hundreds of soldiers, sailors and airmen have tested positive to a string of illegal drugs since troops were sent to ...
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• Bangladesh works towards media autonomy

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 118
  Mindful of the importance of media autonomy in a democracy, a certain stakeholder in Bangladesh had taken steps to push for the independence of the country’s government-run television and radio stations. Bangladesh’s human rights organisation Adhikar had filed a petition with the country’s High Court, which in ...
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• It’s beginning to look at lot like…fraud

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 434
  Okay, long-time readers of this blog (or my previous one) will know that when it comes to global warming and climate change, I’m pretty much a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic. Not of changes in the Earth’s average temperature, I should hasten to note, nor of upward changes therein. No, what I am ultimately skeptical of ...
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• Climate Research Unit’s junk science methodology

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 482
  One of the documents in the hacked files from the U.K.’s Climate Research Unit is a Word file named “jones-foithoughts”. Apparently, these are the “thoughts” of climate scientist Dr. Phil Jones, director of the CRU: Options appear to be: 1. Send them the data 2. Send them a subset removing station data ...
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• Important News, still breaking, about Climate Science propaganda

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 548
  This major theft and release of information from the UK Climate Research Unit has validated long-held suspicions about the AGW story.  It’s a look behind the veil at the Global Warming propaganda campaign.  More broadly, this shows the power of the Internet, and (using John Robb’s phrase) super-empowered ...
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• Four IT project certainties - whatever the government

  
  Tony Collins's IT Projects Blog — Authority: 419
  The Taxpayers Alliance claims that IT projects have contributed about £11bn to a total overspend of £19bn on government projects. Will it be any different under the Tories? One answer is that there are at least four certainties in the life of any UK or US government: 1) Over-optimism 2) A willingness to ...
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• Automatic voter enrolment and related issues

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 131
  The NSW Governments move to legislate for automatic voter enrolment not only attracted the attention of those at the Australian Privacy Foundations Big Brother Awards, but Stephen Murray in New Matilda , Ben Eltham and Miriam Lyons in the Sydney Morning Herald , William Bowe at The Poll Bludger and others ...
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