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• 451 CAOS Links 2009.12.01

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 544
  Banking on open source. Open source as a business model. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.” For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL ...
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• Britain risks becoming the first country in the G10 bloc to risk capital flight and a full-blown debt crisis over coming months

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 136
  The US investment bank said there is a danger Britain’s toxic mix of problems will come to a head as soon as next year, triggered by fears that Westminster may prove unable to restore fiscal credibility. “Growing fears over a hung parliament would likely weigh on both the currency and gilt yields as it would ...
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• Government announces campaign to encourage youth to talk about safe sex

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 492
  The UK government has announced a new campaign encouraging youth to talk more openly about safe sex in an effort to reduce teenage pregnancy rates. Despite best efforts to reduce teen pregnancy rates in the U.K. by 2010, the government’s 2007 figures show that there were 41.9 pregnancies per every 1000 people ...
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• Iran ‘plans new enrichment sites’

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  Iran’s government approves a big expansion in its uranium enrichment programme, after a rebuke from the UN watchdog. Read more here: Iran ‘plans new enrichment sites’
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• UK Inquiry into the Iraq War

  
  Real and "Informational" Bombs — Authority: 100
  Bush-Bama may not be interested in looking into the legality of the Iraq War and Occupation, but in the UK, a new official inquiry starts today. Nothing may come of it, but it’s good to be reminded – in detail – about the illegality, immorality and stupidity of this war which was sold on both sides of the ...
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• Nick tables Written Question on help for flood victims

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 611
  This is the text of a written question submitted by Nick Griffin MEP this morning in Strasbourg. “Recent flood damage in Southern Scotland and my Constituency of NW England has been estimated at GBP50-100m by the Association of British Insurers. Devastation has been wrought to the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, ...
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• (UK) Governments fat police turn their attention to fish and chips

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Fast food vendors will be told to offer low-fat fish and chips and "diet" kebabs in a Government healthy-eating campaign. Takeaway restaurants are to receive guidelines as part of the campaign to improve the nutritional value of meals eaten outside of the home, following a report for the Governments food watchdog, the ...
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• Leaked UK Government Plan to Protect Copyright with Militias

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal Ive ever seen. An unelected official would have the power to do anything without Parliamentary oversight or debate, provided it was done in the name of protecting copyright.
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• Polar bears plummet from the sky in brutal and bloody cinema advert

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 560
  A new TV advert showing polar bears hurtling from the sky and smacking the ground in bloody heaps is expected to generate plenty of controversy for climate change activist group Plane Stupid.According to The Telegraph newspaper, Plane Stupid hopes that the advert, which is to be flighted in UK cinemas from Friday ...
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• UK Humanitarian Aid to Help Pakistan Recover From Conflict

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  The United Kingdom (UK) will provide new emergency humanitarian aid and rebuild businesses and agriculture for millions of people affected by the recent conflict in Pakistan. The Department for International Development will help hundreds of thousands people in the North West Frontier Province, and South Waziristan in ...
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• Manchester sells holiday gift wrap designed for the city

  
  Springwise — Authority: 538
  Its no secret that cities love to promote Christmas shopping as a festive way to boost the local economy. What we hadnt yet spotted, however, was a city selling its very own holiday gift wrap, which is what Manchester is doing this season. Created by graphic designer Peter Saville—whose work has graced the city ...
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• More future of higher education in the UK and Australia

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 139
  Professor Paul Ramsden, Chief Executive of the UK Higher Education Academy, will discuss changes to the way universities plan courses and reward teaching staff at the Australian National University, 2.30pm, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 in Lecture Theatre 1, HW Arndt Building (RSVP: Deborah Veness). This is in addition ...
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• Bank Trojan users arrested for ZeuS/Zbot hack

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 147
  A man and a woman have been arrested in England, for allegedly spreading banking malware. They were charged with using the ZeuS (or Zbot) Trojan to steal bank passwords. In IT Blogwatch , bloggers cheer the Brits for cracking down. read more
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• Plutocracy of blood? Afghanistan post-election

  
  Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist — Authority: 395
  How much blood has been spilled in Afghanistan? It is very difficult to say; official estimates speak of an improbable 12,000 to a more probable, but still conservative, 32,000 casualties . Of these deaths, the “insurgents” of various affiliations (so not only the Taliban) would have been responsible, according ...
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• 6 January 2012

  
  Noclue — Authority: 135
  Is a very auspicious date. It is the date when I officially retire. Mind you, until the Government buggered about with the age of retirement I had previously looked forward to the year 2009, then 2010, and then grudgingly the year 2011 and currently its now early in 2012, but DID they really feel the need to send ...
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• asbestos UK (2)

  
  Peoples-Blog: Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer — Authority: 143
  UK government culpability fot asbestos deaths and compensation. A campaign for the government Pneumoconiosis scheme payments to be increased
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• Has Ordnance Survey Managed to Find a Clue?

  
  open... — Authority: 558
  This is better than I was expecting: Speaking at a seminar on Smarter Government in Downing Street later today, attended by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, the Prime Minister will set out how the Government and Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, will open up its data ...
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• MI6 chiefs to be quizzed in Iraq war probe

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov. 17 (ANI): The current and former chiefs of the UK’s intelligence service, MI6, will be the first witnesses to testify and give evidence in the official inquiry into the Iraq war. Sir John Scarlett, who retired as director general of the Secret Intelligence Service last month, will be questioned about ...
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• UK Gov to access internet searches & call data

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 138
  The UK Government is continuing with its proposals to capture all public internet and phone data despite widespread concerns over Britain’s growing surveillance society. The Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (Home Office) has now released the responses to its three-month consultation launched in April this ...
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• Baby Killer Agnes Wong given UK Government bribe

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 492
  The UK government is willing to pay criminal immigrants £4,500 in bribes to return to their home countries, effectively rewarding their crimes. Agnes Wong, from Malaysia, was convicted of killing a 17-month-old baby, whom she was child-minding and jailed for five years in 2008. Wong was jailed after a court ...
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