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  • 451 CAOS Links 2009.12.01


    451 CAOS TheoryAuthority 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 ...
    6 hours ago
  • 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 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 ...
    12 hours ago
  • Government announces campaign to encourage youth to talk about safe sex


    Baby ChumsAuthority 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 ...
    1 day ago
  • Iran ‘plans new enrichment sites’


    heave-ho.orgAuthority 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’
    2 days ago
  • UK Inquiry into the Iraq War


    Real and "Informational" BombsAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Nick tables Written Question on help for flood victims


    The British National PartyAuthority 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, ...
    1 week ago
  • (UK) Governments fat police turn their attention to fish and chips


    StupidicaAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Leaked UK Government Plan to Protect Copyright with Militias


    Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.comAuthority 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.
    1 week ago
  • Polar bears plummet from the sky in brutal and bloody cinema advert


    The WandererAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • UK Humanitarian Aid to Help Pakistan Recover From Conflict


    Net News PublisherAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Manchester sells holiday gift wrap designed for the city


    SpringwiseAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • More future of higher education in the UK and Australia


    Net TravellerAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Bank Trojan users arrested for ZeuS/Zbot hack


    Computerworld BlogsAuthority 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
    1 week ago
  • Plutocracy of blood? Afghanistan post-election


    Islam, Muslims, and an AnthropologistAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • 6 January 2012


    NoclueAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • asbestos UK (2)


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


    open...Authority 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 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • MI6 chiefs to be quizzed in Iraq war probe


    Thaindian NewsAuthority 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 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • UK Gov to access internet searches & call data


    ICM Commercial & Business NewsAuthority 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 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Baby Killer Agnes Wong given UK Government bribe


    Baby ChumsAuthority 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 ...
    2 weeks ago

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