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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• The UK Cyber Story So Far

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 432
  Either a lot or little has happened since the UK’s Cyber Security Strategy was launched in June 2009. Cath Everett at InfoSecurity has an excellent run-down of the story so far . What’s particularly interesting about this piece is its focus on the UK military, which is often overlooked in discussions of this ...
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• Front Line Forces Say Support Us At Christmas – But Not By Sending Parcels

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Generous members of the public who show their support for Armed Forces personnel by sending welfare parcels to Afghanistan are being urged to stop and think – and consider alternative and better ways they can back the troops. There are many different ways in which people in the UK can thank forces deployed overseas ...
  4 days ago

• British team aims to break own land speed record by going beyond 1,000 mph

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 24 (ANI): Reports indicate that the UK team aiming to smash its own land speed record by driving a car beyond 1,000 mph (1,610km/h) has settled on a final design for the vehicle.According to a report by BBC News, the final design calls for a major re-configuration of the vehicle’s two power units, ...
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• Classified documents reveal hostility between Brit, US commanders

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov.23 (ANI): A deep hostility prevailed between British and American military commanders in Iraq, classified government documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph, have revealed. In the papers, the British chief of staff in Iraq, Colonel J.K.Tanner, described his US military counterparts as “a group of ...
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• Pregnancy in the Army: 10 female soldiers sent back home to have babies

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 493
  10 pregnant female British soldiers have been sent back home from operations during the past six months, though it’s unclear how many of the 10 became pregnant after being sent to war in Afghanistan. Despite having no private bedrooms, the MoD, (Ministry of Defence) is likely to investigate whether breaches of ...
  1 week ago

• Giunti Labs’ latest solutions on show for the Ministry of Defence

  
  Your Story — Authority: 591
  Giunti Labs exhibits its latest learning content solutions at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Modern Learning Symposium Event
  1 week ago

• I quit your Excellency, I quit.

  
  Funny Emails — Authority: 145
  Image via WikipediaHis Excellency the PresidentThrough the Secretary, Ministry of Defence,Public Security, Law and OrderPresidential SecretariatColombo, Sri Lanka12 November 2009Your ExcellencyREQUEST TO RETIRE FROM THE REGULAR FORCE OF THE SRI LANKA ARMY1. I, General G S C Fonseka RWP RSP VSV USP rcds psc presently ...
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• Gaming war

  
  LENIN'S TOMB — Authority: 570
  This is an MoD demo programme showing soldiers how to handle roadblocks in Iraq: And this is a video game showing people why they should join the army in the first place (cuz shooting people up is way cool): Copyleft of Lenins Tomb
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• We tortured Iraqi prisoners to avenge our troops’ killing, says convicted British soldier

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov. 17 (ANI): A former corporal in the British Army, who is accused of the brutal beating and torture of Iraqi prisoners, has said that he acted out of revenge over the killing of four UK soldiers.Donald Payne, 35, told a public inquiry that he tortured Iraqis to avenge the murder of three Royal [...]
  1 week ago

• Parents of Nimrod crash victim seek criminal prosecution

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  The parents of a British serviceman killed aboard an RAF Nimrod which exploded over Afghanistan are to seek a criminal prosecution following a report into the disaster.
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• MoD may sell aircraft carrier to India to limit cuts (UK)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  MoD may sell aircraft carrier to India to limit cuts Sale would leave Royal Navy with just one replacement Tim Webb The Observer, Sunday 15 November 2009 Article historyOne of Britains new £2bn aircraft carriers could be sold off under cost-cutting plans being considered by the Ministry of Defence. India has lodged a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ministry of Defence officials get £8000 a month in Afghanistan

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Civil servants are being paid more than £8000 a month for working in Afghanistan nearly five times as much some soldiers on the front line.
  2 weeks ago

• Iraqi civilians allege British soldiers of sexual, physical abuse

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 15(ANI): Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have alleged the British soldiers of sexual and physical abuse, prompting comparisons with the torture practices employed by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.The fresh claims are among 33 new torture cases being investigated by the Ministry of Defence ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wave Knight abandons chivalry in Somali hijack incident

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  This is the Royal Navy’s 31,000 tonne tanker, RFA Wave Knight. She is almost 200 metres long with a beam of over 28 metres.She has a crew of up to 100 - 72 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel with provision for another 26 Royal Navy personnel for helicopter and weapons systems operations.She has two 30 mm [...]
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• Ministry of Defence spends £67 million on rent as homes stand empty

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  The Ministry of Defence has come under fresh criticism after spending millions of pounds on rented homes for Armed Forces personnel even though it has thousands of properties standing empty.
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• Those Ministry of Defence Bonuses

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 442
  The Daily Mail managed to kick up a bit of a stink over the £300 million bonuses. What surprises me is that nobody added the £268 million in overclaimed expenses to that figure. The most interesting part in the Daily Mail article is the excerpt from their original article. The MoD admit that "senior staff were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gordon Brown pushes for more nations to share Afghan burden

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Gordon Brown is attempting to persuade allied nations to provide 5000 more troops for the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
  2 weeks ago

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