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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 ...
  4 days ago

• Nick tables Written Question on help for flood victims

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 608
  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, ...
  4 days ago

• (UK) Governments fat police turn their attention to fish and chips

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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.
  1 week ago

• Polar bears plummet from the sky in brutal and bloody cinema advert

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 561
  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 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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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: 442
  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: 144
  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: 725
  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: 493
  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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• Westminster Marine Bill passes

  
  The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network — Authority: 125
  The Westminster Marine and Coastal Access Bill has now received Royal Assent.Both this Bill and the Scottish Marine Bill are intended to introduce a framework for the sustainable management of the seas around the UK / Scotland, ensuring the need to protect our seas is integrated with economic growth of marine ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doonreay to be ‘nuclear heritage site’ as cost of Westminster rush for new nuclear is tallied

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) is overseeing the decommissioning of the former nuclear power station on Scotland’s northern shores on the Pentland Firth in Caithness.It has announced that, in 2010,  it will hold  a 3-month consultation on what should be left as its legacy. Try to keep a straight face.The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Next Generation Government HR

  
  HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM) — Authority: 427
       Jacquie Heany from the Cabinet Office quoted Gill Rider fom the Civil Service HR conference last week, suggesting that government departments face the leadership challenge of a generation . “How will you know who to keep, and who to let go, in order to ensure you have the right skills for the ...
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• Complaint about BBC coverage of Britain’s new nuclear power stations; and reply regarding the One Show

  
  Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values' — Authority: 408
  Below is the text of an email of complaint I sent to the BBC yesterday: I am complaining about the fact that the BBC’s reporting on the government’s plans for ten new nuclear power stations, announced yesterday, failed to explain why almost all of them (nine) are to be built in England and none in Scotland. This ...
  2 weeks ago

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