Wednesday September 29, 2010

Forget about romance and you might just get yourself a decent marriage

Julie Burchill
Independent

Romance is surely the greatest capitalist cash-cow ever invented, the gift that truly does keep on giving

In the language of romance, flowers mean "I love you" and chocolates mean "I'm sorry", apparently.But in my book, flowers mean "You're stupid and I bet I can get round you really easily" and chocolates mean "Strap on a nosebag and stuff your face, fatso – why close the stable door after the horse has bolted?"
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Tuesday September 28, 2010

Firm that supplied Tasers used in Raoul Moat standoff loses licence

Press Association

Company was licensed to supply Taser guns to Home Office for testing but not to supply them to police, Home Office says

The company that supplied the Taser guns used by police in their standoff with Raoul Moat has had its licence revoked, the Home Office said today.
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Sunday September 26, 2010

Einstein's theory is proved – and it is bad news if you own a penthouse

Steve Connor
Independent

Scientists use atomic clocks to show that time moves faster at altitude, even on Earth

The world's most accurate clock has neatly shown how right Albert Einstein was 100 years ago, when he proposed that time is a relative concept and the higher you live above sea level the faster you should age.
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Sunday September 12, 2010

Coalition cuts will hit poor 10 times harder than rich, says TUC

Polly Curtis and Patrick Wintour
Guardian

Pensioners and single parents take brunt of government 'betrayal' of election promise of fair budget cutbacks

The coalition's spending cuts will hit the poorest in society 10 times harder than the richest as the health, social and education services they rely on are slashed, an extensive new study for the Trades Union Congress has found.

The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, says the research proves that the Conservatives are breaching their election promise to introduce cuts fairly.
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Tuesday September 07, 2010

Labour to sabotage vote reform Bill in bid to subvert Coalition

Andrew Grice
Independent

Labour is drawing up plans to sabotage the Bill proposing a referendum on the voting system during its passage through the House of Lords.

Senior Labour figures believe they can delay the public vote on whether to ditch the first-past-the-post system due to take place next May by using stalling tactics when the Bill is debated in the second chamber later this year.
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Friday September 03, 2010

New rig explosion raises spectre of second Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Alan Sayre
Independent

A mile-long oil sheen has spread from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said the sheen was spotted near the platform owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy Inc.
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Wednesday September 01, 2010

US undergrads crash NASA satellite into Arctic

Lewis Page
The Reister

Whoa, dude, check this out

Undergraduate students in America managed to get control of the manoeuvring thrusters of an orbiting 2000-lb NASA satellite at the weekend, sending it plummeting into the Earth's atmosphere to rain burning fragments across the chilly seas north of Norway and Russia.
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Wednesday September 01, 2010

China demands ID from all buyers of mobile phone numbers

Associated Press

Government says it hopes junk will be sunk by rules on new numbers, but critics fear more monitoring of citizens

China began requiring identification from anyone buying a new mobile phone number today in what it says is a bid to stamp out junk messages.

But critics say the move gives the government a new tool for monitoring its citizens.
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Wednesday September 01, 2010

The Nazification of the United States

Paul Craig Roberts
Counterpunch

Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce an important article, “Obama’s US Assassination Program.”

It seems only yesterday that Americans, or those interested in their civil liberties, were shocked that the Bush regime so flagrantly violated the FlSA law against spying on American citizens without a warrant. A federal judge serving on the FISA court even resigned in protest to the illegality of the spying.
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