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Newspeak 2009
Read more: Newspeak 2009The Centre for Policy Studies has released The 2009 Lexicon, A guide to contemporary Newspeak. Some random examples: Dialogue (meaningful): the pretence of genuine two-way conversation. Equality: sameness. Absence of diversity. Joined-up government: excuse for cross-departmental initiatives which…
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Some Costs of the Great War: Nationalizing Private Life
Read more: Some Costs of the Great War: Nationalizing Private LifeFollowing comments on the immediate astronomical human cost of the Great War: Yet this essay has to do less with numbers of ended lives than it has to do with altered lives, or rather, with changes in the…
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AAAS: ‘One hundred billion trillion’ planets where alien life could flourish – Telegraph
Read more: AAAS: ‘One hundred billion trillion’ planets where alien life could flourish – TelegraphThe case for charitable funding of space programmes? Within four years Dr Boss, who was speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, believes it will have found one in our galaxy and that will…
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Hydrogen cars – just a thought
Read more: Hydrogen cars – just a thoughtIf the Californians have a “Hydrogen Highway“, which includes self-service hydrogen pumps, and if hydrogen internal combusion engines are possible, what are we waiting for and why are we talking about fuel cells? Wikipedia refers to claims of…
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Britain’s bankers plumb new depths – Times Online
Read more: Britain’s bankers plumb new depths – Times OnlineVia Britain’s bankers plumb new depths – Times Online : Jon Moulton, the private equity chief, warned a City lunch this week that he feared serious civil unrest. There was, he said, a 25 per cent chance of one of…
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Lloyds Banking Group rocked by shock losses in HBOS – Times Online
Read more: Lloyds Banking Group rocked by shock losses in HBOS – Times OnlineTaxpayers could have to spend billions bailing out the banks again after massive and unexpected losses were disclosed by Britain’s new superbank. Shares in Lloyds Banking Group fell 32 per cent to 61.4p yesterday after it reported losses…
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K1200S on the moors
Read more: K1200S on the moorsK1200S on the moors, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. For old times’ sake.