So, Barack Obama is now an evil warmongering bastard like all the others who wants to invade Pakistan or a girly man who doesn’t want to nuke Pakistan, depending on ideological preference. The reason was a speech on foreign policy he recently gave, and subsequent reporting. You can see how it happened. It spooked me;…
Read More Reading the Documents: Obama vs PakistanThere is no reason for anyone to think that the National Identity Register will not be compromised. Nobody serious in IT thinks that any networked computer system is immune to hackers, and that’s before you consider extrusion rather than intrusion; it’s a horrible misuse of English, but it’s the term used for attackers who come…
Read More The NIR Can and Will be CompromisedAntonov An-12BK serial 9346904, now with something called “Meridian” in the Ukraine as UR-CAG…formerly ER-AXY with the following roll-call of Viktor Bout operations. Aerocom, Asterias Commercial, Astral Aviation, ATI, ACS, Jet Line International…
Read More On the road againDid I say it would be difficult? Damn right it was. Did I mention gnarly old schemers like Stacey Jones and Jason Croker? Damn right I did, and they certainly schemed gnarly. But nobody expected the Catalans’ tactics; not many teams set out to whack Wigan in the chops early doors and get away with…
Read More Blogging Rugby League: Wigan-CatalansSo, Challenge Cup semi-final weekend; a good one, too… Bradford got the worst of it, of course. Despite regularly being one of the best clubs in the country since 1996, they always struggle to make it stick. That was precisely their problem today – despite making chances, they never quite had the sort of quick-smart…
Read More Blogging Rugby League: Bradford-St HelensThe latest UN Monitoring Group report on Somalia is out. BBC News reports that Eritrea is accused of sending the ex-ICU large quantities of weapons aboard a chartered Boeing 707. Looking up the report, it turns out to be 9G-OAL, serial no. 19350, registered to a Ghanaian firm, Aerogem Aviation. Aerogem was contacted by the…
Read More Ex-Viktor Bout Aircraft Running Guns to SomaliaThis row over at Tim Lambert’s, also here, reminded me of something I’ve noticed around the blogosphere. There was this, too, and also this. They’re all arguments from meta-analysis of some sort, and they’re all wrong. They’re all wrong in the same way, too; the first, David Kane’s beef with the Lancet survey of mortality…
Read More Scienciness, againRoll of Shame: The following bloggers we contacted didn’t bother to answer: Iain “Hollywood” Dale, Silver Birch Online, Johann “Chubby Invader” Hari, Oliver “Alte Fritz” Kamm, China “Digital Dzerzhinsky” Mieville, Antonia “You know – thingy” Bance, Shuggy. You don’t want to be on the list – do you?
Read More Caucus of CallousClimate-change denier and quack weatherman Piers Corbyn writes to the paper: The problem for global warmers is that there is no evidence that changing CO2 is a net driver for world climate. Feedback processes negate its potential warming effects. Their theory has no power to predict. It is faith, not science. I challenge them to…
Read More Science!British withdrawal from southern Iraq is now in the foreseeable future, with the concentration at Basra Air Station, the impending closure of Basra Palace PJCC, and the departure of the first 500 troops. Therefore, it is high time to consider the fate of Iraqis who took our side during the occupation. Denmark, whose government originally…
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