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A sample of Professor Beer Having read Andy Beckett’s article about Chile yesterday, I thought I’d look up the British cyberneticist, management expert and Marxist on the net. Here is one of his papers, World in Torment.

Reserve Tours Are Extended (washingtonpost.com) The Washington Post reports that US Army reservists and National Guardsmen in Iraq will have their mobilisation extended to a year. Well, it’s one way of filling up those gaps. Meanwhile in Ukland, the British force is to be reinforced. 1 Royal Green Jackets and 2 Light Infantry to go…

Alleged Army LSD test video Sorry no updates lately..I’ve been working…promise to do better…

Link to BB “Yep, a soldier walked into what I assume to the main EFI, saying he was buying cigarrettes for his unit, appro 50,000 or 250 packets! And promptly cleared out the EFI of stock and then left the country!”

Who cares about terrorists with these little sweethearts about?

I’m sure we’ll all be so happy to know that the chief executive of BSkyB, Tony Ball, doesn’t like the BBC. After his rant about it to the Edinburgh TV festival, that was clear enough. But the real question is why it was news. After all, Mr. Ball is something like Rupert Murdoch’s incarnation on…

Link Oh Christ…”Dr David Kelly told a UK diplomat he would probably be “found dead in the woods” if the UK invaded Iraq, the Hutton inquiry has heard.” It gets worse. “Mr Broucher said the remark was made after Dr Kelly had explained to him that he had assured senior Iraqi officials that if they…

Link to story So how did he come back from the dead then?

Oh shit…

I naturally tried to get in to the inquiry for Campbell’s turn on the grill. I even got up earlier and got to the Royal Courts of Justice just under an hour earlier than on Monday. It didn’t help – a queue of around 160 people had gathered. I recalled that 40 tickets were available.…