A news article on today’s The Supreme Court ruling that the current ACPO DNA retention guidelines are unlawful mentioned in passing that legislation on the retention of DNA was going to be part of the Protection of Freedoms Bill. I had actualy forgotten about that particular Bill as it seems to have been such [...]  Via the US ACLU, it seems that the US congress is about as useful as our bunch of troughing thieves when they spend all of ten minutes in the middle of the night discussing new powers to authorise worldwide war : As we blogged last week, a hugely important provision for Congress to authorize [...] Reactor one in relatively unbuggered condition! With the MSM having the attention span of a 3 year old high on fizzy drinks, it is hardly surprising that Fukushima related news has disappeared from our view. Unfortunately, the real story seems to be taking a turn for the downright buggered as Japan confirms [...]
Your papers please! Presented with little comment as I am more or less speechless at this crap but first, an apt quote : “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington From the BBC, the kind [...] My two week escape from the misery that is the UK has once again passed by all too quickly so I have a full day of playing the airport cattle game via Copenhagen. Fortunately, I only have around 80 days to wait until my next visit to the land of £2 per pack cigarettes [...] Being one of the filthy smoker underclass in the UK, I was amused to find out that Estonian cigarettes are far less dangerous than their UK equivalents or at least you would think so from the health warnings on the packets : The translation being “Smoking may kill”. Somewhat different I think you [...] Having seen many clips of rushing waters and destruction, I was not expecting the images in the video below which show just how truly terrifying the Japanese Tsunami actually was. While watching for the first time, pay attention to the city view to the right hand side of the cameraman as he pans around [...] What have we got so far? Japanese nuclear reactors shut down automatically when the earthquake hit the country but the electrical system failed after being swamped by a 10m sea surge which lead to a loss of coolant/coolant scenario. The residual decay heat generated in the fuel rods raised the pressure in the uncooled [...] An interesting report from The Telegraph on the results of the governments review of drink driving legislation which removes a suspects rights to independent verification of their positive breath test : Drink drivers lose right to demand blood tests Motorists who are marginally over the limit are to lose the right to demand a [...] An interesting one from ZeroHedge in which Tepco finally admits that the (seemingly) alarmist news reporting about the situation in Japan is actually not too far from the truth : TEPCO Director Weeps After Disclosing Truth About Fukushima Disaster … TEPCO managing director Akio Komori who was openly weeping as he leaves a [...] Spotted over at Not a Sheep‘s place, ABC News Australia has some amazing before and after photographs showing just how devastating the Tsunami damage around Japan’s Northern coast actually is. The link to ABC News above has several images – hover your mouse above each image to move the divider left and right to [...] Talk about thick as pigshit in this BBC article : Concern over a “temperamental” bollard has lead to the cancellation of a pancake race in County Durham. Bishop Auckland was due to host the event on Fore Bondgate but it was called off on the advice of police, who raised safety concerns. It [...] ZeroHedge has a monumental guest post on the current state of the USA and after reading it I would not be surprised at all if we see riots there this year. Some snippets as a taster : If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too [...] Following on from the arrest of a man for “making aircraft gestures“, The BBC has the story today that he has actually been charged and will appear before the beak : A man has been charged by police after a Crawley Town fan was alleged to have mocked the victims of the Munich [...] Following on from the reprieve for Booktrust and an unchopped Quango or two, we have yet another saving reversal with the Department for Business finding a few million quid tucked down the back of a sofa : Hundreds of specialist debt advisers facing redundancy have won a reprieve after the government found £27m to [...]  |
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