The US has branded not only the leakers but wikileaks itself as criminals - as if that excuses being caught red-handed making decidedly undiplomatic comments about everyone else : From Reuters (and yes the following is all) : White House calls WikiLeaks, leakers...
Can we expect the lights to go out early next week?
Whilst idly browsing, I came across the following rather interesting graphs from the National Electricity Traders Association website (a collection of data aggregated into one page by The National Grid). While the daily temperatures are dropping well below the...
Bailing out Ireland – The EU gets its pound of flesh.
The bailout of Ireland has been agreed this weekend, weighing in at €85 billion all told. FT Alphaville has the full details here but the following caught my eye (emphasis mine) : The State’s contribution to the €85 billion facility will be €17.5 billion, which will...
Yet another smoking related article choosing to ignore the actual facts.
The Telegraph has an article on their website today purporting to link the UK's high rate of respiratory deaths with the supposed high prevalence of smoking in the UK. Reading the article, I started to become suspicious, partly due to the lack of actual concrete...
One more step towards a Police State?
If the UK isn't already a Police State then the following from the BBC certainly seems to be pointing the way to a time when the police can act as they like with no judicial oversight whatsoever : The police are seeking powers to shut down websites deemed to be...
Pictorial Interlude – Euro Art Satire edition
Via Zerohedge, contributor williambanzai7 is one hell of an artist. A selection of his works (more at the link above) inspired by Salvador-Dali- melting clocks, Rene Magritte - The Son of Man and Leonardo da Vinci - Leda and the Swan. The last one there only...
What the IMF has in store for Ireland.
If you thought the current IMF/EU negotiations were about helping Ireland in it's time of need then you really ought to have a read at an article written by Mike Whitney at Counter Punch. A few excerpts as a taster : Imagine that Yasser Arafat had succeeded in ending...
A bunch of troughing, unelected shits.
If anyone needed any further evidence of the kind of people running the EU, the following from the Telegraph just goes to show how out of touch the unelected Eurocrats really are (emphasis mine) : Eurocrats to receive 3.7 per cent pay increase, European Court of...
Korean fighting – a different viewpoint.
Whilst the media here in the UK seems to stress the fact that North Korea started shelling one of South Koreas islands, Pravda, in their usual way, have a rather different slant on the story that certainly makes for interesting reading. If you put aside for a moment...
Musical Interlude – Rheinkaos, Beta Religion
Spotted by one of Waspsnest Estonian co-conspirators, a great piece of experimental black metal which is unlike anything I have heard before and all the better for it - excellent stuff! _