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politics 5 | another ivory tower report—bush the oil man and cloud-cuckoo land The report criticises Bush’s hydrogen car ambitions. Bush is giving trivial amounts of money to hydrogen car development and pretends he wants them widely on the market in 15 years.
A slight problem for the ‘National Academy of Sciences’: there will be just about no pumped oil left for running cars in 25 years time. related material The web address for this item is |
08.02.2004 related material |
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being ‘poor’ in the united states
Longer report with table and charts linked from above link. The web address for this item is |
07.02.2004 |
a very accurate summary of the problem of the next us presidential election
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06.02.2004 | |
home of democracy welcomes another dictator, after feting mugabe and vetoing removal of madsam peasenik ch-irak wants to sell more arms
half french parliment protest with their feet
dear friend schroeder in accord...(and prodi)
Meanwhile, demonstrators were kept well out of sight. Nearby Paris streets were almost empty, while many others jammed wth diverted traffic – the result of an unprecedented security operation. The web address for this item is |
29.01.2004 | |
bush foreign policy going just great Recommended quick reality check, while the Left whines ever onward. What the intelligence services believed:
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26.01.2004 |
virtual property now exists in china Very interesting changes to Chinese property law:
If it is true that this is the first such case, this will confer a serious competitive advantage to the Chinese. I hope that the USA [ed.] et al. follow suit. [item from aoiko] The web address for this
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15.01.2004 | |
the filthy hydrogen economy—is george bush a black environmentalist?
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14.01.2004 related material |
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putting
chomsky in perspective – a review A succinct and accurate summary of the standard Chumsky baloney.
Here starts an excellent commentary on Chumsky’s supposed ‘contributions’ to linguistics. The item is a bit ragged, but is an ideal start for understanding why Chumskyist linguistics is not treated as serious science. Recommended: If the facts do not conform with the theory, the facts must be discarded.
This link from Greg Hennesey.
Fisking Chomsky, a deconstruction of a Chomsky tract. The web address for this item is |
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target:
one per year—
Worth a quick read. The web address for this item is |
07.01.2004 | |
on the weird coalition: effete westerners and tribal primitives
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05.01.2004 | |
“why should washington respect federalism when that would doing so would restrict its ability to jail the sick?”—us loony drug war Step by step, the loons are losing their ridiculous ‘drug war’.
And many more details. For a survey of the logic see drugs, smoking and addiction The web address for this item is |
22.12.2003 |
a series of suggestions for lefties needing to distort the news regarding madsam [Saddam Hussein]
Item brought to my attention by Steven X Brown. The web address for this item is |
19.12.2003 | |
is aids, in fact, peaking in africa?
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13.12.2003 | |
a courageous voice speaks from iraq This you have to read to taste the flavour. The web address for this item is |
04.12.2003 | |
new large document with much uk government data A 1.4 megabyte PDF file with 111 pages and a large number of charts This document is to be the basis of consultation and forward planning. The web address for this item is |
01.12.2003 |
“the worst is yet to come” – aids
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30.11.2003 | |
defining wmds (weapons of mass destruction) I have asked, possibly dozens of times, for those using the term ‘wmd’ to define their meaning. No-one has yet made anything like a fist of it. Governments are constantly trotting out the phrase ‘weapons of mass destruction’, again with no meaningful definition. Meanwhile, they attempt to use it as an excuse to centralise power and to restrict civil liberties. It may be considered trivial to be concerned that so many people respond to an undefined ‘boo word’ in a thoughtless manner. I do not consider this to be trivial. In my view, the easy acceptance by individuals of an essentially meaningless phrase is a road to them losing their independence and freedom. If the ‘war on terror’ is allowed to be elided into a war on ‘wmds’, governments will be able to slip past public awareness many impressive-sounding but vague laws and controls. Even the idiotic ‘war on drugs’ has some basic definitions which can be used by the courts. The easy acceptance of this undefined term is becoming a growing worry, and a block in the way of useful debate. The web address for this item is |
24.11.2003 |
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