Block ACTA! Stop ACTA!

Block ACTA and Stop ACTA! Truly, our freedoms are at stake.  While notionally an idea to prevent copyright theft, it’s real purpose opens the floodgates for any undemocratic organisation to walk over our freedoms (such as they are) for which our forefathers slugged their guts out.  Read this, then either; walk away (wondering in a [...]

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Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made: Mercenary Guidelines for a Better World

Guidelines for a Better World Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made.  Perhaps I should re-phrase this as: The Rules of Law and International Diplomacy are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made It’s a strange world out there.  Two recent political events [...]

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We Don’t Have to Behave Badly Just Because Others Do!

British Torture and Denial of Human Rights On the day that some Serbian leaders were convicted and others released as free men following charges for war crimes, (see Kosovo trial clears Serbia leader ), a UK minister, John Hutton, has “apologised for previously incorrect answers to MPs” (I’d call that lying in a normal language), and [...]

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WordPress Comments Settings Turned Down

Just for a while I’ve closed down the open comments access a bit (but not completely) until the splurge of spam has passed that started last night.  For some reason, Akismet etc missed a lot.  Hopefully, it’ll be back to it’s normal trappy self soon. My sites went slow with all the hits, but as [...]

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Spoofed Emails Make Me Look Like Dodgy Software Saleman

Less than a week ago, Virgin suffered an email outage of quite some time because of a flood of emails pouring in.  Spam causes Virgin email outage. Just afterwards, I had some domain problems with my ISP which are now resolved. ADSL, Pipex Blocks my Web Access, Weirdly! Now, starting about midnight last night, I [...]

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We are Less Safe with an America diminished, Powerless in a Resurgent World

This Associated Press article,  Analysis: North Korea nuclear deal falling apart, points out yet another consequence of the failings of policy and purpose from the outgoing George W Bush USA administration. As I pointed out in the second part of my article, bbc-science-disguised-as-validation-for-911-bush-continues-to-lose-influence, it’s the continuing failure in all areas of American life that have [...]

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BBC Science Disguised as Validation for 911, Bush Continues to Lose Influence

In this piece, Fusion power seeks super steels, and trying to use some of the news spill from the LHC, Jennifer Carpenter says; Scientists say an understanding of how the Twin Towers collapsed will help them develop the materials needed to build fusion reactors. Er, No.  It’ll teach them to stay on the right side [...]

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We Must Get Our Biological and Environmental Priorities Right

In the news today were two totally opposed news items on life and the human species’ power over life. Primates ‘face extinction crisis’ It’s in the title really.  Humans (a primate), are gobbling up all the world’s resources so that loads of primates will be extinct soon. Firm claims first pet dog clones In a [...]

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