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Superspy in the sky could soon be patrolling over British cities
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A Top-secret US unmanned drone used to locate Al Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in Pakistan and Afghanistan could soon be patrolling over British cities to search for hidden terror cells.
The controversial move would allow MI5 and GCHQ, the Government’s eavesdropping centre, to step up surveillance operations over the UK. Until now, the £23million Global Hawk aircraft has not been available for foreign sale.
Don’t worry. It’s for your safety.
Goldman e-mails show how crash turned into cash
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NEW YORK — As the U.S. housing turned downward in January 2007, a Goldman Sachs trader wrote in e-mails to a woman he apparently was courting that investments he had sold were “like Frankenstein turning against his own inventor.”
The party of no … credibility
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To keep on top of urban myths of all kinds, I subscribe to the Snopes.com update list, and I noticed a pattern there that I thought deserved to be examined more arithmetically. It struck me I was seeing a lot more rumors about President Obama, and a lot more false rumors, than I remembered from earlier years. So I ran the numbers, as of this week.
After eight years in the White House (with Snopes.com around all that time), George W. Bush has been the subject of 47 internet rumors. After less than two years in office, Barack Obama has been the subject of 87, or nearly twice as many.
Even more telling is the relative accuracy of those stories. For Bush, 20 rumors, or 43%, are true. Only 17, or 36%, are false. The remainder are of mixed veracity (4), undetermined (4), or unclassifiable (2).
In contrast, for Obama only 8 of the 87 rumors, or 9%, are true, and a whopping 59, or 68%, are whoppers. There are 17 of mixed veracity and 3 undetermined.
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This evidence accumulated over ten years shows a shameful but undeniable fact of American politics: Our right wing now contains a lot more liars, and a lot more folks who spread lies out of gullibility or wishfulness, than our left wing.
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They have the power to switch off your brain
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Certain parts of the brain – which control scepticism and vigilance – appear to deactivate in some people when they’re in the presence of a speaker who they believe has divine healing powers, scientists in Denmark have found.
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AIG May Be on the Hook in Lawsuits Against Goldman Sachs Board
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American International Group Inc. may be required to pay to defend lawsuits against Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top executives, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, under directors and officers insurance policies held by the company.
AIG, which was rescued from collapse by the U.S. government, sold so-called Side A directors and officers’ coverage to New York-based Goldman Sachs, according to a person with knowledge of the policy. Goldman Sachs was sued last week by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which claimed it misled investors about collateralized debt obligations tied to subprime mortgages in 2007.
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Florida One: some assembly required
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And its use will never be abused! Oh, look at that babe sunbathing in her b’day suit in her backyard! Let’s get a picture (and address)!
Excuse me, John, but would it be possible to give less prominence to the more bone-headed comments? Many of us read your site because of the excellent mix of links and comments which you offer us daily. It is greatly appreciated. The comments of the usual suspects (you know who you are) are not in the same league.
@Richard: When you request that John should “give less prominence to the more bone-headed comments”, are you suggesting that they should be set in a smaller font?
Maybe John should instigate a policy of grading the quality of all incoming comments by a strict gradation of sizes, so that “bone headed” comments should be almost illegibly minuscule, requiring several applications of CTRL + (Or Apple +) to be legible at all, up to 48 point renderings for comments in “the same league” as you presumably inhabit, whose contributions can be ranked alongside the greatest orators in history; Juvenal, Demosthenes, Ghandi, Churchill, et al.
I do not know whether anyone usually suspects me of anything on this excellent site, but I do detect a whiff of snobbism in your comment, without which we can well do.
Harsh. With a response to which I should not grace. However, yes I was referring to font size and placement of comments. John’s old configuration had comments as a sidebar and it worked well. By ‘bone headed’ I meant not only “look at me” responses stating the bleeding obvious but also the kind of snide insult you mean to deliver above.