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The Hubris of Scientists Brings The Inevitable Result

When six Italian scientists were jailed for failing to raise the alarm that an earthquake was imminent thus contributing to the deaths of many people the outrage from the science community was utterly predictable and completely unjusdtified. Why should scientists get special treatment, why should science be placed beyond accountability?

Nick Clegg launches attack on Tories who want to escape from Europe

In a row that threatens to split the coalition government, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has warned the Conservatives Britain is at risk of leaving the EU if Tories keep trying to “unravel” Europe by clawing back sovereign powers and trying to force Brussels to cut it's own budget in the same way as the bureaucratic dictatorship has imposed austerity on member states in order to save the doomed single currency. After the Government lost a vote in which Conservsative rebels and the Labour Party voted to seek a cut in the EU budget, the deputy Prime Minister warned that Britain is in real danger of exiting the Union if Tories keep "stamping their feet" and demanding new rules. He also claimed "a grand, unilateral repatriation of powers might sound appealing but in reality, it is a false promise, wrapped in a Union Jack". The deputy Prime Minister’s remarks will be interpreted as a swipe at David Cameron, who has promised to bring back powers from Brussels. Speaking at Chatham House, Mr Clegg said the Lib Dems will play no part in taking back powers without absolute assurances that Britain can opt back in. He also said there is "no hope" of a cut in the EU budget, as demanded by more than 50 Tory rebels and the Labour Party, because no other country is demanding such a reduction. In a warning to the Tory leadership, Mr Clegg said there is a “shorter leap” than anyone thinks to Britain exiting the EU in “an outright crisis that would leave the UK fully marginalised”. Exactly. Fully marginalised like Norway and Switzerland, both of which are doing very nicely.

Lib Dem Energy Minister Wants You To Sit In The Dark While Foreign Billionaires Steal You Money

The Energy Secretaru Ed Davey, one of the most senior Liberal Democrats in the Coalition government has banned Conservative junior minister John Hayes, a new face in the Department of Energy, from making remarks about the spread of wind farms after he told newspapers, "enough is enough".

Davey, the Energy Secretary today slapped down Tory Energy Minister John Hayes for saying the spread of wind farms across the countryside will be brought to a halt as “enough is enough”.

It is a deepening of the Coalition rift over Britain's green agenda, after Mr Hayes called for an end to wind farms "peppered" all over the countryside.

Mr Davey spoke out after as wind farm developers anxiously called on him to clear up the mixed messages.

“There has been no change to Government policy on renewable energy, as collectively agreed by the Coalition Cabinet," he said.

“There are no targets - or caps - for individual renewable technologies such as onshore wind. Nor are there reviews being done of onshore wind on the basis of landscape or property values.

“What we’re currently consulting on are ways of making sure local communities feel the benefit of hosting wind farms, and whether our understanding of future costs is accurate.

It is understood he banned Mr Hayes from making similar remarks in a speech at a renewable energy conference in Glasgow last night.

Mr Hayes, a known sceptic about wind farms, was appointed by the Prime Minister in the recent re-shuffle, fuelling speculation his views are backed at senior levels within the Conservative Party.Tory opposition to wind farms has already caused a major row this year with the Liberal Democrats, after 100 backbenchers wrote to George Osborne, the Chancellor, demanding a cut to subsidies.

This morning, RenewableUK, a renewable energy lobby group, called for “urgent clarification after negative comments on wind energy were made by John Hayes in some of this morning’s papers”. The group said his comments were markedly different from those made to 400 industry delegates at the RenewableUK annual conference last night. Maf Smith, the group’s deputy chief executive, said: “As the wind industry meets in Glasgow to celebrate the success of this industry, it comes as some surprise that the new minister has said one thing to us and another to the press.

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Amazon Mocks Apple's Unhealthy Option

Amazon has mocked Apple in an audacious US advert that pits the Kindle Fire HD against the iPad Mini.

Amazon's US homepage is filled by a huge comparison of Kindle Fire HD and Apple's newsly launched iPad Mini features titled 'Much More for Much Less'.

It marks a more aggressive approach in Amazon's marketing strategy as Apple attempts to enter the mini tablet marketplace, which has until now been dominated by Amazon's Kindle range of devices. Apple can't honsetly complain, their own attacks on their (usually technically superior) opposition have in the past bordered on libellous.

The Amazon advert focuses on the strengths of the Kindle tablet while pointing out the shortcomings of Apple's latest overpriced piece of shit device.

It highlights the superior resolution of the Kindle Fire HD's display, its dual stereo speakers and its significantly lower price - $199 compared to the iPad Mini's $329.

Girls of 13 given birth control jab at school without parents’ knowledge

According to information leaking out of the Education Department schoolgirls as young as 13 have been given contraceptive injections and implants during lunch-breaks without their parents’ knowledge.

In the most shocking example yet of how socialist authoritarians have hijacked the education system and are brainwashing pupils with their anti - family, anti - British agenda, news has broken revealing school nurses have ben ordered to give contraceptive implants or jabs to girls aged between 13 and 16 more than 900 times in the past two years, a survey by The Daily Telegraph has found. Girls aged 13 have been given contraceptive jabs and implants on more than 20 occasions.

What wewre these teachers and educationalists thinking. The political left has a long track record of trying to sexualise children of course, it is part of their uber-agenda to destroy the family and make us all slaves of the state. Labour Deputy Leader Harridan Harperson, when she worked at the National Council for Civil Liberties in the 1970s actively campaigned for relaxation of age of consent laws and equal rights for paedos. Acroos the pond the scummy Obama administration appointed as Tsar for sex education a man who has made a career out of campaigning for equal rights for kiddie fiddlers.

And now schoolteachers, and let's face it there was never a profession made up of so many dysfunctional, unhappy and profoundly unattractive people, are teaching little girld that their genitals can be used as toys.

An estimated 7,400 girls aged 15 and under have been given contraceptive injections or implants at family planning clinics arranged by schools. Under the patient confidentiality rules, nurses are banned from seeking the permission of parents beforehand, or even informing them afterwards, without the pupil’s permission. Members of the creepy profession are trying to usurp the role of parents.

This trivialisation of sex is only happening in the Socialist controlled state education system of course. In the private sector there is a more responsible attitude. Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College, said: “I think that sexual intercourse is the very highest and most mature spiritual relationship that can exist between two human beings.

“Anything that trivialises or treats it as something mundane or easy, particularly for young people, is damaging their ability to grow up and to properly form a loving lasting relationship. It devalues sex, it makes it like an ordinary, everyday thing like going to have a McDonald’s.”

Absolutely right. On the other hand in the state sector trainee Jimmy Saviles are being turned loose among your kids.

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29 October 2012

Trendy left wing education policies accused of inhibiting ambition in school pupils

by Xavier Connolly

Teachers are encouraging many children to believe that top exam grades, places at elite universities and professional careers are all beyond them, an education minister said in a speech last week. Liberal Deomcrat David Laws attacked the “depressingly low expectations” inculcated by schools that he said are impeding children in many parts of the country and preventing them from getting ahead in life.

Even in the more affluent parts of the country, school teachers and careers advisers are failing to encourage children to “reach for the stars,” instead pushing them to settle for middling exam results and careers with “medium-ranked” local employers, he said. Mr Laws’s remarks are his first comments on education policy since his return to the Government in last month’s cabinet reshuffle.

“Teachers, colleges, careers advisers have a role and a responsibility to aim for the stars and to encourage people to believe they can reach the top in education and employment, that is not happening as much as it should at the moment.” Mr Laws said.

The Lib Dems are currently pushing measures to increase social mobility, making it easier for people to get ahead regardless of their social background. Social mobility stagnated during the Labour era from 1997 to 2010 that's to Labour's unceasing efforts to make everybody equal by dragging all down to the lowest connom denominator.

Mr Laws, a Cambridge University graduate, said that social mobility was not simply a question of wealth, arguing that even children from comfortable backgrounds are being held back by low expectations and a lack of aspiration.

The minister, a former City banker who represents Yeovil in Somerset, said many children are effectively being taught that high-flying careers are not possible for them. “Even in my own constituency, Yeovil, which would not be regarded as one of the most socially deprived areas of the country, most young people would regard going into investment banking as almost leaving the country, because it’s a different world,” he said.

“They will often be encouraged to believe it is beyond them.”

In many parts of the country outside London, the minister suggested, children without family connections believe that careers such as banking, law and journalism are closed.

Instead of aiming high, “there are too many young people who think that the two or three big employers in their local town are the limit of their aspiration”.

Low career expectations can lead children to get lower exam grades than they could achieve, Laws suggested. “If your expectation in a school is that you only need a moderate set of qualifications because there is no point aiming higher than a job in a local facttory, that’s a huge cap not just on social mobility, it is a cap on achievement in examinations,” he said.

“If you think it is really important to get three A*s to get into Cambridge and the City, you will be much more motivated than if you think you just need three Cs to go into the local medium-ranked employer.” As well as telling teachers and schools to raise children’s expectations, Mr Laws said that employers from “more privileged” industries should also do more to encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

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It was terrible here, TV host Fiona Phillips tells pupils at her old school

In a totally separate incident to the one reported above, politically leftish television presenter Fiona Phillips used a speech at her old school to attack the education she received there, claiming it had turned her into a "vile teenager". The former GMTV host, 51, pulled no punches during what was supposed to be a celebration for the rebranding of Millbrook School as a £16 million academy.

Appearing at the school as a guest speaker, she claimed teachers at the Southampton comprehensive crushed her aspirations during the 1970s, resulting in her leaving with just one O-level. Describing her arrival at Millbrook as an "eye opener" after being top of her primary school class, she said: "It was a school rampant with hormones and no discipline, no aspiration and no encouragement.

OUCH! Not what the school was expecting from it's former pupil.

Ms Phillips said, "I went in and said I wanted to be a doctor and they said, 'Have you thought about hairdressing?' I can remember being in classes throwing furniture around. We locked a fashion teacher in a cupboard and threw one over a bush, and that was normal behaviour. My mother was in despair because I was so vile to her. They used to come and pick me up from the police station after I had been caught shoplifting. I was in fights after school; I won't even go into what else went on. My mother couldn't believe that this constant pupil had turned into this vile teenager."

The speech provoked angry criticism from former pupils and governors at the school, now renamed Oasis Academy Lord's Hill.

One contemporary of Phillips said: "There was nothing wrong with the school nor the pupils who worked hard at their education. Perhaps if Ms Phillips had not spent so much time throwing furniture and teachers around she may have got more out of her time there." Bet we know who was teachers pet.

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Schumpeter's Warning; capitalisms links to crisis and scocialism's links to fascism summed up.

by Phil T. Luker

The deeper we get into the economic mire the clearer it becomes neither left not right have the first clue how to set about getting us out. All they can offer are failed ideologies and a relentless push towards a totalitarian global government. Is it time to recall Schumpeter's Warning?

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Is Europe's Love Of Obama Really Just A Phobia About America?

by Ian R Thorpe

There are two great mysteries about the relationship between the USA and Europe. Why do Europeans love Barack Obama so much? And why do European Obama-supporters think anyone in the United States remotely cares what they think?

Two recent polls show how much more popular Obama is around the world compared to his rival. If Britain was the real 51st state, according to a GlobeScan/PIPA survey published on the BBC website, it would easily hand Obama its 100 electoral college votes, Britons favouring Obama by 65 per cent to Mitt Romney's 7. And Britain is considerably less Obamaist than France, where the ratio is 72-1.

Then there’s the Gallup poll that has Obama on 81 per cent around the world, and polling at 96 per cent or more in Iceland, Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Ireland and Denmark. Which means that Germans are more pro-Obama than African-Americans, and far more so than Kenyans, who seem to have a soft spot for Mitt despite the Obama connection.

And yet Obama has overseen the continuance of the Afghan war, in his spell as Commander in Chief of the US military Uncle Sam had become embroiled in the domestic conficts of more foreign nations than it did under the alleged warmonger Bush and has not managed to broker a solution to any of the political or humanitarian crises it has faced. He has caved in to Russia, China and the Arabs and supported Agrentina in its unjustifiable claims on the sovereign territory of America's closest ally, Britain.

Obama’s record on global economy and security is pretty dubious; (right now it feels like the Mayans were onto something,) and certainly should not account for the massive disparity in European polls. Instead support for Obama has more to do with European distaste for Middle America, characterised by “angry” Tea Party activists, guns, racism, climate-change denial and creationism. (We all like a laugh at creationists, but the main difference between the sort of unscientific beliefs espoused by religious Republicans and the secular bunkum believed by the Democrats is that you can get fired from your job for questioning the latter’s Politically Correct doctrines.)

Quite simply many Europeans like Obama because they see him as UnAmerican. It’s this arrogance and snobbery that drives European thinking about the US.

Europes Authoritarian Bureaucrats Spark Nazi Revival In Greece

by Ed butt

As The Daily Stirrer predicted the draconian austerity measures coupled with collapse of Greece's domestic economy as a result of it's membership of the euro zone single currency system have resulted in the rise of a neo Nazi political party in Greece . Golden Dawn are now the third largest party in Greek politics as the people of Greece contend with rising prices, falling incomes, unemployment at around 25% and a wave of immigration due to the E U Human Righs law forced on member nations.

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Can Your Body Sense Future Events Without Any External Clue?

by The Druid Of Science

Recent work at the outer limits of scientific enquiry has had some success in looking at the phenomonon of presentiment (knowing stuff is going to happen before it happens) Research in this area that mainstream science has previously been dismissive of is discovering that our bodies anticipate events below our level of normal conscious awareness. This, if translated down to the cellular level (search the SR archives on "quantum biology"). www.schwartzreport.net is entirely consistent with the work already done in Quantum Entanglements.

Though I am a cynic (A true cynic who questions everything, not a science pseud who sneers at everything that does not fit neatly into a mathematical model of reality) and therefore reserve judgement on this because findings as yet are far from proof, I do not reject it either because as a true cynic I look to my own experience of pre cognition and those described to me by perfectly rational, level headed people. Many people are dismissive of the idea that our bodies might have precognitive ability and thus are able to prepare us for future events that could be very important to us, even if there's no clue about what those events will be? WOW, you might well say, that would be almost as good as being a Jedi Knight, how can I get such powers, you might well ask?

Maybe you have already have experienced such abilities at work in yourself or observed them in others. Chances are you will only have talked about your experiences to people you trust implicitly. But what if I were to tell you work carried out by the science faculty of several respectable universities shows presentiment without any external clues may, in fact, be a reality. According to new Northwestern University research that analyzes the results of 26 studies published between 1978 and 2010 this is the case.

I can almost hear the mathematics worshippers screming in outrage already, but remember Mathematics is not a science it is an art, an artifice, not a thing of nature but a creation of the human mind. So where does the research on presentiment stand? Researchers already know that our subconscious minds sometimes know more than our conscious minds. Physiological measures of subconscious arousal, for instance, tend to show up before conscious awareness that a deck of cards is stacked against us.

Julia Mossbridge, lead author of the study and research associate in the Visual Perception, Cognition and Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern said, "What has not been clear is whether humans have the ability to predict future important events even without any clues as to what might happen,"

Ms Mossbridge gives an example. A person playing a video game at work while wearing headphones, for example, can't hear when his or her boss is coming around the corner.

"But our analysis suggests that if you were tuned into your body, you might be able to detect these anticipatory changes between two and 10 seconds beforehand and close your video game," Mossbridge said. "You might even have a chance to open that spreadsheet you were supposed to be working on. And if you were lucky, you could do all this before your boss entered the room."

This phenomenon is sometimes called "precognition," as in "knowing the future," but Mossbridge said she and other researchers are not sure whether people are really sensing the future.

"I like to call the phenomenon 'anomalous anticipatory activity,'" she said. "The phenomenon is anomalous, some scientists argue, because we can't explain it using present-day understanding about how biology works; though explanations related to recent quantum biological findings could potentially make sense. It's anticipatory because it seems to predict future physiological changes in response to an important event without any known clues, and it's an activity because it consists of changes in the cardiopulmonary, skin and nervous systems."

The study, "Predictive Physiological Anticipation Preceding Seemingly Unpredictable Stimuli: A Meta-Analysis," is in the current edition of Frontiers in Perception Science. In addition to Mossbridge, co-authors of the study include Patrizio Tressoldi of the Università di Padova, Padova, Italy, and Jessica Utts of the University of California, Irvine.

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The Man Who Is The Mostest In Love With Obama

by Captain Redneck

The American media is nothing if not biased. British media may lean so far to the left it looks almost ready to capsize but the American mainstream media in its efforts to deify Barack Obama turned turtle long ago. And there is no American current affairs commentator with his or her tongue quite so far up Obama's arse as Chris Matthews.

Never heard of him? Matthews is the guy who back in 2008 showed his impartiality by saying that every time he heard Obama speak he creamed his underpants a thingle ran up his leg. And despite Obama's record in office of failure, dishonesty and disloyalty to the nation he serves as President, Matthews is still firmly attached by the tongue to Obama's arsehole.

How can you tell an election is going the way Chris Matthews wants? The USA suddenly becomes a beacon of light and hope. How can you tell an election is going badly for Chris Matthews? American voters suddenly become a bunch of racists who want to put blacks back in chains. His post-debate analysis in the wake of the final television debate between the contenders will tell you more than the polls or my sarcastic comments which direction the election is now going:

So forget the state of the US economy, the continuing high unemployment rate, the foreign policy disasters; forget the social divisions that have been exacerbated by Obama's policies and are now tearing the nation apart, forget the failed attempt to throw open the borders and allow a tide of undocumented immigrants to cross the border into the south western states or the 'fast and furious' fiasco that saw the American government supplying Mexican drug cartels with assault weapons, forget the unconstitutional laws rammed through on executive orders by the Obama, they are not why the tide has turned against Obama.

Matthews is absolutely certain an election that clearly is being lost by Barack Obama is actiually being lost because a nation of racists cannot stand the thought of a black man in The White House. It is not about median household income dropping faster during the Obamanomics recover (4.8%) than during the recession (2.5%). It’s not about having the lowest civilian population participation rate in the labour market in the last 31 years(63.5%, down from 65.7% at the beginning of the recovery). It’s not about 1.3% GDP growth against 4.5% inflation. It’s not about skyrocketing deficits and budget proposals so ridiculous that no one in Obama’s own party would vote for them not is it about the effect of rising prices on family budgets.

Matthews, like so many others who signed up to the Obamessiah cult cannot bring himself to admit it’s about America rejecting the President who delivered this economic performance. But to say that American voters dislike him not because of his failures, but because of the color of his skin — even though the same electorate made him President despite a lack of experience over a long-known and long-serving politician four years says nothing about America and everything about Chris Matthews and all the other sycophantic, tunnel visioned supporters whose only response to any citicicism of Obama is to should racism.

I have always disliked Barack Obama, for me he was too much like Tony Blair, a man lacking moral fible who could lie plausibly and without compunction and would have said or done whatever it took to get elected. his fanatical supporters however, I like them even less.

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There's A Khazi In Benghazi - The Final Obama Versus Romney Televised Debate

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Tonight's third and final presidential debate will focus entirely on international politics and foreign policy. Expect Benghazi to be one of the major issues, a subject on which, for the first time in nearly a month, the Obama administration will have the upper hand.

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We Told You So, Mobile Phones Do Cause Brain Tumours

by Ian R Thorpe

Actually they don't necessarily cause brain tumours and the Daily Stirrere has always stated that is the case. But like cigaretttes which, it has long been alleged by health experts, cause lung cancer to the extent that if you pass somebody in the street who last smoked a cigarette a week ago you will instantly develop cancerous lungs and die, the same heath expert lobby, funded by Big Tech have insisted there is no risk whatsoever from mobile or cordless phones. And there is and there always has been though the risk is small (as is the risk of lung cancer to those who are moderate smokers). A landmark court case in Italy has paved the way for a flood of lawsuits from people whose health has been affected by mobile phone use and another humiliation for the fascistic zealots of big science looks inevitable because the science-as-a-religion people have always sneeded condescendingly that anyone who tried to instigate a rational discussion of the risks of wireless technology was a conspiracy theorist. Innocente Marcolini, 60, an Italian businessman, fell ill after using a handset at work for up to six hours every day for 12 years. In a landmark case Italy's Supreme Court in Rome has ruled there is a "causal link" between his illness and cellular telephone use, Italian newspapers are reporting. Mr Marcolini said: "This is significant for very many people. I wanted this problem to become public because many people still do not know the risks. "I was on the phone, usually the mobile, for at least five or six hours every day at work. Parents need to know their children are at risk of this illness." Mr. Marcolini said he wanted it recognised that there was a link between illness such as his non cancerous tumour and the use of mobile and cordless phones. British and American a scientists have claimed there is insufficient evidence to prove any link to mobiles. However the respected oncologist and professor of environmental mutagenesis Angelo Gino Levis gave evidence for Mr Marcolini — along with neurosurgeon Dr Giuseppe Grasso. They said electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile and cordless phones can damage cells, making tumours more likely. Prof Levis told The Sun: "The court decision is extremely important. It finally officially recognises the link. It will open not a road but a motorway to legal actions by victims. We're considering a class action." Mr Marcolini's tumour was discovered in the trigeminal nerve — close to where the phone touched his head. It is non-cancerous but threatened to kill him as it spread to the carotid artery, the major vessel carrying blood to his brain. His face was left paralysed and he takes daily morphine for pain. Alasdair Philips speaking on behalf of Powerwatch, a group which campaigns for more research on mobile use, said: "This is an interesting case and proves the need for more research into the effects of wireless communications technologies on human tissue. "People should limit mobile and cordless use until we know more. The World Health Organisation, in recent years usually a friend to big business, urged limits on mobile use last year, calling them a Class B carcinogen. International radiation biology expert Michael Repacholi said: "Studies show no evidence of cancer. But if you are worried, use a headset, hands-free or loudspeaker." But a spokesman for Britain's Health Protection Agency said: "The scientific consensus is that mobile phones do not cause cancer." That good old "scientific concensus" a.k.a. The Big Lie again. To put it more honestly, a small group of research scientists, a faction of the academic elite, who have managed to gain the ear of government have collaborated to ensure any serious research which contradicts the finidings of research funded by and favourable to certain big money interests will be ridiculed and sidelined and the people responsible for it will find their careers run into a ditch. Media lawyer Mark Stephens commented that the verdict could "open the floodgates" — even though there is no direct obligation on British courts to follow the Italians' lead. He said: "It is possible people will begin legal action here, but I think the chances of success are less. I think they'll join any class action in Italy." When the case get to the U S A, that is when the fireworks will really start.