February 23, 2005

February 23, 2005 by yorksranter 0 comments

The Finance Investigation as Endgame?

Broom of Anger suggests an interesting interpretation of the political crisis in Northern Ireland: is the mammoth follow-the-money investigation part of a tactic by the Sinn Fein leadership to finally end the IRA? Specifically, it’s suggested that the Irish government’s Criminal Assets Bureau, established after the great corruption scandals of the 80s, has been passed…

February 23, 2005 by yorksranter 0 comments

Read This Now. Now, I Tell You!

Steve Gilliard on Dr. Gonzo, blogging, journalism and the economics of bad writing. Then, read the comments too. It’s bloody brilliant. And it also leads on nicely to an interesting new project: the Blogger News Network at Bloggernews.net. The plan is to build a big-media style site fed by a, well, news network, of, well,…

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Tim Jenkin: Talking with Vula - The O'Malley Archives
French TEE carriages and posters around 1970, Inox and Grand Confort | retours
American Scientist - Computing Science
Suppose you are creating one of those dreadful telephone menu systems—Press 1 to be inconvenienced, Press 2 to be condescended to, and so forth. If there are many choices, what is the best way to organize them? Should you build a deep hierarchy with lots of little menus that each offer just a few options? […]
Kukuczka, Czesław Jan | Chronicle of the Wall
While the document was being produced, Karnowski asked discretely whether the East Germans were really planning to let Kukuczka go to West Berlin. Stasi Colonel Damm noted in his report, “Comrade Karnowski was told that their main aim was to prevent the Polish citizen from committing a terrorist act. The immediate goal was to prevent […]
Mord verjährt nicht: Stasi-Oberleutnant muss sich für Grenzmord verantworten - n-tv.de
Laut Anklage soll der Ex-Stasi-Mitarbeiter an jenem 29. März 1974 das 38 Jahre alte Opfer "mit einem gezielten Schuss in den Rücken aus einem Versteck heraus" getötet haben. Der Sachse soll mit der "Unschädlichmachung" des Polen beauftragt worden sein. Zuvor soll dieser in der polnischen Botschaft versucht haben, seine Ausreise nach West-Berlin zu erzwingen. Die […]
Einstein refrigerator - Wikipedia
Einstein and Szilárd proposed that a device without moving parts would eliminate the potential for seal failure, and explored practical applications for different refrigeration cycles. Einstein had worked in the Swiss Patent Office, and used his experience to apply for valid patents for their inventions in several countries. The two were eventually granted 45 patents […]
Torsten Bell on X: "This is a REALLY good tool, that busts the myth that the biggest problem facing deprived areas is that there talented young people leave. Let's take the case of Hartlepool... 🧵" / Twitter
It's the lack of arrivals, not high departure rates, that drives the headline "left behind places produce more graduates than they retain" fact that is so often interpreted as evidence of a brain drain of those growing up there...The defining demographic feature of deprived areas isn't a mass exodus, it's stasis. Few leave, and very […]
Brazil police indict Bolsonaro over alleged falsification of vaccination data | Jair Bolsonaro | The Guardian
The supreme court on Tuesday released the police’s indictment which alleges Bolsonaro and 16 others inserted false information into the public health database to make it appear as though the former president, his 12-year-old daughter and several others in his circle had received the Covid-19 vaccine // definitely concealing the zombie bite!
The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis | Homes | The Guardian
this guy unfortunately seems to have convinced himself it's literally impossible for Barratt to exist