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Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden Murdered

by Steve Baker 31 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

At 2:14, Bhutto refers smoothly to “the man who murdered Osama Bin Laden” as if his murder was a commonly-known fact. A slip of the tongue?

Giuliani Official: ‘Get rid of Muslims’. This must stop.

by Steve Baker 29 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Troubling footage of an official of the Giuliani campaign. Worrying in the context of increasingly authoritarian law and recent comments from Muslim leaders in the UK, saying they feel they are being “demonised”. See also http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/27/primaries.rudy.guiliani read more | digg story

The Lisbon Treaty could be derailed? Boo hoo.

by Steve Baker 29 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

After a “period of reflection”, the best the EU could manage was to make a dreadful constitution harder to read in the hope of deceitfully sidestepping referenda. Who do they think we are? What’s the goal? What about making the EU democratic? Let’s get this mess reformed. Derailing the Lisbon […]

New York Times retracts its smear of Ron Paul

by Steve Baker 27 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

After receiving hundreds of complaints the NYT was forced to retract its hit piece on Ron Paul stating “The original post [the hitpiece] should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul.” Very sad, particularly as that piece has not yet been withdrawn. read […]

Terror in Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto ‘killed in blast’

by Steve Baker 27 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

The leader of the party with the most support in Pakistan, dead: BBC News. We must not allow suicide bombing to be effective: courage, vigilance and liberty must triumph over cowardice, reliance on state surveillance and the erosion of freedom.

Hope from America

by Steve Baker 27 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Congressman Ron Paul: Government as an institution is particularly ill-suited to combat bigotry. Bigotry at its essence is a problem of the heart, and we cannot change people’s hearts by passing more laws and regulations. More likely to influence other candidates than to win, but good to see him presenting […]

Nanosolar

by Steve Baker 26 December 2007 in Technology, Politics Comments are Disabled

Nanosolar reckon solar power can now be cheaper than coal: Their PowerSheet cells contrast the current solar technology systems by reducing the cost of production from $3 a watt to a mere 30 cents per watt. This makes, for the first time in history, solar power cheaper than burning coal. […]

Ten things I would like the Government to do in 2008

by Steve Baker 26 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Unashamedly inspired by John Redwood’s “12 things I would like the government to cancel for christmas”. Begin fundamental reform of the EU: ensure our self-determination, liberty and competitiveness. That beginning is a failure to ratify the Lisbon Treaty. Develop a sustainable energy policy: protect the environment and safeguard society from […]

Lords vs Commons

by Steve Baker 26 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Researching material for other posts on theyworkforyou.com (IE Hansard with bells on), and having watched a fair bit of BBC Parliament in the last couple of months, I find that the quality of information and debate in the Lords generally exceeds that in the Commons, although I concede that the […]

C S Lewis’ moral busybodies

by Steve Baker 25 December 2007 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment […]