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Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a binding agreement on limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius. She has also sent out signals at the EU level that she no longer supports the idea of Europe going it alone.Australia is also abandoning it's policy - for now:
"We'll only introduce it if there's sufficient progress internationally, particularly from China, India and the USA," Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said.And the US is unlikely to pass its climate change bill.
the huge spending increase is needed to allow Brussels to help aid the economic recovery.The social and financial consequences of international socialism and wealth redestribution has never been so exposed for what it is: an unworkable and wicked ideology.
A complaint has been sent by the Conservative party to Derbyshire police about suspected fraud in the Sinfin ward in the Derby City Council local elections – which will be held on May 6, the same day as the General Election.
The complaint involves concerns that a voter was approached by men requesting her to fill in and sign three postal voting forms in favour of the Labour party.
It is an offence to complete a postal vote that is not your own or to influence how others complete their postal vote.
Chief Superintendent Andy Hough said the matter would be investigated. He added that he had received more than one report of irregularities with postal voting.
From Hollie Greig blog:Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers (SACL) bid to win the Aberdeen South constituency received another huge boost last night when the party overcame the odds to score a decisive victory in the first hustings of the campaign. None of the 100 + people in attendance at Peterculter Parish Church left the event in any doubt that the Hollie Greig scandal is the biggest election story – not just in Aberdeen South but throughout the UK.The article is a perfect antidote for low blood pressure sufferers. Notice that the subject was not covered by the MSM. So much for democracy and 'free' press.
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The first publicity about the hustings was released by the BBC around 2330 on Thursday 22nd April – twenty hours before it was due to take place. Clearly the mainstream parties all knew about the event a long time before this and the intention was that the audience would consist solely of their own supporters. They clearly underestimated the strength, determination and brainpower of Hollies Army.
"It is just because we are really attacking the principle of local sovereignty that we keep on protesting our loyalty to it so loudly.
The harder we press our attack upon the idol, the more pains we take to keep its priests and devotees in a fool's paradise - lapped in a false sense of security which will inhibit them from taking up arms in their idol's defense....
We are at present working, discreetly with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of the world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands."
"Some people say this is the pilot [who was ejected from the plane], I don't know".Jane Bürgermeister comments (18 April 2010):
"Take a look, black person, jump from the airplane"
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Plans to have national budgets approved in advance by other European governments to avert excessive deficits met a cool reception from finance ministers meeting in Madrid at the weekend.We thought that because we weren't in the Eurozone, we wouldn't have to participate in the Greek bailout. We were wrong.
Although euro zone monetary policy is united, fiscal policies differ, and some countries – notably Greece – have run into trouble during the global crisis with budget deficits exceeding 10 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) helping to weaken the euro.
Olli Rehn, economic and monetary affairs commissioner, outlined the “peer review” proposal, which will be presented in full on May 12th. He proposed “a systematic and rigorous assessment of national budgets before they are presented to national parliaments”, leading to “remedial actions” if necessary.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourger who chairs the euro group, supported the idea.
“It makes sense to discuss among the finance ministers the broad lines of the budget before these budgets are introduced in the parliamentary procedure,” he said, denying this would diminish the rights of national assemblies.
Other member states, however, immediately poured cold water on the possibility of restricting or supplanting national sovereignty over budgets. Elena Salgado, the Spanish finance minister, said there was no question of European ministers voting on the national budgets of other countries.
Joerg Asmussen, Germany’s deputy finance minister, also rejected the idea of diluting national control of budgets. It was “quite clear that national budget authority has to remain unrestricted, although we are obviously subject to the rules of the stability and growth pact”.
This euro zone stability pact – a widely abused agreement that was supposed to limit annual budget deficits to 3 per cent of GDP – is the existing, imperfect framework for co-ordinating Europe’s fiscal policies, and some of the more fiscally rigorous northern EU states are in favour of strengthening it.
Ireland’s budget deficit is on track to be around four times this limit in 2010, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) said last week.

Mandrake understands that taxpayers will foot the bill of more than £50,000 for the deal, under which Mrs Morphet agreed never to speak about her time in Prescott's employ. The deal was agreed just days before she was due to appear at the London Central Employment tribunal in Holborn.
This has been confirmed by Seargent Adam Bulger of Warrington Police, who refused to address my concerns over Robert's safety, despite my pointing out that he has been taken back to the very courts that he has made allegations about.Updates can be read at UK Column
"We seem to have a situation that people simply get arrested and no-one is told - just like the Gestapo.
"We would like to ask you to phone Warrington police to ask about Robert's welfare, the number you need to call is 0845 458 0000.
"Could you also give Grampian police a call, their number is 0845 600 5700.
"When you call either of these numbers, please remember to remain calm and polite. Huge public concern needs to be expressed to Warrington, who assisted in Robert's arrest, and on Grampian. Could you please make sure highlight your concerns for his safety because he has been working to expose paedophiles."
Isolated for 42 days in chambers of ambient and elevated CO2 concentrations, we (CO2 Science) periodically document the growth of cowpea plants (Vigna unguiculata) via time-lapse photography.
TEHRAN — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, news reports said on Monday.Is Ahmadinejad trying to indicate to the world that he faces the same fate as Saddam Hussein - if we don't wake up - or is he employing the "art of war"?
"The minimum expectation from your excellency is to set up an independent and trusted fact-finding group to comprehensively investigate the real factors behind September 11," Ahmadinejad said in the text of the letter carried by official news agencies.
The scientists say the plan is not a scene from a sci-fi movie -- Big Brother won't be planting chips in your brain against your will. Researchers expect that consumers will want the freedom they will gain by using the implant.
"I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," said Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want that. I don't need that.' Now you can't get them to stop [carrying devices]. There are a lot of things that have to be done first but I think [implanting chips into human brains] is well within the scope of possibility."
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Intel research scientist Dean Pomerleau told Computerworld that users will soon tire of depending on a computer interface, and having to fish a device out of their pocket or bag to access it. He also predicted that users will tire of having to manipulate an interface with their fingers.
Instead, they'll simply manipulate their various devices with their brains.
Three former Labour MPs facing criminal charges over their expenses have won the right to have their legal fees paid for by the taxpayer.That, on a day when we discover that NHS bosses pocket a 7% pay rise, while nurses were denied their contractual rise. I wonder if nurses will be voting Labour.
An HM Courts Service spokesman confirmed David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine will receive legal aid.
Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield, who is also facing charges, has not made an application for legal aid, the court official added.
All four deny the allegations and say they will defend themselves "robustly".
Conservative leader David Cameron said granting legal aid to the MPs was a "complete outrage" and promised to review the system.
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." -- Winston Churchill
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK, John F Kennedy, 35th US President.
Is Rupert Matthews 'as mad as a box of snakes'? - Archbishop Cranmer
Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon - ZeroHedge
Britain and EU opt-outs: let’s face it, our Prime Minister is a coward - The Slog
Stephen Hester and Chris Huhne are symbols of a country in moral freefall - Peter Oborne, Telegraph
They cannot have it both ways - Richard North, EU Referendum
Nick Clegg needs cutting down to size. If only the Prime Minister was brave enough to do the job - Lord Tebbit, Telegraph
Don't cap it, scrap it - Old Holborn
A Recipe for Cold Turkey - Old Holborn, BlottR
America overcomes the debt crisis as Britain sinks deeper into the swamp - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
German Marks printed May 2010 - see for yourself!
The BBC and Climate Change: a Triple Betrayal - booklet by Christopher Booker, with forward by Sir Anthony Jay (PDF)
How EU laws are made - Dr Lee Rotherham, Bruges Group
DOWNLOAD THE GLOBAL WARMING SCEPTICS' HANDBOOK
Bruges Group: Rebuttal of pro-EU propaganda
Top notch post: Fear the Witch, for it is you. Imaginitive and incisive, Leg-Iron's fable on the politics of fear.
