tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52244912024-03-07T21:29:17.419+00:00Anarchist6[zero]6Trying to make sense of a world gone mad.... blogging on Climate Change, War, Terror - plus local stuff about Bristol and music and more...anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.comBlogger746125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-47940329535920429712011-08-23T21:28:00.000+00:002011-08-23T21:28:23.962+00:00So Long and Thanks for the Fish...10 Years of Personal Activism & End of this BlogHi all. If you were checking this blog you might notice that its been a bit quiet of late here. Well, shit happens in life and I've been busy on other stuff. But other things have been going on and I've decided that its time to end this blog. Its been fun and a blast but this blog has run its course. I want to move on to other things and do other stuff, including to focus more energy on anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-5041988474821158642011-04-03T12:30:00.000+00:002011-04-03T12:30:45.747+00:00Sceptical Scientist Confirms Climate Change is Real, Climate Deniers Go MentalI've been a bit busy of late and so not been able to blog as much as I'd like here. However this news was just too fun to miss! The background to the story is that a group of independent climate sceptics embarked on a project called 'Berkeley Earth' to re-analyse all of the temperature data so provide conclusive proof either way of global warming. The project lead, a physicist Dr. Muller, has anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-86190610846461579192011-01-27T19:53:00.003+00:002011-01-27T20:01:25.425+00:00Climate Denier Smashed by Simple AnalogyA simple analogy has stumped the vitriolic but scientifically illiterate Telegraph blogger, James Delingpole - heehee.The Telegraph blogger is not on the receiving end of an acerbic Jeremy Paxman or belligerent John Humphrys. He is questioned by the new president of the Royal Society, the distinguished geneticist and Nobel prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse. I have not seen the programme, but Delingpoleanarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-26008608560733090642010-12-27T21:52:00.003+00:002010-12-27T21:57:25.508+00:00Global Warming Denier Tells it like it is!!!!I love this article. Amamzing conspiracy theory that is soooooooooooo crazy that it makes a box of frogs look sane. It argues that security restrictions on air travel are being driven by a global warming agenda. Yes. But it is the first line of the article that is the most fun:I have no proof to support my opinion on this….read on and let me know what you think.Yes, he opens his argument anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-40426338169217105952010-12-27T21:30:00.004+00:002010-12-27T21:46:12.305+00:00Top 10 Anti-Christian Acts of 2010? Get a Grip...Jebus H Mice. Some American Christian's are sooo self-obsessed and obsessed with homosexuality. Here is their take on how persecuted they are... about 9 examples of 17-odd supposed examples of 'anti-Christian' acts seem to be about gay sex. Guess what is not on the list? The evisceration of Iraq's Christian community. Yes, Iraq has churches that date from the 7th Century and yet the anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-19094177213797952022010-12-14T12:30:00.002+00:002010-12-14T12:40:56.487+00:00WikiLeaks: Royal Bank of Scotland Shocka!Now remember before I continue that there are people arguing that we should not know the information in the WikiLeaks cables.Ok, so Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) collapsed during the finaincal crisis and had to be bailed out using our money. Just prior to the collapse chief executive Fred Goodwin gets £700,000 per year pension award from RBS. Then a month later RBS announced that its 2008 loss anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-58997114652084082292010-12-12T22:10:00.002+00:002010-12-12T22:13:33.094+00:00WikiLeaks Expose - Fighting for Democracy with FeudalismNow remember lots of people in the ruling elite don't want to us to know this kind of stuff!Outrage of the day;The post-Soviet state of Uzbekistan is a nightmarish world of "rampant corruption", organised crime, forced labour in the cotton fields, and torture, according to the leaked cables.But the secret dispatches released by WikiLeaks reveal that the US tries to keep President Islam Karimov anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-34410077667934291312010-12-09T21:01:00.005+00:002010-12-09T21:29:45.305+00:00We are All WikiLeaksThis is it folks! This is the moment that web technology promised, but that never arrived - until now. We can now say no to the Man. The Man wants to keep us in the dark about His wheelings and dealings. We say NO, WikiLeaks gives us the power to say no.I'm with I Heart WikiLeaks in downloading the Insurance Torrent.We are all WikiLeaks now;WikiLeaks has never been charged with a crime, let anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-77705197207984412522010-11-21T12:09:00.006+00:002010-11-21T12:40:06.723+00:00The Climate Change Data Scandal You Won't Read Much About in the Telegraph, Mail or the ExpressThis is a very techey story and much of it is above my knowledge but from what I can understand, but it is very, very interesting. It also shows the inner workings of a denial home-goal. Here's the background. There is this statistics professor Wegman who gets commissioned to write a report examining the famous Hockey Stick (that's the graph that shows global temperatures with a sharp and anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-31488655033424361152010-11-21T11:51:00.004+00:002010-11-21T12:08:48.909+00:00Student Plan to 'Decapitate' LibDems - Stephen Williams is on the 'chopping block'After the big demo and as the dust still settles (somewhat) on all that, the NUS has decided to leave moaning about some smashed windows and instead concentrate on a 'decapitation' strategy of ousting some LibDem MPs.Its great news that they are opening up new fronts in the war on the LibCon cuts, however my local MP Stephen Williams is one of those targeted to removal. Now I voted for him a fewanarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-50429771413662273972010-11-12T14:36:00.001+00:002010-11-12T14:37:52.321+00:00Government harassing and intimidating Wikileaks SupportersTypical. Back to the dark Bu$h days and so much for free speech...In July of this year, U.S. citizen Jacob Appelbaum, a researcher and spokesman for WikiLeaks, was detained for several hours at the Newark airport after returning from a trip to Holland, and had his laptop, cellphones and other electronic products seized -- all without a search warrant, without being charged with a crime, and anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-27400943883269493192010-11-11T17:53:00.003+00:002010-11-11T18:07:35.193+00:00Students Get Angry, Media Does Same-old, same-oldSo at the demo against the cuts to education and the ramping up in fees - making education something only for the rich, people got angry and stormed the Tory Party HQ.The predictalbe media coverage follows focusing of the 'violence' (in the main some broken windows) and not the issue (the cuts). Lots and hand wringing follows and complaints about the 'violence' and how it 'spoil it' for the anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-82673953506036167802010-11-10T09:22:00.003+00:002010-11-10T09:36:12.492+00:00The Rightward Drift of PoliticsIt has been claimed that there is a right-ward drift in US politics. I don't know enough about it to say either way, but the Republican gains in the recent US election are depressing. Not that the White House under democratic rule was doing much to be happy about. As ever the US elections have implications for us globally and again I'm depressed that political parties there to represent the anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-22131075319353091692010-11-10T09:13:00.002+00:002010-11-10T09:22:14.828+00:00Secret Meetings to Control the World...Sort of. This is a great post about a couple of secret(ish) meetings that are claimed to impact us. One is called by a couple of billionaire oil magnates who gather right-wing politicians and executives to plot election strategy and the other is a group of climate scientists who talk science...It must be wonderfully liberating to be a hard-core conspiracy theorist, casting off the limiting anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-43360450252856166002010-10-23T11:52:00.004+00:002010-10-23T12:04:14.439+00:00Wikileaks: Iraq is a deeper blood bath than we knewThanks god for Wikileaks. They are exposing the massive, massive, criminal, violent and messy bloodbath that is Iraq. One we paid for in taxes and the Iraqi people paid for in blood. It's is gobsmacking how low, how deep the void of horror this conflict has opened, is:...one case in which he claimed a British rifleman had shot dead an eight-year-old girl who was playing in the street in Basra.anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-85138388653642588132010-10-20T08:09:00.000+00:002010-10-20T08:09:00.716+00:00Climate Change, Extinction: It's not just for Polar Bears anymoreIt's for us. Yes I'm alarmist, 'cos I'm alarmed. Calling people alarmist does not make the alarm go away, it just points to the alarm.That's one of the many things about denialists, they claim that things won't be so bad yet none of them are doing any original research to establish if this is true... They just cherry-pick holes (or try) in other peoples' hard work...It’s the same tiny bunch ofanarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-10249225994017418762010-10-18T08:59:00.000+00:002010-10-18T08:59:00.554+00:00Getting the CO2 Cuts to work...not easy...Getting the cuts in CO2 is going to be hard... This is from an email FWed to me by a friend (I'm hot claiming the credit for it).This is an interesting carbon calculator, which lets you see the consequences of possible actions to hit the 'scientific minimum' target for reduction of UK emissions of 80% by 2050.http://2050-calculator-tool.decc.gov.ukI tried the following scenario:Reduce domestic anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-85693743628072685192010-10-16T17:47:00.005+00:002010-10-16T18:44:20.705+00:00The Cuts and the Financial Crisis - What the fuck happened?So the Tories (sort of) have got into power the the mantra of the coalition government is cuts, cuts, cuts. What is hard about all this is that there are so many factors at play and so many issues that are woven into the issue that it is hard to unpick what is what.Its also why we're all looking for easy stories that explain it and easy fixes that will solve the our woes. Problem is, that I anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-1982220854449549252010-10-12T13:48:00.002+00:002010-10-12T14:15:12.839+00:00Why Climate Denialists Never Seem to Use Coherent ArgumentsWhen you debate with climate change deniers, they have these annoying habitats of:1. Never stating their position in any concrete terms.2. Adopting contradictory positions and never acknowledging this.This make is hard to have a real debate with them because point 1 means you're never told what position you are debating against is, and point 2 means they are always a moving target jumping from anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-38158585827729847552010-10-10T14:09:00.003+00:002010-10-10T14:16:54.704+00:00The Black Hole of Stupid: US Right Goes (Even More) MentalThis is a staggering political position to end up with as a major political party in a democracy:The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones. ... Just for the record, when the nonpartisan National Academy of Sciences last reviewed the data this spring, it concluded: "A strong,anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-45054534252384857752010-10-10T13:21:00.004+00:002010-10-11T15:43:25.760+00:00ScepticGate: The climate scandal you won't read about in the TelegraphSo the so-called 'Climate Gate' scandal has come and gone and left more than a few people wondering about why it was even given the media coverage, out of proportion to the non-scandal it appeared to become in print etc.But there is another scandal brewing about academic standards; however this is one the Denialists are keeping very quiet about - why because it may well be a huge home goal for anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-78414922047035398782010-09-28T17:15:00.002+00:002010-09-28T17:24:25.026+00:00Pyrrhic victory: Another denialist admits climate change is realTime to add another denialist to the growing list of high-profile U-turns.Republican strategist Frank Luntz and editor of sceptic magazine Michael Shermer and oil giant Exxon and then Lomborg.Now to the list we can add Daily Mail science correspondent, Michael Hanlon:I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-79336489894527207992010-09-07T16:34:00.003+00:002010-09-07T16:46:00.813+00:00Cutting to the Chase of MoralityLots of loose talk about morality and culture - you see it in politcs of all sorts, so it's great to see somebody cut to the chase - in this case it's John Gray in reviewing 'The Quest for Meaning' by Tariq Ramadan...Ramadan wants to replace this practice with a high-minded attitude of mutual respect. Each of us, he writes, must accept that "the presence of the other within my own conception of anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-71302729391314121652010-09-02T13:21:00.004+00:002010-09-02T13:37:07.133+00:00Another Denialist Talking-Point Retracted; Telegraph Officially A Shit NewspaperThat bastion of journalism sub-GCSE science science reporting paper, the Telegraph has had to retract another climate-linked story;In reports in December 2009 we said that Tata had used the carbon trading scheme to transfer steel production from Redcar to India, pocketing £1.2 billion in carbon credits at the cost of 1700 jobs. We accept this was wrong. ... We also accept Tata’s assurance that itanarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-75237954421292116102010-09-02T09:28:00.002+00:002010-09-02T09:35:21.303+00:00Bliar's Journey (to the Hague)I saw a tiny bit of Tony Bliar on TV banging on about how the invasion of Iraq was the 'right' decision. Decisions, decisions - that all he talked about re Iraq. By focusing on the decision alone it allows him to ignore/forget the cack-handed, terrible, inhumane, murderous, idiotic, hubris-tic and racist manner in which 'the decision' was carried out. Oi! Bliar! Even if you'd decided to go anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0