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How laws really work

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Once more I’m stealing content via the much better informed Katabasis, but hey it’s easier than writing my own content :) So without further ado, “The Ugly Face of Tyranny” by Matt Giwer (which means Katabasis borrowed it as well). Any law the electorate sees as being open to being perverted from its original intent will be perverted in a manner that is worse than the manner of perversion seen at the time. Any law that is so difficult to pass it requires the citizens be assured it will not be a stepping stone to worse laws will in fact … Continue reading →

Climate sceptics the new Wikileakers?

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Via the ever well informed Katabasis my attention has been drawn to the rather worrying seizure of computers owned by UK climate sceptic bloggers. Apparently at the behest of the U.S. Department of Justice as other climate bloggers have received nasty grams (cache) from our friends across the pond. Last I checked the climategate e-mails where mainly (allegedly) pilfered from UK sources, and even ignoring that the emails are widely available so the US Department of Justice could just download their own copy. All in all a quite worrying development, state funded “scientific” research into climate change wasn’t a matter … Continue reading →

Populism and democracy

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Despite all the fun and games happening in Europe I’ve been rather quite on the matter, and am actually going to continue with that with this post. So many other people are doing a much better job of commenting all I could really add is a “what they said”. I am however going to use the EU crisis and a post about it to pose a question that’s puzzled me for years and which The Snowolf just expressed in a far more eloquent fashion than I’d manage. What the Snowolf said was: “Politicians get very sniffy about populist policy decisions, … Continue reading →