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Tomorrow morning Julian Assange will start his final legal battle over extradition to Sweden in the UK Supreme Court. The liberal media that were once in bed with him however passed judgement a long time ago during his 400+ days under house arrest without charge. In fact, it seems certain liberal journalists have now declared [...]

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It’s just been announced that Catalan airline Spanair has gone bankrupt late this evening. All flights are cancelled although they have released a statement saying that those affected will be offered reduced flight transit on Air Europa, Iberia and Vueling flights. (28/1 13:00 Update: The statement is now offline maybe due to high traffic number [...]

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This post was published on OnSoftware. The recent closure of Megaupload highlights the risks of using a cloud based service to backup and store data. Of course, backing-up your data to an external hard drive isn’t without risks but there is one that’s significantly reduced – the threat of losing access to your data due [...]

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Håkan Juholt has stepped down as Sweden’s Social Democrat leader just 10 months after taking power. Apart from a minor expenses scandal, the main reason is because of the Social Democrats rapidly diminishing support. After more than half a century of dominance in Swedish politics, Sweden’s Social Democrats have been in terminal decline since they [...]

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Definitely worth watching from a great historian. Prime Minister David Cameron has said the UK must “build a better economy” that is fair and worthwhile. Deputy PM Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband have also made speeches on the faults of unrestrained free markets. But, the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm told Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman [...]

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This review was published on OnSoftware. Yesterday’s big announcement by Apple was the release of iBooks Author and iBooks 2. iBooks Author is a free Mac application and Apple’s attempt at revolutionizing educational books whether they be textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books and more for iPad. With it, you can create all of the [...]

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Sky broadcast a special half-hour interview with Cesc Fabrègas on Christmas Day about his new life as a Barça player and his decision to leave Arsenal. It’s well worth watching and the impression you get is of a player that’s left a big part of his heart in London and although he’s delighted to fulfill [...]

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Last night I got front row seats to watch Barcelona destroy poor local “rivals” Hospitalet 9-0 in the second leg of the Copa del Rey. I suppose you could say it’s a bit like Manchester United playing Salford in the FA Cup. The slightly surprising thing is that Hospitalet only managed to lose 1-0 in [...]

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So what really caused the crisis? There was a big build-up of debts in Spain and Italy before 2008, but it had nothing to do with governments. Instead it was the private sector – companies and mortgage borrowers – who were taking out loans. Interest rates had fallen to unprecedented lows in southern European countries [...]

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