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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Julian Assange: Trial by media
Posted in Blog, Sweden, Wikileaks, tagged New York Times, guardian, Sweden, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, United States, Assange, Heather Brooke, Robert Gates, Leigh, David Leigh, Nick Cohen on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Breaking news: Spanair bankrupt (updated)
Posted in Blog, Spain, tagged Airline, Iberia, SAS Group, Spain, Spanair on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
How to stop Google tracking you across services
Posted in Blog, Software, tagged Gmail, Google, Google Account, Privacy policy, YouTube on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
However, if you’d rather Google didn’t collate or track all your activities across the various Google products that you use, there are a few simple measures you can take to stop it. Sign-out of your Google account. This only works when using certain Google products. For some, such as YouTube, you can use the service [...]
Desktop backup alternatives to Megaupload
Posted in Blog, Software, tagged software, Mac, MegaUpload, backup, norton ghost, mac apple, carbon copy cloner, external storage device, external hard drive, automatic backups on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
BBC News – Newsnight – Capitalism ‘nothing to do with responsibility’
Posted in Blog, Economics, England on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
BBC News – What really caused the eurozone crisis?
Posted in Blog, Economics, Spain on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]