For those of you who have time for a little reflection there is an interesting fact that emerges from the Carbon Tax in Australia. Whether it works, is partially successful or leads to other means as a matter of absolute certainty it is at least a start. Despite the one party system we have, that is [...]
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US defence secretary Leon Panetta has said he believes Osama bin Laden‘s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is hiding in Pakistan‘s tribal area. Photograph: Pool/Reuters The Pakistan military declared it did not need US military aid as the White House confirmed that it would withhold some $800m (£498m) in assistance to the country’s armed forces. The row will worsen [...]
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Les Hinton and Rupert Murdoch in 2005. Hinton faces questions over whether he saw a 2007 report into phone hacking. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images Les Hinton, Rupert Murdoch‘s lifelong lieutenant and closest adviser, faces questions over whether he saw a 2007 internal News International report, which found evidence that phone hacking was more widespread than admitted by [...]
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I recently had a conversation with a person. I was greeted with a stern expression and the comment that what I was saying was anecdotal and investigations about that type of claim had never been substantiated. The following seems a working definition of anecdotal evidence, “ In all forms of anecdotal evidence, testing its reliability by objective independent assessment [...]
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