Four Million Fishermen Join Forces Against EU Rules 'The newly formed Angling Trust will represent more people than the membership of all the main political parties combined, the Anglican church and the National Trust. The lobby group has been set up to fight for one of the UK's most popular sports by protecting the environment and ancient fishing rights. Its most immediate fight is against EU proposals for recreational fishermen to register their boat as a fishing vessel and record their catch as part of the UK's annual quota for certain species.' Big Brother Database a 'Terrifying' Assault on Traditional Freedoms 'Sweeping new powers allowing personal information about every citizen to be handed over to government agencies faced condemnation yesterday amid warnings that Britain is experiencing the greatest threats to civil rights for decades.' Our World May Be a Giant Hologram 'Driving through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres. For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.' 'War on Terror' Was a Mistake, Says Miliband 'The foreign secretary,David Milliband, today argues that the use of the "war on terror" as a western rallying cry since the September 11 attacks has been a mistake that may have caused "more harm than good". In an article in today's Guardian, five days before the Bush administration leaves the White House, Miliband delivers a comprehensive critique of its defining mission, saying the war on terror was misconceived and that the west cannot "kill its way" out of the threats it faces.'
Friday, 16 January 2009
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