Red's Place

"Trust No One" famously said Fox Mulder in the 90s. I think he might have been predicting the 21st Century.

Quoted from the net.wars blog:
Do you still recognize the country you grew up in? In Britain, the home of habeus corpus and the Magna Carta, the London 2012 Olympics are serving as the excuse to give police powers to inspect postal packages for drugs, track individuals through the use of CCTV and electronic travel passes, and identify suspects through their relatives' DNA stored among the 3 million samples held in the nation's DNA database. In the US, it's now extremely difficult to travel, even on a Greyhound bus, without presenting photo ID, a government agency maintains a list of who is not allowed to fly, and your most private medical records are open to inspection by a raft of people from medical personnel to insurance companies and prospective employers.

Its very much worth a read, especially for any UK resident/citizen who thought the 2012 Olympics were a good idea.

What do you think? Comments are open.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

- Scott Adams

One of the funnest webpages I've found in years.

Update 17/3/07 @ 12:57: This "documentary" seems to be completely manufactured by manipulating the data and people.

I'll leave this post here, but worth checking out these links:

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1517515.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,181798,00.html

(thanks Lisa)

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Are we conditioned into believing that anything said by a "scientist" is fact? When in fact they may be just hypothesising?

We've seen recently the TV personality(sic) Gillian McKeith forced to stop using the prefix "Dr" due to no actual PhD, and no actual training in the area she talked about.

So, have you seen Al Gore's film, or read the book ?

I have, and I was scared. I saw the movie on the plane last year, and bought the book at Christmas. Very compelling.

Until I heard about a UK TV programme last week (8th March) that I missed. Called The Great Global Warming Swindle and broadcast on Channel 4.

I've found this on YouTube, and in better quality elsewhere. Its equally compelling. Even the Canadians have a newspaper report on it, as its potentially controversial.

Now we have two exposed viewpoints, so we need an experiment and a control. Ahh, how do we do that then!?

I'm pleased to see that opposite views are exposed, and they have evidence for their views. Its worrying when something this important seems to have become a political game.

Is Kyoto all bunk? Would reducing our CO2 emissions by 50% do anything except bankrupt us?

Science? Its all guesswork you know ;-)