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An amusing (although possibly true) post on Concurring Opinions puts forward the idea of template copywriting for news articles on the endless list of “anti-terrorism” government initiatives…

NSA warrantless wiretaps. NSA collection of phone records. CIA gathering of financial records.
The stories are endless. To help out reporters, I thought I’d just write [...]

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An article on the BBC NEWS states that Rubbish collection ‘may be taxed’:

The proposals could allow councils to charge residents for the amount of waste they produce, and other possibilities include charging less to greener households and those who separate their waste.

What they don’t seem to have considered is that this will just increase the [...]

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BP may now be using the slogan[1] “Beyond Petroleum”, but that does not mean they are reducing the amount of oil they are extracting, just how they are carefully using ‘spin’ to make people believe that. Another very insightful article by George Monbiot: Still Drilling, which is well worth reading whether you’re an [...]

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