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I was testing children in my Glasgow Sunday School class to see if they understood the concept of getting into heaven. I asked them, “If I sold my house and my car, had a big jumble sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into heaven?” “NO!” the children answered. [...]

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How the city of the lost celebrated the festival of the lost:

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A few quick ones before closing down until tomorrow evening: UN Security Council panel fails to agree on Palestinian statehood bid Well, that’s one thing – predictable really.  Now here are some shots of Japan six months after the quakes.  And remember, as Monkey says: ‘Even a starving camel is still bigger than a horse.’

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Seed: What is your solution? KM: My work with PCR allowed for the invention by Craig Tuerk of nucleic aptamers, which are tiny binding molecules that can be designed to attach themselves to harmful bacteria. However, instead of attaching a poison to the other end of the aptamer—as the silver-bullet strategy would call for—I put [...]

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Quite mixed feelings. On studying the turn of the century times, it becomes clear that the “Great” War was entirely unnecessary, even given all the treaties which set it in motion. On studying the PTB themselves, it’s clear that this event was scheduled way ahead of time by the same people’s descendants who are scheduling [...]

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OK, people, we’ll run the questions this evening and provide the answers as a post tomorrow morning, ditto with subsequent geo-quizzes. This evening – which: 1.  is the longest place name in the world? 2.  is the shortest? 3. is the largest city by surface area? 4. are the countries surrounded by one other country? [...]

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The Startling Science of a Starling Murmuration

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Roger Pielke Jnr: Last week I noted the projected increase in “fuel poverty” in the United Kingdom and speculated that such a trend might have political consequences. The UK coalition government and their creative policy analysts have come up with a solution for this difficult situation — they are proposing to redefine “fuel poverty” in [...]

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Pachebel’s Canon: Axis of Awesome:

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Iniquitous: The question: what are the “reasonable needs” of a 55-year-old divorced woman with one teenage child still living at home? The answer, the appeal court ruled yesterday, is a nine-bedroom country house with 40 acres of parkland, a £1.65 million lump sum and £75,000-a-year child maintenance. There are three different issues here – property [...]

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There are terms one can never use – NWO, 911, WTC7, Bilderbergers, C300, NAU, mind control – because the instant the term is invoked, a whole section of the populace mouths “conspiracy theory” to themselves, quickly clicks out and then, in its ignorance starts the mockery, usually by invoking the old standbyes Icke, lizards or [...]

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First hat-tipped by Witterings from Witney, the Telegraph bought in and this was an interesting one on the GdF: Spot the odd one out: Greek politicians defenestrate George Papandreou. Italian politicians prepare to defenestrate Silvio Berlusconi.  In private, opposite politicians concede they would rather let Mario Monti, former European Commissioner, head a government of technocrats. [...]

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