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offsite link Michael ?Hockey Stick? Mann Ordered To Pay National Review Over $500,000 Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Michael Mann, infamous for his climate "hockey stick" graph, has been ordered to pay over $530,000 in legal fees after spending over a decade trying ? and failing ? to silence National Review through a lawsuit.
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offsite link Cooking the Books: Why You Just Can?t Trust the Annual Bestseller Lists Anymore Sun Jan 12, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
The New York Times Bestseller list is "pure propaganda", says Elon Musk. The newspaper even admitted in court it is "editorial content", not factual. But what about the Sunday Times version? Steven Tucker investigates.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jan 12, 2025 01:23 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Top Journal: Scientists Should Be More, Not Less, Political Sat Jan 11, 2025 17:00 | Noah Carl
Science, nominally the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, is at it again. In November, they published an editorial saying that scientists need to be even more political than they already are.
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A step forward for cannabis users?

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Monday March 23, 2009 11:22author by Conor. Mauthor email liberalconormurphy at ymail dot com Report this post to the editors

The Obama administration signaled it was ready to repudiate the prohibition and ''war on drugs'' approach of previous presidents, and steer policy towards prevention and ''harm reduction'' strategies favoured by Europe.
will the authorities turn a blind eye?
will the authorities turn a blind eye?

Seattle police chief, Gil Kerlikowske has been nominated for the post of director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the nation's drug czar. Kerlikowske has built up a reputation in Seattle for pursuing drug policies based on harm reduction. The state has an established needle exchange programme, has legalised marijuana for medical purposes and has made marijuana among the lowest priorities for law enforcement. President Obama has even said he is putting ''science above politics''. In a statement recently announcing the nomination of the new drug czar, Obama said: ''With escalating violence along our Southwest border and far too many suffering from addiction at home, never has it been more important to have a national drug control strategy guided by sound principle of public safety and public health.''

Former presidents of Mexico, Columbia and Brazil have dubbed the war on drugs a ''complete failure''. Each president is conservative but have called for an approach based on public health, including the legalisation of marijuana.

Is this a step towards the sick, the elderly and the toker gaining personal freedoms? What we eventually need is for the European Union and the United State to abolish the prohibition on marijuana and introduce legislation so the sick can get their medicine, the elderly can get their relief and the 'ordinary Joe' can enjoy a spliff in his house, like most people enjoy a beer, without fear of being labeled criminals. For now though, tokers the world over need to take advantage of the governments relaxed views on marijuana and join the right side on the 'war on drugs'.

Whether you smoke or not, if you believe cannabis users are not criminals be to sure to join the cannabis march in Dublin and Cork on May 9th.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Well said Conor     ordinary worker    Tue Mar 24, 2009 16:53 
   what harm     lulu    Wed Mar 25, 2009 09:00 
   Harmfull...     Conor. M    Wed Mar 25, 2009 16:03 
   other dangers     lulu    Wed Mar 25, 2009 22:04 
   Smoking cannabis/marijuana is also carcinogenic mmmkkayyy     Mike    Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:18 
   lots of ways     lulu    Sun Mar 29, 2009 14:15 
   Idiots     Preacher    Sun Mar 29, 2009 15:46 
   the people must be kept obedient     hidden agenda    Sun Mar 29, 2009 16:55 
   Theory of Relativity.     Einstein    Sun Mar 29, 2009 19:15 
 10   so.....     CD    Mon Mar 30, 2009 16:22 
 11   cannabis     Conor. M    Mon Mar 30, 2009 17:40 
 12   ...     Conor. M    Mon Mar 30, 2009 17:47 
 13   you donut     no drugs    Tue Mar 31, 2009 00:38 


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