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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link An A&E Nightmare That Exposes the NHS as Anything But the ?Envy of the World? Mon Dec 15, 2025 20:00 | Shane McEvoy
The NHS is often said by politicians to be the 'envy of the world'. But after a 48-hour odyssey through A&E to get an urgent scan for suspected appendicitis, Shane McEvoy is convinced nobody anywhere is envying us.
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offsite link The Covid Inquiry is Instantiating Lies That Make it Worse Than No Inquiry At All Mon Dec 15, 2025 17:53 | Will Adie
The Covid Inquiry has allowed itself to degenerate into a cudgel to flog the Tory government of Boris Johnson. But an inquiry that instantiates a lie is worse than no inquiry at all, says Will Adie.
The post The Covid Inquiry is Instantiating Lies That Make it Worse Than No Inquiry At All appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Dale Vince Links Bondi Beach Massacre to Israel Mon Dec 15, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Labour donor and green energy tycoon Dale Vince has sparked a backlash after linking the Bondi Beach massacre to Israel's actions in Gaza, saying Netanyahu "wants antisemitism to be a thing? and "acts to make it so".
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offsite link Labour Has Gone Beyond Lying to Bullshitting Mon Dec 15, 2025 13:32 | Sean Walsh
As he entered Downing Street, Keir Starmer told us he would "tread more lightly" on our lives. In 18 months Labour has gone from merely lying to bullshitting, losing all attachment to reality, says Sean Walsh.
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offsite link Right Wins Chile Election on Mass Deportation Platform Mon Dec 15, 2025 11:18 | Will Jones
The Right has won the Presidential election in Chile, with conservative Jose Antonio Kast defeating his communist rival on a platform of cracking down on crime and deporting hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.
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Voltaire Network
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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Global Cooling?

category international | environment | other press author Wednesday April 29, 2009 14:37author by Saoirsí - Alliance of the Libertarian Left (Ireland)author email saoirsi at libertarian dot ie Report this post to the editors

Decreased Sun Spot Activity May Alter Global Warming Scenarios

Although there is much discussion about the Global Warming from CO2 theory, attention is increasingly being focused on an apparent lack of solar activity currently, which historically has been associated with global cooling.

We are in a period of low solar activity - “the deepest solar minimum of the entire Space Age,” says Dr. Soon, a Harvard astrophysicist. “In fact, this is the quietest Sun we have had in almost a century.”

Sun spots - like huge magnetic hurricanes causing relatively dark spots as eyes-of-the-storm on the sun's surface - are associated with periods of high solar activity, and increased energy outflow.

Cycles of sun spots have usually been observed in 11 year cycles. However, this has been subject to change historically, alternating between periods of high activity or "solar maxima", and low or no activity - "solar minima".

Solar Maxima are associated with generally warming conditions (such as our past century - although this does not in itself rule out other causes). Periods in the past associated with Solar Minima include the "Little Ice Age" (or Maunder Minimum, named after the scientist who brought it to attention) of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries.

References:

The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?
The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-missing-s....html

Harvard astrophysicist: Sunspot activity correlates to global climate change
TGDaily
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42006/181/

'Curious' Why Is the Sun So Dim Lately?
WBZ-TV Video Archive
http://wbztv.com/video/?id=75101@wbz.dayport.com
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/curious_why_the...tely/

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