2009 Posts

BIG ENGINEERING
31/12 #41 Using 1 nuclear pulse rocket to create a Space Elevator
8/12 #40 Prize for computer programme to judge international law
3/12 - Colin McInnes lecture latter part published by Herald
25/11 #39 Vacuum tube rail
13/10 #38 unified automated air traffic control
9/8 #37 Colonising the Oort cloud & beyond
3/8 #14/2 Space elevators can be built NOW
30/7 #36 ORION nuclear bomb powered spaceship
31/7 links used in researching # 36
23/7 #35 & 34 small nuclear reactors +
international shipping powered by small nuclear reactors
9/6 #33 Tower to Space
29/4 #32 Laser launching
20/4 #31 hydroponic farming
20/5 #94 the only way to make carbon capture sustainable (irony)

BRITISH POLITICS
25/1 Clegg says main reason to vote LibDem is for more windmill subsidies 3/2 MP fakes Obama endorsement letter 28/3 Daniel Hannan's speech to Brown & Douglas Carswell 21/3 Britain borrowing 12.6% of GNP 23/4 Budget report - spend & hope 21/4 flat tax 17/4 Frank Field says it true 6/4 In online discussion LibDem admits my expulsion from the party was because i was opposed to genocide 31/5 Brown on Proportional Representation 26/4 Alan Johnson calls for PR 19/5 Poll result - most want a public sector of under 20% 16/5 Bliar Foundation for Big Eyed Children & Killing them with Malaria 12/5 Hitchens article on the professionalisation of politics 10/5 UKIP policy review 9/5 Michael Savage mentions popular pressure to cut government 7/5 Home Secretary bans global warming sceptic Michael Savage6/5 We can have China's growth rate with economic freedom - smartest thing ever 31/5 Brown kicking PR into the long grass 8/6 Euro election, UKIP come 2nd 12/7 Tories wobbling on tax? 29/8 affordable family formation in Britain & how people vote 27/8 Britain should have national ambitions 6/8 borrowing banged when Brown became PM 27/9 LibDem's unable to deny genocide 21/9 Cost of high speed rail
20/9 Inviting LibDems to disagree with genocide 19/9 LibDems who censor in the Nazi cause 5/9 Carswell interviewed 31/10 Drug "Adviser" fired 30/10 Labour MP censors blog comments for lack of for warming claims 27/10 Labour admission - they deliberately encouraged immigration for more voters 25/10 UAF thugs government funding 23/10 Nick Griffin on Question Time 8/10 Cameron speech (warming) 7/10 Labour lift BNP policy 5/10 winning the 2014 election 4/10 Conservative promises - no really 16/11 BNP only party to report KLA dissections 8/11 LibDem advice on how to censor 5/11 3 party alliance promised referendum & lied 3/11 Does anybody but the leader have any say in (Conservative) party policy 1/11 Legalising & taxing drugs 22/12 Bring Davis into Tory team to bolster Tory campaign 6/12 Cameron on HSE Mafia

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
1 - 18/3 balanced budget amendment
2 - 27/3 Friedman - outlawing price & wage controls
3 - 16/4 preventing control of occupations
4 - 21/4 flat tax
3/5 - Professor La Paz's constitutional speech to the Lunar Assembly - Heinlein
5 - 23/5 Using Citizen Juries to decide on reforms
6 - 14/6 Over regulation
7 - 17/6 Government spending
8 - 28/6 Failure standards
9 - Oct X-Prize Foundation with set 1% of GNP
10 - 13/11 Reforming Monarchy
11 - 17/11 Tort reform

DALGETY BAY - DISSECTING SEPA's RADIATION LIE
21/8 Dounraey natural radioactivity found shock
12/6 SEPA say no money spent on investigating Dalgety Bay
10/6 Dunfermline Press article
29/5 Letter in the press & Journal
27/5 Guest article on the science
22/5 Dundee Courier article
19/5 Unpublished newspaper letter
15/5 My reply to SEPA
14/5 SEPA's response to FoI enquiry - they break the law by not answering
1/4 appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner over SEPA's ignoring Freedom of Information Law
24/3 Putting in FoI appeal
2/2 Radio Scotland programme - I phone in & SEPA representative deliberately lies
7/2 SEPA lied
10/2 SEPA's reply
11/2 how SEPA lied - see the science12/2 SEPA's reaction
25/2 Deliberate Scottish government complicity

ECO-FASCISM
12/2 Green caused deaths in Australian brush fire 10/3 40 mega-rich founders of the movement 14/4 Greens arrested plotting attack on power station 11/5 Prince Charles debates for eco-fascism 27/6 closing half our electricity will ultimately kill 6 million 9/7 small BBC blog that takes the piss out of warming - now banned 6/7 Realclimate.org censors 2/8 Return to the alarmist's hoax 12/9 peak oil disproven 7/9 realclimate etc censor

ECONOMICS
30/1 Putin for capitalism, against statism 8/1 Quantitative easing by Douglas Adams 7/1 Subsidy destroys 2 or 3 jobs for every 1 it saves 21/2 Repeating "Habits of Successful Countries" 16/2 world's greatest economies by 2050 8/2 Commonwealth countries' GNP 20/3 Economics & medieval doctoring - the pressure to do something whether it works or not 10/4 Gold Standard 2/6 Why, despite free trade, did the Victorian British economy falter? 24/8 Habits of succesful countries redux 19/8 world economy growing not receding 17/8 Growth only way to avoid bankruptcy 15/9 Dubai 11/9 is growth growing or slowing 3/9 Corporation Tax rates worldwide 15/10 small states & space development 14/10 supply & demand curves 14/11 Economics in One Lesson - Hazlitt 24/12 History - German economic "miracle" 17/12 1% budget cut means ) 0.15% growth increase

ERRATA
25/1 Burns appreciation 28/2 GROUND LASERS MAKING AIR FORCE OBSOLETE 14/2 good pronunciation 26/3 Heinlein's Take Back Your government 15/3 Heinlein's rules of writing 12/3 Eco-fascist purged by LibDems 8/3 I am in a marginal 6/3 Lilly Allen lyrics review 25/5 myths seeking support from Einstein 5/5 America's gender reading gap 4/5 Appreciation of Thatcher & her legacy 30/6 French secret service taking revenge on pakistani admirals 27/6 Michael Jackson RIP 19/6 censored by "America's 50th greatest "left wing intellectual" 15/7 Branes - PC intellectual's humour 8/7 prediction - things will get worse 3/7 H.L. Mencken quotes 28/8 No Whites Need Apply 14/9 Norman Borlaug obituary 6/9 pictures of houses delivered by container 1/9 NCIS rules 3/10 Single Acts of Tyranny 20/11 5th anniversary of this blog 24/12 John McCarthy quotes

FAKECHARITIES governments departments & quangos funding front charities to push government enlargement
19/2 BBC radio example 14/3 Financiers of LibDem Conference mainly fakecharities 28/4 government funding "public" response to government ideas 10/6 Government funded street attack outside Parliament 11/8 Royal Society

FEAR
26/3 road safety 28/10 why no flying cars 24/10 fear of biscuits - really 16/10 jailed for letting kid smoke 10/11 Copenhagen-world government 9/11 List of risks & fisk 14/12 Bully State review 13/12 State of Fear/Crichton booklist 10/12 Reprinting Crichton's State of Fear lecture

FIXING THE ECONOMY
31/1 Childcare costs driven up by regulation
27/1 Health & Safety Exec doesn't save lives it costs 234,529 lives annually 17/1 "Government could run better with half as many people" 12/1 Government regulation causes the regulation by preventing investment in new technology 17/2 getting rid of council tax 4/2 Government passes 50% of economy 1/2 how to easily get out of recession 23/3 what houses people want - poll 22/3 Government spending & regulation takes up 75% of the economy 23/4 what is needed - BBC 22/4 getting Scotland out of recession 18/5 Most people want a state sector under 20% of GNP 7/6 Fixing the economy 30/8 fixing the economy is the main issue 25/8 cost of public projects 19/11 Vaclav Klaus speech on markets

GLOBAL WARMING
24/1 Government money used to enforce "consensus" 3/1 Retrial for Kingsnorth greenshirt thugs? 5/2 McIntyre proves fraud in figures 11/3 St Andrew University debate won 28/4 no sunspots 5/4 the lies in Gore's film 2/4 US newspapers now reporting sceptical side equally 22/8 silly threat 14/8 world's global warming data "accidentally destroyed" 17/10 Quotes 2/10 CRU tree ring fraud 1/10 Stephen McIntyre appreciation re tree ring fraud Climate Fraud articles 29/11 28/11 27/11 26/11 Australian rumpus 24/11 BBC 23/11 22/11 21/11 News breaks 24/12 cooling predicted for 50 years 22/12 Copenhagen - alarmism peaks, fraudsters kep money, China becomes Top Country 15/12 IPCC chair closes Teeside steel to get EU subsidy 9/12 How the state paid for warming scam 7/12 Scottish Parliament building chief chosen by EAU to "investigate" climategate 5/12 EAU looking for credible person to investigate climategate 2/12 Climate Fraud - History of CRU & fall of Australian opposition leader

GOVERNMENT PARASITISM
9/3 Paying more to politically connected workers 27/4 you can sell at any price to government if your face fits 28/11 cut NERC 24/12 Government grants, motivated by politics, prevent economics etc becoming real sciences

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
20/1 Palin would have done it, shame they elected the idiot 17/1 Solving Gaza 10/1 Russia are the baddies & Ukraine the goodies so it is OK for Ukraine to steal gas we bought from Russia? 28/2 Obama plaigerises Palin 26/3 In praise of France 19/3 I think bin Laden is dead 24/4 China world's richest in 10 years 13/ ending piracy 21/5 Biden's remarks prove him as Nazi as Hitler 21/7 Fisking Sarah Palin article 16/7 Sarah Palin 10/7 re-examing old Palin interview 5/7 Sarah Palin's resignation letter 26/8 Kennedy dies 20/8 Megrahi freed 15/8 Life expectancy worldwide 30/9 Palin's Hong Kong speech 29/9 German election 29/10 war aims in Afghanistan 26/10 Vaclav Klaus appreciation 18/10 "IDF did more to safeguard civilians than any other army in history of warfare" 14/11 Navy stands by during piracy

LETTERS & RADIO
22/1 Beagle & X-Prizes - Record 16/1 Forth crossing cost - Scotsman 27/2 2 pro-nuclear letters - Herald & Scotsman 24/2 Edinburgh tram costs - - Herald & Edinburgh Evening News 19/2 Dissections - the only letter on the subject in UK was published by the Scotsman 18/2 warming - Scotsman 17/4 Radio - politicians spoonfeed the media 26/5 nuclear - Herald 8/5 Riddoch Questions on Irish growth & tunnel costs 26/6 Scotsman - Holyrood votes to cut power 24/6 Nuclear - Scotsman 18/6 Calman Commission - Scotsman, P & J 30/7 X-Prizes - Scotsman 1/7 warming letter but fakecharities bit excised - Scotsman 23/9 Renewables - Scotsman 13/10 renewables capital of Europe - Mali 27/11 Turin Shroud II 26/11 Turin Shroud I 23/12 Daily Record - Forth Bridge 22/12 Morning Star - Socialism opposed to Luddism 12/12 Scotsman - Climategate Radio Scot "big debate" calling Greens eco-Fascists 1/12 Scotsman -global warming; Herald - airport monorail

LETTERS - Unpublished
14/1 Israel & Gaza 6/1 Herald publishes Moslem Anti-Semitic letters & won't allow reply 26/2 radio phone in on trams 23/2 collected unpublished letters 30/4 global warming,tunnel, war crimes, censorship, dissections 19/5 Dalgety Bay, bicycle subsidy, censorship of dissections 9/9 radiation, renewables, eco-scares & media bias, Nazism, recession, fakecharities, bin Laden dead, space 19/10 jailed for letting child smoke 11/10 recession, torture, Royal Society, "lost" data, radioactivity, comparing atrocities, X-Prize, blackouts, Luddism, nuclear, Borlaug, GARL, fakecharities, cold war, warming fraud 30/11 Largely unpublished about leaked emails 24/12 mainly warming alarmism + EU referendum, govt 80% of economy, immigration, space, FoI executive fakes resume, Gaza/Kosovo, BNP, 50% of our electricity

MEDIA
28/1 BBC pushing more regulation on child care 23/1 Mobbing of an educational sceptic MP 4/1 BBC's chosen typical Scot - Hardeep Singh Kholi 22/2 Hardeep Singh Kohli makes some fair points 3/3 BBC supporting Greenshirts 17/4 Wikipedia censoring & lying 15/4 reply to Herald article attacking bloggers (because the herald won't print one) 8/4 BBC spinning Irish decision not to borrow & spend like Brown 7/4 C4 no plans to balance showing Gore's lies 3/4 List of US newspapers which censor Kosovo dissections letter 29/5 election hustings on the radio 29/6 BBC report closure of half our electricity as "good" news 16/6 Uncensored - Asia Times 15/6 Uncensored papers - Morning Star Note those 2 papers published more than half of all the letters on Yugoslavia I wrotewhile the UK & US MSM published none 5/6 BBC Radio talking only to "mainstream" types 4/6 241 in Tiananmen metamorphs into thousands 14/7 http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2009/07/bbc-newsreader-says-bbc-censor-to.html 11/7 Newspapers bugging & hypocrisy 31/8 Russian ship hijacking story not reported 18/8 BBC "moderate" comments on party lines 8/8 NYT & AP downplaying genocide 10/10 customer driven BBC funding 24/12 Brian Monteith's collected articles 20/12 Moonbat's hypocrisy 19/12 Blizzard is "appropriate" evidence of warming - BBC 18/12 BBC Scotland discussion on "our Green future" 10/12 Reprinting Chrichton's State of fear lecture

NANNY STATISM
18/1 Smoking ban kills 400 a year 15/1 MP says dyslexia is a fiction 14/1 "Paki" 25/6 BBC say law to make the lights go out is good news

NUCLEAR
26/1 Windmills kill far more than nuclear plants 17/3 Chinese start building within a month 17/5 3rd anniversary of government saying we must build nuclear 13/5 conventional power stations release 100 times more radioactivity 8/5
Radiation Hormesis 4/7 anti-
nuclear arguments fisked electricity 13/8 could cost 1p a unit 7/10 Hyperion nuclear reactor factory

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
21/1 Government funding proven to have net negative value 13/2 global warming - an example of cargo cult science 31/3 Algae oil now 30/3 Prof McInnes dissects Earth day 29/3 Solar flare could make grid unworkable for years 2/3 Obselete military - response 4/4 Seasteding - Buckminster Fuller designed a practical project 40 years ago 24/3 Quantum Physics. Multiverses & Reality 2/5 Swine Flu - taking on the 1st Horseman of the Apocalypse 21/6
The Craig Paradox 1- Fermi one applied to multiverse 29/7 Essay on the development of science 19/7 Craig Paradox 2 the Answer 2/7 Turin Shroud - Da Vinci's greatest artwork 13/9 Piltdown Man - longevity of fraud 21/10 26 things wrong with the universe 20/10 cloud seeding in Moscow 18/11 Hyperion small nuclear plants 2/11 2800 BC meteor tsanumi

SCOTTISH ECONOMY
6/6 ISLAY DEVELOPMENT 22/7 42% cut in CO2 means 50% cut in power Glasgow airport rail link cancelled

SCOTTISH POLITICS
29/1 Budget voted down 20/4 SNP MSP lies about nuclear costing 30/6 Holyrood unanimously votes for economic collapse 4/11 Better officially bankrupt than run by these numpties

SOCIAL
20/2 family formation for early teen parents 7/3 1900 predictions 5/3 Social workere make it worse 20/6 speed of communication, empire, freedom, Carswell & space 24/7 Bandwagon effect 10/9 prisoners abroad 7/11 Defining Fascism

SPACE
15/2 satellite photo of Ascension Island 23/4 satellite Sealaunch 22/6 40th anniv since Apollo, 80 since Goddard 26/7 Satellite 2 convention discussion 20/7 pictures to commemorate 40th anniv of Apollo 18/7 Space quotes 17/7 space industry £160 billion annually 7/7 first manmade object in space 7/8 space burial poll 1/8 Governments worldwide spend $4 bn on space (excluding bureaucrats) & taxes $90 bn 25/9 Water on the Moon 17/9 magnetic launcher 16/9 Elon Musk 2/9 space burial - poll result 8/10 Dubai investors in Virgin Galactic 24/12 Spiked leter on water on the Moon 4/12 Space Elevator in 12-15 years

X-PRIZES
9/2 More historic examples 16/3 NASA paper 3/6 Major Meteor Strikes in History 25/6 the M(ouse) prize 23/8 US army prize 33 times more effective than conventional 12/8 Saltire prize - government funded X-Prize 5/8 Tax rebates could fund X-Prize Foundation 4/8 Boom in private X-Prizes 26/9 My submission to space ministry 24/9 Had Britain ever even thought about X-Prizes - No 8/9 prizes alone satisfy government duty to maximise business 12/11 Fredkin Prize - Chess 6/11 Powering a Space Elevator

YUGOSLAVIA
25/3 Nuremburg comparison 13/3 British politicians are war criminals 4/3 Serbian President found not guilty - by standards used our politicians clearly guilty 13/4 Dissections - BBC says "IC destroyed evidence" 12/4 Red cross admit knowing of dissections in 2000 - won't say what they have done to trace recipients 11/4 BBC late night report on dissections 9/4 BBC online about dissections 21/5 Biden's openly Nazi remarks 1/5 natives suing in American courts for media lies 13/6 Britain's Secret Service murdered Milosevic 28/7 Disections - EU investigation not yet started 16/8 Karadzic "trial" preparations 10/8 British ministers accept complicity 28/9 Milosevic's crime was to be innocent - ambassador 22/9 ambassador acuses Serbs of "Inat" (bulldog spirit) 4/9 Serbian economy doing well 11/11 Penny Marshall's place in history 16/12 ICTY hiding Srebrenica DNA