Monthly Archives: November 2014

How It Used To Be

Posted on November 30, 2014 by the archivist

Via NYC CLASH, how it used to be. More here.

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Plague Years

Posted on November 28, 2014 by the archivist

Never a dull moment, is there? The plague is back. No, not Ebola, but rather infection with the dreaded bacterium, Yersinia pestis. An outbreak in Madagascar, where the disease is endemic, already has involved more than 100 people and killed … Continue reading →

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Winter Is Coming

Posted on November 27, 2014 by the archivist

H/T Walt from a few days back for this article on China: More than 300 million Chinese smoke, and hundreds of millions of others are exposed to secondhand smoke. A powerful domestic tobacco industry, much of it state owned, brings … Continue reading →

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WHO downplays danger of secondhand smoke

Posted on November 26, 2014 by the archivist

Another article by Klaus K translated from the original Danish. ¤ Outdoor air pollution more dangerous than indoor tobacco smoke ¤ Do smoking bans protect against a non-existent disease risk? – OFFICIAL WHO RECOMMENDATIONS (Photo: Colourbox) First they said that indoor secondhand … Continue reading →

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Fin de Siècle

Posted on November 25, 2014 by the archivist

It’s only one poll, but according to a YouGov poll: Ukip is now MORE popular than LABOUR: Nigel Farage gets polls boost as Ukip surges ahead If they carry on like this, the General Election next year might become a … Continue reading →

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Shhhh!!!!

Posted on November 24, 2014 by the archivist

In a piece titled “Ukip’s Rochester win shows voters no longer trust the main parties,” Charles Moore writes in the Telegraph about Cameron’s ‘modernisers’ : …modernisers have two great faults. The first is to assume that what is modern is … Continue reading →

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The Logic of the Swarm

Posted on November 23, 2014 by the archivist

H/T roobeedoo: I’ve spotted your swarm. She was referring to my posts about the swarm effect, and the logic of the swarm. Organisation-minded people usually want to try to create a single organisation or umbrella group into which to induct … Continue reading →

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Rochester et alia

Posted on November 22, 2014 by the archivist

The details of the Rochester by-election: The Lib Dem vote almost completely collapsed. Although smokingscot has a possible explanation for this: Seems their loyal Lib/Dem supporters decided to vote strategically in an effort to keep out UKIP. So they didn’t … Continue reading →

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Another UKIP Victory

Posted on November 21, 2014 by the archivist

I was hoping to stay up to see UKIP win the Rochester and Strood by-election. But the results aren’t expected until after 4 a.m. So I‘ll have to put a question mark after the title for the time being, although … Continue reading →

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Buying America, Town by Town

Posted on November 20, 2014 by the archivist

H/T Harley for this eye-opener about the ruckus in Westminster, Massachusetts, where the town Board of Health has proposed banning the sale of tobacco: For well over a decade the Massachusetts Municipal Association has run something called the Tobacco Control Technical … Continue reading →

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