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The First Post:

Apart from the street corner, where, asked Greater Manchester Police, can we reach the idle youth? The answer, apparently, is Facebook.
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On the face of it, GMP Updates is a Crimewatch-style news feed, an up-to-the-minute bulletin board of unsolved crimes (‘Man injured after gunshot fired, Rochdale’). There’s also a ‘Submit Intelligence’ button, so users can anonymously upload information, tips, even photographs.

But. There’s always a ‘but’.

The problem is that, when dealing with Facebook, nothing whatsoever is ever anonymous.

via Mr P.

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Yahoo News:

Labour rebels have called off their revolt over the abolition of the 10p income tax rate after Alistair Darling promised to compensate poor households who will lose out from the change.

Former minister Frank Field said he was withdrawing a rebel amendment which had attracted the signatures of 45 Labour MPs and threatened Gordon Brown with his first Commons defeat as Prime Minister.

The move came after Mr Darling announced he would meet one of the rebels’ key demands that compensation should be backdated to the start of this financial year, when the tax change comes into effect.

In a letter to the chairman of the Commons Treasury Select Committee, Mr Darling said that he would use the winter fuel payment system, tax credits and the minimum wage to help two groups thought most likely to lose out from the abolition of the 10p rate – low-income households without children and pensioners aged 60-64.

Why not have a lower tax band, maybe as low as 10p, and then people would see more of their money in their wages rather than have the taxman fuck up their benefit payments/credits/allowances because of incompetence/overcomplication of system and then everyones a winner.
People pay less taxes, the civil service can spend the resources used to work out he allowance on something else and the government can claim less people on benefits/tax credits etc.

The ‘rebel’ MPs’ shouldn’t be so fucking pleased with themselves either.
It was what? Eleven months from the budget to when the 10p tax band was abolished and they’ve only just got off their arses and realised it’s a load of shite and done something?
Fuckers.

The High Court has ruled that SFO’s decision to halt the investigation was not – as previously claimed – consistent with the rule of law.

As previously stated, the issue of whether a prosecution should or should not be pursued is indeed for an independent prosecuting authority, without political pressure from government or foreign powers, let alone the subject of its investigation.

Come on, sign it, it could be quite interesting.

Via Justin

Nick Kellerstrom (whoever the fuck he is):

I’m not a Nazi sympathising anti-semite…
…but everyone I read and take as an ‘authority’ on Auschwitz is.

Bwa ha ha ha ha.!
It’ll be no surpise to you to here he is also a 9/11 ‘truther’.
Twat.

Via Ministry of Truth

Via Tygerland.

The Enemies of Reason:

Every Click is a Good Click

…Every click is a good click. That’s the important thing to remember. If you get an ignorant, bigoted, stupid, vile, nasty, thuggish, bullying bastard visiting your website, that’s a good thing. Imagine a suedeheaded BNP goon in a bomber jacket knocking on your door – would you let him in? No? OK then, what if, by letting him in, you knew you could make more money – would that affect your opinion? Still no? Say you got paid for every person who visited your house, and the more times they came back the more you got paid, and the longer they stayed the more you got paid. Let’s say that your house – let’s call it The Internet – is next door to your neighbours’ houses, TV, Radio and Newspapers. They don’t like letting the BNP thug in, to be honest, and he’s pretty frustrated. He feels discriminated against and feels he’s not welcome there. And remember, the more times he comes to your house, the more money you get. What would be wrong in having him pop round every now and then? Would that be so wrong?

Every click is a good click. Just bear that in mind. If you can get more cash from advertising – or, in the case of the BBC, get more clicks to show the valuable work you’re doing in providing a forum for public debate, thereby demonstrating the importance of the licence fee – then you’ll take it. I’ve mentioned before how the far right, including the BNP and some elements of UKIP, are pretty clued up about this. They know they don’t have many places where they can get their message across – but they’re organised, they’re dedicated and they do certainly believe in what they’re saying.

So if you can create a place where these people feel right at home, it makes sense they’re going to come back time and time again, doesn’t it? Especially if you encourage them by asking a series of loaded questions, frequently repeating exactly the same question over and over again to make sure that it doesn’t drop off the radar and that they have the opportunity to make the same points repeatedly, tediously and laboriously. More clicks for you = more money from advertising. Every click is a good click.

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