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UEA climate hack ‘dirty political tactics’
Thousands of emails and documents stolen from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and posted online suggest researchers “massaged figures to mask the fact that world temperatures have been declining in recent years,” says the Telegraph . Some 1,000 emails and 3,000 documents were stolen from UEA computers by hackers last week and uploaded to a Russian server before circulating on websites run by climate change sceptics, says the story, continuing: “Some of the correspondence indicates that the manipulation of data was widespread among global warming researchers. “One of the emails under scrutiny, written by Phil Jones, the centre’s director, in 1999, reads: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature the science journal trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” “Prof Jones has insisted that he used the word ‘trick’ to mean a ‘clever thing to do’, rather than to indicate deception.
Continue reading »Bankruptcy for The Pirate Bay suitor?
It would seem Global Gaming Factory X’s effort to buy The Pirate Bay are going under for the last time. Despite reports that everything was going swimmingly, repeated ad nauseum by TPB and GGF fans, it’s been clear almost since the beginning the deal was doomed, the first indication coming when Wayne Rosso, who’d been working with GGF owner Hans Pandeya, decided he didn’t like the way things were going and retired from the proceedings. The deal has been fraught with problems .
Continue reading »Stock exchange dumps Pirate Bay Hans Pandeya
“The deal to buy the Swedish file-sharing site the Pirate Bay seems to be unravelling,” says Sveriges Radio . The, “buyer is in serious trouble proving its own credibility.” That would indeed sum things up after Global Gaming Factory X failed to meet its announced August 27 deadline to officially become TPB’s new owner. GGF boss Hans Pandeya had to sit and watch as Swedish authorities impounded his motor launch, car and motorcycle for eventual auction to pay off alleged tax debts, and now the company, “has been thrown out of the Aktietorget stock exchange, further jeopardizing the proposed deal,” says The Local today, going on »»» Aktietorget, an equity exchange for smaller companies not listed on the Stockholm stock exchange, decided to immediately halt trading in GGF shares, claiming that the company and its CEO, Hans Pandeya, have misled the market.
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