Month: November 2008
The Guardian reports that Bletchley Park looks set to be saved from extinction after a £330,000 grant from English Heritage.
The BBC reports that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to unveil an 18-month pilot scheme to test UK national identity cards by issuing them to airside workers at London City and Manchester airports.
Libertarian Party have decided to send a copy of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to every single MP. The books will be inscribed with the words, ‘This book was a warning, not a blueprint’, and will arrive at Parliament on or before November 5th — a date of well known historical significance for that building. [via]
The votes haven’t been counted but the states of California and Washington have been called for Obama and have put him over the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the election.
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Fox News calls Ohio for Obama
If even Fox News are declaring Obama has won in Ohio then it looks like it’s all over for McCain.
Also if the following really happens the irony is delicious. RNC Ready To Sue Over Computerized Voter Fraud?
Well most of the results are in and in quite the upset it seems that voting machine DRE 700 has been elected the President of the United States. This came as a surprise to the pollsters who had been calling it to the Democratic party and had not considered any third party candidate as any kind of threat.
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Pennsylvania called for Obama
It’s early and the votes aren’t officially in but the state of Pennsylvania has been called for Obama which will be a blow to McCain’s run for the White House and is an early indication that the election will go the way the pollsters have been predicting.
