I am well aware that Osborne has been redistributing money to the rich in his budget. I am also stunned by the idea that the state should see its role not as reducing regional inequality of wealth, but as reinforcing it through regional public sector pay rates.
But my days at the moment are like this. I get up at 7.30 am and after a very frugal breakfast I take a local taxi to the disastrously neglected and underfunded National Archive of India. I spend eleven hours there hastily transcribing from an enormous wealth of documents on Alexander Burnes – really beyond my wildest hopes – and then at 8.00pm the security guards kick me out, the curators having left some time ago. I get back to my budget hotel, take a light supper of imodium and activated charcoal, chat with Nadira, and then fall asleep exhausted.
Boniface Goncourt
Your kind of anti-religious tripe is the best justification for the existence of Islamist fundamentalist politics.
Without your type of nihilistic ignorance they would find it hard to gain a foothold among the stressed Muslim youth.
Here’s some of their unholy activities in Syria, in alliance with USUKIS governments.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29946
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Have you ever thought that your toxic atheism was benefiting these mad mullahs, whom our government supports and whom we ordinary Muslims despise?
I am clear in my own mind that as a former Christian Englishman I am merely continuing in the religious tradition of this country by joining Islam, while the rest of English society has swung off the road down the folly of atheism.
I presume you use ‘hosts’ about the UK in the same sense as a naturalist would about fleas. I live here, and I benefit from the umbrella of safety that the UK provides for its own citizens, but I disassociate myself from 99% of what my government, rabid Tories or New Liebour variety, tries to do in domestic or foreign policy.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite ’em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Jonathan Swift: Poetry, a Rhapsody.]
I don’t know why you want to bite me.
Assalamu ‘alaykum
Why the story of Megrahi surfaces now?
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Gaddafi dead and gone,
Libya occupied and under new management,
Panam passengers’ next of kin paid off, and the lawyers fees charged,
Megrahi jailed and pound of flesh extracted for the benefit of the dog and pony revenge show,
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Why would this story need to remain alive?
What is the reason for keeping the story current?
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Those who have followed the story of the Megrahi and his conviction for years have known about the Kangaroo court that sent him down based on contrived “evidence”. The witnesses testifying were either; paid off, coerced, etc.
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This story is doing the rounds and the relevant dossier getting released from a “known” shop front, What are these bastards up to now? Anyone any ideas?
“Anyone any ideas?”
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Megrahi served the purpose of demonising Libya/Gaddafi, mission accomplished, now lets find him innocent so we can blame some other nation for the Pan Am 103 crash, so who`s left to point the finger at, to demonise in the publics minds, so we can attack them, let me see…who do we want to invade next, “Anyone any ideas?”.
“Scottish independence: ‘Border checks’ warning from home secretary”
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Mary, its far worse then that
http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/political-news/english-would-bomb-our-airports.17005697
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What are they going to come up with next ?…If the Martians send an invading army to Scotland and the Martian tripods start to singe sporrans with their death rays don`t expect England to help out.
LESSON 1
GODBANGER: The universe was created by a beardy guy who got killed then came back to life and rode up into the clouds on a donkey! Give me your money.
ME: I don’t believe you.
GODBANGER: You speak anti-religious tripe!
LESSON 2
GODBANGER: I got smack, blow, toot, meth, crack, crank, E, meowmeow! Give me your money.
ME: Nah, that stuff is bad for you.
GODBANGER: You speak toxic atheism!
“An elderly woman who suffered a fall was left lying on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a senior nurse was praying, an inquest heard. Abdul Bhutto, an agency nurse, told junior staff they would have to wait until he finished before
he would attend to 87-year-old Dorothy Griffiths, who died nine days later. Mrs Griffiths, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, was left on the floor while the Muslim nurse continued to pray on his mat. Eventually he arrived and examined the pensioner before telling carers to put her back to bed. She was later found unresponsive and was taken to hospital. Mrs Griffiths had cut her head and gashed her hip when she fell from her bed during the night and was found on the floor when staff rushed to her room after hearing a loud bang. A carer went to the care home’s office for help to lift her but Mr Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait until he had finished his prayers.”
Those moderate muslims! Don’t you just love them?
A Pretentious Fool.
@mary
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Yes – it’s confusing. At one and the same time we are going to be suffocated by draconian new border controls, while simultaneously overrun by uncontrolled immigration.
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I was once approached to stand as a councillor but found the idea unappealing until I discovered that as a councillor I could decide how taxi drivers should dress. Fortunately for the taxi drivers I was never elected. But I hope I get to choose the border guards’ uniforms.
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http://www.zanzig.com/travel/rome-photos/rome002.htm
What a waste of a donated heart to this ageing evil warmonger. See how many Americans are on the waiting list.
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Dick Cheney Gets New Heart
Former Vice President Recovering After Undergoing Surgery http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/24-3
Duncan:
“…the problem was that in some parts of the country public sector workers got 18 to 20% more pay than their equivalents in the private sector. The fact that many bank executives are getting hundreds of times the average wage, some of them funding it from bail-outs from taxpayers on average or low wages, doesn’t bother the Conservatives, but anyone in the public sector being paid slightly more than someone in the private sector, that is unfair and must be changed as far as they’re concerned.”
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You are forgetting that bankers and corporate directors generally are essential to the economy. In order to recruit the best we must pay top whack, otherwise the talent will go abroad, a pestilence will descend on the land, and we will all die.
On the other hand, labour units must be hired at the minimum possible price in order to maximise profits for the directors and shareholders, and it is deeply unfair that the public sector should attempt to recruit the best labour units for itself by offering more money. The public sector should content itself with cheap, unqualified and useless labour units because THE MARKETS (praise and glory) are not (yet) allowed to make a profit out of it. Anyway, most of these labour units live north of Watford and are not really human at all.
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Rose: the mustard seed analogy is apt. But as a non-godbotherer I prefer poppy seed…smaller, more prolific, and you sow it in winter…
Mary, I had to wretch when I heard it on the radio, how pathetic of news editors to even cover it.
Then there is the other thought of hope, that this charitable heart has come from a wo/man which is kind and considerate, with compassion and understanding, a heart that can overule his festering brain.
His first action will be to resign from the Carlyle trust and sell all his shares in arms companies, donating the proceeds to amnesty international and the international red cross…
Must have been the tea this morning…..
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090331234624/uncyclopedia/images/archive/8/80/20090331234635!Smiley.png
Mary: Think you’ll find Grade, Kestenbaum and Palmer have already been elevated – the report is an old one.
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Kestenbaum is interesting. Yet another maker of money out of money, rich as Croesus, co-founded the rather nebulous Portland Trust (investment in Palestinian projects, nominally) with Sir Ronald Cohen (former enormous Labour donor, now advising Scameron on The Big Society Big Bank for Big Big Britain – qv) and also worked for Cohen’s Apax (large stake in the Guardian-seems to be influencing editorial policy), assistant to Chief Rabbi Sachs, and worthily outspoken critic of Israel’s Palestine policy-he favours a two-state solution. May be an Israel-firster, but is not an Israel-first-no-matter-whatter, as far as I can see. Something of a curate’s egg, Kestenbaum.
So it was Komodo. January 2011. Wonder then why it was still at the top of one of their topics. Interesting about Kestenbaum. From his maiden speech, after his introduction by Lords Sainsbury and Puttnam, one learns he was brought up in Japan and the US following the diaspora of German Jews. He is now CEO of Lord Rothschild’s family financial interests! Enough said. This speech and two other comments are his only contribution to debate. His voting record follows the Conservative party line on the Health and Social Care Bill, Welfare Reform, Education, Armed Forces, Terrorism Prevention, etc etc.
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http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2011-03-31a.1346.4&s=speaker%3A25061#g1352.0
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This is not old. Jenny Tonge on March 22 about the support she has received since that puff of hot air Clegg booted her out.
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{http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/65481/baroness-tonge-i-got-great-support-over-my-israel-line}
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Quite a fair report from Dysch I thought.
Oops. Red face here. He is a LABOUR peer and votes accordingly.
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/101113&showall=yes#divisions
In my defenceI always find that page rather confusing.
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He came from the US to the UK as a child in 1964. Now aged 53.
Boniface Goncourt, the blog software has sent one of your comments (2012/03/25 at 10:12 pm) to the moderation queue, where it awaits approval or rejection. Since it consists entirely of abuse of another contributor and contains no evidence nor political argument, I don’t feel like approving it. Maybe someone else will.
boniface goncourt,
Cease and desist from filling the board with sectarian bullshit. Your fundamentalist militant atheism is not anymore attractive than a Jehovah Witness banging on to convert us all.
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I raise your contention about the elderly woman, an add the clip that if you look for on the you tube and find it, about the young female patient in the accident and emergencies department of the hospital dies post suffering a fit, with the hospital staff; Security, Nurses, Duty doctor, patients, etc. all literally walking past her dead corpse.
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To attribute irresponsible discharge of duty of care to some religion or other is the thin of the wedge designed to rubbish an underclass even further. Your equal opportunity racism is getting a bit wearing these days, so cool it.
William Hague may be forced to strip Asma al-Assad of her British citizenship as she prepares to visit Britain and speak to a number of anti-war and peace movements. I hope she will be allowed into the UK where I believe she will expose the Zionist plan, supported by the West, to topple her husband in a Libyan style massacre by traitors, terrorists and deserters armed by Israel and America and trained in many cases by ex SAS security personnel.
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http://rt.com/news/syrian-assad-wife-asma-363/
Proper journalism here committed to the humane and against barbarity. The ‘Sunni’ oppression is not the truth. I am told by someone who knows nhow there was no divide between Sunni and Shia in Iraq – that is BEFORE the savages arrived.
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Bahrain Medics Show Trial: This Is Not Syria, Therefore No Western Outcry
by Finian Cunningham
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29903
MI5 recalls all of its agents. Guess Edinburgh is going to be very quiet, then.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mi5-puts-all-3800-agents-on-olympic-watch-7584968.html
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When the Olympic bomb duly goes off and the BBC announces within minutes that the outrage ‘carries all the hallmarks of Al Qaeda’ I thought it might be useful to have a little checklist of the hallmarks of a false flag operation carried out against you by your own security services. It’s not my fault that the same list seems also to be the hallmarks of Al Qaeda.
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(1) Multiple causluaties, not a single carefully targetted hit;
(2) All the casualties are ordinary people, no personages of importance and certainly no politicians; and
(3) The security services had no foreknowledge of the plot, but quickly arrest any surviving perpetrators and their associates. Perfect ignorance is followed by perfect knowledge in less than 24 hours.
Mark – While some may dispute the assertion that Assad is an innocent victim of (though occasional collaborator with) Western interests, I hope everyone will dispute the proposition that a British citizen can be stripped of her rights – not least of free speech and assembly – because she married the wrong guy.
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Hague is a nasty little blowhard who has never had a real job, and is very keen on other people fighting and dying for his greater promotion. But I would not deny even him his citizenship, tolerant reptile that I am.
Ooops…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9165485/The-secret-filming-that-exposed-Peter-Cruddas.html
Sub judice or sub carpet?
Cameron has rowed back (he caves in to pressure easily) and has given details of ten
dinner guests whom he has known personally for many years. Lord Gold will carry out an investigation. Hilarious stuff.
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The said Lord Gold, Conservative Party sleazebuster extraordinaire.
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http://davidgoldassociates.com/biography
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Also from the Southend Echo. What does he do for the US Dept of Justice??
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“It was a delightful day when I became a lord and there is much I want to do.
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“I was approached to become a working peer following my membership of David Cameron’s scrutiny committee on the expenses in 2009 and my later role as chairman of the Conservative Party’s disciplinary committee.”
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Born in a Westcliff nursing home, Lord Gold was a student at Westcliff High School for Boys before studying at the London School of Economics. Among his community roles, Lord Gold was president of the Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation for nine years and can be regularly seen cycling along the seafront at the weekends.
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He will be splitting his time between working as a peer as well as working within the US Department of Justice advising on complex disputes. He plans to set up his own consultancy firm.
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{http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/8847805.Lawyer_David_Gold_joins_the_House_of_Lords/}
A few names so far for Komodo to digest.
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Documents confirm PM dined with Mike & Jenny Farmer, Ian & Christine Taylor, Henry & Dorothy Angest on Nov 2nd 2011.
Documents confirm PM dined with Michael Spencer and his wife on 27th Feb 2012 and Andrew Feldman & David Rowland on 28th Feb 2012.
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The rabbit-like Lord Levy has just been on Sky waving his arms around, protesting that Bliar never did anything like this. Also that the Cameron guests were not entertained in the Camerons’ flat but in one of the dining rooms belonging to the state.
Re Gold and the DoJ:
Herbert Smith litigator Gold completed a five-year term as senior partner in May. Prior to that he headed the firm’s litigation practice. As head of the firm Gold oversaw its international expansion in emerging markets.
In August, he was revealed as the independent corporate monitor at BAE Systems. The appointment, made by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in consultation with the defence and aerospace company, came after a settlement with the DoJ, drawn up in the aftermath of an investigation into contract payments (31 August).
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Peerage presumably for getting BAE off the hook…or maybe he paid the admission fee?
Looks like a perfectly innocent list of accidentally rich people who would never contemplate paying for political influence to me, Mary. Like Henry Angest (see your post) for instance:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/11/conservative-donor-paymaster-activists
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Poor David. People are being so unfair to him. Nothing like that goes on in the Conservatives, and the Party treasurer who explicitly said it did, on film, has obviously gone mad.
For reference and comparison with the guest lists…
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2010/12/the-biggest-fifty-cash-donors-to-the-conservative-party-over-the-last-ten-years.html?cid=6a00d83451b31c69e20148c6eb0f01970c
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Bwahahahaha. Pmsl. Roflmao.
Vronsky,
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MI5’s counter-proliferation unit are calibrating their equipment.
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Their work is supported by government agencies although I believe their 1% total resource is not enough; the katsas have too much freedom in Britain.
Mary, somebody commented on Cheney’s heart transplant “I hope he’s got a left-leaning Liberal heart”. Somebody else commented: “This is the first heart he’s had”.
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Three weeks ago they patched my heart up with bits and pieces from my own body. Just think if I needed a transplant they might have given me Cheney’s heart. Makes you want to become a Jehovah’s Witness.
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Of course, a selfish murderer like Cheyney is hardly likely to donate his heart, unless it’s the diseased one. In one of my poems Reagan holds a donor card for haemorrhoids. You gotta laugh.