Delhi Delirium 355

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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.

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  • Komodo

    Navigating away from the murky waters of Conservative funding…oh…there’s something wrong with the compass. Or I’ve travelled in time. Lest-we-forget-posting:
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    http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1642542/Cameron-donors-bet-on-collapse-of-bank.html
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    Last year (2008 – K) Mr Cameron apologised ‘unreservedly’ after The Mail on Sunday disclosed that he had been using his taxpayer-funded Commons office to stage lunches for the Leaders Group.
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    Looks like old habits die hard. Conservatism in a nutshell, really.
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    Can’t afford petrol anyway, Mary. But we’re going to need some more MidEast conflict to keep the prices up soon

  • Komodo

    I cannot believe this is news to the Torygraph. We commented on it here some months ago, and it’s openly displayed on the Tory site. I very nearly can’t believe the Torygraph is printing it:
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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9166621/Cash-for-access-the-Tory-clubs-which-promise-a-date-with-David-Cameron.html
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    Are the knives being sharpened for Scameron? I think so. If the Barclays and Murdoch start promoting Osborne (or something even lower), I’ll know for sure.

  • boniface goncourt

    @Komodo

    Moderate atheist? Is that like a moderate non-smoker?
    ‘Moderate’ muslim [or jew] just means ‘non-violent for now’.
    Someone who believes in the irrational [prophet, sacred book of gibberish, sky fairy, heaven, hell, genital mutilation, jihad, armageddon, silly taboos, etc], however dimly, is not rational. Where are the ‘moderate muslims’ demonstrating against little girls being flogged to death? There aren’t any, since it is prescribed in the sacred ravings of ‘allah’, and of course it is okay because the girls are moderately flogged to death. Same as the Chattanooga choo-choos moderately bombing Gaza. Zionist, moi? LOL.

    @Clark, best leave out the tortured analogies which don’t work.

  • Mary

    This new report on last August’s riots goes against what Craig thought of the rioters.
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    27 March 2012
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    Riot report reveals ‘500,000 forgotten families’
    Panel chairman Darra Singh: “Where people feel there’s no consequences to their actions, they’ll go out and damage, loot, and wreak havoc”
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    A lack of support and opportunity for young people contributed to the outbreak of riots in England last summer, an independent report says.
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    The Riots, Communities and Victims Panel, set up last year, highlights “500,000 forgotten families”.
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    It also cited poor parenting, an inability to prevent reoffending, too much emphasis on materialism, and a lack of confidence in the police.
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    /…
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17525873

    I would say that conditions for these families are much worse now than they were seven months ago.

  • Vronsky

    @boniface
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    This might be best coming from me. I’ve been reading posts here for a long while and people here just want to talk – fairly honestly at times. That includes the muslims. Almost all the people here drive me screwy. Why the fuck won’t they propose anything? How can they be so angrily informed, and yet so inactive?
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    However this website is a wee window on the world and we should try to keep it open as long as possible. Like me you are horrified by the cruelty of the religious, because to them their barbarism is rational. US/UK foreign policy is likewise especially horrifying because we understand it is not madness, but an analagous aberrant rationality.
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    So can I say that I’ve heard your manifesto and I can easily support bits of it, but it’s time just to pull up a chair and talk. Please?
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    If I was an ordinary poster I’d have something to say like – look at this link it shows that so-and-so got money from so-and-so to do such-and-such and isn’t that awful! The Pope is a Catholic! Bears shit in the woods! Bad people are – uh – bad! Isn’t it awful!
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    ESTRAGON:
    I can’t go on like this.
    VLADIMIR:
    That’s what you think.
    ESTRAGON:
    If we parted? That might be better for us.
    VLADIMIR:
    We’ll hang ourselves tomorrow. (Pause.) Unless Godot comes.
    ESTRAGON:
    And if he comes?
    VLADIMIR:
    We’ll be saved.
    Vladimir takes off his hat (Lucky’s), peers inside it, feels about inside it, shakes it, knocks on the crown, puts it on again.
    ESTRAGON:
    Well? Shall we go?
    VLADIMIR:
    Pull on your trousers.
    ESTRAGON:
    What?
    VLADIMIR:
    Pull on your trousers.
    ESTRAGON:
    You want me to pull off my trousers?
    VLADIMIR:
    Pull ON your trousers.
    ESTRAGON:
    (realizing his trousers are down). True.
    He pulls up his trousers.
    VLADIMIR:
    Well? Shall we go?
    ESTRAGON:
    Yes, let’s go.
    They do not move.

  • Mary

    Vronsky How do you know what levels of activity we engage in? Some of us might be urban guerillas. Hope I don’t piss you off. 🙂

  • Komodo

    Yes, Vronsky, we’re all totally pointless. Except you, of course.
    Goncourt, (who waited till I said I had gone before responding…) you look like a Zionist and you quack like a Zionist. Zionist, toi? Mais oui. If your objective is not Zion in Israel, it is some kind of Zion in the UK. From which aliens of any kind are rigorously excluded. Not so?
    FYI, a moderate atheist is an atheist who does not believe it necessary to insist that his lack of faith is shared by all. I hope that is helpful. You might even try it on and see if it fits…

  • Fedup

    Komodo,
    One of Rita Katz fans (site: search internet …..), fighting the “holy war” and seeking out the “threats”!!!!! Who knows next conversation could move onto what kind of uniform ought to be worn, and what kind of oath to be sworn, just like these Groom Your Own Terrorist kind of “activists”.
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    Really clever sort of operatives working in tandem, and backing each other. You are just a dumb lizard what should you know? Me, I know nofin, see, nofin!!!!

  • boniface goncourt

    Yo Vronsky

    I don’t have a manifesto. Power corrupts. When politicians say ‘freedom’ they mean ‘my dinner’. All is vanity. ‘God’ is nothing more than the airbrushed Ego. ‘Aberrant rationality’ is an oxymoron. You mean insanity, the default mode of humans.

    That Komodo is a bit of a fruit ‘n’ nutcase. Atheist? Wannabe haji more like, and too lazy to read my gems of anti-zionism. Nothing a few pork scratchings wouldn’t cure.

    Never trust a bloke with no foreskin. A lifetime of itchy Jap’s eye makes you even more deranged than normal.

    When the moderate Muslims are crouched down with their heads
    pointing to Mecca, where are their arses supposed to point?

    Check it

    With Beckett!

  • Jay

    Regarding this boards in fighting. we must not forget why we are here.

    It seems we are being played and we play into their hands and the next “war On” will be us lot; in fighting.

    We need to forget what our mutual diversities are and consider the consequences of assimiliation and aggreements later.

    For all our differnces, religious, cultural, political, we must not forget, our common ground.

    We know that a lie is a lie and to be lied to is a wrong doing.

    A cheat is a cheat and to be cheated is wrong doing.

    A missconception is lie in itself.

    This is happeningon a daily basis.

    We are being played by the msm for and behalf of the leaders ask yourself this who knows what and why, and their reasons for their behaviour is for what?

    Their must be some serious deep seated brain activity that underlies and defines the “them from us”. Is it just more than self preservation on their part because that is what seems we are standing for right now. But us on here is all about the self preservation of others.

    Justice for the few.

  • Mary

    A friend has been unsuccessful in obtaining an answer to the following question? Any help? Thanks.
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    WHO IS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UK HIGH CONTRACTING PARTY UNDER THE 1949 GENEVA CONVENTIONS IV WHO CAN INITIATE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THOSE WHO BREACH THOSE CONVENTIONS?

  • Komodo

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    Grave breaches of scheduled conventions.

    (1)
    Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside the United Kingdom, commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of [F1a grave breach of any of the scheduled conventions or the first protocol shall be guilty of an offence]. . .

    [F2(1A)
    For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section—

    (a)
    a grave breach of a scheduled convention is anything referred to as a grave breach of the convention in the relevant Article, that is to say—

    (i)
    in the case of the convention set out in the First Schedule to this Act, Article 50;

    (ii)
    in the case of the convention set out in the Second Schedule to this Act, Article 51;

    (iii)
    n the case of the convention set out in the Third Schedule to this Act, Article 130;

    (iv)
    in the case of the convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, Article 147; and

    (b)
    a grave breach of the first protocol is anything referred to as a grave breach of the protocol in paragraph 4 of Article 11, or paragraph 2, 3 or 4 of Article 85, of the protocol.]

    [F3(2)
    In the case of an offence under this section committed outside the United Kingdom, a person may be proceeded against, indicted, tried and punished therefor in any place in the United Kingdom as if the offence had been committed in that place, and the offence shall, for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the trial or punishment thereof, be deemed to have been committed in that place.]
    Geneva Conventions Act, 1957, (1957 c. 52 (Regnal. 5_and_6_Eliz_2)
    Available here:
    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/52

  • Mary

    Thanks Komodo.

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    Petrol stations are running dry. F***** Francis Maude, fresh from his dinner donor masterpiece performances NOT, has advised people to fill up their jerry cans. Hence panic ensues. Intentional? To make us feel even more impotent and powerless? Carry on with the fascism Cameron.

    btw f off Stupid Videos and all the other spambot merchants.

  • Mary

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9709000/9709518.stm
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    Fascism in action on the island of Sark. The people’s doctor has been villified by the BB representative via his ‘newsletter’ and has resigned. A takeover by the powerful Barclayn Brothers who now own four out of six hotels and a third of the island.
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    0810
    The tiny Channel Island of Sark has a unique constitutional position: part of Britain, but not the UK, it is still held as a fief on behalf of the Queen. It only became a democracy in 2008. But islanders have told us that that democracy is now under threat. They say they are being bullied and intimidated by representatives of Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, the owners of the Telegraph, in the local newsletter. The two brothers now own a third of the island and local people told us they think they are trying to take control of it. Sark decides its own laws, sets its own taxes and with only 600 inhabitants is small enough to be taken over. Sarah Montague went to the island to find out what they were complaining about.

  • Komodo

    1. Mary: The 57 Act looks to me as if, should you have a case in international law against someone, they can be arrested on entry to the UK, held, tried and sentenced. No special mediator would be needed. But a human-rights lawyer would be able to tell you more.
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    2. I notice the Guardian has become remarkably silent on the cash-for-influence matter today. Not so the Independent:
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-wanted-to-wave-through-donors-policy-to-destroy-rights-of-workers-7593585.html
    The Mail, Mirror, Standard, FT, Spectator and Socialist Worker all carry variants of this one
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    Not a new story; just the resurrection of previous moves by people on trust funds to make employment even less certain for the labour units. The central figure is Cameron’s pet fat cat, Adrian Beecroft, major Tory donor, and apparently paid advisor.
    Who he? Among other things, a director of Stanley Kalms’ Apax.
    And Apax owns 49% of Guardian Media Group.
    Well, well, well.
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    3. For our white supremacists, the Guardian is less reticent, happily.
    {http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/27/far-right-philozionism-racism}
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    Zionism appeals strongly to the far right, even if Jewish people generally don’t…

  • Mary

    Note the BB lawyer has stepped in straight away here and that Kenneth Clarke steps backwards.
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    The Barclay Brothers declined to be interviewed but their lawyer emailed to say the allegations we put to them were “unsupported by evidence and, indeed, false”. The same lawyer said he separately acted for Kevin Delaney, the owner, publisher and editor, of the Sark Newsletter. He also denied the allegations and said people often complained to him that they felt intimidated and unable to speak out against the feudal establishment and the newsletter was the only effective political opposition on the island. The Ministry of Justice also declined to be interviewed and gave us a statement saying: “Sark has its own elected democracy; is not part of the UK and is not represented in the UK Parliament, although the Crown has ultimate responsibility to ensure good governance.”

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