I am sorry for the blog hiatus, but I follow a method of historical research a bit akin to method acting! I am absolutely immersed in the world of Burnes. I am in Bhuj at tne moment, and yesterday was at Mandivi looking at the shipyards and harbours where Burnes procured his boats to sail up the Indus – they are still made today. Much larger than I had realised. In Mumbai I identified a “lost”, uncatalogued portrait of Alexander Burnes which I think is the finest of him anywhere. The owners did not know who it was. It is by Brockendon like the one in the royal geographical society but is quite different, with him in military uniform. It is by Brockendon, not a copy.
Today disaster. I have lost ten days worth of notes. I noticed this morning that I had two versions of the identical document of my notes open – an .ODT on open office. One was a much older version. Paradoxically they had the identical file name but both showed as saved – the save icon was blanked on each.
Having checked that the content was all there on the version on which I was working, and that it was saved, I decided the best thing was to close off the extraneous version. Disaster!! An error message came up saying open office would now close. On restart, document recovery brought up only the old version, minus ten days work. I had a moment of hope when I right clicked on the document icon and saw “restore earlier versions of the document” but clicking on that just brought up a ,essage that there are no earlier versions available.
I am heartbroken- these aren’t just notes that can be recovered from memory, but also painstaking transcripts of old manuscripts, some of which I probably can’t access again even if I had the time and money.
I can think of a dozen things I might have done to avoid this situation. Comments on how to avoid such happenings are not welcome in the current trying circumstance. The real question is, can anyone think of anything at all that might help? I am running Open Office on Windows 7.
I really cannot express how much in despair I feel. This trip has cost all my available cash and I have to come back soon as money is out.
[If any mods have hung around while the blog is quiet, I am getting an extremely small typeface, only on this site. Do we have a problem, or is it another computer glitch personal to me?]
Mary – you don’t get a point across to people by comparing them to farm animals.
Agree, Anon. “Sheeple” has passed its sell-by in any case. Much over-used, and usually by people from whom I would rather distance myself (pervasive smell of campfires and old dope)
I like this site but i hardly visit anymore.
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Seems to be too many spooks and infiltrators now.
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Shame really.
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Craig,its imperative you stop using your laptop befoe you wipe more stuff.Get a tech to look at it pronto and you should be fine.
“They carry on posting on Facebook and Twitter without a care in the world or thought.”
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I don’t use Facebook. But there is a lot of activism organised on Twitter, along with sharing of good alternative sources/links. Twitter is as good as the people you choose to follow, and the material you post yourself.
No personal experience of either canmpfires or old dope Komodo.
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In Aarhus, Denmark and not much reported in the UK, there has been this gathering of racist and fascist groups including the EDL.
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First All-Europe Racist/Fascist Gathering Overshadowed in Denmark
by Ron Ridenour / April 2nd, 2012
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Ruling authorities confront the continuing crisis of capitalism by: 1) aiding the very firms that bankrupt the general economy by transferring workers’ taxes to the capitalist class; 2) decreasing the welfare state, throwing huge numbers out of jobs and onto the streets; 3) increasing state repression against those who resist, and by allowing the growth of racist and fascist civilian groups.
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http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/04/first-all-europe-racistfascist-gathering-overshadowed-in-denmark/
The BBC reported it Mary, it was headline news last Sat morning. Norwegian Breivig supporters were interviewed and the tone in which it was reported was earnest, sombre, not as if the report was of terrorists. A front against the spread of Muslimisation of Europe was the theme in Aarhus, a matter of fact report we do not get proffered if there is an election in France Poland or Germany, the coverage was refering to the EDL’s interlectual policies, if you can call it that, being used to galvanise a European rightwing front.
Muslims were warned not to attend under threats, unless they wanted their organisations banned, they should stay at home.
The police had to protect a smallish gathering of about 1oo plus fascists from Europe. The EDL thought that this meeting would attarct thousands, but they stayed home, despite the overwhelming policing that kept them safe.
They will continue to cause mischief, who knows they might even dare to stadn in elections, the main parties love to split the votes.
Thanks Nevermind so they did. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17570464 Played up the theme of anti-islam I note.
The gangsters in charge are now rolling out Assad’s uncle, aka the Butcher of Hama, to aid the propaganda campaign against Assad. Note Bowen#s fence-sitting.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17594988
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In 2011 Rifaat Assad was said to be in his £multi million luxurious mansion in Mayfair. Now he seems to be in the equivalent in Paris.
Mark Golding, the video is disturbing. Zionists are responsible for most of the trouble in the world. They work, as well as through organisations like AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee), Atlantic Bridge and Friends of Israel, at a lesser level among freemasons. Freemasonry is the mystical side of Judaism containing in its lore phrases like making ‘darkness visible’ and its ritual is a mockery of Christianity which, in the higher degrees, includes sexual acts in coffins, or so I am led to believe.
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One thing should be made clear, and isn’t always. There are many good Israelis who do not want war. Einstein was one such thinker. But the trouble is their Zionist masters do. I tried to blog on this back in January to make a distinction between the Zionist elite and ordinary Israelis.
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http://johngossip.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/why-jews-are-doomed-to-wander.html
Conroy the photographer ex Libya and Syria and companion of the late Marie Colvin is named as a MI6 operative by Infowars Ireland. As if we didn’t guess that already!
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http://info-wars.org/2012/03/08/journalist-paul-conroy-an-mi6-operative/
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Bravely he joined the protestors recently in London where he was embraced by them.
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-17416705}
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He has a website called Reflex TV. {http://reflextv.webeden.co.uk/}
And this which is a cross post from Medialens.
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Michel Chossudovsky on top form: Free Syrian Army Foot-Soldiers of Western Military Alliance
Posted by MikeD on April 3, 2012, 10:05 am
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Free Syrian Army Foot-Soldiers of Western Military Alliance
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RT video interview
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The international envoy to Syria tells the UN Security Council there’s no progress in implementing a ceasefire – while the ‘Friends of Syria’ group is criticised for undermining the UN-backed peace efforts. to To discuss the different approaches for settling the year-long conflict in Syria, RT joined live by Michel Chossudovsky, director of the Centre for Research on Globalization
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Chossudovsky told RT news of foreign funds for Syrian rebels is a “red herring.” He argues the Free Syrian Army has been financed by NATO “from the outset.”
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“The Free Syrian Army are the foot soldiers of the western military alliance, and they are advised by their foreign military handlers. We know that. We know there are Special Forces on the ground, that French military officers were arrested in late February. The thing was hushed up.And the forbidden truth is that the Western military alliance has been waging a covert war using the Free Syrian Army for more than a year now, and this free Syrian Army doesn’t represent anybody in Syria. There’s mounting evidence of atrocities.”
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http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2012/04/free-syrian-army-foot-soldiers-western-military-alliance
John Goss,
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Such things no longer disturb me. As mentioned by me earlier in the thread and previously by Mary, it is public apathy towards the long, poisonous tentacles of Zionism and Islamaphobia that is disturbing. Especially the way they twist and weave their way into British society and British courts.
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I don’t get involved in folklore or religion and I have a lasting affection for my old Jewish boss, a wise man who taught me a great deal. Even he, I suspect, was compromised by an Israeli Zionist IT Guru heavily involved in the redevelopment of the British PAF codification. The many arms of Mossad are tightening their grip on society here in Britain as well as America.
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Scotland has shown there’s no place for Zionist meddling in the judiciary, England needs to follow suit.
Mark, it is better not to get involved. Personal integrity is much more important than any imposed integrity, since it give the option to say no when something is not right.
Let’s do everything poss. to stop even bigger threat to C’s data. And to everybody else’s.
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Just re-tweeted & signed:
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‘RT @e3i5: Not sure how I feel about e-petitions but the one to stop #CCDP has got 4k+ signatures in just over a day’
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http://www.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32400
Overloaded? Try this one:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32400
China? Nein danke!
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Also Open Rights Group petition—with 13k+ signatures so far:
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http://bit.ly/aUB5pp
Oh that is a disaster. That’s why I still make all my research notes by hand, or take the odd xerox copy of a page or two.
Dr Paul, let’s not count Craig’s vultures before they’ve hatched. I think that there is still a good chance of recovering or reconstructing the lost file.
Canada’s “Dreyfus Affair”. Canada’s Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson is to make a decision on April 18 whether to extradite Canadian sociolgy prof. Dr. Hassan Diab to France to face terrorism charges stemming from a Paris bombing incident in 1980. The main evidence against Dr. Diab presented in extradition proceedings by the French authorities is a handwriting analysis based on 5 words printed in block letters on a 1980 Paris hotel registration form and seems tenuous at best:
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How it Started
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In October 2007, a reporter from the French daily newspaper Le Figaro approached Hassan after his class at the University of Ottawa. The reporter asked Hassan if he was aware that the French authorities believed he was responsible for the 1980 Paris attack. Hassan was astonished by the reporter’s question and denied any responsibility, stating that any connection to the attack must be purely coincidental, since “Hassan Diab” is a common name.
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Thereafter, Hassan noticed that unidentified agents were following him, and someone attempted to break into his residence. He reported these incidents to the Ottawa police, but the intimidating and intrusive surveillance persisted.
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In spite of this, Hassan remained in Canada and continued his normal activities, including teaching at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. Later, Hassan learned that the agents who were following him were from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
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The Arrest
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On November 13, 2008, the RCMP arrested Hassan in response to a request by France. He was initially denied bail and placed in detention.
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Family members, friends, colleagues, and mentors who have known Hassan for many years are completely shocked by the French allegations. They affirm that Dr. Hassan Diab is a peaceful, hardworking, and dedicated academic who has never expressed radical or anti-Semitic views, and who has never been affiliated with a political organization.
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SNIP
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According to the Crown Prosecutor, handwriting analysis submitted by French authorities is the “smoking gun” in the case. The analysis links Hassan to five words printed in basic block letters on a Paris hotel registration card in 1980 by the presumed bomber.
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SNIP
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The judge at Hassan’s extradition hearing said that he found the French handwriting report “very problematic”, “very confusing”, and with “suspect conclusions”. The judge likened handwriting analysis to “pseudo-science”, and found merit in the defense argument that the flawed methodology used in the French handwriting analysis results in manifestly unreliable conclusions. Nevertheless, he ruled that Canada’s extradition law does not permit him to apply Canadian standards of evidence admissibility to foreign evidence.
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More at: http://www.justiceforhassandiab.org/about
Never did much like Frankie Boyle.Always sounds like he is provoking a fight and the choice of language is bloody awful.
Well, he picked a fight with the Zionist propoganda machine the BBC and he was disappeared off their airwaves.
After reading his response I like him alot more.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/7660232/Frankie-Boyle-letter-about-BBC-in-full.html
Bigger petition (36,000 +) against government snooping here:
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https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/stop-government-snooping#petition
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Thanks for signing
Fine to sign petitions but *get in touch with your MP* and empower them to stand up on your and our behalf, I think. It can work. They need our courage.
No good asking mine Technicolour. She is a junior minister and follows the partei line religiously. I write and receive anodyne replies by post on expensive water marked stationery in an embossed HoC 1st Class envelope. I write by e-mail of course.
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Nearly 40,000 now on 38 Degrees Mark.
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I hear James Murdoch has resigned as Chair of BSkyB. All ready for Hunt to pass the Newscorp or News Int’l takeover.
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Jives,
Seems to be too many spooks and infiltrators now
Can you elaborate on this?
That’s a shame, Mary, but with a lot of the people in Parliament there is still a valid point. Also not sure if it’s a question of ‘asking’: rather, demanding politely.
“The Best Day of your Life” – Adam Bolton – Sky News – talking to George Galloway.
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George, in his unique confident way, finally touched on the absurd, senseless and inhumane war in Afghanistan, a war that has cost us ‘treasure’ and loss of life of our young people, most barely eighteen.
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In a raft of senseless questions Mr Bolton shines a light on the prejudiced, contaminated bias of the MSM. An insipid odor can be detected in the preceding inquisition by Bolton designed to lead George into quicksand. This was the flavor…
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Did you win because you exploited ethnic tensions?
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Are you a Muslim?
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Why did you draw attention to NOT supporting gambling or drinking?
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You have never had a drop of alcohol in your life?
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Are you a Christian?
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Do you regret? [being on Big Brother]
Oops link:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qMYsger1oM
The Medialens’ editors cover the attempted demonization of GG by the media.
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When Populism Is Dangerous For Democracy – To The Media Gallows With ‘Controversial’ George Galloway – The Editors Today, 3:53 pm
http://bit.ly/HFlziZ
Buckingham’s banker mate walks…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/apr/03/jp-morgan-ian-hannam-resigns?newsfeed=true
Note the military connection. Heritage is reporting success with its Kurdistan operation while Iraq remains a shambles. Eggs, omelettes, etc.
In the above article, Mick Davis, currently merging overhyped conglomerate Glencore with vast global mining consortium Xstrata, pledges Hannam his full support. Well, he would. It’s like a great big cuddly family, isn’t it?
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Memory lane…
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/11/24/bureau-recommends-adam-werritty-donors-also-gave-to-tory-party/
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“In July 2009 Conservative Party Treasurers Howard Leigh and Stanley Fink joined the (Jewish Leadership -K) Council as individual members. At the same meeting Mr Mick Davis, Chairman of U(nited) J(ewish) I(srael) A(ppeal) was appointed as the first Chairman of the Council’s Executive Committee…” (Wiki)
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Following the recent
corrupt practices inmisunderstanding about Party funding, (Sir) Stanley Fink is now once again the Tory treasurer.