I was called by a journalist yesterday who told me that in Dewsbury six years ago I shared a platform with Baroness Warsi’s now husband at a meeting against the persecution of Muslims. Sadly I couldn’t really help him as at the time I was doing hundreds such events and have only the dimmest of recollections of that one.
It is not merely amusing that Cameron refers Warsi for investigation for allegedly pocketing a couple of thousand quid while protecting Hunt who tried so hard to shepherd the Murdoch BSkyB bid past the winning post, while pretending to referee the event.
Nor is the lesson just that a Muslim woman will always be expendable while a fully paid up member of the ruling class will be less so.
The truth is that to trip up an MP over a little cash does not threaten the system. To tackle the massive institutional corruption by which corporate interests control the British state is a different question altogether.
Hunt is of course not the only case not to be referred. Nor was the Adam Werritty debacle, where rather than the proper investigative procedures Cameron organised a tidy little stitch-up by Gus O’Donnell which omitted almost all the key facts and particularly did not say what the entire scheme was about – the promotion of the interests of Israel. The Murdoch Empite, the Israeli lobby, these are amongst the interests that actually run the exploited citizenry of this poor wracked old country. Every now and then glimpses of truth emerge.
But must not be pursued.
Facebook has quietly changed contact details on users’ profiles, to route private, incoming e-mail through Facebook. The corporate media are quoting trivial parts from Gervais Markham’s blog post, but they don’t quote this bit:
http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2012/06/26/facebook-the-most-congenitally-dishonest-company-in-america/
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pVenODzKso0/T9gbeLXuYHI/AAAAAAAABQs/MQIL9kMiqkM/s1600/information.jpg
Oh jolly good. And you have to pay to gawp at them.
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Royal diamonds go on display to mark Queen’s Jubilee
Several gems cut from the huge Cullinan diamond will be on show
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More than 10,000 diamonds owned by six British monarchs will go on display at Buckingham Palace on Saturday to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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The special exhibition, Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration, will include a number of the Queen’s personal jewels and pieces from the Royal Collection
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http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/buckinghampalace/
The State Rooms, Buckingham Palace including the special exhibition Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration
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Adult £18.00
Over 60/ Student (with valid ID) £16.50
Under 17 £10.25
Under 5 Free
Family £47.00 (2 adults and 3 under 17s)
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There’s a photo of Agent ‘Smoothface’ Cameron with the Queen on the home page. The caption – Read about the Palace’s history and its role today
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PS Ms Middleton’s togs have cost over £100k in the last year.
Thanks, all.
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This statement of support from novelist, AL Kennedy:
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“I know Talha Ahsan as a poet and I have written to him during his confinement at Long Lartin prison. I have been moved and sustained by his optimism, humour and gentleness in those letters. That Talha has been imprisoned for years without trial in my country shames me as a UK citizen. Talha is also a UK citizen. He is being held at the request of a foreign power under the terms of a treaty which does not require the production of prima facie evidence and, indeed, no evidence of that nature has been produced. It also seems clear that whatever allegations have been concocted are partly the fruits of torture and therefore not only morally corrosive, but also thoroughly unreliable. That my government would give Talha no assistance in a time of absolute need and would, in fact, help engineer his distress is another indication of its utterly reckless, unsustainable and inhuman stance on human rights.”
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And here is a link to her piece on the matter, on Andy Worthington’s excellent site:
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http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/06/19/stop-the-extradition-to-the-us-of-talha-ahsan-babar-ahmad-gary-mckinnon-and-richard-odwyer/
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Now, to the Olympics. 12,000 troops and God knows how much ordnance – that is more troops than were stationed in London in WW2! Template for the future? And how many Special Branch/MI5 provocateurs/informants/Jihadist agents will be around as well? I advise all living in London who might be mistaken for a Brazilian electrician to remain at home, or to get out of London, during July and August 2012.
@ Clark:
Thanks for that one. I’ve been intrigued by the scripts NoScript blocks for me on a number of sites, and the ubiquity of redirects to Google features, myself. Caveat emptor. Caveant omnes.
I must not close my strikeouts with….I must not close my strikeouts with
I must not close my strikeouts with
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And I shall continue to use for italics as long as it works. Pedant.
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Yes, Surlingham is on the timetable, weather permitting. Gather you enjoyed yourself last w/e…hope the hangover was bearable.
PMSL. The bloody board ignores spaces after carets. Sod it. I give up.
I note that viewing Mrs. Windsor’s bling is unsweetened by any concession to those on income support. Is this because lazy, feckless pit-bull eating chavs might steal the boulders? Or just because their trainers smell?
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I think this is a mistake. Viewing these rare and priceless bits of carbon would incentivise the undeserving paups to seek part-time work stacking shelves in a worthy attempt to emulate the Battenberg riches. As her democratic majesty might remark, “One is all in it together.”
hangover? Clark? never…
Oh, I’ve had a fair few hangovers, Ingo. Hopefully, I’ll be happy enough to risk getting drunk again, some day.
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Komodo, yes, Google seem to have links and scripts nearly everywhere. The company motto may be “Don’t Be Evil”, but can good intentions forever prevail over the corporate dynamic? I doubt it very much. “Macrocosm dominates microcosm”.
Komodo You just love your strike outs, don’t you. You are just a show off 😉
PS What’s a caret? Is it something to do with the blood diamonds on show at Buck House 🙂
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Doom coming out from Merv at a special press conference from the BoE. It’s called the Financial Stability Report. ‘Something has gone very wrong with the UK banking industry’. You don’t say Merv!
PPS Kate’s togs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2165211/Kate-Middletons-105k-wardrobe-Duchess-Cambridge-worth-penny-says-LIZ-JONES.html
Worth every penny says the nitwit at the Mail.
If a caret doesn’t work, try a big stick… |
V droll Clark. We’ll keep this blog going whatever it takes. Where is Craig??
Sinister scenes at last night’s Respect Diversity Games, with seemingly half the stadium’s advertising space taken up by “Multicultural Unity” propaganda masquerading as an anti-racism drive. As if the sight of gigantic banners bearing the words “RESPECT DIVERSITY” being marched around the ground wasn’t creepy enough, the captain of each team was then obliged (against their will, according to reports and if the raised eyebrows were anything to go by), to read out messages condemning the racism that has so far failed to spoil the tournament (this presumably much to the annoyance of the BBC, which was evidently hoping for mass banana-throwing and walk-offs, and had devoted much of its resources to portraying Ukraine, in particular, as a seething hotbed of hatred and racism – no doubt for political reasons, but also among the rank-and-file of its staff for the horribly white composition of its inhabitants).
Mary, I’ve heard nothing from Craig since before his last post. His Facebook page may hold some clues, but I haven’t looked recently.
Thanks Clark. Hope Craig’s alright.
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Spain or Italy to win??
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Magnifico. http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article944529.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/CS24861657Football+-+German.jpg
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And he loves his mum. {http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/mario-balotelli-dedicates-goals-to-his-mum-945043}
My stick’s bigger than yours, Clark:
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A stick to beat Straw with –
http://www.defencemanagement.com/news_story.asp?id=20152
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And, remembering Armando Ianucci’s reconsideration of his aversion to honours, is our Jack preparing the way for his own knighthood?….
{http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9749051.Straw_s_change_of_heart_on_the_monarchy/}
My stick’s disappeared. I want it back, please.
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(No more spam, I promise)
A context for your enlightenment:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVqPnMQ2sI
Ha! You had a bigger stick, but my friend the White Space Stripper stole it! Standby music cue 1. Cue 1, go:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TBrh259zig
Hypocrite of the Millennium contender tries to conceal his moral nudity-
http://news.sky.com/story/953618/barclays-osborne-slams-systematic-greed
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To be read in conjunction with –
{http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100018290/the-emails-that-reveal-how-king-and-osborne-fixed-the-gilts-market/}
“It is clear that what happened in Barclays, and potentially other banks, was completely unacceptable, was symptomatic of a financial system that elevated greed above all other concerns and brought our economy to its knees,” (said our righteous chancellor.
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Sadly, the following article has apparently disappeared from both the Independent and Google’s webcache (or everyone on earth wants to read it at once, maybe). But here’s a good chunk of it:
http://circleof13.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/revealed-bankers-secret-meetings-with.html
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I do not get the impression these meetings were designed to promote ethical financial policies on anyone’s part. Just me, I suppose.
Some (g)rave customer reviews of the gorgeous* Gulnara’s latest opus here:
http://www.amazon.com/Googoosha/dp/B007V1VTS8
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Hope she doesn’t know where you live, “Bobbie”.
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*Eat your heart out, Mary.
Komodo, is one of these the link that wasn’t working? These two seem OK now:
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-bankers-secret-meetings-with-ministers-6277778.html
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http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/12/16/banks-and-the-treasury-the-full-contact-list/
Yes she’s taller, younger and richer than me, pushy and` powerful, etc but not as nice as me.
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I like this as an example of a helpful review on that Amazon page.
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The most helpful favorable review
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Ahem…
Watch out google and amazon, she will come and kill you if you don’t sell enough copies. The number of copies is not negotiable.
Published 7 days ago by Sharkey
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They’re fine now, Clark. Strange. Perhaps the Independent is now being read by people?
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@ Mary: It’s your niceness….? All she needs is a bunch of gladioli and some diamante specs, then. 😛
Looks like the Independent’s punters were queuing up in cyberspace to howl with laughter at Mervyn King, after a decade spent sitting on his pudgy little paws and pontificating about the worthiness of derivatives trading, expressing disquiet about the state of the industry of which he is the grand high poobah:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sir-mervyn-king-attacks-banks-amid-new-scandal-7899256.html
lol….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/8294253/Bank-of-England-boosts-Mervyn-Kings-pension-by-1.4m.html
rofl…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12282405
…guffaw…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9170099/Elderly-exaggerate-QE-effect-on-pensions-claims-Bank-of-England-Governor-Sir-Mervyn-King.html
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QE is positively beneficial to some pensions, eh, Mervyn?