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.
A busy weekend of fun and arts came to an end, with our event playing its part in Radio Norfolks treasure hunt and everyone having a great time.
Had some time to read the important article of the Jewish (only, no surviving Gypsies or Homosexuals here…) Holocaust survivors paegeant, off course, its just the right thing to get your bowels moving in the morning, or make you sick, should you have choked on a chicken or bacon sandwich.
Glad you had a good time up there in sunny? Norfolk.
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There is no keeping the cocky little b***** Liam Fox down. He is piping up on the three deaths in Helmand Province. ‘We will not abandon Afganistan’. How dare he. He is no longer Defence Minister and should be hiding away in disgrace after his recent activities. You should read the comments on his Torygraph piece. There is even one saying ‘Where, oh where, has Werritty gone?’
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Fox has been making a speech to the Taxpayers’ Alliance on leaving the EU. Is he speaking for his friends in America?
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Liam Fox urges government to issue ‘quit EU’ ultimatum
Dr Fox: ”Britain’s destiny is not a debating issue for leaders on the Continent”
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Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox has recommended that the UK should leave the European Union unless there is a rebalancing of their relationship.
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He said coalition policies were “being curtailed by diktat from Brussels” and urged a referendum on the issue.
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The comments will add to pressure on David Cameron who is due to address MPs later on last week’s EU summit.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18669230
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The BBC are giving him a lot of welly here.
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‘In September 2010, it was reported that the TaxPayers’ Alliance was organising an event sponsored by several American lobbyists and groups involved in the Tea Party movement, including the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation.[7] The Alliance has also sought advice from the Tea Party leadership, with Matthew Elliott stating in September 2010: “We need to learn from our European colleagues and the Tea Party movement in the US. It will be fascinating to see whether it will transfer to the UK. Will there be the same sort of uprising?”[8];
Taxpayers’ Alliance wikipedia
Hello all. I can’t log on at present, so apologies for the stray spam and for any comments that may be stuck in the queue. Nuid, the “comments will be closed” time rolls forward automatically every time a comment is published, so even the occasional spam would keep comments open. Komodo, I didn’t know that dragons did invisibility!
Mary, yes, sunny with occasional clouds and just one short and sudden shower. It has been a really nice weekend. Nevermind and co. arranged an interesting and diverse event.
‘US appeals court upholds vindictive ten-year sentence against civil liberties attorney Lynne Stewart’
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/stew-j02.shtml
Blair ‘earned’ £20m last year.
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http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article-2167038/Tony-Blair-earned-20m-just-year-advising-business-bosses-foreign-governments.html
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PS What was Lionel Barber editor of the FT doing in Jerusalem?
Glad about that Clark.
I was just trying out DuckDuckGo which Komodo recommended and put your name in the search box. Did you know you had a men’s shoe named after you?!
http://www.clarksusa.com/eng/product/killick/61676
Made it to the place, but not the event, Clark. This lizard is a leathery biker on a bright red motorcycle, invisibility doesn’t come easy, but I seem to have cracked it. I now have a full description of Nevermind (ok, ok, it’s a flattering one) and could probably find him in a crowd next time.
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Mary: where else but the US could Fox have any friends left? Lest we forget:
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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/liam-fox-6536076
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As I said, a vote for Fox is a vote for the GOP crazies.
No reason – just liked it…
http://www.deliberation.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/putin-israelbanter-458×275.jpg
Could you please change your avatar to a komodo dragon {in leathers} riding a bright red motorbike.
Syria – ATROCIOUS and SHAMELESS that five foreign powers assembled to decide the fate of a sovereign country (a country invaded by Western backed al-Qaeda) in the absence of its leader and its people, who never asked them to do anything of the kind, let alone give any mandate.
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Courtenay, is this not an outrageous breach of international law?
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Yet I observe not one lousy defender of human rights is concerned or even talking about it. The bullies prevail while the mentors and scholars turn their backs – bizarre!
Thanks Clark. No worries …
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Komodo’s skins and bright red motorbike don’t concern me. But I’m intrigued by this:
{http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/77}
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To be honest, it’s the female koala I’m concerned about. I’m trying to figure out why Mother Nature felt it was necessary.
As OT can be, of course. But this must be comment no 884 so WTH.
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Kidding aside: Mark, I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s utterly outrageous. And having to watch Wee Willie pontificating about it makes me almost physically sick. Also, apparently now that Geneva is over, US intelligence agrees with the Syrian version of the shoot-down story.
http://silveristhenew.com/2012/07/01/turkey-scrambles-f-16s-on-syria-border-as-us-intelligence-says-syrian-story-was-correct-all-along/
Anything for you, Mary. But you won’t like it…
“Yet I observe not one lousy defender of human rights is concerned or even talking about it. The bullies prevail while the mentors and scholars turn their backs – bizarre!”
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Mark Golding
I have been thinking about that for awhile, seems to be the same about anything that the powers to be do in the their build upto the global fourth reich that is unfolding before our eyes, as you say its all “bizarre”, I think it can only be that fear is driving them to stay silent. Examples are being made off anyone that challenges them, read link at “2 Jul, 2012 – 11:52 am”, this is going to become the norm in the coming months, its a mirror image of 1930’s Germany.
Guys what gives? The following is the news head line that takes to a page of article not found! Have the boys in Telegraph inadvertently shone some light on truth, totally by accident and upon realization and in the ensuing panic attack have taken the article down?
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Did Britain’s regulators foster Libor rigging?
Telegraph.co.uk – ‎20 minutes ago‎
On September 3, 2007, Barclays’ directors were feeling jumpy. The credit crunch had been in train for the best part of a month and, having tapped the Bank’s of England’s standby liquidity facility twice in a fortnight, questions were being asked about
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9370668/Did-Britains-regulators-foster-Libor-rigging.html
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Sorry
We cannot find the page you are looking for.
Too much information there Nuid! all part of the evolutionary process but who knows why?
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Komodo Did CQS Asset Management Ltd (and/or associated companies) ever crop up when we were looking at Fox’s register of interests. Fox refers to them as CQS Management Ltd which was perhaps designed to put us off the scent. That latter name came up as a negative on Company Check.
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A Patrick Trew and a Martin Pabari are the directors. Massive wealth in the three CQS companies combined.
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http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/903775830
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The TWFY entry
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Name of donor: CQS Management Ltd
Address of donor: 5th floor, 33 Chester Street, London SW1X 7BL
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: flight from Washington DC to Farnborough valued at £10,439
Date of receipt of donation: 24 May 2011
Date of acceptance of donation: 19 May 2011
Donor status: Company, registration number 03691917
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Trew’s biography from Business Week
Mr. Patrick Trew is the Chief Risk Officer at CQS Management Limited. He joined CQS in June 2003 as Chief Risk Officer and is responsible for assessing and controlling all aspects of risk including market, credit and operational risk. He is also a member of the Operating Committee. Prior to joining CQS, Mr. Trew was an Executive Director and Co-Head of Collateralised Lending Risk Management at Lehman Brothers. Before this, he was Director and Head of Risk Management … for European Equity and Credit Trading at CSFB. Prior to joining CSFB, Mr. Trew worked at WestLB where he was Risk Manager for European Equity and Vanilla Interest Rate Trading. Before this, he worked as a Risk Analyst for Global Interest Rates and FX Trading at UFJ International. Mr. Trew began his finance career as an Auditor in the Financial Services Division of Ernst & Young in 1991. He holds a M.A. (Hons) in Physiological Sciences (Medicine) from St Anne?s College, Oxford University.
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CQS is a Hintze vehicle. See {http://www.cqs.ch/about-us/overview}
@Passerby – yes, I got that page-not-found from the Telegraph too. It was seen by Google News 54 minutes ago (time now 17:20) so was probably pulled after that. My money is on their being jumpy regarding being sued, however, rather than a higher power directing them to remove the article.
Mark Golding,
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(Reuters) – Arab states and Turkey urged Syria’s divided opposition on Monday to unite and form a credible alternative to the government of President Bashar al-Assad, but rifts swiftly emerged at talks in Cairo.
The unity calls were made at the opening of a two-day meeting organized by the Arab League
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It is almost comical for the bullies as you call ie US and toadies to plan for toppling Assad for an opposition which itself is opposed to some parts of the plans set!
“Posted Today, 04:00 PM”
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http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=6cc84fc81678fb311f5ea3dc0f88ef79&showtopic=19250&hl=
Mary – Yes CQS featured prominently in the Werritty debacle, or perhaps more accurately Hintze did. He has a splendid record for funding the Tories – {http://iaindale.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/exclusive-loan-tory-chooses-this-blog.html}
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more specifically, the Chancellor of the Exchequer – {http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/10/17/george-osborne-gets-almost-twice-that-of-liam-fox-from-michael-hintze/}
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climate change deniers – http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2012/03/michael-hintze
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and the National Gallery – {http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2011-01-20/michael-hintze-donates-two-million-to-national-gallery}
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Which makes it all fine, doesn’t it? Cuddly Mr. Hintze. Publicity-shy Mr Hintze.
Excellent catch, Guest. As he says:
Banks and banksters claim they are too big to fail. Now they are also claiming they are too big to jail. In reality they are not “too big” but “too connected” to suffer the consequences of their crimes.
I see the police are predicting more riots this summer. You know, that really wouldn’t surprise me.
Guest That education forum piece was interesting. Fallon always appears on the box whenever a spokesman is needed to utter platitudes. To think that he is the one appointed to investigate this trickery is totally farcical.
The dalliance between political Islam and NATO over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan became an alliance called the War on Terror, when Russia crushed Chechnya in revenge for that first, temporary marriage of convenience/ affair over Afghanistan.
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The War on Terror was a deal between political Islam and NATO in which certain carrots were offered, the overthrow of Middle Eastern dictators one by one, the re-drawing of borders which us Brits had imposed to divide and rule ethnic populations, and the promise political power for Islam in the form we now see it in post Arab Spring countries, with the Muslim Brotherhood and other approved organisations.
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Political Islam in return offered total silence on the moral aspects of Islam, on banking interest, promiscuity, fighting wars by weapons of mass destruction of civilian populations, and neo-con-ism the new form of colonialism involving global resources such as water , minerals and oil.
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You will not find one mullah anywhere in the world speaking against the immorality of the West. A few kids rant and rave. Islam has been entirely hijacked, trussed in spider-web, injected with morphine and stored for later consumption by political Islam. There is no moral high ground in Syria, just sound-bites of co-ordinated violence between the parents of the new world order, NATO and political Islam.
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If you think UK politics is dumbed down, Islam is totally stuffed. A few guys playing the political games at the top are going to get very rich and powerful, but can you put up Islam by sticking a dummy in its mouth and sticking it in front the television? By their fruit shall ye know them. Politics is always about self-gain and self-importance, never about truth or goodness. The pope and cardinals of political Islam are droolling over the carving up of Syria, and the kicking out of Russia from Libya and Syria.
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Mark. There is no moral opposition from within Islam, so why would the moralists and conscience-bangers outside Islam raise a flag for truth about Islam? Please tell me that if you possibly can.
http://www.tullettprebon.com/investor/investor_directors.aspx
Smith was on QT last week castigating all and sundry pretending he was onside with us. I see that dreadful woman Angela Knight British Bankers Association is there too. Agius was chairman of the BBA. Resigned from it today.
The time is right for the use of cryptography or pseudo-coding of information in our personal communications. Using two keys it is possible to scramble emails to retain the same privacy one would expect using Royal Mail i.e. a letter contained within a sealed envelope.
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In a somewhat private British society I thought in 1998 early users of email would make use of a technology normally reserved for military communications. ‘Pretty Good Privacy’ or PGP was available for all. Using an exchangeable ‘public key’ all acquainted recipients of a previously coded message could use their own ‘private’ or ‘secret key’ to decipher the message into plain text.
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Strangely use of encryption failed to catch on simply because at the time emails were reserved for complaints, communication with universities, retailers, schools, government departments, the BBC etc etc and personal information was still sent by ordinary snail-mail or Royal mail. Banking transactions on-line were via a secure method anyway, so why bother? All too complicated my mother would say.
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Well the government are introducing/expanding/revealing a system to capture all voice/email/messaging data upstream of the network to ‘help fight serious crime and terrorism’ by compressing the captured data and storing it in a searchable format using recognition tagging.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3384743/Internet-black-boxes-to-record-every-email-and-website-visit.html
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The system is now in place so no use whining, yammering, kicking up a fuss, bellyaching or contacting your local MP.
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I believe now is the time to take exception and encrypt just to let ‘Big Brother’ know a heavy boot won’t keep us down. Agree?Here’s how:
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Forget ‘Web email’ download an email client – Mozilla thunderbird here:
{http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird}
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Setup Thunderbird with your email address using help like this:
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{http://mail.maine.edu/maildocs/doc/thunderbird-2.0_google}
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Or get your 8yr old nephew to do it for you. 🙂
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Test it out working with a friend’s email then add the extension ‘Enigmail’ from here:
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{http://enigmail.mozdev.org/home/index.php.html}
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Enigmail uses Gpg4win which you can download from here:
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{http://www.gpg4win.org} then install
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Enigmail and Gpg4win uses what is called a public key to encrypt messages. Your computer produces the public key from your secret password which you enter into Gpg4win to generate the public key. It is very easy to use because once you have public keys associated with email addresses the rest is automatic and taken care of by Enigmail.
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Pat yourself on the back for job done. Problems? email me.
When you have generated your public key you can send it by email or put it on your website or even put in on a public server so that your friends can search for it. A simple copy to the clipboard from an email and an import into Enigmail using import from clipboard is all that is required or if it is on a public server and you give the server address to Enigmail then you can import it that way using the ‘import public key’ function.
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We can the then flood the web highways with our encrypted messages and piss the authorities off – they hate encryption!!
Is it a good idea to draw attention, Mark? surely tyhose who are encrypting will get special attention, whatev er form that might take.
14th July, United reform church Wymondham,11.30am ketts people will rise and the term Independent, sullied by those in Scotland who thought it a convenient cloak for their blackened Tory hearts, will be revoked for its rightfull cause.
How busy Craig makes himself against the shameful alliance between the UK and Uzbekistan, political Islam is delighted that the West is embracing ex-Soviet dictators, and encircling Russia and squeezing its hopes for return to empire.
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It is impossible to find any aspect of politics in which the conscience of normal UK citizens coincides with the political interests of political Islam.
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I do not worry about concealing my opinions from my own government. I’m delighted to give them a dose of truth which they reluctantly have to digest and understand. I am far more concerned about the vested interests of political Islam because it is far more ruthless than MI5 and far more devious.
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No point in encrypting from political Islam, they decide you are a Kafir, or non-Muslim, from their own whims, not from justice or evidence. A nod from their brothers and sisters in MI5 is enough for them to dismantle a fellow Muslim’s life from the inside.
One and a half hours of terrorism propaganda coming up at 9 pm on BBC2.
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7/7 One Day in London
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Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
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The day after London won the Olympic bid, terrorists attacked the public transport network killing 52 people and injuring over 700. Seven years later, as the eyes of the world are once again focused on the capital, ‘7/7: One Day in London’ gathers the testimony of over 50 people directly affected by the bombings, exploring the long lasting effects as they reflect on their experiences and how their lives have changed.
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After the conclusion of the public inquest in 2011, a multitude of previously untold stories emerged of the bravery, difficulties and horror that people experienced on that day in 2005; many of these have been included in this film as well as testimony from people who have never spoken publically before. This is an ambitious retelling of the story of what happened on that day, with contributions from commuters, emergency service workers, TFL staff and families of victims. With enormous compassion for one another, ordinary people tell extraordinary stories of the day when they were thrown together, and their struggle to cope in the wake of the blasts that shook London.
Billions spent on protecting those who are graciously allowed tickets* to the Olympics (those remaining after the majority were distributed to middlemen and corporate sponsors). And this is underpinned by making life harder** for those who cannot find full-time work (6 million). No doubt this is the practical realisation of the Big Society, but someone’s forgotten about social unrest, I’d say. And missile batteries won’t be a lot of use in that context.
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Glad that gets a mention, Nevermind. I hope some of Argyll and Bute’s councillors have a telepathic sense of deep unease. They know who they are… 🙂
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*for a price – eg dressage, final day + ceremony £65 to £275 a pop. Cola, gargantuaburger and trainers extra
**harder still by 2015.