Apologies for the outage, which was purely technical and non-sinister and to do with the domain name expiring yesterday, but having to be renewed the Friday before because yesterday was a public holiday in San Francisco. I am dashinng off to Madrid today to give a talk there. Am seething with outrage about Babar Ahmad and at George Osborne; please express some outrage for me on those topics till I get time to do so!!
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Mary 9 Oct, 2012 – 3:47 pm
“Is the above standard practice now?”
That has been a practice for a very long time, although it does seem to increase in depressions. I know of teams from Cornwall and Romania who do up London houses cheap while sleeping on the floor.
My missus overheard a fella on the bus yesterday – first telling his child to go to grandmas after school and then arranging friends to meet the bailiffs with him. His home was being repossessed. Terrible. Really terrible.
If anyone’s looking for some Tuesday media outrage, treat yourself to this bit about Lara Logan: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/09/lara-logan-s-war-cry.html.
This is what passes for a mainstream, big-name journalist in the US these days.
“is something about to happen ?”
Wendy, We are thinking along the same lines, its just a matter of when, soon I think.
“This is what passes for a mainstream, big-name journalist ”
I think the piece illustrates Logan is an outlier amongst journos, rather than mainstream.
Her experience, though tragic, is left her with the same outcome as many Muslim women who have been raped by coalition troops, and the blood-feuds that arise as a direct consequence.
It’s a daisy-chain of clusterf***.
I should have changed my pseudonym for that comment.
Another police officer gets off with killing someone.
BBC: “PC David Lynch, 31, had been driving at speeds of up to 68mph in a 30mph zone when the van crashed into Joseph Belmonte in Hackney on 31 March, 2011.”
He was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving. The sentencing guidelines, for a level 3 offence (the least serious of 3 levels of causing death by dangerous driving) have a starting point of 3 years in custody. After taking into account aggravating and mitigating factors the sentencing guidelines give a range of 2 to 5 years custody.
The sentencing guidelines for the less serious offence of causing death by careless driving has a starting point of 15 months custody and a sentencing range of 36 weeks to 3 years custody.
So the sentencing council recommends a custodial sentence even for the less serious offence of careless driving.
But the police officer was convicted of the more serious offence and the sentencing council recommends a minimum of 2 years in custody.
Judge Jeffrey Pegden QC said: “What has weighed significantly with me is your intense guilt, remorse and utter distress at the injuries you caused that day, coupled with your immediate and appropriate response not only at the scene but in your determined efforts afterwards, until you were told it was inappropriate, to seek information about the welfare of Mr Belmonte.”
The officer was given an 8 month suspended sentence (i.e. no jail).
Ignore my last post. I read it wrong. The victime did not die. Silly me.
Courage, Ben – there are some damn fine Amricans out there, too.
Viz:
http://americapsycho.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/michael-hastings-and-lara-loga-freedom-is-slavery-ignorance-is-strength-and-good-reporting-is-bad-reporting/
Logan (who is originally South African) spent so long being embedded with US forces that she thinks she’s a grunt. And not a very bright one. It happens, sometimes.
“coupled with your immediate and appropriate response…until you were told it was inappropriate”?
What you did that day was totally lawful until someone pointed out that it was totally unlawful.
Freddie Starr was on the news tonight denying the accusations of a woman that he had sexually assaulted her. He said he had never met the woman nor had he been on any of Jimmy SaVile’s TV shows – cut to clip of Jimmy SaVile introducing Freddie Starr on ‘Clunk Click’, who then immediately sits next to…yep, the exact same woman (who was 14 at the time).
Hey folks, don’t forget to watch “Jewish mum of the year” on C4. I’m waiting for the follow up “Moslem mum of the year” where Palestinian contestants are challenged to make a family meal in Gaza, attempt to visit their children who are locked up in Israeli prisons and try and cross the border during a medical emergency.
I can’t recall any outage on Craig’s site, DNS, Name servers or otherwise.
I am connected to ‘OpenDNS’ which delivered craigmurray pages regardless.
You can use ‘opendns’ for free by registering at opendns.com and then connect to their DNS servers on a windows client by right-clicking on your active network connection and selecting ‘internet protocol tcp/ip’ or similar in the general properties box. Click the ‘use the following DNS server addresses’ radio button and enter ‘208.67.222.222’ for ‘preferred DNS server’ and ‘208.67.220.220’ for the alternate server.
You will then have a faster, more secure and reliable internet connection – guaranteed.
@Mark, I am impressed you missed the outage; it was probably around 2.5 days, across the weekend.
I wonder what authoritative reference OpenDNS uses – if a domain’s own DNS servers are dead, where should a third-party system get its IP addresses? Maybe it was caching the old values until those servers came back online.
Mr/Ms Digestives
Recently there was a short series on the BBC called something like ‘Jews Telling Jokes’ which played into the stereotype that Jews are inherently funny people. Needless to say, in the true traditions of BBC impartiality, we didn’t get ‘Palestinian’s Telling Jokes’, presumably because they haven’t got much to laugh about.
McVities Digestives 9:03 pm.
‘Hey folks, don’t forget to watch’ “Jewish mum of the year” on C4. I’m waiting for the follow up “Moslem mum of the year”
I thought exactly the same when I saw the TV Times.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8201521/Sex-offenders-including-paedophiles-should-be-allowed-to-adopt-Theresa-May-told.html
This cannot be right.
Palestinians Telling Jokes…
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Why do Palestinians find it convenient to live on the West Bank?
Because it’s just a stone’s throw from Israel.
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A Pal goes to the bank to pick up his salary. The Israeli bank teller asks him to sign on the back of the cheque, “That’s humiliation,” complains the Pal, “why should I have to sign it? I want my money NOW!”
The teller refuses to pay him so the Pal starts making a big fuss causing the bank manager to appear. The manager then hits the Pal over the head with a baseball bat and knocks him out.
After a few minutes the Pal comes ’round and signs the back of the cheque. As the teller is handing over the Pals money he asks “Why didn’t you just sign the cheque the first time?” The Pal said, “You don’t understand. You just told me to do it but the manager explained it.”
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That’s all folks.
Re: “This cannot be right.”
Helen Reece is a typical ‘expert’, i.e. she has absolutely no life experience. In this case she is not married and has no family yet she’s an ‘expert on family’. My betting is that if she did have a couple of kids she would ‘think’ the total opposite.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/helen-reece.htm
An interesting fact emerged on Newsnight regarding the ‘lets kill burglars’ headline grabber – it is a law change that would have affected just 7 people last year, why all the media attention? ‘cos it stops people talking about corrupt politicians, bankers, journalists, police and judiciary.
I don’t know if this qualifies as a Palestinian joke, but it made me laugh:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4289452,00.html
The reason the “whack a burglar” story was splahed all over the MSM was to deflect people from the truth that the real people robbing us blind i.e. the bankers and their politician lackeys are untouchable as they burgle us.
Meanwhile the sheeple think they’ve now got redress to burglary-but never the real burglars.
Thanks, Komodo. I chafe, but am firmly made.
Thought I’d share this y’all.
An anagram of George Gideon Oliver Osborne is Despicable Sadistic Cunt.
OK, I made it up, but in my defence he did say………
(@ end of paragraph 5)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/25/osborne-rothschild-deripaska-corfu
Jews at Ten?
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jews-at-ten
Jokes, stories and fables of Jewish life told by well-loved Jewish celebrities and figures from the community
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=287188
Massive US-Israel air defense drill set for October
By YAAKOV LAPPIN
10/10/2012 01:21
Three-week exercise, postponed from spring, will be largest of its kind to date, simulate missile defense scenarios.
HOME FRONT troops take part missile defense drill Photo: HOME FRONT troops take part in a missile defense d
The US and Israel will commence the largest-ever joint air defense drill of its kind in Israel on October 21, an army source said on Tuesday.
The exercise, named Austere Challenge 12, was originally scheduled for last spring but was postponed due to regional tensions with Iran.
On October 14, large numbers of American soldiers are expected to begin arriving in Israel, where they will set up aerial defense positions on Israeli territory and on US Navy vessels off the Israeli coastline.
The three-week drill will simulate various missile defense scenarios, and is expected to end with a live-fire interception of a decoy incoming Patriot missile.
====More at link…
A Node: I thought yours was a reference to this old Palestinian joke:
An old man lives on his own in Hebron. His only son has been arrested and is in prison in Israel. The old man desperately wants to plant vegatables in his garden, but the ground is solid and, with his son in prison, there’s no one who can do it for him.
So he writes saying, “I want to plant some potatoes in our garden, but I don’t have the strength to work the soil any more. What should I do, son?”
The son writes back from prison, “Dad, whatever you do, do not go digging in the garden!”
The old man thinks his son is just concerned with his health. In the meantime, the IDF have mobilised a taskforce, and first thing the next morning, the old man wakes up to find dozens of soldiers in his garden. They dig up dig furiously for hours, to an impressive depth.
Mystified, the old man writes to his son again: “The soldiers came and dug up the garden, but they didn’t find any weapons, now what should I do?”
The son writes back: “Now you can plant your vegetables!”
McVities Digestives
9 Oct, 2012 – 8:57 pm
Starr is 69. Did you see his ‘fiancee’ standing beside him looking as if she had been told to. She looked much younger than the age quoted here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214785/Freddie-Starr-forced-admit-mistaken-TV-footage-unearthed-1974.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Anyway some better news on Sa Vile. His £4,000 gravestone has been removed. Did you see what the perverted egomaniac said about himself in the inscriptions?
All diversions from the corporate media of course while the edifice ccntinues to crumble.
The captain of the Titanic wishes to speak to the passengers including those in steerage as the stenographers-to-power tell us here. (A couple of mixed metaphors but never mind!)
‘Sink or swim time’, says Cameron
Prime Minister David Cameron is to warn the UK is facing an “hour of reckoning,” in his big speech to the Conservative Party conference.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19890459
Komodo:
I recommend you stay well clear of hidemyass.com if you have privacy concerns. It’s already known that they keep logs and turn them over to the authorities. More details here. The problem with VPN services is that they just move the issue of trust from the ISP to the VPN company. How many VPN services would you REALLY trust to pass your banking details through in plain text?
Re-cannot be right.
Sorry I had not read the article completey.
Obviously a common sense approach to certain cases.
I mean the whole system functions with the wonderful common sense approach right.
Not a chance.
How much money goes into the hands of greedy lawyers and money men who work against
Talha Ahsan and Babar Ahmed’s imprisonment without charge for 8 and 6 years respectively and now their extradition to the USA and solitary confinement – without their defence lawyers having been able to see the evidence against them – is utterly shameful. We in the UK have come to this – craven, a mockery of justice, Habeas Corpus out the window. We are a colony, a slave plantation. Meanwhile, the execrable Tony Blair – the Overseer of the Plantation – gads about, earning millions with every smile. Crime pays and yet again, the UK state has revealed itself as a criminal enterprise.